sweatshop practices and human rights exploitation surfaced in the 1990s‚ Nike was forced to review and change its operations in order to please the expanding group of conscientious customers who are concerned with the conditions under which the products are manufactured (Suehle‚ 2011). The pressure for change resulted in Nike’s decision to integrate corporate and social responsibility (CSR) into its business operations. Since then‚ Nike has acknowledged the importance of CSR to their innovation and performance
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Nike‚ Inc. : Case Study in Operations Management MGT 441 Prepared for: Dr. Davidson‚ Concord University Prepared by: Jeremiah Nelson Johnathan Coleman Emily O’Dell December 4th‚ 2012 Introduction Low-cost‚ time-efficient manufacturing of goods is a key feature of a successful production company in today’s competitive global economy. Operations management‚ often abbreviated in the business world as OM‚ is defined as “...the set of activities that creates value in the form of goods
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Proposal for Nike Dri-FIT Market Research Prepared for: Alison Dean June 14‚ 2009 Table of Content Executive Summary Background Problem Definition Research Design Fieldwork Data Collection Data Analysis Reporting Timing Appendices Executive Summary This proposal responds to your brief of June 15 2009 and describes: Business Objective: – to change‚ reinvigorate or phase out the Dri-FIT range of products Research Objective: – to assess if consumers are aware
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What do you do as a company if bad publicity ruins your whole image? Do you give up or do you fight with everything you have in order to change the bad publicity? If that is the case‚ then how do you turn the negative publicity into positive? “Innovate for a better world” is Nike’s CSR slogan which is about reaching their potential. Their biggest challenges are also their biggest opportunities and seeing these challenges as something positive instead of something negative – opportunities‚ is innovation
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Nike (NKE) In the 1950’s‚ Bill Bowerman‚ a track and field coach at the University of Oregon‚ began cobbling shoes for his runners. Bowerman and one of his runners Phil Knight formed Blue Ribbon Sports and sold shoes for Tiger shoes in 1964. While Knight was selling the shoes‚ Bowerman was ripping them apart to see how he could make them lighter and made his runners test his improved shoes. Their first full-time employee‚ Jeff Johnson‚ was an early designer of shoes and came up with the name Nike
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Ethics of Globalization 4/12/2012 Adriano The Perils of Globalization & Learning Social Responsibility: Nike‚ Inc. As time has gone on‚ the world has begun to transform due to a phenomenon that affects just about everyone‚ the phenomenon is referred to many as globalization. In the past‚ it was somewhat accepted that the people of one country owed no obligation to the people of another nation. Each nation kept to themselves and worried predominantly about themselves and no one else. But
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SECOND SHORT CASE REPORT NIKE & ITS PROBLEMATIC SITUATION Rise of Nike Nike was founded over 30 years ago by Bill Bowerman‚ a former college track coach‚ and Phil Knight‚ an entrepreneur. At the beginning the two men were selling shoes out of the back of their cars at track meets. In 1987‚ Nike reached a turning point‚ and it increased its marketing budget from $8 million to $48 million. Most of this advertising budget was to pay celebrities‚ such as Michael Jordan‚ to endorse Nike Products
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The company of Nike started in 1962 as Blue Ribbon Sports. It focus on athletic running shoes and was popular in the U.S. Guarding famous athlete as a spokesperson made Nike achieve great success. In 1985‚ the Air- Jordan basketball shoes create over $100 million profit and $20 million are using in the ads of “Just do it” which became the campaign ad in 1988. As Nike began to expand overseas market in Europe‚ the new sponsor Brazilian team which is the World Cup campaign had changed the Nike’s image
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Mittal 50219 BBS 3FA CASE SUMMARY & HIGHLIGHTS Formation of Nike In 1958‚ Phil Knight came realised the need of a good American running shoe and started working on his idea. In 1964‚ he along with Bowerman formed an athletic shoe company and called it Blue Ribbon Shoe (BRS) company. In 1971‚ they developed a distinctive trademark and a new brand name and this is how Nike came into existence. Exceptional economic performance Nike grew at an amazingly fast pace with profits
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emerging brands A perspective from… Havaianas’ Afonso Sugiyama The president of Alpargatas USA‚ the parent company of flip-flop brand Havaianas‚ Afonso Sugiyama talks to Pip Brooking about the challenges of exporting Brazil’s best loved brand to a global audience The Havaianas brand has something most brands could only dream of – 100% awareness in its home market. However‚ that also places limitations on further growth. The brand has been growing organically outside Brazil‚ driven
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