Southwest Airlines case study
Case study - 8 pages - Management
Southwest Airlines is in the top ranking US Corporation in terms of profits and reputation. This airline has always applied strong strategies in order to be on the top in terms of profits, innovation, and image. This constitutes the culture of this company, which matured over the last...
Transformational Change at British Petroleum : one goal two different leaders
Case study - 5 pages - Management
Before Robert Horton took over as CEO and Chairman of British Petroleum (BP) in 1990, the company's situation was difficult in terms of the lack of clearness of mission and strategic policy within the top 150 managers surveyed at the beginning of 1989. This survey revealed the managers feeling in...
Engstrom auto mirror plant: motivating in good times and bad
Case study - 5 pages - Management
We all know that human resources management implies a lot of fundamentals for an organization. Human resources must understand the implications of globalization, technology changes, workforce diversity, changing skills requirements, the contingent workforce, decentralized worksites and also...
E-Business: Sephora.com
Case study - 14 pages - Management
E-Business is a new form of business that allows clients to get information and make purchases through the Internet. During the seminar we had the opportunity to analyze different firms and to see how the entry to the Internet market place has increased the brand recognition. People are using...
Management at Ikea
Case study - 30 pages - Management
Almost everyone has had an experience of a visit to an IKEA store. Every day, 1 million visitors frequent these stores. What hides behind this yellow and blue logo? What makes it so typically Swedish? To answer in a simple succinct and synthetic way about these interrogations within a framework...
The communication strategy of la Française Des Jeux
Case study - 16 pages - Management
"La Française Des Jeux" organizes and operates the lottery in France. It is a public company (société d?economie mixte). The state holds 72% of the capital. "La Française Des Jeux? has a monopoly for the organization and exploitation of lottery and sports bets games in our country. It has to...
Apple Case Study
Case study - 14 pages - Management
Apple Computer is an innovative company evolving on multimedia and high technology market. It has its presence on both hardware and software markets, as well as in the on-line services market. Its highly diversified offer makes Apple Computer company difficult to manage. This company was created...
Change management: the CBC case
Case study - 8 pages - Management
For this assignment, I decided to use a company which I will call CBC, and in which I did an internship for 7 months. This Swiss Group provides chocolate-based products, is present in several countries, and generates a sales turnover of nearly 3 billion €. However, this company faced strong...
Strategic management: Robin Hood case study
Case study - 5 pages - Management
Robin Hood and the Merrymen are facing the problem of not having enough supply of resources to meet the demands of their expanding organization. Their current strategy is to rob from the rich and give to the poor. They are looking at revising this strategy in order to find another way to get...
Middle East Communication: indigenous advertisements to a local country or region (2006)
Case study - 7 pages - Management
The Middle East region is booming and is now the second fastest growth area in the world after China. Political and economic reforms across the region provide a new dynamic business atmosphere where consumer demand and consumption is on the rise. High oil revenues coupled with low interest...
Strategic management: Credit Agricole
Case study - 18 pages - Management
This paper will analyze the strategic plan for a new project for Crédit Agricole: the mergence of the computer system in each branch and their integration. Crédit Agricole is a leading European banking group is one of the largest French banks. The project will also focus on the payroll system and...
Case Study: Accenture: the 5 cultural dimensions
Case study - 14 pages - Management
The main change of the century is that local markets are not big enough for industries. The future of any company that wants to be bigger than its competitors is to go international. Selling a product won't be the hardest of things that companies will have to face while going international,...
Strategic analysis of "Yahoo!"
Case study - 20 pages - Management
There are more Yahoo! Mail users around the world than two times the population of Mexico” (Yahoo! Website, 2008). One cannot deny the success of Yahoo! over the last decade. However, the reason why Yahoo! is catching a lot of media attention today does not lie in its success but more on...
Benetton group: The evolution of a network to face global competition
Case study - 11 pages - Management
Benetton's story has started in the 1950s from the "idea of color?. The family holding group has been established in 1965. Over the ongoing decade, the first factory and 1000 shops opened worldwide. Benetton has grown through a unique network organization which is flexible and innovative, as...
Daimler-Chrysler case study
Case study - 14 pages - Management
In the 1990s, competition in the car business industry increased dramatically. Companies tried to merge or acquire their competitors in order to remain competitive and strong enough not to be absorbed by other companies. This process is still prevalent today, and takes place in most of the...
