Harvard Business Review Reflection Lee‚ H. 2010. ‘Don’t Tweak Your Supply Chain – Rethink It End to End’ Harvard Business Review. Vol. 88‚ Issue 10‚ 63-69. Introduction The article: ‘Don’t Tweak Your Supply Chain – Rethink It End to End’ by Lee‚ H. in the Harvard Business Review of Oct. 10 (Vol. 88‚ Issue 10‚ page 63-69) is mainly about the improvement of the supply chain by pursuing structural change earlier. We would state the main aim of the article as follows: To improve sustainability
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when deciding to take the company public‚ Facebook negotiated an IPO price of $38 per share for a total company value of $104 Billion dollars. Many were skeptical that a social media company with few physical assets and no physical products was actually worth over $100 Billion. In fact‚ Facebook’s IPO was the highest initial value of any newly offered company. Mark himself was uneasy and not openly supportive of the jump to IPO. It was not a strategic business decision but rather a necessity
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Case: Bird’s Eye UK Frozen Food Industry Q1 Why did Bird’s Eye develop a vertically integrated Company? Q2. What Competitive Advantage did Bird’s Eye build over integrated producers? Q3. Why did the frozen food industry de-integrate? Q4 What could Bird’s Eye done to stop de-integration of industry? Q5 What should Bird’s Eye do now? Case: RPG Enterprises‚ 1995 Q1 What are key goals that RPG Enterprise has set for itself? Q2. How group affiliations help the individual businesses as compared
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Organizations have to change to stay alive. That’s a given. But change doesn’t always have to create anguish. Sometimes change is more effective when it hurts less. That’s where a new approach to change – dynamic stability – comes in. Here s how it works. BY ERIC ABRAHAMSON HO HASN’T HEARD THE MANTRA: change or perish? It’s a corporate cliché by now. And like many clichés‚ it happens to be true. But so‚ too‚ is its unhappy corollary: many companies change and perish. Change is so disruptive it
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1) Objectives of the case: To understand and evaluate the dramatic rise and fall of the stock prices of the Web consultants‚ along with many others in the Internet sector‚ during the dot come bubble of 2000. It was question that boggled minds‚ as to how this could have happened in a relatively sophisticated capital market like that of the United States. To discuss the role of capital market intermediaries in the dot-com of 2000 and to check whether their incentives were properly aligned with their
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During Jacques Nasser’s presidency‚ Ford’s cash reserve was quite low and they were looking to unload Hertz in the most financially feasible way. By putting Hertz on the market to privately held bidding groups like Carlyle’s and not just releasing an IPO‚ Ford created a more flexible and
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The Microsoft Antitrust Case A Case Study For MBA Students by Nicholas Economides* Revised April 2003 Abstract This case study discusses briefly the economic and legal issues pertaining to the antitrust case of the United States and a number of States against Microsoft. * Stern School of Business‚ New York University‚ New York‚ NY 10012‚ (212) 9980864‚ fax (212) 995-4218‚ http://www.stern.nyu.edu/networks/‚ neconomi@stern.nyu.edu Copyright ©‚ N. Economides 2 Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5
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1. How does the strategic repositioning of the company and the use of the IPO as an exit for minority shareholders affect the attractiveness of the IPO? The strategic repositioning of the company was to gradually shift away and exist from customer care which TRX generated more than 50% in 2000‚ and Davis’s long term strategy was to focus on the higher margin sectors‚ such as data transaction and integrations. By shifting away from customer care‚ of course would reduce operational cost and
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