* Form 10-Q for Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) for its quarter ended March 31‚ 2012‚ filed with the SEC on April 19‚ 2012 and * Form 10-Q for The Goldman Sachs Group‚ Inc. (GS) for its quarter ended June 30‚ 2012‚ filed with the SEC on August 9‚ 2012. The majority of the questions in this assignment can be answered by referring to the financial statements (Item 1) and Notes to Financial Statements in these Form 10-Qs. Name(s): Questions: Microsoft Corporation 1. List three types
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The AES Company operated with informal‚ ad hoc style of management: there ware no staff functions or corporate departments and almost all traditional management functions were devolved to workers at plant level. Its rationale lied on decentralization‚ empowerment‚ team-based organization‚ incentive compensation‚ job security‚ and some controversial policies and practices. The company committed itself to integrity‚ fairness‚ fun‚ and social responsibility. AES treats all their employees as responsible
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Marketing Management Skin-Tique Case SKIN-TIQUE CORPORATION Synopsis In January 2003‚ Phoebe Masters‚ the newly appointed product manager for hand and body lotions at Skin-Tique Corporation‚ is faced with the decision whether to add a 5-1/2 ounce or 10-ounce aerosol package alongside the existing tube container of the firm’s Soft and Silky brand of women’s shaving gel. The apparent decision involves the determination of whether to conduct a market test on the two aerosol packages to determine
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I hereby present the analysis of the dominant management philosophy of Whirlpool Corporation for evaluating whether our company shall acquire Whirlpool. Whirlpool’s management is strongly committed to build strong brands and a growing loyal consumer base via its brand value creation strategy based on diversity‚ innovation‚ cost productivity and corporate social responsibility. Whirlpool knows the art of leveraging its wide array of strong brands to serve strategically different & geographically
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How to enter a new industry t i d t – Acquisitions‚ joint ventures and startups A sober picture A sober picture • The short‐term stock price reaction to merger g y g is neutral or slightly negative. • Over a long period of time‚ –O On average‚ corporations divested more than half ti di t d th h lf of their acquisitions in new industries and more than 60% of their acquisitions in entirely new th 60% f th i i iti i ti l fields. Premises of corporate strategy Premises of corporate strategy •
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Dennis Crump Jr. Business 375-Project Management Week 8 Assignment 2 Professor Frank Mitchell March 2‚ 2013 Compose a synopsis of the case‚ using a maximum of 120 words. The president of Crosby Manufacturing Corporation Mr. Livingston called a meeting with the department managers to resolve an issue they have. The issue is with the management cost and control systems (MCCS). The goal of the meeting is to update the current MCCS and
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|Microsoft Zune | |Proposal | Background The market for portable music players has been an industry that continues to be innovative and in current years has been dominated by Apple products. Apple has been in the portable music industry since 2001 and the world has been forever changed due to their ever-popular iPod
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Microsoft Project Summer 2006 BUS 597A INTRODUCTION In 1975‚ Bill Gates and Paul Allen created a company called Microsoft. More than thirty years later‚ Microsoft is a leader in the field of computer programming. Gates and Allen both had big plans for their company and came up with different ways of managing people and products in order to create possibly the most effective and versatile workforce of any corporation in existence. To study Microsoft’s way of doing business is to look at the
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the world. 2. What are the legal impediments to Microsoft growing its sales in China? What are the political impediments? The legal impediments to Microsoft in China are the laws that are in place to prevent piracy of software but are lightly enforced by the foreign government authorities. This non-action forcing Microsoft to decrease the purchase price of about 200% to stay in competition against the software pirates. Though Microsoft has taken such drastic measures‚ they are still in
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Preview ____________________________________________________________ _______________ 1 Elements of Effective HR Strategy ____________________________________________________________ _ 2 Microsoft: Knowledge Fuel of the Technology World_______________________________________ 2 HR Strategy at Microsoft ____________________________________________________________ _ 3 Recruitment and Selection: Attracting the Best and the Brightest ___________________________________ 5 Taking advantage
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