SUBMITTED TO: - RAJIB MUSTOFA GORE-TEX Gore-Tex is a multinational textile company. It was first founded by Bill and Vieve Gore as W.L. Gore & Associates in 1958. The company started with serving the electronic products market. In 1969‚ Bob Gore independently discovered expanded polytetrafluoroethylene and introduced in the market as Gore-Tex. In today’s date Gore-Tex is more focused on electronics‚ fabrics‚ industrial and medical products. It is a
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1.Explain what happened to the Gore-Tex brand after the patent expired When the patent expires the inventor has no longer exclusive rights to her or hers invention opening it up to everyone. At this point other companies can offer competitive products at reduced prices. It seems that Gore-Tex was smart enough to take advantage of their own patent and expand the product line to include other products using the same technology. 2.What activity can firms use to try to maintain any advantage developed
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1) What impresses you about this company? To what extent does the management style match what business schools tell you about “how to manage”? What is impressive about the company is the level of innovation and the management style. Gore & Associates is technology oriented and is based on continuous innovation. An innovative company needs engaged workers and the knowledge employees need autonomy to be engaged. Gore & Associates took it to the extreme point since everyone in the company has freedom
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Gore-Tex Case Study 1) Explain what happened to the Gore-Tex brand after the patent expired. What activity can firms use to try to maintain any advantage developed during the patent protection phase? When a patent expires‚ generally around 20 years after the original filing; the inventor no longer has the exclusive rights to his or her invention thereby opening up the said patent to everyone to use. At this point other companies can offer comparative products at reduced prices. Gore-Tex was smart
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“All food is creative in some way; and grounded in the past in other ways (194).” Modern food is inspired by tradition‚ yet driven by the resources and ideas of the current period. To illustrate the meaning of Wilk’s statement‚ the development of Tex-Mex cuisine can be used as an example. Food writers Waverly Root and Richard de Rochemont describe the cuisine as “native foreign” in their book Eating in America
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GORE-TEX 1. INTRODUCTION There are plenty of clothing options out in the market to keep you warm‚ but how about to keep you dry in wet conditions? Being dry is one of the key components to keeping warm so this is essential. That is were GORE-TEX comes in. GORE-TEX is an inner membrane layer in outdoor clothing containing over nine billion microscopic pores per square inch (Figure 2). These pores are each twenty thousand times smaller then a water droplet but seven hundred times larger then a water
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packed with flavors of different seasonings and more. On my 18th birthday‚ my mother made these delicious‚ savory Tex-Mex enchiladas. I’ve learned that these enchiladas are different from any other. It required time and delicacy‚ but it was simply an addiction. When the enchiladas were baked‚ the tortillas were crisp and the smells of the spices were mouth-watering. The sauce for the Tex-Mex enchiladas had a spicy taste that didn’t burn my tongue and
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Abstract Alvin “Tex” M. Johnston is one of aviation’s greats‚ from small town barn storming to aviation giants. In this paper I am going to talk about how a small town boy out of Kansas became one of the greatest pilots in aviation history. I have taken the time to gather many sources to help paint this aviation great in all his glory. Johnston had such an impact on the aviation world that the National Aviation Hall of Fame enshrined him in 1993. He had the opportunity unlike most aviation greats
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ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR Gore-Tex Case GORE-TEX CASE ANALYSIS 1. What impresses you about this company? The organization of the company seems to position its corporate culture on an equal basis from the point of view of the majority‚ the employees. Avoiding chain of command and seniority allows creating a corporate culture where everyone is involved in the final goals of the company which that enables
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Use the menu below to view examples of business letter format. Block form Indented form Block Form 5 Hill Street Madison‚ Wisconsin 53700 March 15‚ 2005 Ms. Helen Jones President Jones‚ Jones & Jones 123 International Lane Boston‚ Massachusetts 01234 Dear Ms. Jones: Ah‚ business letter format-there are block formats‚ and indented formats‚ and modified block formats . . . and who knows what others. To simplify matters‚ we’re demonstrating the block format on
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