Apple’s net income fell 62% due to the Mac’s slow processor speed and lack of software limited sales. In 1985‚ Steve Jobs was forced out and John Sculley took charge of the Mac. Under the direction of Sculley‚ Apple found its new market in desktop publishing. Despite Sculley’s efforts‚ Apple’s gross margin dropped to 34% and Sculley was replaced by Micheal Spindler. Over 2‚500 jobs were cut‚ almost 16% of Apple’s workforce and the company was totally reconstructed. After losing a $69 million for developing
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In 1996‚ a number of expedition teams ascended Mount Everest. During May‚ a storm hit Everest‚ causing lives to be lost. This event is now known as the 1996 Mount Everest disaster‚ and it brought changes to mountain climbing. Numerous individuals wrote about the events that occurred during this climb. Among these individuals was Jon Krakauer‚ a writer and member of Rob Hall’s expedition team‚ who provided his account of the events in his book Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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Cipla 2011‚ Harvard Business Case‚ March 27‚ 2012 1°) Since AIDS was identified in 1982‚ various entities have been aiming at limiting the expansion of the pandemic. However each of these entities has had a different role and thus different results: * The World Health Organization has had a critical role through the coordination of the different actors involved. It has obtained significant results in terms of treatments coverage in the last few years. Its action has been completed by the UNAIDS
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the planet. Margaret River wineries‚ found south of the nation‚ create a portion of the best wine assortments prevalent among wine beaus. Encompassed by waters‚ the Margaret River locale is skilled with soil and climate ideal for wine generation. It has a normal yearly precipitation of 1130 mm and encounters 300 days of plentiful daylight consistently. This implies an about steady year-round temperature‚ making it conceivable to develop incredible grape assortments. This makes Margaret River winemakers
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Case Study: The Fashion Channel 1. Define the segmentation scenarios considered by Dana Wheeler and discuss the pros and cons of each scenario. In the HBS Fashion Channel case‚ Dana Wheeler considered 3 different market segmentation scenarios. Various market research firms had divided viewers into 4 distinct groups: “Fashionistas”‚ “Planners and Shoppers”‚ “Situationalists”‚ and “Basics”. These four groups were comprised of a mix of consumers with a plethora of demographics‚ all with specific
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Background John Amasi is the Director of Production and Engineering at RL Wolfe‚ “a $350M privately held plastic pipe manufacturer headquartered in Houston‚ Texas” (Gavin & Collins‚ 2009). John is Director of two companies soon to be three and is looking to implement Self-Directed Teams‚ (SDTs) into RL Wolfe’s third company which will be called Corpus Christy. RL Wolfe’s other two companies are unionized and are facing many issues. Amasi has done much research and has learned that Self-Directed Teams
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1) II República y la guerra civil The Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed when King Alfonso XIII left the country following municipal elections in which anti-Monarchical candidates won the majority of votes‚ and the Spanish population celebrated the beginning of The Republic and social pressure made the political regime change. Its government went into exile on April 1‚ 1939‚ when the last of the loyalist Republican forces surrendered to rebel forces (calling themselves nacionales) led by Generalísimo
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The Harvard Management Co. and Inflation-Protected Bonds TIPS and Risk Management: How can you combine regular (nominal) Treasuries and TIPS to build a hedge portfolio that has exposure to inflation risk‚ but not to real interest risk? To hedge bond portfolio that has exposure to inflation risk‚ one could simultaneously take long positions in TIPS and short positions in nominal Treasuries with equivalent terms to maturity. To be specific‚ if the inflation increases‚ TIPS are likely to outperform
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With America at war in 2004‚ looking back to our past to how we overcame insurmountable odds is what Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was pleading when she delivered an eulogy at President Ronald Reagan’s funeral in 2004. She believes that since both wars and eras parallel each other‚ we must look to back to see how confident and daring President Reagan was when he took on the USSR and communism in order to understand how we should take on the War on Terror. She started out by describing how effective
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profits are generated from the movies. How many sequels of a movie can be made before it is a bust? I believe if they tie in their famous characters with more developing characters they could branch out tremendously from there in all aspects of their business. 2. Why was Marvel’s turnaround so successful? Would you characterize that success as a fluke? Or do you view it as sustainable? Why? How? I would not call Marvel’s success a fluke. I believe they struck gold and didn’t know it and then they
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