The Taboo of Women in Management International management consulting firm Burns & McCallister is listed by Working Mother magazine as one of the top fifty firms in the United States for employment of working mothers and by Working Woman magazine as one of the top ten firms for women. The firm has earned this reputation for several reasons. First‚ nearly 50% of its partners are women. Second‚ it has a menu of employee benefits that includes such things as flex hours‚ sabbaticals‚ family leave‚ home-based
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BCG matrix The Boston Consulting Group matrix allows a multinational company to manage its portfolio by studying the relative market share and the industry growth rate of each division relative to all other divisions in the organization. It consists of 4 basic elements: 1. Question Marks(?)- falls in Quadrant I that has a low relative market share position but compete in a high-growth industry. 2. Stars- falls in Quadrant II that has a high relative market share and even has a high-growth industry
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Coastline systems consulting Customer response system Destin‚ Florida. The president & analyst‚ Peter Charles‚ wants to develop a system that is both more responsive to clients ans helpful to technicians. He would like to see a system that allows clients to directly enter their service requests. The system would track the status of each request along with the hours spent for billing purposes. Mr. Charles also wants the system to be able to generate statistics and reports so he can pursue continuous
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The Value Chain From Competitive Advantage‚ by Michael Porter Every firm is a collection of activities that are performed to design‚ produce‚ market‚ deliver‚ and support its product. All these activities can be represented using a value chain. A firm’s value chain and the way it performs individual activities are a reflection of its history‚ its strategy‚ its approach to implementing its strategy‚ and the underlying economics of the activities themselves. The relevant level for constructing a value
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Overview: Florence Kluckhohn Value Orientations R.S. Zaharna‚ Ed.D. American University In her seminal paper "Dominant and Variant Value Orientations‚" Florence Kluckhohn outlined five basic human problems that were common to all peoples at all times and all places (1953‚ p. 346). The value orientations Kluckhohn identified speak to the assumptions that we make about ourselves and our relationship to the world‚ which in turn‚ guide our actions. Table 1 (found at the END of this piece) provides
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definitive merger agreement‚ wherein Bharti will acquire African operations of Zain Group. The deal was valued at an enterprise value of USD 10.7 billion or on an 8.2x EBITDA Multiple. Goldman Sachs has invested USD 450 million in online social networking portal Facebook‚ which is valued as the number one social networking network at USD 50 billion. At an enterprise value of USD 50 billion‚ Facebook is trading at a multiple of about 100 times of its earnings. Newspapers and television channels make
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Value appropriation: vital in achieving sustained competitive advantage Table of contents 1 Introduction 3 2 The role of marketing 4 3 Measuring marketing productivity 5 3.1 Customer Satisfaction and future cash flows 7 3.2 Shareholder value 9 4 Creating sustained competitive advantage 10 4.1 Value creation versus value appropriation 10 4.2 Strategic emphasis in practice 11 5 How to prevent imitation? 13 6 Limitations
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Value-Added Strategies: How To Compete Against Price By: John A. Caslione‚ Andrew-Ward International‚ Inc. www.caslione.com The following article by John Caslione shares two examples of value- added strategies from United Parcel Service and British Sugar Ltd‚ Europe. Executives must learn new tools and strategies to fight against discounting in the marketplace and help grow profits in today’s harsh economic climate. This will help you to maximize your ROI and win sales without resorting to price
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The purpose of the corporation: Shareholder-value maximization? Finance Working Paper N°. 95/2005 Revised version: February 2006 Petra Joerg Institut für Finanzmanagement‚ Universität Bern Claudio Loderer Institut für Finanzmanagement‚ Universität Bern Lukas Roth The Pennsylvania State University Urs Waelchli Institut für Finanzmanagement‚ Universität Bern © Petra Joerg‚ Claudio Loderer‚ Lukas Roth and Urs Waelchli 2006. All rights reserved. Short sections of text‚ not to
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Dear Jury‚ Dear attendants‚ Dear Opposition. We are here to propose following motion: Service companies should outsource environmental scanning to specialists. Allow us to define this motion. We define a service company as a company which delivers services to its customers. According to Philip Kotler a service is defined as; "any activity or benefit that one party can offer to another that is essentially intangible and does not result in the ownership of anything. Its production may or may not be
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