May 2004 What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for? JOHN GERRING Boston University T his paper aims to clarify the meaning‚ and explain the utility‚ of the case study method‚ a method often practiced but little understood. A “case study‚” I argue‚ is best defined as an intensive study of a single unit with an aim to generalize across a larger set of units. Case studies rely on the same sort of covariational evidence utilized in non-case study research. Thus‚ the case study method is correctly
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Johnson & Johnson On January 26‚ 2011‚ health care conglomerate Johnson & Johnson announced that earnings had declined in the fourth quarter of the previous year‚ and lowered its estimates for its earnings for 2010. The firm claimed that the weaker results could be attributed to the depressed economy and to a string of product recalls. Sales figures do indicate that Johnson and Johnson has clearly been hurt by 17 recalls since September 2009‚ covering several over-the-counter medicines‚ a batch
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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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Annu. Rev. Psychol. 1997. 48:515–46 OB IN THE ROUSSEAUNEW ORGANIZATIONAL ERA Copyright © 1997 by Annual Reviews Inc. All rights reserved ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR IN THE NEW ORGANIZATIONAL ERA Denise M. Rousseau Heinz School of Public Policy and Management and Graduate School of Industrial Administration‚ Carnegie Mellon University‚ Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania 15213 KEY WORDS: employment relations‚ performance paradox‚ organizational change‚ organizational learning‚ organizing‚ self-management
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Order Size for drilling: * The Manual press needs 15 min for set up‚ in addition to 0.08 min for every hole. Knowing that the typical circuit board has 500 drilled holes‚ then run time will be 0.08*500 = 40 min / board. Therefore‚ time taken to drill N boards manually will be equal to : 15 + 40(N) * On the other hand the CNC drill needs 240 min for set up‚ in addition to 0.004 min for every hole. So run time will be 0.004*500 = 2 min / board. Then the time taken to drill N boards by CNC drill
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Marketing Management COMM 3045 A Crack in the Mug - Can Starbucks mend it? Case Study Prepared for: Professor Pat Gardner Group Members: Kim Denis Tomas Lee Xame Chan Paul Stevens Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 3 2. Problem Statement 4 3. Company Objectives 4 4. Company Background 4 5. Analysis 5-7 5.1. SWOT Analysis 5 5.2. Market Analysis 6 5.3. Competitive Analysis 7 6. Key Factors 7-8 6.1. Key Opportunities 7
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other competitors. Who was the target market for the BMW Films campaign? With its campaign‚ BMW was hoping to reach customers between the ages of 25 to 44 who were new to the luxury car market‚ without affecting their current customer base‚ being 46 year old male‚ married with no children with a median income of about $150 000. This target audience was therefore well educated‚ two thirds were very active males engaged in sports and other activities. BMW wanted to target people who wanted a perfect
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MUL1010 Study Guide for Final Exam Please look up answers from Section IV of the course--the Historical Periods-- and listen to excerpts from the course for the listening questions below to be well-prepared for the Proctored Final Exam. Give yourself plenty of time to listen and to study. 1. Who was Anicius Boethius? 2. Who is the “Father of the Symphony?” 3. What musical technique replaced tonality in the 20th Century? 4. What is tonality? 5. What is secular music? 6. What is sacred music
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STATEMENT OF COMPLAINANT CASES OF DISTRICT LAHORE‚ INITIATED IN ENVIRONMENTAL TRIBUNAL‚ LAHORE FROM JANUARY‚ 2006 TO JULY‚ 2008 1. Director General‚ EPA V/S M/s Abdul Hafeez Re-Rolling Mills‚ Khokhar Road‚ Badami Bagh‚ Lahore. P&C/North Lahore 28-02-2006 F-528/LS/EPA/2006 Pending at evidence stage. 2. Director General‚ EPA V/S M/s Irfan Steel Re-Rolling Mills‚ Khokhar Road‚ Badami Bagh‚ Lahore. P&C/North Lahore 28-02-2006 F-525/LS/EPA/2006 Pending at evidence stage.
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