. Over the time covered here‚ did Hewlett-Packards board of directors fulfill its duties to the company’s share owners? Explain how it met or did not meet basic duties. He did not fulfill his duties to the company. The board directors let a few influence their decisions. They did not take their decisions based solely on what was best for the company and their shareholders. It became a war between board members for control. 2. What different perspectives on the role of the board are revealed in
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5. Were the changes initiated by Fiorina justified? At the time when Fiorina took over HP‚ she faced many problems‚ for instance stagnating technology‚ losing market share to competitors. Many expected her to help the company. She made many changes on structure and policies of the company. Although the overall outcomes of her changes are not as good as expected‚ the changes initiated by her were still justified because the situation of the company drove her focus more on outcome than people. One
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MARKETING CHANNELS EXECTIVE SUMMARY This case study deals with Hewlett-Packard (HP)‚ a famous manufacturer of computers and peripherals. In the early 1990s‚ HP faced a socalled “Inventory/Service-Crisis” concerning one of their high volume products‚ the DeskJet printer. Despite growing inventory levels at the distribution centers in Europe and Asia-Pacific‚ customer service levels were unsatisfactory. Affected by growing competition this problem had to be handled quickly. EXECTIVE SUMMARY
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QUESTION (C) Critically evaluate the communication channels of HP. Which advantages and disadvantages can you point out? Effective communication is vital to an organization because through this people clarify their expectations and coordinate work which allows them to achieve organizational objectives more effectively.(Mc Shane/Von Glinow‚ Organizational Behavior‚ fifth edition‚ 2010‚ Mc Graw-Hill‚ page 270) As for the communication channels‚ there are two types: verbal and nonverbal .Verbal
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BA 569: Advanced Strategic Management Case Write-ups—Hewlett-Packard: The Flight of the KittyHawk(A) Two years after launching the Kittyhawk in mid-1992‚ Rick Seymour‚ the Kittyhawk project leader‚ was facing a dilemma to continue the project with the three possible options or to recommend to abandon this project. Due to the comparatively small market share in disk-drive market‚ Bruce Spenner‚ the general manager of the Disk Memory Division‚ decided to enlarge Hewlett-Packard’s market share by
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UPS and HP: Value Creation through Supply Chain Partnerships Executive Summary United Parcel Service (UPS) and Hewlett Packard (HP)‚ both global leaders in their industries‚ strategically aligned themselves to capitalize on their ability to competitively provide superior services to their customers. UPS‚ a global distribution company and HP an information technology firm signed a contract solidifying a three year partnership in the early
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1. INVENTORY/SERVICE CRISIS FOR HP DESKJECT PRINTERS There are a number of causes of the inventory/service crisis described in HP: • The first cause was the demand variability of printers. For example‚ the demand for model A in Europe had the monthly standard deviation of 32.4 while the monthly mean was 42.3. Combined with increasing pressure from resellers that forced HP to offer the resellers flexible distribution‚ fluctuations in demand resulted in the high levels of safety stocks and high
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HP-UPS: The main cost difference in two scenarios should be the following: Cost Without UPS With UPS Inventory High Low Trans-shipment Low High Exchange rate impact Low High Interest Impact High Low Base material cost Low High Lost sales High Low Obsolescence High Low If the costs increase in transshipment‚ exchange rate and base material cost is more than that reduced through inventory reduction(combined should have less variation than separate individual)‚ interest
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2007 Executive Summary Hewlett-Packard (HP) is one of the largest technology companies in the world. Founded in 1939‚ HP employs nearly 88‚000 worldwide‚ supports 540 sales and administrative offices‚ and distributes to more than 120 countries. HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers‚ businesses and institutions globally. The company offers IT infrastructure‚ global services‚ business and home computing‚ imaging and printing. The case study reflects the appraisal of HP’s high performers
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CASE 1 Mrs Nguyen Thi Thuy is the reporter of An Giang newspaper. She has won the second prize in the competition “ Creative day for Vietnam” supported by World Bank with the project “creating job for the blind”. With the money given by the competition she opened her first shop “Van Tho” in An Giang. Then she opened the second shop in Can Tho at Ngo Duc Ke Street. The problem is that when opening the second shop‚ she is asked to pay the excise tax (massage business is one of the taxable objects)
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