01 Chapter 43550 10/31/08 11:37 AM Page 34 Company Cases 34 Part One Chapter 1 | Defining Marketing and the Marketing Process 1 COMPANY Case Build-A-Bear: Build-A-Memory THE PRODUCT On paper‚ it all looks simple. Maxine Clark opened the first company store in 1996. Since then‚ the company has opened more than 370 stores and has custom-made tens of millions of teddy bears and other stuffed animals. Annual revenues reached $474 million for 2007 and are growing
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Supply Chain Management: A Case Study on NTUC FairPrice Cooperative Ltd Singapore Written by Chua Ker Sin Senior Executive Singapore Compact for CSR With contributions from Ms Evelyn Sue Wong Advisor‚ Research and Publications Singapore Compact for CSR Case Study: Singapore The case was developed with the cooperation of Singapore Compact for CSR solely for educational purposes as a contribution to the Project entitled “New Corporate Procurement Strategy on Trade in Goods and Services
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WK 3 Case 1 Incident 15: Minding the Store November 19‚ 2012 Introduction In this case study the situation is Ruth Cummings was put in charge of a store by her boss Ken Hoffman. “Ruth‚ I’m putting you in charge of this store. Your job will be to run it so that it becomes one of the best stores in the system. I have a lot of confidence in you‚ so don’t let me down.” That was what was told to Ruth by Ken on her first day. After a couple of calls from her boss Mr. Hoffman‚ Ruth
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FOODWORLD SUPERMARKETS CASE ANALYSIS By Narwal‚ Manvir Kaur Wendt‚ Shiela Empestan‚ Deanne Hernandez‚ Ylisha Noelle Francisco‚ Archie BSBA FM-III-A Ms. Merlin De Gracia (Instructor) March 18‚ 2013 THE INDIAN RETAIL INDUSTRY SCENARIO On the basis of a report published by the India Retail Forum‚ the organized retail account for Rs.55‚000 crore (about $12.4 billion) in the year 2006 and still it’s just about only 4.6% of the total Indian Retail Value that was about Rs.12‚000‚000 crore
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STUDY QUESTIONS Eli‚ Lilly 1998 (A): Strategic Challenges 1. What were the strategic challenges for pharmaceutical companies in the 1990s? 2. How did Lilly respond to these challenges? How does globalization allow Lilly to better cope with them? 3. Suppose that you are a top manager of a Korean pharmaceutical company. How would you formulate your strategy in the face of pharma giants’ (like Lilly) aggressive strategic moves toward globalization? Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
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06-4702-Conklin.qxd 5/10/2005 6:00 PM Page 561 6 INTEGRATIVE CASES I n this chapter‚ the objective is to discuss cases that draw on the frameworks and perspectives developed throughout the casebook and that include important issues from each of the earlier chapters. GM IN CHINA For GM China‚ the year 2004 brought a wide variety of new challenges that added to an already complex business environment. The industry structure was changing quickly. Demand and supply projections
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Introduction To Human Resource Management Case Application 4-B: Off The Job Behaviors October 3‚ 2013 1. Do you believe Oiler’s employee rights were violated? Explain your position. a) After reading this case yes I believe that Mr. Oiler’s employee rights were violated for a number of reasons. For starters the case did not provide any evidence that proved that his personal life behavior affected his performance at work. The case study did not mention anything about Mr. Olier cross-dressing
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Bloomington Hospital’s Open-Heart Unit Case Notes Prepared by Charles M. Byles‚ Virginia Commonwealth University Introduction The case centers on the decision by the Bloomington Hospital (BH) board to add a cardiovascular (CV) surgery unit to its range of services. The CV decision came as a result of a strategic planning exercise by the board. Other additions to the services of the hospital were recommended in the decision‚ but none generated the level of criticism aroused by the CV decision
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CASE STUDY NO.1 Mary Roberts had been with the company three years when she was promoted to manager of the tax department which was part of the controller’s division.Within four months she became a supervisor of ten staff accountants to fill a vacancy.Her superior believed her to be most qualified individual to fill the position. Many senior employees resent her that she so young to fill the position and what made them more upsets was the fact tax managers did not discuss the promotion. QUESTION:
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2 New Product Development 2.1 Introduction New product development is a multi-stage process. Many different models with a varying number of stages have been proposed in the literature. We briefly review these models and propose a new model that is better suited to decision making regarding product performance and specification. In this chapter we start with a discussion of products and product life cycle in order to set the background for the later sections of the chapter. The outline of the
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