Final Exam - Executing Strategy Volkswagen do Brasil: Drving Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard Name: Roy Stoop Student number: 5877431 MSc Business Studies/Business Administration – Marketing Track University of Amsterdam (UvA) Date of submission: 23-10-2014 Case questions 1. What challenges does Thomas Schmall face upon becoming CEO of Volkswagen do Brasil (VWB)? 2. Describe VWB’s new strategy and comment on it in terms of quality of strategic thinking. 3. Does the strategy map (Exhibit
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UNILEVER Everyday 150 million people buy a unilever product to feed themselves or clean themselves or their homes. Employing over 206‚000 people in over 100 countries and 2000 alone in uk achieving an annual sales of about 900 million pounds in UK‚ unilever today is one of the largest international company today. Like many companies even unilever has faced its ups and downs. it was established in the 1885 and faced many difficulties until the end of second world war‚ even though in spread in fragments
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------------------------------------------------- MARKETING: Group 1 ------------------------------------------------- Case: Chandon‚ Pierre (2004). Unilever in Brazil: Marketing Strategies for Low-income Consumers (Question 1 a & b) a) Discuss whether marketing and branding can create value for poor consumers. Marketing is the performance of activities that seek to accomplish organisations objectives by anticipating customer or client needs and directing a flow of need satisfying
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Starbucks Harvard Business School Starbucks: Delivering Customer Service MKT 690: Marketing Management Mike DiPietro Spring 2015 Nevin Johnson Abstract The following diction is an analysis of the Harvard Business School study on Starbucks coffee‚ titled “Starbucks: Delivering Customer Service.” There are many factors accounted for Starbucks extraordinary success in the 1990s. Though Starbucks offered great coffee and a great experience their customer satisfaction scores declined. There are many
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Marketing Mix OUTLINE o INTRODUCTION o UNILEVER AT A GLANCE o STP STRATEGY Segmentation Targeting Positioning • 4 Ps o CONCLUSION UNILEVER AT A GLANCE Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of fast-moving consumer goods. UNILEVER was founded in 1930 190 countries in which their products are sold 171‚000 employees at the end of the year 2011 €1 billion invested in R&D worldwide in 2011 CUSTOMER PARTNERSHIPS o Unilever has products for three markets: • FOOD • PERSONAL CARE
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recognizes its opportunities in the supply chain and works with its suppliers so that they share responsibility for sustainability. Suppliers are expected to answer questions that specifically relate to sustainability issues - M&S will only do business with suppliers that meet its sustainability criteria and who are prepared to work with it to improve their sustainability performance. All suppliers are invited to join the Plan A Supplier Exchange‚ a website to share best practice and knowledge
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WorldCom Critical Thinking Case Study Not only did WorldCom’s organizational culture contributed to the accounting breaches‚ in my opinion it was the catalyst to its ultimate demise in July 2002. Richard Thornburgh stated that “WorldCom could not have failed as a result of the actions of a limited number of individuals. Rather‚ there was a broad breakdown of the system of internal controls‚ corporate governance and individual responsibility‚ all of which worked together to create a culture in
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Senators‚ and Doctors. Even the business world has made efforts into promoting women to higher positions. Meanwhile‚ the government has always been supportive of an environment that would support the equality of women and men. However‚ in spite of all these efforts‚ gender discrimination remains a very big issue in the United States. Diversity programs are aimed at reducing this form of discrimination as well as others prevailing in the workplace. Yet‚ the number of cases backlog for sexual harassment
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the submission. Problem definition‚ objective statement‚ analytical rigour and innovative approach have also been taken into account during evaluation. 2. Maximum team size is limited to two members from the same participation group. 3. Entries (Case analysis including Annexures) should not exceed a limit of 1000 words (excluding cover page). This will be taken into consideration during evaluation. 4. Mention the Team No. in the header – eg. “Team No. 136” in the header‚ such that it appears
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situation. Others‚ however‚ don’t do so well. What accounts for the difference? In this article‚ first published in 1985‚ Harvard Business School professor John J. Gabarro relates the findings of two sets of field studies he conducted‚ covering 14 management successions. The first set was a three-year study of four newly assigned division presidents; the second consisted of 10 historical case studies. The project comprised American and European organizations with sales varying from $1.2 million to $3 billion
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