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it is all too common to adopt a textbook mentality in which "cases" are represented by a few paragraphs in a textbook, to which on...

other aspect that will gain attention. The value may be questionable when negative publicity is received, or the individual...

to net profit). We are told the percentage of the cost of sales, therefore we can calculate this and then deduct it from the reven...

company is no longer necessarily competing against neighbors or regional firms -- that company could be competing with a similar c...

company places emphasis on human capital and considers employees the companys assets. The many items included in the Code go abov...

and its effectiveness was declining during the late 1990s (at least in the United States) as consumers became more sophisticated. ...

sold over ten million of the "technologically advanced" and most importantly, stylish watches throughout the world between 1984 an...

also limit the type of marketing that can take place. Marketing for a single organisation may be very difficult, especially where ...

benefits of bringing manufacturing under statistical control and the mechanisms for achieving that control. He and his prot?g? De...

is true of any firm. However, in the case study at hand, the team members were described as "knowledge workers" (Stewart, Manz & S...

McNamara, 2000; Steward, Manz and Sims, 1999). In this particular group, only one member, the accountant, seemed reluctant to shar...

First however, its important to find out ways to get management on board. While most...

helpful to examine the definition of strategic management, as well as one or two models of strategic management. In its mo...

worst period they have faced. To survive there has been increased borrowing, $800 million using the credit line and $200 million...

However, the entrance into the market is not as simple as this, with many different influencing factors. Porters Diamond m...

not have to follow the same pattern. The industry has been using the Internet to sell specialty (and therefore higher priced) win...

on the web? Additionally, how would he overcome technical, operational and marketing issues in the short time span of six months? ...

how it was initiated. This means that contacting partners, or figuring out who might have given one the disease, can become rather...

satisfaction and statistical control of organizational processes, a higher level of quality production and outcomes will be achiev...

used by anyone prior to 1992. Meanwhile, in 1988, Omni Chemical Co., a multinational corporation headquartered in State Z,...

* Manufacturing flexibility is essential (Green and Inman, 2000). * Customers define quality (Green and Inman, 2000). * Team effor...

so that restructuring is not needed, only a bit of fine tuning or reevaluation at various junctures(Ackoff, 1994). "At every leve...

individuals belief, values, and membership in family and social groups. Brodie (2001) asserts that it is the hallmark of professio...

point in the piece, the problem with the O-Rings are duly noted and this suggests that perhaps the scientists should have realized...

workers must wear steel-toed shoes, they are not required to own them. Workers are not guaranteed any specific number of hours an...

of a statistical area that has many goals. In addition to needing to meet specific deadlines to fulfill filing requirements and su...

class is slowly disappearing from cities and going to the suburbs (1998). This trend is really nothing new but symptomatic of prob...

become detailed descriptions of the client services each attorney in the firm provides (Sterling and Smock, nd). The firm in quest...

market for Electrohome. The revenues for creating slot machines for Electrohome were small at first. However, it was not allowed ...

In four pages a student supplied case study considers how HR departments can be effectively changed in a discussion of customer se...