Closure Case Studies Samples For Students

Glaucoma is the disturbance in the structure or function of the optic nerve that causes it to atrophy. This usually leads to gradual loss of the visual field over a period of time. The disturbance is usually as a result of increased intraocular pressure although some patients exhibit atrophic changes without having a raised intraocular pressure (Bell). Risk factors for developing glaucoma include a family history of glaucoma, old age and elevated intraocular pressure from any cause (Bell). Previous ocular surgery and ocular or head trauma are also predisposing factors.

Two main types of glaucoma include angle-closure glaucoma and open-angle glaucoma.

In angle closure glaucoma, there is a blockage in the normal drainage canal of ...

Response Paper #1

At the Bendix Windsor facility, the occupational health and safety issues concerned asbestos dust. The facility produced and assembled a variety of auto parts including starter drives, brakes, and cylinders. Prior to become the Bendix plant, the building was used as a horse barn. It had poor ventilation and lighting. There was asbestos dust in the air due to shaking of filter bags which was done by hand and dust settled on the equipment. The asbestos was contained in the brake parts that the plant manufactured. Operators were exposed to high dust concentrations and the creation of dusty conditions. ...

Introduction

Lululemon Athletica, Inc. is a leading designer as well as retailer of top-end yoga and sports apparel. The company was established by Chip Wilson in 1998 in Vancouver and has been operating mostly in New Zealand, Australia, and North America. Wilson created Lululemon Athletica, Inc. to address the unique preferences as well as needs of women, but later the management decided to increase its market target. As a result, the company started designing and retailing yoga and athletic apparel for the female youths and men. The company reaches out its potential customers through instructors and yoga studios. It is ...

Tata Steel UK – Port Talbot

Introduction
This paper entails a critical analytical review of a business entity which operates in the United Kingdom and which has recently encountered operational difficulties that have necessitated the formulation of a solution from a strategic management stand point.
The business entity which will be evaluated in this paper is Tata Steel, which has vast interests across the United Kingdom as well as in other parts of the globe. The paper will analyze the problems that the entity currently faces as well as propose viable solutions that will lead to the resolution of these operating issues going forward.

Tata Steel UK Background

The ...

Introduction

Starbucks is the largest premium coffee selling chain in the United States with more than 17,000 retail stores worldwide. Though the company was originally involved in selling coffee beans and ground coffee, it had also added newer products such as fresh coffee, various Italian coffee flavors, premium teas and even coffee brewing equipment for personal use.

Background

Although founded in 1971, Howard Schultz in 1987 re-branded Starbucks, and started with about 17 stores employing a ‘sit-in’ coffee store format, thus positioning itself as lifestyle product. Eventually, the company also started selling its products through the retail and grocery formats as ...

Integrated case analysis

Introduction
Strategic management refers to the ability of managers to execute a collection of strategic policies in order to outsmart their rivals in the regional and global market. It is an intellectual approach by the management where they review their current performance and devise strategies to improve on effectiveness and profitability to seize competitive advantage over their rivals. Ford motor company has had a series of ups and downs in the automotive industry due to advanced technology and increased competition. The situation has prompted the management to review its strategic plan with intent to regain its market share and retain a strong ...

Initial Patient Assessment

Overview
The patient is 67-year-old Mrs. Finch.

She lives with her husband in their marital home.

Recently, she suffered a CVA and had been in the hospital’s rehabilitation ward recovering from her latest episode.
Before her CVA, Mrs. Finch had a healthy and active lifestyle.

However, her condition has brought with it numerous other complications including a chest infection.

She is also having difficulty staying mobile due to residual weakness on her left side.
She has had a dark wound on her heel for about a week now. This wound keeps deteriorating into the present wound.
A series of CVA specific issues such as limited mobility, the risk for infection and reduced nutrition hinders Mrs. Finch’s capacity to heal.
Wound ...

Mergers and acquisitions are among the major trends in the globalization of companies combining and buying each other. However, not all mergers and acquisitions are peaceful, and some are marred by challenges with the bidder forcibly taking over another company without the agreement of the boards. A hostile takeover is a kind of acquisition which a company carries out against the wish of the board or the owner of the firm. It happens by going directly to the shareholders without the agreement of the management. There are many effects that are associated with hostile takeovers. Firstly, it can result ...

Introductory Speech

In the spirit of thanksgiving, I would like to thank you for taking your time to listen to my case and arguments on why the Twinkie Hostess management did the right thing by closing down the factory. It is sad how the events at Twinkies unfolded and the employees had to lose their jobs. However, the management acted out of good faith in closing down the factory because an increase in salaries and wages would hurt the company financial and increased its debt. I am not defending the action that senior Hostess executives had their pay increase when the ...

