The internal environment: * Strategic competitiveness and above – Average returns result when Internal organization (What a firm can do : function of resources‚ capabilities‚ and core competencies) matches External environment ( What a firm might do : function of opportunities in the firm’s external environment → Competitive Advantage * Competitive advantage key points: * No competitive advantage lasts forever. * Over time‚ rival use their own unique resources‚ capabilities‚ and
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Business Ethics Analysis of The Dow Corning Corporation BACKGROUND Dow Corning Corporation began operating with Dow Chemical in 1943 when Dow Corning agreed to supply the silicone technology‚ while Dow Chemical supplied the manufacturing processes (Wilkicki and Craig). In the 1960s‚ Dow Corning began manufacturing silicone breast implants to use for reconstructive surgery of cancer patients and for breast augmentations. However‚ Dow Corning knew as early as the 1950s that silicone
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management Master’s Thesis Serkan Ceylan Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management Master’s Thesis Serkan Ceylan ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to analyse the problem that the companies do not use the potential of their employees on innovations and intrapreneurial processes. The source of innovation is usually the entrepreneur. These are individuals that come up with new ideas
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REPRESENT •Finnish Company •Nokianvirta river Nokia‚ Finland YEAR OF BIRTH Company started in 1865 as wood pulp mill. After 1963 Nokia started producing radio telephone COMPANY PRODUCT Early products: Wood pulp Rubber Cables and Television Main Product: Mobile Phone‚ Smart Phone‚ Mobile Computers‚ etc. FOUNDER OF THE COMPANY •The company was initially founded by Fredrik Idestam in 1865 •But it was later converted into a share company with his trusted
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Once there was a boy named Alfred Dow. He is tall‚ strong‚ happy go lucky‚ stripling‚ is a hard worker‚ and the women never say he was listless. He loves to make things with his hands‚ and hates to be inside. He lived on a farm with his family‚ and when they play there is no way they can’t be gambol. The farm was a sojourn for the summer and fall. Most of his family is itinerant among farms. The family farms where sequestered from each other by about 1 mile. He will never forget the fall of 1972
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Name: PHẠM THỊ YẾN ENTREPRENEURSHIP Birthday: 19/12/1982 ID: 2441673 ASSIGNMENT Class: MBA OUM1011 Acknowledgements First‚ I would like to express gratitude to the lecturer Dr. Zorah Abu Kassim‚ who taught me delicately the course of “Entrepreneurship”‚ guided and facilitated me to complete this. I am very lucky to learn from experience lecturer like her. I could not gain the goals of school knowledge and life knowledge without Dr. Zorah Abu Kassim. She did not only work as her
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Question 1 3 out of 3 points If you are a franchisor and you charge a royalty of 5% on revenue and you have franchisees that have revenues of $1 million‚ $2 million‚ $1.5 million‚ and $2.5 million‚ how much would you earn in royalties? Answer Selected Answer: $350‚000 Correct Answer: $350‚000 Question 2 3 out of 3 points If you buy a McDonald’s franchise and agree to pay a royalty fee of 12.5% annually‚ how much money will you owe McDonald’s at the end of a year in which you
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Scaling Social Entrepreneurship Lessons Learned from One Laptop per Child The cover image is by Svilen001 at FreeImages.com. 2 The Hult Prize is an annual international case competition for university students to solve social problems through social entrepreneurship. (Photo by author) 3 "Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened. In other words‚ we would not consciously engage upon tasks whose success
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AEPL a Mumbai based company with turnover of 150 Crs and strength of 400 engineers has branch offices in Pune‚ Bangalore‚ Hyderabad. They are in business of industrial process automation and factory automation and have manufacturing setup. MSP‚ a Pune based company with turnover of 10 Crs and strength of 45 engineers is also in business of industrial process automation and has a manufacturing setup. MSP have developed an innovative software for batch process in process automation. AEPL has
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