H A R v A R D " u s r N E s sl t " H o o L | 5 9-399-1 0 R E V :F E B R U A R Y 5 ‚ 2 0 0 4 2 C H R T S T O P H EA . B A R T L E T T R MEC WOZNY GE’sTwo-DecadeTransformation: fack Welch’s Leadership Jack Welch glowed with pride at General Electric’s Annual Meeting in March 1’999. For the first and‚ time‚ GE’s revenues exceeded $100 billion‚ operating margins were at an all-time high of 1’6.7"/"‚ earnings per share had increased1/% over 197’s record level. In recognition of this
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Facebook‚ Inc. in Transition Introduction: It has been almost one year since Mark Zuckerberg decided to take his social media site public. Created on the dream of making the world more open and connected‚ Mark has devoted the past ten years to making that dream come true. Starting while still in college with a product called Facemash‚ Mark saw the potential for connecting people through the internet. He has devoted his entire adult life to Facebook which took six years to
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who should act as a leader in this team. For example‚ Sasha considered the HBS student as business plan writer and just as some interns who can share their heavy workload‚ that’s why he even asked them to phone the alumni to ask help in product marketing [1]‚ while Henry and Dana think they should set the tone during the contest session and ultimately design the business plan for the company and the product. However‚ the HBS students gradually felt that they are being overused by the founders of MGI
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4357 OCTOBER 24‚ 2011 CHRISTOPHER A. BARTLETT ARAR HAN Levendary Café: The China Challenge Levendary Café was spun out from private equity ownership in January 2011‚ and the following month‚ Mia Foster was named as its new CEO. The departing CEO‚ Howard Leventhal‚ was the beloved founder of the popular chain of 3‚500 cafés. He had grown a small Denver soup‚ salad‚ and sandwich restaurant into a $10 billion business‚ but after 32 years was moving on to new interests. This was Foster’s first
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Nike Case Study The US-based Nike Corporation announced that it had generated profits of $97.4 million‚ around $48 million below its earlier forecast for the third quarter ended February 28‚ 2001. The company said that the failure in the supply chain software installation by i2 Technologies3 was the cause of this revenue shortfall. This admission of failure also affected the company’s reputation as an innovative user of technology. The supply chain software implementation was the first part of
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Q3. What are the prospects for the industry going forward? 1.Though the average level of profitability in the pharmaceutical industry has been declining over time (In 2002‚ the average ROIC in the industry was 21.6%; by 2006‚ it had fallen to 14.5%)‚ historically‚ the pharmaceutical industry has been a profitable one. Because- Name of industry | Average ROIC(Between 2002 and 2006) | Pharmaceuticals | 16.45%(large) | computer hardware | 12.76% | Electronics | 3.88% | 2. The prospect
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The interesting events from CoBot’s standpoint are those‚ which were not expected or least expected to happen‚ from the CoBot’s past task execution data. We define these interesting events as anomalies-- deviation from the expected data. The expected value for an event can be computed from the respective log table‚ we create by analyzing the bag files. Using the expected data we identify the instances which are anomalies‚ and verbalize them comparing it with a past instance or the expected data for
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HARVARD BUSINESS CASE: ALIBABA’S TAOBAO (A) GROUP 2 – GMBA Question 1: What are the major differences in the web designs of Taobao and eBay in China? Which is preferred to on-line buyers and sellers in China? Why? Taobao sought to distinguish itself from eBay in numerous ways. So Taobao’s web designs were imbued with a strong local culture that reflected a deep understanding of Chinese consumers and an attitude of informality. First of all‚ the website was designed like a Chinese department store
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9-511-094 REV: JUNE 13‚ 2011 SUNIL GUPTA RAY WEAVER DHARMISHTA ROOD Gro oupon n e as of On November 29‚ 2010‚ the technology industry wa buzzing with rumors o Google’s bid for Group pon‚ a two-y year-old web bsite that pro omoted daily deals offeri y ing deep dis scounts from local merch hants. Google reportedly offered at lea $3 billion‚ eclipsing a r e o ast rival $2 billion bid from Y Yahoo. And as Groupon re a esisted‚ Goog quickly rai gle ised its offer t as much as $6 billion.1 to s
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