Corporate strategy - Disney +
Case study - 9 pages - Business strategy
Entertainment giant Disney's new streaming platform is undoubtedly a major turning point for the company. Disney+ is an online video-on-demand platform owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International division with the four...
Case study On Japans Changing Culture
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Panasonic was established in 1920 but it's initially it was known as Matsushita before 2009. It is one of the building blocks of the rise in Japan as a major economic power. It was a company that embraced the Japanese traditional culture. The company treated its employees with great care...
Corporate Strategy
Presentation - 18 pages - Business strategy
SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) identifies internal and external factors that may influence the company's performance. It allows capitalizing on strengths and opportunities while mitigating weaknesses and threats.
Organizational culture case study of BHP Billiton Company
Case study - 8 pages - Management
Understanding of the entity culture is vital in the description of the immediate organizational phenomena to which glues and aligns the operation elements into a shared system that delivers desired results. For some, culture is perceived the entity's compass that provides direction...
The Social-Cultural Identity of Greek- Americans
Case study - 10 pages - Political science
According to some, Astoria is the largest “city” of the Greek outside the Athens-Greece. The New York's Queens Neighborhoods of Astoria, New York conjure up the image of a Greek immigrant community that has lived in it for over forty years (Hantzopoulos, 2005). For the Greeks and their...
Legal Liabilities and Workplace Culture
Law case study - 3 pages - Business law
The business law aspects as they relate to workplace environments and allegations of harassment and sexual assault show a complex legal terrain that must be approached with great care. Cases of harassment and sexual assault in the workplace often involve complex legal considerations, including...
Management and cultural aspects
Course material - 25 pages - Management
Human beings have needs in order to survive and the purpose of economic activity is to satisfy these needs by providing people with what they need. Such needs will vary from person to person because each person seeks different things at different times. Those who are poor would like to satisfy...
Geography, Demography, Social Issues, Education and Culture in the United States of America
Course material - 20 pages - Sociology & social sciences
(...) One of the characteristics of US climatic conditions is the constant fear of violent climatic happening such as hurricanes (in the Southeast, particularly during the fall), violent wind storms known as "tornadoes" (the Midwest), or flooding due to heavy rainfall and storms in the eastern...
Analysis of Sony Corporation
Case study - 10 pages - Management
Today's business environment is rapidly changing prompting organizations to have agility towards change direction and speed their responses to dynamic macroeconomic elements. Grounding operations for efficiency and existing strategies is not enough for organizations to thrive given the...
Managerial Economics: Welfare Corporate Social Responsibility
Case study - 5 pages - Criminal law
Free market theory was a dominant theme of the 1780s propagated by economists such as Adam Smith. Amongst other things was its exclusive resolve that there should be minimal government involvement in the business of the economy if any at all. It was the era of the industrialization concerned with...
Strategic Management Analysis Starbucks Corporation
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
With restaurant operators facing intense competition every dawn, coupled with rising costs attributed to factors of production, there exists not a room left for strategic errors in the sector. Contrary to the thought of start-up restaurateurs, operating in the food service industry demands beyond...
Vinten's summation : Ethics and Corporate governance issues
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
The aim of this paper is to provide a critical discussion of Vinten's summation of the whistle-blowing that “For one thing the whistle-blowing path is not easy, and the bee-sting phenomenon may often apply. One has only one sting to use, and by using it, may well kill off one's...
Corporate investment banking : Barclays bank group
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Multinational companies have looked to improve their products and come up with the best strategies in order to compete with other companies. One of the main aspects that the multinational companies look to improve is the innovative strategies and the best methods that can transform and change the...
Nokia's corporate communications
Essay - 6 pages - Business strategy
Until the 1980s, Nokia was a Finnish company, in the 1980s Nokia was a Nordic company and in the beginning of 1990s an European company. Now, we are a global company,” declared Jorma Ollila, President and Chief Executive officer of Nokia, in 1997. Through this declaration, she emphasised...
Organizational culture of the new Air France - KLM group
Case study - 36 pages - Management
The terms "intercultural", "globalization", "internationalization" are increasingly gaining relevance in the current business scenario. Today, with the internationalization of firms in the context of the formation of the European market and the globalization of economies, it is interesting to...
"Corporate virtue" strategies are more likely to cause "good governance" than stricter "compliance and control" regimes
Essay - 4 pages - Management
What is “good corporate governance”? And how an enterprise can achieve to have it? A number of writers and researchers gave their contribution to this subject. Nevertheless, some disagreements and conflicting points of view appeared among them. Indeed, some suggested that...
