Strategic Human Capital Case Study Ecolab‚ Inc. The Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School Case Study --- Ecolab‚ Inc. Question 1: How does Ecolab make money? What is Ecolab’s competitive advantage? There are several reasons that Ecolab makes money. Firstly‚ from 1985‚ Ecolab implemented a new strategy called “Circle the customer‚ circle the globe”. That was a strategy that providing to Ecolab’s principal customers total solutions – both products and services – in cleaning
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Alcoa INC. History view: Alcoa Inc is Aluminum Company of America. It is the world ’s third largest producer of aluminum‚ behind Rio Tinto Alcan and Rusal. Alcoa conducts operations in 31 countries more than 200 locations. Alcoa is a world leader in the production and management of primary aluminum‚ fabricated aluminum‚ and alumina combined‚ through its active and growing participation in all major aspects of the industry: technology‚ mining‚ refining‚ smelting‚ fabricating‚ and recycling.
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Introduction SecureNet INC‚ a software enterprise that focuses on the e-commerce security‚ is trying to raise a first round of funding in October 2000. The company has been unsuccessful in attracting funding from venture capitalists‚ and raised a small round seeds from local investors in Virginia. In the following two month‚ SecureNet financed a $250‚000 bridge loan from an Angel investor called Trio LLC. Trio has proposed to offer a $ 1.4 million a Series A funding of convertible preferred stock
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You In Many Ways Many people accumulate wealth in their retirement accounts and own assets that‚ when added together‚ have value. A properly drafted trust‚ a legal arrangement drafted by an attorney that transfers property to a trustee‚ may be a critical tool in estate planning. It can help you think about the type of legacy you want to leave‚ including: * Helping protect your assets and ensuring their distribution according to your wishes * Helping protect your estate from potentially
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Body Area Networks ∗ Arif Onder ISIKMAN∗ ‚ Loris Cazalon† ‚ Feiquan Chen‡ ‚ Peng Li§ Email: isikman@student.chalmers.se‚ † Email: loris.cazalon@telecom-bretagne.eu‚ ‡ Email: feiquan@student.chalmers.se‚ § Email: lpeng@student.chalmers.se Chalmers University of Technology‚ SE-412 96‚ Gothenburg‚ Sweden Abstract—Recent technologies in electronics allow to build wireless sensor networks in on or around the human body. Body Area Networks (BAN‚ is also called Body Sensor Networks) is not only used
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What is Global Production Network? Global production network (GPN) does not refer broadly to all products that are internationally traded. Rather‚ it refers to those products and services in which the production chain is extended over several (two or more) countries. GPNs are typically characterized by transnational corporations which tend to retain their knowledge-intensive‚ design-intensive activities‚ and marketing associated with proprietary know-how and higher value-added activities in
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Mattel‚ Inc: Vendor Operations in Asia 小组成员：葛晔韬、李如妍、陈嘉、黎健兴、马迪 Introduction Mattel is a leading company in the toy industry created in 1945‚ which owns a number of iconic toys and renowned brands. Mattel differentiate between core and non-core products‚ manufacturing its core products in-house and outsourcing non-core products. And core products include Barbie‚ Hot Wheels products‚ selective Disney and Fisher Price lines‚ while non-core products tended to be promotional items‚ or toys with short
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Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino‚ California‚ that designs‚ develops‚ and sells consumer electronics‚ computer software and personal computers. Apple is the world’s second-largest information technology company by revenue after Samsung Electronics‚ and the world’s third-largest mobile phone maker. As of May 2013‚ Apple maintains 408 retail stores in fourteen countries as well as the online Apple Store and iTunes Store. Organization strategy June
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com/global/about-mars/mars-pia/business-summaries.aspx Chris Pearson. (2010). Marketing Mix. Available: http://jurnal-sdm.blogspot.com/2010/01/konsep-bauran-pemasaran- marketing-mix.html# Euromonitor International. 2012. Mars Inc in Packaged Food. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.euromonitor.com/mars-inc-in-packaged-food/report www.kitkat.weebly.com. 2012. KITKAT - Brand positioning. [ONLINE] Available at: http://breakwithkitkat.weebly.com/brand-positioning.html www.mars.com. 2012. Targets and Process. [ONLINE]
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Wireless Network Security Partha Dasgupta and Tom Boyd Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Fulton School of Engineering Arizona State University partha@asu.edu‚ tboyd@asu.edu Abstract Wireless networking is inherently insecure. From jamming to eavesdropping‚ from man-inthe middle to spoofing‚ there are a variety of attack methods that can be used against the users of wireless networks. Modern wireless data networks use a variety of cryptographic techniques such as encryption and authentication
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