COMPANY BACKGROUND Nike is the world ’s leading designer‚ marketer and distributor of athletic footwear‚ apparel‚ equipment and accessories for a range of sports and fitness activities. Nike is headquartered in Beaverton‚ Oregon and owns facilities in Tennessee‚ North Carolina and The Netherlands. The company operates in the Americas‚ Europe‚ the Middle East‚ Africa and Asia Pacific. Nike’s primary product focus is athletic footwear designed for specific-sport and/or leisure use. Nike is the world ’s
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Case Study: The Marketing Mix of Nike‚ Inc. BADM 370 15 April 2013 Executive Summary Nike‚ Inc.’s debut in the 1970’s was a milestone for the athletic industry. Starting with a simple of objective of selling affordable‚ quality athletic footwear‚ Nike has undergone an incredible transformation over the years into a dominating sporting goods company due to an efficient marketing mix. Today‚ Nike has reached annual sales exceeding
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UV0010 NIKE‚ INC.: COST OF CAPITAL On July 5‚ 2001‚ Kimi Ford‚ a portfolio manager at NorthPoint Group‚ a mutual-fund management firm‚ pored over analysts’ write-ups of Nike‚ Inc.‚ the athletic-shoe manufacturer. Nike’s share price had declined significantly from the beginning of the year. Ford was considering buying some shares for the fund she managed‚ the NorthPoint Large-Cap Fund‚ which invested mostly in Fortune 500 companies‚ with an emphasis on value investing. Its top holdings included ExxonMobil
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The Temple of Athena Nike Greek Architecture is the most important and influential in Western history reaching a peak between 400 and 300 BC. Some examples of Ancient Greek architecture and sculptures were built primarily for religious purposes‚ to represent deities or to serve as temples‚ such as the Acropolis‚ the Parthenon‚ Erechtheum‚ Apollo Didyma‚ and the Temple of Athena Nike. The decision to build Athena Nike was an expression of Athens’ ambitions to defeat Sparta and become a world
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Summary Nike has been able to become a global player in the industry of sports apparel and athlete endorsements because of many different factors that are outlined in the way they manage their company. By analyzing the business plan of Nike we can see how their supply chain is set up as is illustrated above. The supply chain is very important for the transfer of their goods from the supplier of raw materials to a manufacturer‚ then to a distributer‚ then to a retailer‚ to then be available for
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Communication is essential to collaboration. The consideration of time‚ place‚ media richness‚ task‚ and adoption are important for choosing the collaboration tool(s) appropriate for communicating and collaborating in any team. Teams who choose the use of an inappropriate tool(s) could cause faulty communications or an inadequate exchange of information hindering their creativity. (Nemiro‚ 2004) COLLABORATION TOOLS Violino (2007) presents several online collaboration tools teams are taking advantage
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Professor Gregory F StiberBy: Brizaida Ribalta‚ Jessica Halsey and Shereen Hijazi | Nike‚ Inc. | Marketing Plan Project | Nova Southeastern University H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business & Entrepreneurship Assignment for Course: | MKTP 5005 – Introductory Marketing | Submitted to: | Gregory F Stiber | Submitted by: | Brizaida Ribalta‚ Jessica Halsey‚ Shereen Hijazi. | | | | | | | | | Date of Submission: August 30th‚ 2012 Title of Assignment: Term Project
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Collaboration and Argument‚ How and Does this Change a Research Paper? Collaboration is defined as working jointly with other or together especially in an intellectual endeavor (www.webster.com/dictionary). When working collaboratively‚ you must consider views and ideas of others working within a specific topic or project. This collaboration should consist of each participant’s ideas or thoughts. These ideas and thoughts should equally contribute to the final outcome or result of the project. In
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Collaboration and Peer Reviews Reflective Journal 3 One major advantage of collaborating on a project is that working with a group can infuse a project with a rich array of perspectives. Another advantage is it makes the project more time effective because you have a group and you can assign different tasks to each member. A disadvantage of collaborating is that you are dealing with a lot of different personalities that can sometimes clash. Another disadvantage would be some members may be
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Interdisciplinary Team “Interprofessional collaboration refers to the coordination of patient care that is provided by a diverse group of healthcare practitioners (i.e.‚ an interdisciplinary care team) working collaboratively to provide timely‚ safe‚ high quality‚ patient-centered care that relies on the unique knowledge and skills of each member of the healthcare team” (Wooten‚ 2017‚ para. 1). These groups usually include‚ but are not limited to: physicians‚ physical therapists‚ chaplains‚ social
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