Kao Corporation MNGT 5650 MANAGEMENT & STARTEGY‚ SPRING 1‚ 2010 Abstract Kao Corporation is a Japanese manufacturing company. This company is Japan’s largest soap and cosmetic company. They have developed from being a minor player to being number two in the Japanese market in less than ten years and are the sixth largest soap and cosmetic company in the world. The company’s success was due not only to its mastery of technologies nor its efficient marketing and information systems‚ but to its
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Alternative Evaluation 1. Acquiring a cutlery manufacturing company Cost = $10-15 million a. Advantage: Gain additional plant capacity required for growth expansion b. Disadvantage: The acquisition would divert attention away from the company’s primary activities. 2. Expansion of Internet recruiting and new Internet technologies Cost = $5-10 million c. Advantage: Improving recruiting procedures and gaining knowledge of new internet technologies d.
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PETA. Reasonable Alternatives: 1. Go to more KFC locations and keep doing the same stunts: a favorite stunt by PETA is planting young women in yellow bikinis at KFC outlets. They definitely attract much attention but the attention may not be helping very much in their cause. The attention is not helping KFC change their guidelines and it’s not really teaching the consumers exactly what PETA is fighting for. 2. Create more new stunts and attacks: creating new stunts and attacks could be costly
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Case Study: AirTex Aviation (Textbook p. 246) Suggested practice/discussion questions: Group Presentation 1. Did AirTex need a new control system at the time of takeover? 2. Evaluate the control system that Frank and Ted implemented. Class Discussion 3. Should anything have been done differently? Case Study: AirTex Aviation “Hello‚ Sarah. This is Ted Richards.” Ted was on his way to resign from his job. He and his business partner Frank Edwards had just bought AirTex Aviation‚ a floundering
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CPA BUSINESS LAWS THE LAW ON CORPORATION Corporation an artificial being created by operation of law‚ having the right of succession and the powers‚ attributes and properties expressly authorized by law or incident to its existence. Attributes of a Corporation: 1. It is an artificial being •Doctrine of piercing the veil of corporate entity or corporate fiction This is the doctrine to the effect that the separate personality of a corporation may be disregarded if such entity
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Background Headquartered in Texas‚ Teletech Corporation operates under two main business segments: the Telecommunications Services segment‚ providing various telephone services to business and residential customers and the Products & Systems segment‚ which manufactures computing and telecommunications equipment. In late 2005‚ the Securities & Exchange Commission revealed that billionaire Victor Yossarian acquired a 10% stake in Teletech and demanded two seats on the board of directors. He felt
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EUROLAND FOODS S.A. Teaching Note Synopsis and Objectives Suggestions for complementary cases on measures of investment analysis: “The Investment Detective” (Case 17); corporate resource allocation: “Victoria Chemicals (A) and (B)” (Cases 22 and 23); “Target Corporation” (Case 19). In January 2001‚ the senior management committee of this company has to decide which major projects should be funded for implementation by the company starting in 2001. The board of directors has arbitrarily
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APPEX CORPORATION Background Appex Corporation’s business is supplying management information systems and intercarrier network services to various cellular phone companies. In 1986‚ Appex entered this fast-growing market as a very small organization. Between 1986 and 1990‚ revenues grew 1600%. Similar growth was also seen inside the company as the number of employees rose from 26 to 180 between 1988 and 1990. Due to the relative youth of both cellular phone technology and Appex‚ the company
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Case 06-65 The Minnetonka Corporation The Minnetonka Corporation‚ which produces and sells to wholesalers a highly successful line of water skis‚ has decided to diversify to stabilize sales throughout the year. The company is considering the production of cross-country skis. After considerable research‚ the cross-country ski line has been developed. Because of the conservative nature of the company management‚ however‚ Minnetonka’s president has decided to introduce only one type of the new
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Summary This study covers the analyses of the TEXTRON CORPORATION— BENCHMARKING PERFORMANCE Textron’s Board of Directors (Thundersbird School of Global Management‚ Graeme Rankine- TB0043‚ September 9‚2009) had launched a new initiative to assess the company’s supply chain and the company’s working capital needs. First step was to benchmark the company’s recent financial performance against other aerospace and defense firms to determine the areas in which the company’s performance could be improved
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