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    PHIL KNIGHT Phil Knight is the founder and CEO of the athletic gear company‚ Nike. He was born in Portland‚ Oregon‚ on February 24th‚ 1938. Knight and Nike helped start a sports business revolution in the 1970s‚ changing old-fashioned tennis shoes into highly specialized equipment and promoting them as symbols of athletic prowess and success. Nike’s success made Knight one of America’s wealthiest men. Celebrity Endorsement Strategy Known as a taskmaster CEO‚ Knight

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    Phil Knight went from being an average cross country runner at the University of Oregon to becoming a multi billionaire. It didn’t happen overnight or even in a year. Running was Phil Knights passion. But he was tired of his feet hurting from cheap American shoes. So he began testing different shoes while running cross country for the University of Oregon. After he had tested many different pairs of running shoes he decided that he could make a running shoe that was more comfortable and not too expensive

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    Entrepreneur Biography: Philip Hampson Knight “Just Do It” Submitted on: Tuesday Oct 2 2011 Submitted by: Kakoose Guna Industry: The sports apparel and equipment industry is growing rapidly and is estimated to be worth over $126 billion by the year 2015 according to Global Industry Analysts. This industry has a growing market because people are becoming more health conscious. Thus‚ Sports apparel and equipment are in demand‚ which leads to a very highly competitive market

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    About Nike Case 6.1: How to Make Money (D) – Near Automatic Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman started their company with a vision of serving the athlete. That vision was shared by their first employees‚ who were committed to the company but who needed more detailed directions: They needed to know what was appropriate and what wasn’t when it came to conducting company activities. Knight responded by issuing a list of guiding principles at a crucial time in the company’s history. It was 1977‚ and the

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    CASE ANALYSIS NIKE THE SWEATSHOP DEBATE Summary of the Facts Nike was established in 1972 by former University of Oregon track star Phil Knight. ... Nike has $10 billion in annual revenues and sells its products in 140 countries. ... Nike has been dogged for more than a decade by repeated accusations that its products are made in sweatshops where workers‚ many of them children‚ slave away in hazardous conditions for less than subsistence wages. ... Many reporters‚ TV shows‚ companies and organizations

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    COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY‚ MANAGEMENT‚ AND LOGISTIC INTRODUCTION OF MANAGEMENT (BPMN1013) RESEARCH OF CASE STUDY PREPARED BY: GROUP 11 TABLE OF CONTENT 1.0. Acknowledgement…………………………………………………3 2.0. Case study 2.1- Case 1- McDonald’s : Grilling Up an Empire……………….4 2.2- Case 9- Sony Corporation : An Evolution of Technology…14 2.3- Case 10- Nike :Spreading Out to Stay Together…………….23 3.0. References…………………………………………………….….42 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Special thanks

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    Nike Case Answers– Spreading out to stay together 1. When Nike CEO Phil Knight stepped down and handed his job to Bill Perez‚ he stayed on as chairman of the board. In what ways could Knight’s continued presence on the board have created an informal structure that prevented Perez from achieving full and complete leadership of Nike? Answer: Informal structures are the set of unofficial relationships between organization members. Potential advantages of informal structures: ▪ Helping people

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    In January 1964‚ two American visionaires‚ Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight‚ opened their first sport shoes shop. As former university track runners and coach‚ they were seeking to innovate in running shoes to give athletes a competitive advantage. In 1971‚ their first employee Jeff Johnson designed several shoes and started advertising the new brand that he called “Nike”. Co-founder Bill Bowerman’s philosophy is today’s vision of the company: “To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete*

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    1. When Nike CEO Phil Knight stepped down and handed his job to Bill Perez‚ he stayed on as chairman of the board. In what ways could Knight’s continued presence on the board have created an informal structure that prevented Perez from achieving full and complete leadershipof Nike? Answer: Informal structures are the shadow organization that represents the actualworking and communication relationships that may not resemble the formal organizationalchart. When knight remained on the board

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    strategy is committed to providing athletes around the world with innovative products and committed to serving athletes‚ rewarding shareholders and being an industry leader in the shoe market in particular. A golden handshake between Bil Bowerman and Phil knight began the era of Nike over 5 decades and what it is today. Nike has adopted a differentiation focus by implementing what Nike call a consumer focused category strategy. Nikes business strategy is committed to providing the most innovative products

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