Elevator Pitch: This case illustrates the strategic challenges currently faced by one of the giants in the video game industry‚ Electronic Arts. It also surfaces the industry’s characteristics and explains us‚ that in this fast paced tech-savvy world‚ you have to keep running just to stay where you are. EA‚ in 1995 is looking for its next move that would maintain its leading position in the industry. The changes over the past 15 years had led the industry to a very converged sophisticated platform
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Nucor Corporation 1995: after 30 years of success‚ what next? The Nucor story is about how a nearly bankrupt enterprise became the most productive and profitable company in the U.S. steel industry. It is also a story of how the two top managers of Nucor Corporation set a standard of personal and corporate behavior that continues to inspire social and economic civility within and beyond U.S. borders. The change in fortunes for the company began in the summer of 1965‚ when the new Chairman
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Merton 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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Sensormatic Case Study September 15‚ 2011 CASE HIGHLIGHTS: (Key points‚ events in case relevant to study topic) Sensormatic manufactures‚ markets‚ and services theft detection devices and pioneered the merchandise security business. Its current manufacturing operations occur at Deerfield Beach plan between two separate departments of systems production and tag production. Sensormatic currently purchases polypropylene and ABS parts from Canon Plastics and Piedmont Plastics for its alligator
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Executive Summary We are discussing the case study of Merton Electronics Corporation (MEC). Although company is doing well as far as sales is concern but their net profit is dipping. This is due to increasingly difficult market conditions as well as fluctuation in international currency prices. Patricia Merton is president and majority shareholder of MEC. MEC is exposed to three currencies Japanese Yen‚ US Dollar & Taiwanese Dollar. Major concern of MEC is volatility of Yen and Taiwanese Dollar
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CASE: SAMSUNG ELECTRONIC CORPORATION: GOVERNANCE OF CHAEBOLS Copyright: Prof. Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes Professor Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Rakhi Kumar‚ Yale MBA02 prepared this case as the basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate the effective or ineffective governance of an organization. Prof. Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes INTRODUCTION Case: Samsung Electronics Prior to the Asian currency crises‚ South Korea was an investment destination for several institutional
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Human Resource management Medical and Environmental Electronic Devices Corporation By Mohsin Mahmood Saad Azhar Sana Rizwan Shaher Bano Gardezi MBAII‚ A 2014-2015 Background Medical and Environmental Electronic devices corporation was founded in 1959. Initially the core business was related to applications in medical device technology. The company started new business of Environmental control applications and achieved its current name in 1964. By 1979‚ MEED achieved 31% market share in its market
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INTRODUCTION In early July 2007‚ the New York based hedge fund Perry Capital proposed to raise its stake in NEC Electronics Corporation (NECE)‚ the then publicly listed subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate‚ NEC Corporation‚ from 4.8 percent to 25 percent. The offering was ¥5‚000 a share‚ at about 60 percent premium. Perry’s investment in NECE traced back to late 2005‚ the year its first exposure to Asian markets‚ with the initial investment cost at around ¥3‚200 a share. Perry believed the intrinsic
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U.S Monetary Policy in 1995 When Alan Greenspan presented the Federal Reserve’s semi-annual report on monetary policy to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy‚ the Committee on Banking and Financial Services‚ and the U.S. House of Representatives on February‚ Dr. Greenspan touted a cautionary yet favorable view of the U.S. economy. He states that "With inflationary pressures apparently receding‚ the previous degree of restraint in monetary policy was no longer deemed
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Electronic Literature Pedagogy: A Questionable Approach by: Chris Mott WHY SHOULD I TEACH ELECTRONIC LITERATURE? The first reason to teach electronic literature is practical: digital media are the most rapidly growing forms of communication‚ and they will only grow in their influence and pervasiveness. Most of our students are fairly skillful with electronic technology‚ but as we all know‚ skill is not literacy. Literacy includes the ability not only to perform in a given medium‚ but to think
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