University of San Carlos Department of Business Administration School of Business and Economics APPLE IN 2008 CASE STUDY In Partial Fulfilment in the course BA111 Submitted to: Dr. Rene Paquibut Submitted by: Jon Daniel Chua Daieian Vanesa A. Portillo Roxanne M. Baring Marie Vane Quiño Submitted on: July 17‚ 2012 1. SUMMARY The early years of Apple. Two young electronics enthusiasts‚ Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak‚ started a company
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was the managerial decisions. At that time Unilever was also a huge packaging and shipping company. End of 1980s A “core strategy” was adopted. The restructuring was designed to concentrate the company in "those businesses that we properly understand‚ in which we have critical mass‚ and where we believe we have a strong‚ competitive future‚" (Unilever PLC Chairman M. R. Angus in 1988) The company sold ancillary businesses: transport‚ packaging‚ and advertising. Core businesses were thus the
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make use of their global strategy and corporate governance in order to maintain their competitive advantages in the next three till five years?” LG1 What is a global strategy and what types do you have? (Pros/Cons + Cultural and Ethical aspects) Source 1: Hill‚ J. & Jones R. (2010)‚ Theory of Strategic Management‚ Ch. 8‚ South- Western: Cengage Learning Source 2: Johnsen‚ G. Scholes‚ K. & Whittington‚ R. (2008)‚ Prentice Hall Exploring Corporate Strategy 8th edition‚ Ch. 13‚ Pearson Education
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Hi everybody we are going to present you our subjet which is Global value chains and patterns of value added trade and invesments. To present you our topic i am going to give you a definition of Global value chains. So the GVCs describes the full range of operations that multiple firms and workers do to bring a product from its conception to its end use and beyond. Nowadays global value chains are the core notion of international trade and investment policy. Now i present to you the trade which
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Technology/Innovation Johnson & Johnson established four regional innovation centers in major life sciences communities in the world as part of a novel approach to accelerate early innovation and enhance opportunities for collaboration and investment across its global healthcare businesses. Johnson & Johnson established four regional innovation centers in some of the world’s leading innovation hotspots in California‚ Boston‚ London and China‚ the Johnson & Johnson innovation centers will serve
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to read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it‚ using specific evidence when writing and speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. *Teacher’s can write or adjust content objectives’ to meet the needs of their students. language objectives: Through discussion and writing students will demonstrate an understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meaning. *Teachers should review the text dependent questions in order to specifically
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Executive Summary This report was carried out in order to show the scenario planning of Johnson and Johnson .The report provides information about the history of the company‚ countries of operations and the sectors of operations .The company sales have seen significant growth in recent years and US have the highest percentage of sales of about 44% .The report also draws attention to the PESTEL framework of the pharmaceutical industry showing how Political ‚Economical‚ Social ‚Technological‚ Environmental
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from a durable template by which ideas and images can be transferred from one generation to another‚ or from one group to another. (Haggett‚ 1975:238) b) List Deal and Kennedy’s four (4) types of culture. Provide an example for each type. (8 marks) Terrence Deal and Allan Kennedy defined four types of organisational culture: Tough-Guy‚ Macho Culture Work hard and Play Hard Culture Bet-Your-Company High-stakes Culture Process Culture The four cultures 1.Work-hard‚ play-hard culture
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competition with a smaller margin. Dell’s focus was to acquire as many new customers as possible‚ which in turn allowed them to negotiate even lower prices from their component suppliers‚ and through economies of scale‚ reduce costs even further. This strategy was extremely successful‚ shown in Figure 1 Dell sales numbers and income rapidly increased through most of the 1990’s. Figure 1 http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=DELL+Interactive#chart5:symbol=dell;range=19880901‚19991201;indicator=volume;chartt
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BUS 900n 12/05/2011 Table of Contents I. Background 3 II. Analysis 5 A. Porter’s Five Forces Analysis 5 B. Strategic Objectives 7 C. SWOT Analysis 8 D. Financial Review 11 III. Alternatives 12 i. Do nothing 12 ii. Expand Android’s offering 12 iii. Increase market penetration
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