The Core Competence of the Corporation C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel Harvard Business Review 90311 HBR MAY–JUNE 1990 The Core Competence of the Corporation C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel The most powerful way to prevail in global competition is still invisible to many companies. During the 1980s‚ top executives were judged on their ability to restructure‚ declutter‚ and delayer their corporations. In the 1990s‚ they’ll be judged on their ability to identify‚ cultivate‚ and exploit
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Buenavista Plywood Corporation The Problem The problem confronting Mr. Antonio Garcia‚ the Plant Superintendent of Buenavista Plywood Corporation is how to deal with the absentee rates of the employees from Bohol such that the production of the plant will operate at capacity‚ with adequate workforce and the interests of the company and employees be served. Objectives More specifically‚ the problem resolves itself into the following objectives which Mr. Garcia has to achieve in the course
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Modern day corporations display every one of the previously listed characteristics. Is it right that an institution‚ whose power now rivals that of the State that once created it to seek the better welfare of its citizens‚ display the psychological traits of a dangerous personality disorder? Many say no: there is a rising discomfort with the corporation and its pervasion into every sphere of human life and it is this uneasiness that has prompted many academics to further study the corporation and its
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Business Strategy Assignment This essay will follow the course of identifying the key areas of the core competency theory that the article entitled ‘The Core Competence of the Corporation ’‚ written by Prahalad and Hamel‚ explores as well as positioning the concepts in the wider debate of theory‚ comparing and contrasting with other ideas from strategic theory. Secondly‚ this piece will look at some underlying assumptions of the business world that the article formulates when looking upon its
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Show your work. Required Problems: 1) Find the slope of the following functions at X = 3. a. Y = 4 + 3X2 b. Y = 5X + 6X3 c. Y = 6X d. Y = (6X + 3)2 / 4X 2) If a firm’s Total Cost equation is TC = 200 + 3Q + 7Q2: a. What is the equation for the firm’s marginal cost? b. What is the firm’s marginal cost when Q =1? Q= 5? 3) At the Peoria Company‚ the relationship between profit and output is as follows:
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manufactured by three large companies Seagate‚ Western Digital and Toshiba. According to Fang Zhang analysis‚ Western Digital and Seagate have 90 of HDD market shares (Goodspeed‚ 2012). Since these two companies control majority of HDD market shares‚ team A has decided to do comparative analysis on these two companies. In this paper‚ the financial performance of WDC and STX for years 2011-2014 will be assessed by comparing the financial data of the two companies. The Ratio analysis will be used as a basic
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Bilal Al- Qureshi‚ Said Business School‚ University of Oxford 2010 American Chemical Corporation HBS Case Number: 9-290-102 Executive Summary The American Chemical Corporation (AMC) is a large‚ diversified chemical producer. In 1979‚ AMC was forced to issue a tender to sell a Sodium Chlorate plant‚ near Collinsville‚ Alabama. Dixon‚ a specialty chemicals company‚ was willing to purchase the aforementioned plant for $12m with the option to invest a further $2.25m on laminate technology. The
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The limited menu allowed them to concentrate on quality and customer service. Kroc had the idea to take the Speedee Service concept and open restaurants nationwide. In 1955‚ partnering with the McDonald Brothers‚ Kroc founded the McDonald’s Corporation and opened the first franchise in Des Plaines‚ Illinois. In 1961 he bought the exclusive rights to the McDonald’s name for 2.7 million dollars. (http://www.mcspotlight.org) Hamburger University‚ the McDonald’s training center in Elk Grove‚
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LAW (PARTNERSHIP AND CORPORATION) GAMMAD‚ MARY JANE M. (Art. 1833-1836) ARTICLE 1833 Where the dissolution is caused bythe act‚ death or insolvency of partner‚ eachpartner is liable to his co-partners for his share of any liability created by any partner acting for thepartnership as if the partnership had not beendissolved unless: 1.)The dissolution being the act of anypartner‚ the partner acting for thepartnership had knowledge of thedissolution; or 2.)The dissolution being by the death orinsolvency
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Corporations are moral agents I chose to evaluate the second debate because I thought it was the most significant to the purpose of the class: to analyze the moral responsibility of business. The debaters were assigned to negate and affirm the following motion: Corporations are Moral Agents. In my opinion‚ this motion comes down to the decision to hold corporations responsible for their (corporations) decisions on a moral basis or just hold them responsible for their decisions on a legal basis
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