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    Case Study: Wal-Mart June 12‚ 2012 � This case study is based upon the case article by Peter A. Stanwick and Sarah D. Stanwick titled; ’Wal-Mart: But We Do Give Them a 10 Percent Employee Discount ’‚ in which addresses the ethical issues facing Wal-Mart. According to Stanwick and Stanwick (2009‚ p. 409)‚ the culture "has created a number of twenty-first-century problems for Wal-Mart." Summary The authors ’ viewpoint is that of the Wal-Mart employees are not all treated equally according to

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    Wal-Mart Stores: Every Day Low Prices in China Key Issues Wal-Mart is currently facing a change to their business in China. Over the past few years China’s retail industry and its distribution and logistical infrastructure have opened up significantly with decreased government regulation. For Wal-Mart this will mean a large change in its business strategy and it will now look to profitably expand with China’s booming economy. In order to set a new strategy Wal-Mart will need to identify

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    Case 22: "Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in 2008: Management’s Initiatives to Transform the Company and Curtail Wal-Mart Bashing‚" by Arthur A. Thompson‚ C367–C400. The Wal-Mart case lays out Wal-Mart’s corporate history and phenomenal growth record‚ its strategy to become the largest discount retailer in the world via a low-cost leadership strategy‚ the company’s approaches to strategy execution‚ and the transformative initiatives that CEO Lee Scott launched to curtail media bashing of Wal-Mart. Study the

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    Wal-Mart Stores Inc.‚ May 2002 Robert M. Grant Wal-Mart Stores 1. TO WHAT EXTENT IS WAL-MART’S PERFORMANCE ATTRIBUTABLE TO INDUSTRY ATTRACTIVENESS AND TO WHAT EXTENT TO COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE? A company has a competitive advantage over its rivals when its profitability is greater than the average profitability of all companies in its industry. It has a sustained competitive advantage when it is able to maintain above-average profitability

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    |LASER ALIGNMENT THEORY Modern optical metrology uses precise lines and planes in space from which measurements are made. Because this method creates these features using light it has become known as optical tooling. The 35 year old historical development and current technology of laser instrumentation as used in optical tooling is discussed in detail. This includes the how the measurements are made‚ applications‚ and the technology of alignment lasers and position sensing targets developed for

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    Complementors) Wal-Mart Potential Competitors: Medium pressure Grocers could potentially enter into the retail side. Entry barriers are relatively high‚ as Wal-Mart has an outstanding distribution systems‚ locations‚ brand name‚ and financial capital to fend off competitors. Wal-mart often has an absolute cost advantage over other competitors. Rivalry Among Established Companies: Medium Pressure Currently‚ there are three main incumbent companies that exist in the same market as Wal-Mart: Sears

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    Case Study Analysis of “Wal-Mart: The Main Street Merchant of Doom” Issues/Problems: The rapid and enormous expansion of Wal-Mart and its market share have changed the landscape of Main Street in towns and cities across America. By 1981‚ Wal-Mart became Americas largest retailer. It has approx. 6‚700 stores worldwide‚ $345 billion in net sales (2007)‚ and roughly 100 million weekly customers. Wal-Marts massive footprint has had three primary areas of concern: 1) Putting local small business

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    ‘Avoiding the Alignment Trap’‚ where even though most companies are aware that IT must be aligned with business strategy in terms of aligning IT expenses with revenue growth‚ over 11% of companies that align IT with business strategy spend more than 13% on average on IT expenses with a resulting of less than 14% average in revenue growth. The objective of this case analysis is to recommend a governance arrangement that will lead most companies that are currently have less effective IT alignment with business

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    Are multination corporations such as Wal-Mart helpful or harmful to the global economy? To a lesser extent‚ multinational corporation such as Wal-Mart are harmful to the global economy. Multinational corporation is a corporation or company that is registered in more than one country or that has operations in two or more countries. Global economy generally refers to the economy‚ which is based on economies of all of the world’s countries’ national economies. Also‚ global economy can be seen as the

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    Check Point The Co-alignment Principle HTT/220 The co-alignment principle simply states that in order for a company to be successful‚ it must be well aligned‚ both internally and externally‚ with the forces driving change in its business environment (Nyheim‚ McFadden‚ & Connolly‚ 2005). The compmay’s strategy should focus on the environment and its understanding of that environment‚ and any changes taking place‚ and what needs to be done to stay fit and then looks to develop a game plan and

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