LEAD – Managing a Global Team: Sun Microsystems – 9/16/2010 Situation * HS Holdings (HSH)‚ enterprise customer with online banking‚ had servers go down * Sun’s CS team didn’t respond‚ servers stayed down for 2 hours‚ cost HS Holdings thousands * HSH has $300k/yr premium contract for 24/7 service: potentially violated by outage‚ threatening suit * Flow of crisis * Praveen D. got call from HSH‚ pages on-call after-hours US manager 3x‚ MISTAKE: used weekday number not weekend
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY GLOBAL LOGISTICS AND RISK MANAGEMENT Global supply chain enables companies to expand beyond their domestic markets and expand globally .International supply chain could be viewed as an extension of the domestic supply chain if managed well .There are several forces which determines the success of international supply chain. Global market forces involves pressures and opportunities created by the foreign companies and customers .Overseas business sometimes is a defensive mechanism
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Managing Global Competitive Dinamics Sethykun Hong Michael Shimp Tatyana Andreyeva Strategy as Action • In 2004 P&G cut prices of Ariel and Tide by 25%-50%. Hindustan Lever(HUL) responded in similar price cut. • In 1934‚ Pepsi cut price and introduced 12-ounce bottle against Coke’s 6-ounce. • Samsung’s Galaxy vs. Apple’s iPhone. • High speed trains and planes in China’s price war • Mac vs. PC campaign. • Amazon vs. Wal-Mart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FOcE9kpzus) Prisoners’
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Jia In 9/29/12 Summary-Critique Essay Assignment Chris Neary’s Overcommitment to His Business This case study was pulled out from an accounting seminar textbook‚ which contains a variety of ethical dilemma cases among business societies in different kinds of business industry. Most people encounter ethical decisions in everyday lives as well as in the workforces. The learning objective of this case study was to learn how business people react on ethical decision moments and consider in different
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and many endorse macro-prudential regulatory approaches. Many‚ most prominently Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke (2009)‚ now say that adequate financial regulation of very large financial institutions is crucial to managing systemic risk. Financial globalisation has proved to be a double-edged sword in this respect. While the growing complexity and globalisation of financial services can contribute to economic growth by smoothing credit allocation and risk diversification‚ they may also exacerbate the
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Sourcing By Helen Clegg and Susan Montgomery Sourcing information products is a complex exercise involving many variables. In today’s uncertain business climate‚ information budgets are sensitive to scrutiny and constantly under threat. In many cases‚ information professionals are faced with trying to get more value from suppliers with a flat or reduced budget or contending with a “now we have it‚ now we don’t” scenario. What’s more‚ there is a lot of rival content available from the Internet
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Managing Responsibly in a Global Environment The article by Albert A. Bartlett speaks of an entire world that has gone from being frugal‚ conscious‚ and prudent‚ to being greedy‚ and capitalism driven. In his article he talks about the finite resources of our world that we are squandering; using them carelessly and greedily to reach optimum levels of consumption and profit with no fear that one day they will run out. One of the major issues he looks at is population growth‚ and the impact
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Transnational Management “10 Rules for Managing Global Innovation” by Keeley Wilson and Yves L. Doz - Harvard Business Review‚ October 2012 Introduction This is a review of the HBR article “10 Rules for Managing Global Innovation” for the authors Keeley Wilson and Yves L. Doz . Keeley Wilson is a senior research fellow at INSEAD in Fontainebleau‚ France .Yves L. Doz is the Solvay Chaired Professor of Technological Innovation at INSEAD. INSEAD is ranked the 5th best business schools for an
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A Critique Paper President Aquino on Monday‚ July 22‚ 2013 delivered his fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA). They said that it was Pnoy’s longest SONA so far but has been applauded less frequently compared to last year. The President began his SONA by recalling how he started‚ nearly four years ago‚ a group of influencial people persuaded him to run in the 2010 presidential elections just when her mother died‚ promising him that while serious problems chase the country and assured
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ENC1102 25 February‚ 2013 Critique Paper Nutritious or Not? In Kristen Weinacker’s essay “Safer? Tastier? More nutritious? The Dubious Merits of Organic Foods”‚ she makes a claim of fact that organic foods may not be more nutritional than conventionally grown foods. Weinacker does an exceptional job supporting her claim effectively with evidence by using the opinions of several experts‚ as well as the appeal to our physiological needs. She warrants that by mentioning the use of slick marketing
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