Partnership Case Studies Samples For Students

Issues

This case concerns the analysis of the validity of the offer and its acceptance under the terms and rules of the contract law made in different forms by virtue of the advertisements in the newspaper.

Contractual relations are comprised out of two primary pillars as the offer and acceptance. In fact, the one party to the contractual relations should provide the other one with the offer. In case the second party accepts this offer this implies that these people have entered into the legal and binding relations. Given the merits of the case, one may see that Philip plays ...

1. Joint ventures can be very unstable if the partnership is not properly established. For a company like GE, with a large amount of income to invest in new partnerships and new strategies, it can certainly be beneficial to build their own venture from scratch as a greenfield venture (Business Leadership Management, 2015). However, when GE was utilizing acquisitions and greenfield ventures, the economy was a very different animal than it is today. Today, the economy is much weaker than it was in the years prior to the 2008-2009 downturn; risk in the marketplace needs to be carefully considered and avoided by most ...

Multimedia Activity: Business Organization

In this paperwork, I am going to list the general requirements of an LLC, corporation, and partnership. I will also discuss a business organization that is an LLC giving the reason why it adopted this form instead of the other available forms; partnership and corporation. I will also discuss the advantages and disadvantages that come with LLC.
Through research, it is depicted that the general requirements for a partnership, an LLC, and corporation are, approximately, the same lawfully. It is expected of them that all their general requirements are formed with the intention of making or maximizing profit. Hence, their ...

Types of integration described in case study 1

Horizontal or virtual integration has been described in case 1. The three hospitals got into partnership to improve on their functioning capacity. This type of health system integration involves firms coming together to form a partnership which is extended to central functions of each firm. The functions that the partnership supports include human resource management, information technology management, financial management, quality improvement and strategic planning. According to this nature of health system integration, all the key functions have to be coordinated across each of the parties involved in the partnership so as to increase the overall value of the system. ...

Studio Stessia is a form of partnership that is owned by Paul and Nicole. This partnership operates various businesses under one roof. Some of the business activities that take place in the partnership include sale of women’s clothes and salon. This partnership is located in the outskirts of Quebec City. This business is a family business since it was inherited from the grandmother of one of the partners. The two partners are people with other responsibilities in the society and therefore have little time to manage the business. As a result, the partners have employees who manage the business on their ...

Part 1: Identify and briefly define the elements of a valid contract

In order for a valid contract to be legally binding and enforceable, a number of elements must be met. First, there must be a valid offer. The terms of the offer must be sufficiently definite. Second, there must be a valid acceptance of the offer. The acceptance must be unequivocal and unambiguous to constitute acceptance. A counteroffer does not constitute acceptance, but rather a new offer. Third, there must be legal consideration. Consideration can be in the form of a promise or money and is usually deemed sufficient when one party agrees to pay the other party money in ...

Problem Statement

The case for Midwest Copper Mining (MCM) is an expansion one. Facing growing local, national and international competition, MCM is increasingly under pressure to expand operations beyond existing mine in Kopparstad, Minnesota in order to meet growing demands from national and international customers. The expansion option involves, in fact, a number of structural changes internally and externally. Internally, MCM would have to scout for a new copper deposit, train operation staff on extraction methods in proposed new mine and maintain a high staff morale against possible disruptions caused by relocations, offer a new differentiated value proposition (in lieu of ...

Individual Tax Case Study

Facts
Age: 60
Marital status: Single
Bob recently retired from IBM and has $690,000 available from his 401(k) fund. He plans on using the money to open a used car business. The business will be located at 210 Ocean View Drive in Pensacola, Florida. The estimated taxable income from the business might be $300,000. Bob’s individual wealth including investments in stocks, bonds, and land is approximately $14,000,000. Last year, Bob reported a dividend income of $6,000 and an interest income of $20,000. The $14,000,000 comprises of land worth $9, ...

