GLOBAL CROSSING LTD. Entity Background Global Crossing is a telecommunications company providing computer networking services worldwide. It was founded in 1997 by Gary Winnick‚ Abbot L. Brown‚ David L. Lee and Barry Porter through Pacific Capital Group. It is said that Global Crossing was the first global communications provider with IPv6 natively deployed in both its private and public backbone networks. It raised about $400 million on its initial public stock offering. Global Crossing was
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Pre-reading Reading: “3M Post-It Notes: A Managed or Accidental Innovation?” As you read this case story‚ think about the following two questions: 1. What were the critical factors that enabled 3M Post-it Notes to be successfully commercialized and what can we generalize about managing the innovation process from this case history? 2. What were the critical roles performed by some of the key individuals‚ including Silver‚ Oliveira‚ Nicholson‚ Fry‚ and Ramey? 1 33 3M’s Post-it Notes: A Managed
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Number 3 (2013) pp. 71-78 www.ijcrar.com Challenges faced by new entrepreneurs R.S.Kanchana*‚ J.V.Divya and A.Ansalna Beegom Kanchana.R.S‚ Kanchana Bhavan‚ Mithirmala.P.O‚ (695610) Mithirmala‚ Trivandrum Kerala‚ India *Corresponding author KEYWORDS Entrepreneur; Challenges; motivation; skill; adventurism. A B S T R A C T An entrepreneur is one who plays significant role in the economic development of a country. Basically an entrepreneur can be regarded as a person who has the initiative‚ skill and
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History of Virgin Virgin Trains was born on 29th of November 1996 when it was awarded the Cross Country franchise following the privatisation of British Rail‚ the franchise will last until April 2012. Along with the Cross Country line‚ Virgin also won the West Coast franchise and took control on the 9th of March 1997‚ this franchise will end in March 2012. The West Coast line was the last but one of the franchises to be handed over to the private sector‚ all of which had been completed in less
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs In the most basic sense‚ Maslow’s hierarchy identifies five primary areas of needs experienced by most humans. Beginning with physiological‚ or basic life survival‚ needs‚ the model progresses in subsequent steps through safety and security‚ love and belongingness‚ self-esteem and finally self-actualization. Maslow postulated that as man meets the needs at the first level‚ he moves toward the next‚ then the next and so on. More recent studies have added levels to the
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Introduction The Virgin Group is one of the UK’s largest private companies. Virgin’s highest-profile business was Virgin Atlantic‚ which had developed to be a major force in the international airline business. Virgin Atlantic Airways has become Britain’s second largest airline serving the world’s major cities. On 20 December 1999 Richard Branson signed an agreement to sell a 49% stake of Virgin Atlantic to Singapore Airlines to form a unique global partnership. The cost of the transaction to Singapore
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Problem statement The main challenge facing Virgin Atlantic Airlines is identifying and executing a strategy that will help it become a more profitable and established airline in the industry going forward. Virgin had an income loss of 14.5 M pounds in 1991-92‚ and a small profit of 0.4 M pounds in 1992-93(Exhibit 2). In contrast‚ British Airways had $297.7 M profit which is 3.19% of its total sales in 1992 (Exhibit 10). VAA has been pursuing a marketing strategy to serve all classes of passengers
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The face of entrepreneurship has changed over the years‚ and today‚ it is dramatically different. Women are taking a more active role in providing for their families while nurturing their children. America’s entrepreneurs are much more diverse now. Cynthia Odo‚ originally from Ghana‚ immigrated to this country and was able to achieve owning her own business. Her success has allowed her to further her goals and aspirations by creating a foundation of teaching and knowledge that will also give young
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fruit bearing coconut trees. A fully integrated mobile processing unit (diesel engine powered)‚ that can be hooked like a trailer‚ able to extract virgin coconut oil from coconut meat‚ coconut coir and coir dust from the husks‚ and charcoal from the shell‚ will benefit all small and medium sized coconut farmers. These 3 products are heavily traded in the global market. At present‚ farmers are limited to copra production and roughly earn only 150 euroes per hectare of planted coconuts per year. This mobile
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Virgin Active is one of the largest health club businesses in the world‚ with over 170 clubs and more than 900‚000 members spread across the UK‚ Italy‚ Spain‚ Portugal and South Africa. Virgin Active is currently developing sites across Australia. The Virgin Active club located at 138 Bourke St‚ Melbourne officially opened in May 2009. Virgin Active opened its first Australian club in French’s Forest‚ Sydney in December 2008. Virgin Active offers convenient class times as well as fast classes for
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