WALMART NEGOTIATION CASE: Walmart the world’s largest retailer‚ sold $315 billion worth of goods in 2006. With its single-minded focus on "EDLP" (everyday low prices) and the power to make or break suppliers‚ a partnership with Wal-Mart is either the Holy Grail or the kiss of death‚ depending on one’s perspective. There are numerous media accounts of the corporate monolith riding its suppliers into the ground. But what about those who manage to survive‚ and thrive‚ while dealing with the classic
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Reflection Journal: TEXOIL CASE Summer 2015 For the Texoil negotiation‚ I was assigned the role of the Service Station Owner. As such‚ my main objective was to sell the station and get the best possible agreement. My BATNA was $518‚000‚ which accounted the present and the next two years expenses ($478‚000) plus half of the year salary upon return from the trip ($35‚000). My asking price was 650‚000 explaining to Texoil that the market price was around $800‚000. The benchmark was the cost of constructing
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Gaming in Shanghai By: Dr. Bob March Published in Dr Bob March’s book "Chinese Negotiator" Overview HyperHawk‚ one of the world’s major providers of global supply management software and services‚ helps companies reduce costs through efficient product and services sourcing. It has handled more than $50 billion worth of products and services in the oil and gas‚ other natural resources‚ retail‚ transport‚ finance‚ and industrial sectors for customers including General Motors‚ Nestlé‚ Shell‚ Japan
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Jewels Equipment Manufactures 1. a. In negotiation with condor‚ what is Jewels BATNA? A. Jewels BATNA in this case is to buy Z1 CPU from Beta‚ because Z1 are more effective than Z2 and they will save $5 per unit so the total cost of this Z1 units at the end instead of being $38 will be $33. This is $2 dollars cheaper than buying Z2 at $35 per unit. b. In negotiation with condor‚ what is Jewel’s reservation price‚ i.e.‚ the most it will pay for Condor’s Z2 CPU? B. Their reservation price should
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1. Sakhalin: Assessment of Negotiation Process Your assessment of negotiation processes covered in the three ’journey to Sakhalin’ cases. The three Sakhalin cases meander through a path hardly uncharted in the geopolitics of resource extraction industrial history of the world. A weak‚ ill equipped state hungry of extraction investment courts a multinational giant on ‘asked for’ terms only to turn around and rewrite the rules of the game when it has incentives and capacity to do so. What follows
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compensation. Tina believes she has rights as an employee not to be discriminated against because she feels she is being singled out when it comes to rudeness with customers. Joe could improve this situation by using an interest based or integrative negotiation approach. Tina stated that she was having family problems‚ but would not go into any details. Joe could have gently persuaded her to give some information in order to determine if indeed there was an underlying cause to her rudeness and anger
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International Marketing Review 15‚1 10 Received April 1996 Revised May 1997 Accepted September 1997 Cross-cultural sales negotiations A literature review and research propositions Antonis C. Simintiras The Open University Business School‚ Milton Keynes‚ UK‚ and Andrew H. Thomas European Business Management School‚ University of Wales‚ Swansea‚ UK Introduction International business comprises a large and increasing portion of the world’s total trade (Johnson et al.‚ 1994; Czinkota et al
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 Communication Problem/Issue Identification Effective communication strategies and a well thought out plan of attack are essential elements to any negotiation. Incorporating these two elements will significantly improve the chances of the negotiation ending in favor of the terms sought. Alas‚ in this day in age negotiators are finding themselves too busy to devote the necessary time to ensure proper preparation of the basics causing results to
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Harvard University [pic] Harvard University is the oldest institution of a higher education in the United States‚ and has been providing citizens with a higher level of education for approximately 376 years‚ and we would probably be in a different economical‚ political‚ and social state if it was never established. Harvard University (originally for only men) was established in the year 1636 by the grant of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Harvard was named
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Case Many times‚ the process of collective bargaining agreement (CBA) negotiations is referred to as being “an art”. Although it is guided by various labor laws and there are multitudes of theories that claim to have established best practices in the field‚ every negotiation simply has too many unique variables to consider to ever be approached as anything more than an art. Even in the short span in which new negotiations are required to reach an updated contract‚ too many changing factors on both
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