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    Movie: the Firm

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    Movie: The Firm Sydney Pollack’s film The Firm is a drama based on an desire to escape from the law firm (Berndini‚ Lambert‚ and Lock) from which he was hired. The relatively small but wealthy firm wines and dines the ambitious Harvard Law Graduate’s (played by Tom Cruise) with money and gifts in order to make him part of their team. Overwhelmed by the gracious treatment and substantial offer Mitch McDeere takes the offer to be part of the Firm. The firm gets them caught up in a affluent lifestyle

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    of the managerial characteristics of a Born Global firm? How are distinguishable from those of a traditional firm that seek to expand with a more traditional evolutionary process? The Born Global firm phenomenon refers to those special firms that adopt an international approach right from their birth The general characteristics of Born Global firms differentiate themselves from other multinationals in their growth stages. Born Global firms typically operate in a narrowly defined market niche

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    Firm Reputation and Horizontal Integration∗ Hongbin Cai† Ichiro Obara‡ March 14‚ 2008. Abstract We study effects of horizontal integration on firm reputation. In an environment where customers observe only imperfect signals about firms’ effort/quality choices‚ firms cannot maintain good reputation and earn quality premium forever. Even when firms choose high quality‚ there is always a possibility that a bad signal is observed. Thus‚ firms must give up their quality premium‚ at least temporarily

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    About thE movie The Firm is a 1993 legal thriller directed by Sydney Pollack‚ and starring Tom Cruise‚ Jeanne Tripplehorn‚ Gene Hackman‚ Ed Harris‚ Holly Hunter‚ Hal Holbrook‚ and David Strathairn. The film is based on the 1991 novel The Firm by author John Grisham. Plot Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) is a young man with a promising future in law. About to graduate from Harvard Law School‚ he is approached by Bendini‚ Lambert & Locke‚ ’The Firm’‚ and made an offer he cannot refuse. He and his

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    SERVICE FIRM COMPETITIVENESS Service firms must constantly improve themselves about quality and productivity in order to compete with rivals. Chase & Hayes created a table to describe the role of operations in the strategic development of service firms. This is an illustration of productivity and quality development. This table categorizes service firms into 4 stages of development according to their competitiveness. This table does not mean that services have to start at stage 1. A firm may start

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    Barriers to Entry of New Firms For a firm to maintain its monopoly position there must be barriers to entry of new firms. Barriers also exist under oligopoly‚ but in the case of monopoly they must be high enough to block the entry of new firms. Barriers can be of various forms. • Economies of scale. If a monopoly experiences substantial economies of scale‚ the industry may not be able to support more than one producer. • Network economies. When a product or service is used by everyone in

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    Introduction to IB Tutorial 1 exercise questions Questions: 1. What is a firm specific advantage? An unique strength a firm has that distinguishes him from his rivals‚ and creates a competitive advantage. 2. What is Honda’s FSA? Honda has a very wide range of motorized machines‚ its assortment covers a large group of consumers. 3. What basic but important distinction does Verbeke make? Non-location-bound FSAs versus Location bound FSAs. 4. Why are some FSAs location bound? These FSAs

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    co-ordinating established configurations and its form depends on the strategies a firm adopts for configuration and co-ordination (Tomkins‚ 1991) 4) Study by Biles and Assada (1991) investigated how the Japanese and American ownership firms evaluated the performance of their subsidiaries. The US firms frequently used financial ratios for performance measurement. ROI was by far most important‚ whereas Japanese firms pay more attention to individual line-items in the budget such as sales volume

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    Impact of Competitive Advantage on Firms Growth Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to measure the Impact of Competitive Advantage on Firms Growth and firm’s performance. Methodology: Data were collected from 2 organizations using Questionnaires. The questionnaire consists of eighteen items that includes four items for demographic‚ four items for measuring training‚ five items for competitive advantage‚ three items for organization performance and two items for organization growth

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    within the Big 4 or work with a small/medium sized firm? The same question is equally important for freshly qualified CAs Articleship builds a strong foundation of a chartered accountant‚ and good articleship experience always pay in long term. And if the articleship is done from BIG4s‚ then the whole career progression can take a paradigm shift because good articleship experience is a key in getting the first good job. At the time of choosing a firm for articleship‚ it is important that some key points

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