Introduction

People living in a family setup are bound to get into conflicts every now and then. Conflicts between people arise because of antagonism of interests and opinions within the family and among the disagreeing family members. Unresolved disputes cause breakdown of relationships between the discontentment members thus the need to resolve a dispute expeditiously within the family is key to maintaining healthy relationships.

This case study involves a couple, Leonora and Joshua who are having disagreements about Leonora returning to work after taking care of Christa, their daughter who is three months old now. The couple is experiencing retaliations and rejection between ...

Introduction

The American Tool & Die key owners are considering shifting the location of their organization to a place close to the current emerging foreign automakers. Their former consumers are faced with the challenge of reduced demand that in turn affects the production at American Tool & Die. The AT &D leadership is, therefore, contemplating on the need to change in order to rescue the organization from financial turmoil’s, as well as closure of the company. Mueller plans to establish a fresh plant near the foreign automakers that are taking the market by storm and are potential consumers’ of AT & D products. Nevertheless, ...

Rail construction is a sequence of steps that takes laborious amounts of time in each step and finally results in a wonderful and safe system for transport for many decades to come that requires minimal maintenance over that period. The first step in the construction process is the approval for new line itself. This is typically the responsibility of the government to do it. Once a approval is given for rail connectivity between two points then the role of engineering kicks in.
The first step in the process is the alignment. Alignment is nothing but the path in which the track ...

Executive Summary

Wal-Mart has announced its plans to seek approval from the planning commission of Pullman to build a new store. Wal-Mart has maintained that they strive to establish a Store of the Community, with the intention of ensuring that the entire project benefits the local community by creating more than 400 new jobs, creating new tax revenue and acting as a catalyst for economic development. Despite these benefits to the local community, owners of small businesses nearby, and town residents and residents in nearby towns have expressed their discontent by Wal-Mart opening a new store in Pullman. The aim of this memo is to ...

[Institution affiliated]
The Chevy volt case tells more when it comes to strategic planning for large organizations. First, what should come to consideration was the vision of the company and the situation that the company of the organization is faced with now. In this case, General Motors was faced with unending losses and it was high time that they brought something new to the market to save their depreciating stocks.
For one, the company, through its previous products that they had designed as far as locomotives are concerned, they were becoming irrelevant in the industry. Their revival ...

Writer’s intent

Seven years when the very fact, the story of the meteoric rise and future fall of the Enron Corporation continues to capture the imagination of the final public. What very happened with Enron? Outside of these related to the company world, either through business or education, comparatively few folks appear to possess an entire sense of the myriad folks, places, Associate in nursing events creating up the sixteen years of Enron’s existence as a yank energy company.
Some argue Enron’s best bankruptcy and ultimate death was the results of an absence of moral company behavior attributed, additional ...

Business advice for Ullman

Introduction
When Johnson was sucked from the company, Mike Ullman was sure of the greatest challenges that he was likely to face on his appointment in the company. He was assured of the company’s recent reports that had put the company in registering a substantial drop in the profits. What Johnson had done was that he had tried to tamper with company’s procedures all in the name of betterment of its services. In his plan, he had considered that in business it involved of taking risks regardless the level or the magnitude of the risk in the ...

Introduction

Starbucks Corporation is a multinational company that specializes in production and sales of coffee products including roast coffee and other coffee drinks globally. The company was founded in 1987 as a coffee roasting retail shop in Seattle, Washington by three key owners who had learned the coffee roasting idea from a local Italian retailer. The initial business performance when it was only a retail shop was a success especially since there were few competitors who specialized in the coffee roasting and sales business as most coffee houses were more into coffee brewing. The business performance was however improved when the management adopted a new diversification ...

Trade Tensions Flare between U.S., China As G-20 Nears

In 2009, President Barrack Obama was encouraged to impose tariffs on automobile and tires imported from China. With the closure of more American tire factories, America sought to control the global market.

What are tariffs? Tariffs are taxes imposed on goods entering or leaving a country.

Why did President Obama’s decision to impose tariffs on imports of tires from China create so much controversy?

The new tariffs on tires imported from China have damaged the legitimate interest of Chinese companies. The China is accusing the U.S of promoting a business environment that is not free and fair. The new tariffs have had an adverse effect on the economy of China. This has been facilitated by a dramatic drop of 23.6% ...

Background

Renault and Nissan Company fall under automotive industry. It is an international company targeting both local and international customers. In 1999, Nissan experienced several challenges such as debt burden, declined market share, less future prospects, and bloated structure of supply chain. Renault, on the other hand, wished to fight intense rivalry that had emerged at that time, globally. The company’s product line was also ageing and its profitability had also gone down. Mergers and acquisitions appeared to be the only solution following declined returns and competition (Ramaswamy 1).

North America and Europe provided the largest market for the ...