2004 What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for? JOHN GERRING Boston University T his paper aims to clarify the meaning‚ and explain the utility‚ of the case study method‚ a method often practiced but little understood. A “case study‚” I argue‚ is best defined as an intensive study of a single unit with an aim to generalize across a larger set of units. Case studies rely on the same sort of covariational evidence utilized in non-case study research. Thus‚ the case study method is correctly
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Core competencies of Microsoft: Microsoft offers competitive advantage through technology innovation by delivering the right services at the right time by strengthening IT as strategically focused and business aligned organization. Microsoft technology strategy service enables business innovation and helps the company’s competitive advantage. Microsoft’s core competencies can be divided into seven main categories which include the following: * Windows operating system * Business solutions
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Milosevic 1 Marko Milosevic MGMT 300-03 Professor Kaplan 23 September 2014 Microsoft Trends Microsoft is of course‚ a very successful company who’s been around for a very long time. However‚ as with any business‚ Microsoft has made its share of mistakes and has had its issues as well. One mistake that Microsoft most certainly made was that it did not go mobile. The mobile industry is a massive one and many of Microsoft’s competitors are leaders in it. Companies such as Samsung and Apple are dominant
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Motivation Techniques at Microsoft With more than 4‚000 of its 27‚000 employees already millionaires‚ Microsoft faces the challenge of figuring out how to motivating its employees though means other than pay raises. While this problem is not unique to Microsoft‚ the circumstances under which this problem evolved however‚ are. As a company that must caters to the needs of the ’professional’ worker‚ Microsoft’s motivational strategy should center around recognition of individual employee achievements
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2009 Case Study Fernanda Cugola Southern States University BU-524 Strategic Management FALL 2010 Introduction Headquartered in Sunnyvale‚ California‚ Yahoo! provides services through via the internet and has offices in more than 25 countries‚ provinces‚ or territories. Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in 1994‚ when they created a website intended to keep track of their personal interests on the internet. Yahoo! grew tremendously during the 90’s‚ and like
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Best-first search is a search algorithm which explores a graph by expanding the most promising node chosen according to a specified rule. Judea Pearl described best-first search as estimating the promise of node n by a "heuristic evaluation function f(n) which‚ in general‚ may depend on the description of n‚ the description of the goal‚ the information gathered by the search up to that point‚ and most important‚ on any extra knowledge about the problem domain."[1] [2] Some authors have used "best-first
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Warrant to Search and Arrest Someone Under most circumstances‚ a police officer must obtain a warrant to search an offender’s private residence or car. There are some exceptions to this which include: Exigent (emergency) circumstances Stop and frisk Searches incident to lawful arrest Automobile searches Consent searches Searches based on plain view Crimes committed in an officer’s presence One of the exigent circumstances is that if the police are in a “hot-pursuit” of an offender(s). It could
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OB1 Case Study on Ethical Dilemma (Batch 17) You are the Divisional Sales Manager for a large hi-tech company in a very competitive industry. Your company sales volume is down for almost six months and your Director is putting pressure on you to increase the sales. You are in search for a topflight‚ experienced sales representative to add to your sales force‚ and you interviewed a prospective candidate. From the moment he walked confidently into your office‚ you felt that this
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aspects of cults‚ such as the opportunities handed from the leader and his or her beliefs‚ to the member. My research has now allowed me to accurately form my own opinions based on statistics and experiences. My search process was very simple; I simply got on Google and typed in my search information. If the article didn ’t have an author or some sort of publication date‚ I made no attempt to even read it. This was a major problem for me because valid information was difficult to find. As I read
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