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Internet Mini Case #10 Intel Corporation J. David Hunger In 1968‚ Robert N. Noyce‚ the co-inventor of the integrated circuit‚ and Gordon E. Moore left Fairchild Semiconductor International to form a new company. They took with them a young chemical engineer‚ Andrew Grove‚ and called the new firm Intel‚ short for integrated electronics. The company successfully made money by manufacturing computer memory modules. The company produced the first microprocessor (also called a “chip”) in 1971.
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BACKGROUND Global Financial Corporation (GF) offers financing services for customers purchasing heavy construction equipment from its parent company Global Equipment Company (GEC). GF’s Bakersfield‚ California office is setup to process the loan applications for the western United States. A recently appointed Vice President of GF‚ Nancy Rodriquez‚ is also in charge of managing the Bakersfield office. She has received a memo from the Director of Marketing at GEC with a complaint stating that the
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EXAMPLE OF STUDENT-WRITTEN STRATEGIC AUDIT (San Miguel Corporation and A. Soriano Corporation) I. CURRENT SITUATION A. Current Performance According to Soriano‚ the companies had developed their budgeting and long-range planning system several year earlier but‚ despite the many advantages these gave them‚ they still were not satisfied with their ability to respond to the rapid changes in the environment around them. They‚ therefor‚ search for a process that would enable
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EXTERNAL ANALYSIS FOR COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION Introduction Costco or Costco Wholesale Corporation (CWC) is an Fortune company based in America. It operates various membership warehouses in the country with an aim to offer low prices on the selective and speciality brands in the wide range of products. It is one of the largest of its kind. Stores Org in 2010 ranked it among the top three largest retailers in the
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Social Responsibility 1. If you were the manager of “Bally’s Grand Casino”‚ would you treat Elaine Cohen any differently? What would Friedman (“Increase Profits”) and Allen (“Schizophrenic Conception”) advise the manager to do? Use ethical methods and legal concepts to support your position. Elaine Cohen‚ a 73 year old widow‚ is a consistent gambler who spends her retirement savings on casino gambling. The Bally Grand casino‚ where Elaine spends her money‚ is treated very well. The casino “comps”
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Electronics Corporation About company -Since its founding in 1950 by Thomas Merton‚ Merton Electronics had been a distributor for GEC‚ a large manufacturer of electrical and electronics products for consumer and institutional market. -Over the years‚ in addition to the GEC products‚ the company had added noncompeting lines of electrical appliances‚ records‚ compact discs‚ and cassettes. -Four years later‚ it entered into an exclusive import agreement with the Goldstone Corporation of Taiwan‚
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Case Questions: 1. Option #3 suggests Stryker Corporation to build its own facility to manufacture its own PBCs. Under the current situation that some contract manufacturers have weak performance in quality and delivery‚ the benefits of this option are obvious as following: First of all‚ option #3 promised the highest degree of control over quality and delivery‚ which can solve the major problem that Stryker has faced with recently. On the other hand‚ self-manufacturing offers an opportunity
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ABB is a multinational corporation headquartered in Zurich‚ Switzerland‚ operating in robotic and mainly in the power and automation technology areas. ABB Sea Brown Boveria was formed in 1988 from the merger of Asea AB (Sweden) and BBC Brown Boveria (Switzerland). It ranked 143rd in the Forbes Ranking (2010). ABB is one of the largest engineering companies as well as one of the largest conglomerates in the world. ABB has operations in around 100 countries‚ with approximately 145‚000 employees in
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AN EMPIRICAL TEST AND EXTENSION OF THE BARTLETT AND GHOSHAL TYPOLOGY OF MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES Anne-Wil Harzing Version October 1999 A revised version of this paper appeared in Journal of International Business Studies‚ vol 31 (2000)‚ no. 1‚ pp. 101-120. Copyright © 1999 Anne-Wil Harzing. All rights reserved. Do not quote or cite without permission from the author. Dr. Anne-Wil Harzing University of Melbourne Department of Management Faculty of Economics & Commerce Parkville
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