Satisfaction level of corporate women
Thesis - 15 pages - Human resources
Indeed, it is not uncommon today to find women in most of the industries; in fact, they occupy top positions in many of the companies. They are no longer restricted to stereotyped professions. Deftly handling even the toughest of jobs, ranging from bus-conductors to astronauts, women have shown...
Inter-cultural management: Case of L'Oreal
Case study - 9 pages - Management
L'Oreal is a family company founded in 1909 by Eugene Schueller. At the time, it was known as ‘Societe Française des Teintures Inoffensives pour Cheveux'. Schueller gradually convinced the Parisian hairdressers to buy his products, with the help of some sales representatives. Keeping its...
What skills does it take to "manage" cross-cultural M&A?
Essay - 13 pages - Business strategy
Comment réussir des fusions-acquisitions "cross-culturelles"? Mergers and acquisitions continue apace in spite of an alarming failure rate and evidence that they rarely manage to benefit shareholders. Most completed takeovers damage one party: the company making the acquisition. Many studies...
How to create a homogeneous culture across boundaries?
Thesis - 18 pages - Management
We have decided to study the company Unilever for several reasons. Firstly, Unilever is a European company that is one of the biggest multinational in the world. Secondly, as we have chosen to study the corporate culture of multinationals, Unilever presents a quite particular...
Sanofi Aventis, corporate strategy
Case study - 14 pages - Business strategy
Sanofi Aventis is a company operating in the pharmaceutical industry. Created in 2004 from the merger of two European companies, Sanofi Aventis is today the leader in Europe, and is part of the top 5 global companies in its sector. Sanofi Aventis's self-given mission in the pharmaceutical...
3M: The culture of the Company and its innovation
Case study - 4 pages - Management
3M is an American company which was created in 1902 by five businessmen. It has activities in various fields such as: industry and transport, health, signaling, communication and optical systems, office equipment, security and protection, electricity, electronics and telecommunications. This...
Corporate strategy: LVMH
Case study - 29 pages - Business strategy
At a time when mass consumption remains one of the hallmarks of Commerce, the world of luxury has adopted a strategy based on a distinct rationale, where differentiation is the key. Who does not know the biggest names in this exciting universe? Prada, Manolo, Gucci, Jimmy Choo, Chanel, or Oscar...
Cross cultural issues in International Business
Case study - 7 pages - Management
The L'atelier des chefs brand is a good example of how important it is to have a structured management in contemporary society. With the daily grind of the corporate culture leaving an indelible imprint on the workforce, it has become increasingly important that leisure and...
Changing organizational culture: A Case Study
Case study - 6 pages - Management
The leadership challenge to the organizational culture that is being examined is the transition from one store manager to another in a retail operation (bookstore) that is a store that is part of a larger corporate entity. A long-time leader of this particular store of the...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): A multi-lateral approach to the subject
Essay - 13 pages - Management
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been a highly debated topic during the last recent years in most developed and developing countries. We can today distinguish among three main general views on the role that CSR could play in shaping companies' policies. The first view on CSR,...
Cultural differences in management
Essay - 31 pages - Management
As we have come to a world of economic globalization, more and more companies are working in an international approach. Globalization incites a multitude of situations and intercultural relations. The company is therefore faced with an assimilation of a lot of knowledge on the countries where it...
Offshore outsourcing offering competitive advantage: Case study research on Intuit Corporation
Case study - 19 pages - Management
Corporations today are operating in increasingly competing markets, facing strong pressures from stakeholders to operate more effectively and efficiently (Baloh et al., 2008). The competitive dynamics in large number of industries are changing too, making it difficult for firms to develop or...
An in-depth case study of Nestlé Foods from the view points of organizations as organisms and organizations as cultures, and leadership implications
Case study - 9 pages - Business strategy
This paper is submitted in requirement of the independent study in ‘Leading Complex Organizations' for the MAOM program for the Spring Quarter. The organization selected for study is the global company Nestlé Foods. The study is approached from the points of view of organizations as...
A recursive correlation between economy and psychology: A specific focus on the new corporate governance theory
Case study - 12 pages - Management
It has always been an intrinsic issue of economy: accused of being disconnected from individuals' reality, this science has been attacked for long times, by various researchers and experts, such as psychologists. And effectively, a plethora of arguments have been provided for integrating greater...
