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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St. John’s University Student Managed Investment Research Equity Research NIKE (NKE) April 4‚ 2004 Recommendation: Sector: Industry: BUY Consumer Cyclical Footwear 76.64 78.56 49.60 263.12M .80 20.17B 10‚697M 21.66% $94.85 Price: 52 – Week High: 52 – Week Low: Shares Out (mil): Dividend: Market Cap: 2003 Revenue: Project EPS Growth: 2005 Target Price: Highlights Rudy Dermesropian rdermes@hotmail.com Jason A. Drago Jdrag636@stjohns.edu Gintare Grigaite Gintare.grigaite01@stjohns.edu
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Methods Internal Recruitment - This is accomplished by choosing among current employees to fill a position that falls vacant over time. It can be achieved by a promotion or a lateral move. Executive Search Firm - This is executed by hiring a recruiting company to research viable candidates working for competitors or related businesses. Social Media - This is executed by coordinating candidate sourcing through social media such as LinkedIn‚ Facebook and Twitter. Selection Methods Assessment
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Chapter 06: Recruiting This chapter is all about recruiting and its process. The process of seeking sources for job candidates is called recruiting. The discussion begins here with the basics of recruiting from a job candidate and job recruiter’s perspective. For recruitment there has two perspectives which can be followed in any kind of recruitment‚ one is local and another is global perspectives. Global recruitments are followed by host country based recruitment where a citizen is hired by an
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ETHICS OF RECRUITING AND SELECTION Executives are often surprised to discover how many ethical dimensions exist in recruiting‚ probably because selection is typically viewed as a practical‚ rather than philosophical‚ decision-support system. Our experience has demonstrated that personal and corporate ethics influence not only who is selected‚ but how jobs are defined and who becomes a candidate. In the pages that follow‚ we will explore the implications of those (often subtle) ethical issues
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Southern New Hampshire University Nike is the leading company when it comes to athletic apparel and footwear. It has done so by implementing an aggressive marketing strategy and maintained its hold on its market share Positioning for Nike Nike is benefiting from economies of sale so this places them in the “cash cow” category. Cash cow growth has slowed and the products still hold a decent amount of the market share. The best way for Nike to promote its product would be on television
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Executive Summary The company strategy that Nike uses is an ingenious one. A strategy that founder Phil Knight thought of while still in school at Stanford. Instead of paying Americans to put together Nike’s shoes‚ Knight thought that it would be a better idea to take manufacturing plants overseas to places where labor is much cheaper than in the U.S.‚ places like Taiwan and South Korea. With 86% of its products being produced in one of those two countries and Nike employing a large number of people who
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levels as they complete their work at Nike and represent the Nike corporation globally. •"It is our nature to innovate. •Nike is a company. •Nike is a brand. •Simplify and go. •The consumer decides. •Be a sponge. •Evolve immediately. •Do the right thing. •Master the fundamentals. •We are on the offense – always. •Remember the man. (The late Bill Bowerman‚ Nike co-founder)" Manager Manifesto -It is a set of Core Principles that describe how Nike managers lead with excellence
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History of Nike Nike‚ who currently ranks as 136 in the fortune 500 for America’s largest corporations‚ has come a long way since its humble beginning of in the 1960’s. Founded by visionaries Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight who at the time had no clue how much of an impact this footwear would make in the marketing world. Bill Bowerman was a track and field coach at the University of Oregon with enormous amount of knowledge on athletics and was always looking to help his players maintain the advantage
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Stress in Military Recruiting Mr. Don Lockhart dlockhart@devry.edu MGMT 591-Leadership and Organizational Behavior Dr. Anthony Spivey 20 July 2012 Introduction The Indiana Army National Guard was officially established in 1846 in support of the Mexican-American War and has been present at every military engagement since. There are three primary units that make up the Indiana Army National Guard: the 38th Infantry Division‚ the 219th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade‚ and the 76th Infantry
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