reductions‚ such as reducing the workforce by almost half and eliminating management bonuses‚ are to reduce cost of goods and increase operating income. Although Harnischfeger’s cost of sales (COS) has increased from 1983 to 1984‚ the company appears to have reduced COS in comparison to sales from 81% to 79%. In addition‚ it has increased its Operating Income from $62 million in 1983 to $90 million in 1984. • The desired outcomes from reorientation of the company’s business were to reduce risk of
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Knowing little about toothpaste‚ he had technical tie-up with a Japanese company and Lamoiyan Corporation was formally launched in 1988 and produced the first tube of Hapee. Sales have been thwarted by three significant barriers: consumer fears that locally produced goods were inferior‚ their preference for Colgate’s taste and the lack of awareness of the Hapee brand. Pedro and Lamoiyan Corporation counteracted these obstacles by capitalizing on their tie-up with a Japanese company‚ imitating
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PLANNING For LAMOIYAN CORPORATION Bustamante‚ Daries Mae Herando‚ Mari Niko Layugan‚ Monica Manalo‚ Raymart Medina‚ Krizzia Odal‚ Mary Anne Rozul‚ Aileen Gale Silvan‚ Ron Lester 28 January 2012 Lamoiyan Corporation Mission “We exist to improve the quality of life by bringing essential products within the reach of the common people” Vision “We aspire to have a Lamoiyan product in every home”. Corporate Values SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY. We make our
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CASE on PLANNING: The ADAMS CORPORATION I. Viewpoint. Price Millman‚ the new President & Chief Executive Officer of the Adams Corporation [“Adams”] II. Statement of the Problem: Despite continuously increasing sales in the past 20 years‚ Adams’ net profit has continuously dropped during the same period. The new controlling owner group wants a new corporate design that will improve effectiveness. III. Objectives: To formulate and implement a new corporate design that will improve
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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 set a limit of (euros) EUR120
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Multinational Corporations (MNC’s) are an integral field of study in International Political Economy (IPE) due to its economical and political powers excered in the global market. An MNC is a cooperation that has a home base along with foreign locations abroad where they practice their productivity through foreign direct investment (FDI). there is a specific relation between the home and foreign locations of the cooperation; for example most MNC’s are home based in the United States‚ Japan or Europe
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Assignment File 37 Assignment 4 Due date: 7 June 2010 Read the case ’ Strategic and Organizational Change at Black & Decker ’ and answer the questions below. Each question carries 25% of the marks for this assignment. Questions How would you characterize Black & Decker ’s international expansion during the 1950s and 1960s? What strategy was the company pursuing? What was the key feature of the international organization structure that Black & Decker operated with at this time? Did Black
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Cerner is an international healthcare information technology corporation specializing in providing complete systems for hospitals and other medical organizations to manage and integrate all electronic medical records‚ computerized physician order entry‚ and financial information. Cerner is based out of Kansas City‚ MO and was founded in 1979 and was originally named PGI & Associates. It was renamed Cerner in 1984 when it rolled out its first system‚ PathNet. The company went public in 1986‚ and today
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integration. What is interesting‚ Ghemawat became the youngest ‘guru’ included in the guide of the greatest management thinkers of all time published by The Economist in 2008. Among other research articles‚ he is an author of “The Cosmopolitan Corporation’ published in Harvard Business Review’ in May 2011. In his short thesis‚ Ghemawat claims that the global approach to the business mangement many thinkers adopt is wrong. According to his dissertation “the vast majority of firms are deeply rooted
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Written Analysis of the Case –WAC Benguet Corporation 1. Statement of the problem The Benguet Corporation refused to submit concentrate samples to the Philippine Associated Smelters and Refining Corporation (PASAR). The Benguet Corporation faces shortage in producing their products and complying its contract to Mitsubishi Metal Corporation and complying the LOI. 2. Analysis of the case Strengths The Benguet Corporation is the major producer of copper concentrates. It was the oldest
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