Merck & Co.‚ Inc (A) (The summary is based on the article in Vol. I and does not include the extra readings given by the professor) This case is a classic example of enterprises trying to balance their business of increasing profits and expected social responsibilities. This dilemma is further accentuated when the company happens to be a pharma company whose decisions directly affect people’s lives. The Dilemma: A possible drug for River Blindness‚ a disease which affects almost 85 million
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LIGHTING ACTION PART ONE The Incident In June 2008‚ SYARIKAT GETAH BAGUS SDN BHD faced a series of actions by its employees who are members of the National Union of Employees of Rubber Goods (NUERG). The Tyre Division of the Company was plagued by increasing absenteeism‚ malingering and production delays on the part of the tyre operators. The Production Manager‚ Mr. John Ho‚ alarmed over the deteriorating state of production performance had expressed concern at a recent company conference
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1. Company Background Royal Phillips was founded in 1891 when Gerard and Frederick Phillips purchased a factory in Eindhoven‚ Netherlands. They began their operations in 1892 producing carbon-filament lamps and other electro-technical products. In 1895 Gerard’s younger brother Anton began working at the factory. With the help of Anton‚ the light wire bulbs he designed began to be produced in mass quantities‚ helping the company begin to expand. By 1920 they were mass producing cathodes and high
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Assignment Questions (Case: SAT & CO.): 1. Why is the machine tool industry so important? How it is different from other industries? 2. What is market orientation? Is SAT & CO. is a market oriented company? Is there a relationship between the market orientation of the company and its business performance? Can this relationship be moderated by external factors? 3. What should McGuire do to achieve market orientation for the company? What are the critical success factors for the company
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ANALYSIS OF JOHNSONVILLE SAUSAGE CO. (A) CASE STUDY IN THE ASPECT OF STRATEGIC DESIGN Prepared by USANUS SIRITARARATN‚ 2012 The Johnsonville Sausage Co. (A) case study from Harvard Business School is about Johnsonville Sausage Co‚ a sausage manufacturer and wholesaler in Johnsonville‚ Wisconsin. As the company grew over time‚ the president of Johnsonville Sausage Co.‚ Ralph Stayer‚ faced many big problems in his organization. After Stayer listened to a lecture about how managers could change
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Analysis of case study Mr. Koch is an expatriate in Hong Kong for CominTec AG&CO. He is working in the organization in the HR office for a long time and since three years he is HR chief. Mr. Koenig Owner of the organization needs to institutionalize the routines for staff choice for Asian-Pacific Region. A new system is to be developed for middle management positions in APAC. Mr. Koenig assigned this undertaking to cross cultural‚ multinational project team that operates in Hong Kong lead by HR executive
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Project Plan Draft: Different Types of Lighting Techniques Used Can Change the Ambience in Theatres Abstract The paper connotes the effectiveness of lighting techniques to the customers’ mood in restaurants. Therefore‚ this research is to find out how the customers’ mood will be affected by the impact of lighting techniques that need to be implemented in different spaces. Every play in theatre used different types of lighting in order to give good impact and to attract the audience into the plays
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HKUST MBA Microeconomics Case 1: Medicines Company Case Question 1. For drug administrators‚ their incentive for using the drug is that the drug’s got to make economic sense. Data showed that for more than 4‚300 patients‚ Angiomax was a more superior alternative to Heparin. Also shown in tables b and c that it effectively reduced the incidences of death by 30% ‚ heart attack by 26%‚ need for a repeat angioplasty by 14% and major bleeding by 65% (sum of weighted average between high risk and
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Sin And Love In Dim Kitchen Light He says he wants to be happy one day. Says he’ll be happy there when he goes. You just came home with two apples and less spare change than expected. He has this dream that one day you’ll come home with a pair of one-way tickets and you won’t have to worry about how you feel at all. You come home and he tells you. “Emily‚” he says. “I want you to know something. I want you to know that I’m going to die one day. I can’t love you forever.” You don’t know
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Walt Whitman’s poem‚ ‘A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim’‚ describes the conditions in a civil war camp hospital. The speaker of the poem‚ Whitman himself‚ depicts the eerie scene of a medical tent during the civil war. The speaker wakes up to the haze of ‘daybreak’ and encounters 3 unattended dead bodies of 3 dead soldiers. Whitman goes into detail describing the faces of the fallen soldiers. Constantly asking himself “who” the men really are. With the use of his diction and other literary
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