Case Synopses Walmart Stores‚ Inc. 09/12/13 Which strategic management concepts are useful in the analysis of this case? 1. SWOT Analysis Walmart’s internal strengths and weaknesses and environmental opportunities and threads are: Strengths Highly motivated and committed employees (Associates) Top management involved on daily operations (street managers) Latitude price setting (allows more profitability in different locations) Technology oriented (Satellite system and logistic
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STUDENT: | Louis-Claude ROUX | PROFESSOR: | Philippe René Gillet | CASE: Virgin Mobile USA “Pricing for the first time” | DATE: 20/02/2012CLASS: MBS-Entrepreneuriat | PART I) ANSWERS BASED ON MY “GUT FEELINGS” Virgin Mobile targets the 14 to 24-year-olds market. The case lays out three pricing options. Which option would you choose and why? I would go for option number two for several reasons. The first one is that I think offer number one is not sufficiently different from the rest
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ICE-FILI CASE 1 - How attractive is the Russian ice cream industry in 2002? The main data about the attractiveness of this market are: - The consumption is about 6 times lower than in France‚ Canada‚ US because of a different mode of consumption. Indeed‚ Russians consider Ice Cream as an “on the go” snack and not as a dessert they can have at home. - producing in Russia implies a certain adaptability of recipes since traditional Russian ice creams contain less fat and are made with natural
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revenues from the manufacturing of drugs such as penicillin. Their former CEO‚ Thomas E. Finn‚ led Vyaderm to financial success with a business strategy focused solely on earnings per share. The main issue with the earnings per share approach in this case is that there was very little interest in helping build synergies across the company’s fifteen subsidiaries to support corporate strategy. In 1997‚ Vyaderm’s new CEO attempted to solve this issue by moving away from the old earnings per share business
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Case Study: Infosys Infosys is a Global IT service company based in India. It was founded in 1981 by 7 mid class men with a capital of $250 borrowed from their spouse. In 2008 the company is employing 85‚013Software Professional and 6‚174support employees. The value of the company was summarized by one of the founder in the sentence: “ professionally owned and managed‚ with good corporate governance‚ good employee management and good ethics.” The company saw an exponential growth coming from
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In 2001 Aqualisa created a new product‚ Quartz‚ which they felt revolutionized the shower industry. Much to their dismay the new product was having a difficult time selling. After analyzing their marketing strategy I have found several reasons for the Quartz low sales volumes. 1. Placement in premium segment 2. Poor marketing to customers‚ plumbers. 3. Small retail network When launching the new product‚ Aqualisa decided that Quartz should be placed in the premium segment.
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Market Soft Case study Situation: MarketSoft founded by Greg Erman‚ in 1999 had designed an innovative software product that addressed the problem of managing sales leads across the “extended enterprise”. The product eLeads was strategically developed upon extensive research to address three critical areas many of the fortune 1000 companies in the modern times are facing: 1.Leads get lost 2. No qualifying systems for the leads exist and 3.The leads are never tracked. Problems: 1. The entire
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Maria Lucia Rodriguez PANTHER ID 3579558 Lucent Technologies Case 1- ROE decomposition 1998‚1999 AND 2000. What factors contributed to the differences in Lucent’s performance between those quarters? ROE Period NET INCOME X SALES X TOTAL ASSETS SALES TOTAL ASSETS COMMON EQUITY EQUITY MULTIPLIER ROE Dec-99 1175 0.12 9905 0.26 38684 2.41 9905 38684 16079 Sep-99 972 0.09 10575 0.27 38735 2.84 10575 38735 13622 Jun-99 829 0.09 9315 0.25 37156 3.00
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were drawn to IDEO because the company had a proven system of developing the best products by using their key ingredients for innovative strategy. In this case‚ I will analyze the founder’s main issues‚ development of the Palm V‚ Handspring‚ and my own managerial perspective of the process. Founder’s Main Issues The main issues of the case are in the hands of Dennis Boyle. He is faced with an interesting dilemma. Should Boyle: Sacrifice the steps in IDEO’s development process? Hold
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| Moderation required: yes/no | Tutor______________________ | Date _______________ | How should Wal-Mart rationalize its seafood supply chain to reduce costs and promote sustainability? In‐depth analysis on the case ‘Wal-Mart’s sustainability strategy (C): Inventory management in the seafood supply chain’. And to analyze ‘How should Walmart rationalize its seafood supply chain to reduce costs and promote sustainability?’ 1. Introduction According to (Anon‚ 2012) Wal-Mart Stores Inc
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