The VSM Group: Company analysis
Case study - 8 pages - Management
VSM group has been developing, manufacturing and selling household sewing machines for more than 130 years after its first sewing machine was launched in 1872. It became an independent company after it was divested from Electrolux and acquired by the investment fund, Industri Kapital in 1997....
The issue of delays in the delivery of the Airbus A380
Case study - 7 pages - Management
Since 2005, Airbus, one of the two world's biggest airplane manufacturers, has encountered huge delays in the delivery of the new model called A380 to its customers (see appendix 5), mainly passenger air carriers, across the world. This study analyses the characteristics of Airbus and the way it...
The challenges of a good recruiting for a better efficiency
Case study - 10 pages - Management
British Petroleum (BP) is a multinational and diversified company. Consisting of factories, offices, and gas stations all around the world, it needs at its head office a strong leadership-skilled person, who is able to implement a clear and profitable strategy, to keep growing. Robert Horton,...
Management: Apple Inc.
Case study - 12 pages - Management
Apple is one of the most renowned names in the history of PC industry. It has pioneered the direction for innovative products in contrasts to its competitors in the industry these days. Apple has had a history of both dominance and irrelevance in the computer industry, excessively marked with ups...
The rebranding of BP
Case study - 10 pages - Management
Founded in 1908 as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, BP has transformed itself from the humble beginning of a local oil company into a global energy group. Its operations are well established in six continents, with the sale of its products in over 100 countries (Christiansen). Upstream, BP is...
Strategy Management: Boeing / Airbus
Case study - 4 pages - Management
This case was made in 2004. It explains the performance of the aerospace industry at that time. Two companies shared the market, Boeing and Airbus SAS. In 2002, Boeing was the leader in the global market, with 70.7% of the Asian market, 67.2% of the US market, 56.9% of the Latin American market...
Culture & advertisements: the case of the mobile phones
Case study - 5 pages - Management
The mobile phone market has proved to be a fast growing market all over the world. During the 90s, companies began an aggressive strategy to reach the whole society. Now in most developed countries the penetration rate (percentage of people that own a mobile phone divided the whole population) is...
Hershey Company
Case study - 21 pages - Management
Hershey Company, a United States-based snack food company has been looking to assume an international role for the past two decades. Founded by Milton Hershey over one hundred years ago, going international has proven to be quite a feat especially when it is chocolate that is the topic for...
Supply chain management: Renault
Case study - 4 pages - Management
The Renault/Dacia Logan is the result of a fabulous challenge initiated by Renault along with its Romanian subsidiary Dacia : commercialization of a modern, simple and robust car which not only meets the 2005 European standards, but which is also practical, performing, good looking and spacious,...
L'Oreal: communication and advertising strategy
Case study - 10 pages - Management
L'Oréal has been one of the most reputed brands in the cosmetics field. The brand has made its presence felt in more than 100 countries, thanks to its numerous acquisitions worldwide. With several brands in its kitty, L'Oréal has carved a niche for itself with its unique strategies and stands...
ECAPS Merger of Export Companies
Case study - 10 pages - Management
As you all know, our company, ECAPS FURNITURE EXPORT has recently merged with three other export companies from Italy, Russia, and Sweden. Since its establishment, our company has experienced a rapid expansion. It has now taken a leading place among the European furniture market. It is thus time...
McDonald's: Intercultural management
Case study - 14 pages - Management
MacDonald's is a multinational company that embraces more than 30,000 fast-food franchises under the brand name, in over 120 countries. It was founded in the United States of America after the crisis of 1929. In the 50s, Ray Kroc took over the company and began to develop it nationally. The...
Boeing: Management Skills
Case study - 9 pages - Management
In order to answer the three question concerning strategic moves that Boeing should take to -achieve profit stability within the global aerospace industry -increase its market share and -align its global strategy with its global structure, some structure points have to be explained. The...
International management strategy: Nestle
Case study - 14 pages - Management
This paper critically evaluates the international strategy of the Nestle Waters. The paper deals with different theories such as Porter's five forces, SWOT analysis, Hofstede's four cultural dimensions, Hill's pressures for local responsiveness and cost reductions, the Integration-Responsiveness...
Strategic management: Ryanair
Case study - 12 pages - Management
Ryan air was born in 1985. To build its strategy, obtain competitive advantages and to become a leader on this market, the company had to study different elements that the organization had to face. These are shown by the graph "layers of the business environment". With the PESTEL method, we can...
