COURSE SCHEDULE – MGMT 699‚ SUMMER 2014 Date 5/13 5/16 5/20 Chapter/Topic Introduction Syllabus Case Study - Robin Hood Chapter 1 - What is Strategy and Why is it Important? Chapter 2 - Charting a Company’s Direction: Vision and Mission‚ Objectives and Strategy Case Study– Mystic Monk Chapter 3 - Evaluating a Company’s External Environment Case Study – Lululemon Chapter 3 Case Study – Lululemon Assignment Read Chapter 1 and Robin Hood case and come to class prepared to
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FC:LEARNING Hire for Attitude‚ Train for Skill You can’t build a great company without great people. The problem: How do you know the great people when you see them? Rules for smart hiring from Nucor Steel‚ Silicon Graphics‚ and Southwest Airlines. BY PETER CARBONARA First appeared: FC04‚ p.73 In a conference room on the first floor of the Houston Hobby Hilton‚ Jose Colmenares surveys a group of 13 women and 3 men and wonders which — if any — have the “right stuff” to become flight
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Case 7 Nucor Corporation in 2012: Using Economic Downturns as an Opportunity to Grow Stronger Percent of Worldwide Production Country Total Production of Crude Steel China 752 million tons 45.9% Japan 118 million tons 7.2% United States 95 million tons 5.8% India 79 million tons 4.8% Russia 76 million tons 4.6% South Korea 75 million tons 4.6% Exhibit 8 shows the world’s 15 largest producers of steel in 2010. Steelmaking Technologies Steel was produced by either integrated
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an emerging market C A S E T W O DaimlerChrysler: Corporate governance dynamics in a global company C A S E T H R E E Gunns and the greens: Governance issues in Tasmania C A S E F O U R Succeeding in the Sydney indie music industry C A S E F I V E Nucor in 2005 C A S E S I X News Corp in 2005: Consolidating the DirecTV acquisition C A S E S E V E N Shanghai Volkswagen: Implementing project management in the electrical engineering division C A S E E I G H T Television New Zealand: Balancing between
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Management 4723 - Strategic Management Fall 2013 INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Lindy Archambeau‚ Visiting Assistant Professor Office: STZ 211H Tel.: 352-392-1734 Fax: Email: lindy.archambeau@warrington.ufl.edu Website: Sakai Office Hours: MW 2:00 to 3:00 PM and by appointment RESOURCES: Required Text: Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage: Concepts and Cases‚ 4nd Edition; Barney and Hesterly Class Materials available at Sakai Site COURSE DESCRIPTION This course focuses on the analysis
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Continuous Casting Investments at USX Corporation is a case involving a large‚ established mining and steelmaking company that after almost 80 years of existence is deciding whether to go forward with a $600 million dollar investment to upgrade its Mon Valley steel facility. From its founding in 1901 through the 1970’s the company dominated the steel industry. In the 1980’s USX was hit hard by poor economic conditions and higher manufacturing costs. In addition‚ “minimills” which had previously not
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Hubbard’s Foods? C-79 Case 7 Incat Tasmania’s race for international success: Blue-riband strategies C-89 Case 8 The Golden Arches in India: A case of strategic adaptation C-95 Case 9 Monsanto: Better living through genetic engineering? C-106 Case 10 Nucor Corporation and the US steel industry C-121 Case 11 Philip Condit and the Boeing 777: From design and development to production and sales C-152 Case 12 Resene Paints C-168 Case 13 Sony Corporation: The vision of tomorrow C-184 Introduction A
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November). Money motivates: Effective incentive programs reward top performers and teams for superior performance Noe‚ Raymond‚ Hollenbeck‚ John‚ Gerhert‚ Barry‚ & Wright‚ Patrick. (2004). Fundamentals of human resource management. New York: McGraw-Hill. Nucor. (2006‚ June). Turning employees into owners. Work & Family Newsbrief‚ 5. Retrieved June 30‚ 2006‚ from RDS database Pfeffer‚ J.‚ & Veiga‚ J. F. (1999). Putting people first for organizational success. Academy of Management Executive‚ 13‚ p Pollitt
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Good to Great Book Review To transform a good company to great company is all manages’ dream‚ but only few of them make it. To find out the core factors which lead to a good company became a great company is very difficult‚ because in different era‚ different industry companies face different opportunities and threats. To begin the research for the Good-to-Great study‚ Jim Collins and his research team searched for companies that: performed at or below the general stock market for at least fifteen
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amazing package to all employees (free health insurance‚ matched 401K contribution at a high percentage‚ one month of vacation per year for new employees‚ etc.)‚ and the benefits are one reason the company attracts the best in our industry. Like NUCOR‚ our company has a large performance pay component to its compensation package. I find this to be a very positive motivator because if you have this type of model‚ the goals must be specific and well communicated in order for it to be effective and
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