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Project Management Recommendations from a CIO

been charged with the critical task of development new IT projects to guide the company towards a more efficient and profitable fu...

Bonuses for Bailout Banks: The Ethical Questions

economic status of their businesses. Some experts attribute the matter to a dramatic increase in technological development and ava...

Two Great Leaders

the 33rd President of the United States on April 12, 1945, 82 days after Franklin D. Roosevelts fourth election as President. John...

How One Major Corporation Changed Directions

a case study involving IBM. This model considers four building blocks of an organization: critical tasks are those action items an...

How BPX changed in the 1990s

program (Cross, Earl and Sampler, 1997). They worked to create standards in the oil industry so information could be shared more e...

WALT DISNEY CO., LEADERSHIP AND THE FUTURE

Iger determined, at the time, that Disney would be better off building cross-promotion, cross-platform products was the way to go ...

Henry Levin’s Rebuttal Article, “Déjà Vu All Over Again?”

the public education wheel, which has been rolling along quite nicely for centuries, easily able to adapt to the changing times an...

Ryanair's Industry Position

online-mediated travel (Ryanair Holdings PLC, 2009). Threats * Slowdown in the economies of the UK, Europe and the world; * Increa...

Cocoa's Sustainability

was prohibitively expensive because of high import tariffs on cocoa beans, and only the truly wealthy could afford to buy it. Joh...

Caterpillar Company - Harvard Case Study

recession and a new very high labor contract, Caterpillar lost a considerable amount over the next three years. Komatsu saw their ...

Biography of Gail Kelly

this school and during her final year became a school prefect (The Age, 2005). Gail then went to study Latin and modern history ...

CEP of Cisco John Chambers

an interview in October 2008 with a writer from Harvard, Chambers commented that the command-and-control stance many leaders were ...

Apple Computers Founder and Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs

from a paltry $2 billion to over $18 billion and the stock shot up to $111 from an embarrassing $12(Jackson 2000) . "We shipped mo...

Hospital Administration

as a facilitator of human resources, but also encompasses consideration of financial resources. These two roles were selected as m...

Starbucks Corp. - Changes

with more than 15,000 Starbucks coffee outlets across 35 countries, Starbucks is the largest specialty coffee retailer in the worl...

The Character And Leadership Style Of Jack Welch

Union and instead of trying to soothe things with the EU Commissioner, Welch was aggressive in his approach.8 The approach did not...

Toy Companies Background Information

the current CEO is Andy Bailen and the head office is located at 200 Toy Lane, Blairs, VA 24527. The company does not give details...

EXECUTIVES AND PERKS IN FINANCIALLY TROUBLED COMPANIES: AN EXAMINATION

then CEO Don Carty apologized to the unions, explaining he had erred in not telling unions about the executive compensation packag...

Huffman Trucking Case Study

maybe one of the first trucking companies to undertake this strategy, which may give them a first mover advantage in terms of the ...

Tyco Case Study

ship empty boxes to Maine while the actual art work was delivered to his home in the city, he could claim his home as a business e...

American and Japanese Cultures Case Study

just be that the customer service department gets an overhaul. In fact, many firms today are criticized for giving shoddy customer...

AcuScan and 'Operation Optimize'

merit because the success of the company depends on continued growth of sales revenues, but the manner in which it is presented ca...

Leadership Model Exemplified by Max DePree

DePree adopted a model of leadership that pictures the leader as both inspiring and serving (Budman, 2002). Such a framework for l...

Shaking Up Senior Leadership and Organizational Behavior

The concept of change in the organizational environment is a rather simple equation that is one of the most...

The HealthSouth Scandal

value from dropping.5 He was able to get away with it because he was the person who was charged by the SEC with the responsibility...

White Collar Crime

Associated Press Article "Ala. ex-governor, fired CEO in prison". Comparing this article to accounts on the World Wide We...

Employee Self-Determination

over conditions in the company, and they either trust him/her or not. The matter of trust is also one of ethics; while we might en...

Leadership at Gene One

not enough time for teams to form organically given the pace at which business moves. The more standard approach to team formatio...

Book Review: "Understanding Leadership" By Avery

with gender bias, basing its entire concept upon the notion that the only viable candidate for leadership of any kind is - and has...

Strategy for Emirates Airline

as a top airline due to its geography and technology with the only factors hampering its further growth and global impact being ca...