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) and Keurig Coffee

Company background
For many years, especially in the second half of the twentieth century and the current twenty first century, the coffee industry is one of the industries that have been gaining customer base and appreciation not only regionally, but also globally. There are various factors that have led to the same, the two major factors being a consistently growing coffee market across the globe, as well as the growth and development of coffee as a lifestyle not only in the developed countries, but also the developing nations across the world. In this case, however, lifestyle and class is one ...

VIRGINIA PARTNERS, LTD VS DAY

The liability of persons in partnership is guided by the type of partnership they are in. There are basically two types of partnerships; the limited partnership and the limited liability partnership. In limited partnership the partners are personally liable for business excesses, debts and losses and as such are paid by dividing them among themselves. The limited partnership has partners divided further into general and limited partners. General partners are personally liable for all partnership debts. Limited partners on the other hand have limited liability up to the original investment in the business. From the case study Virginia Partners ...

The legal issue of ABC partners entailed negligence having set a company beyond their jurisdiction and failed to register a company. ABC is liable to pay damages to Robert Knight. This case is tortuous liability due to the wrongful act of abandoning an oil well and failing to secure a place. This results in Robert having an injury due to the negligent act. The legal rule of Tort holds that one who suffers in case of negligence of another party can claim damages. In this case, ABC partners owe a duty of care to Robert Knight who suffers injury due to their act ...

The Company: Al-Zulfi Group in Qatar

Issue: Reservations about hiring women
Expansion plan: Due to market saturation coupled with growing competition in India, SSSL aims to target international geographic segments with excellent demand for security system products (Zain, 2017).
Partnership: SSSL proposes a partnership to Al-Zulfi Group because it is legally bound (as per foreign investment laws in Qatar) to partner with a local company with 51% share to be held by the local company to expand to Qatar (Zain, 2017).
Conflict: Samir Singh, the CEO at SSSL wants Seema Saran to lead the project in Qatar, while Zulfi Khan, the Director of Al-Zulfi Group ...

Issue 1 - Ethics and Legal Environment 2

Issue 2 - Organizational Environment 4
Issue 3 - Critical Thinking 7
Issue 4 – Business Associations and Torts 8

Issue 1 - Ethics and Legal Environment

As an agent of her employer, Monique has legal obligations of obedience, loyalty, accounting and performance to her principal. The duty of loyalty involves a fiduciary obligation where the agent is required to serve one principal at a time and shun from conflicts of interest, inform the principal about any material information, and keeping away from actions that would adversely affect the interest of the principal (Hartigan, 2014:272). Additionally, Monique has the duty of obedience towards her principal. The obligation ...

Executive Summary

Problem Statement
In 2012 Netflix was challenged to change its strategy, because it registered severe drop in its total revenues, market share and rates, risking continuous depreciation and increased subscription cancellations.

Analysis

Alternatives
- Develop strategic partnerships with production studios for obtaining exclusive streaming rights;
- Developing strategic partnerships with internet providers for proposing an add-on to the internet service for the provider’s internet users simultaneously in United States, United Kingdom and Ireland.

Recommendation:

The recommended strategy is to close deals with internet providers, as it would have been easy to be implemented, implying limited budgets rapid ...

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What is a current liability? From the perspective of a user of financial statements, why do you believe current liabilities are separated from long-term liabilities? Based on your current experience as well as any additional research you may have done provide two examples of situations where businesses collect monies from customers and employees and reports these amounts as a current liabilities.
Current liabilities are what the company owes for its debts in the next year. Long-term liabilities are those that are debts to be paid in ...

Describe the transactional and transformational leadership characteristics that Don Green and Michael Budman possess.

According to the available literature, some assumptions are held regarding the transactional leadership. Transactional leadership style believes that leaders are motivated by the reward and punishment the satisfaction of such leaders is on seeing the company excelling (Kurland, Peretz and Hertz-Lazarowitz 8). They also believe that social network works best with a clear and defined chains of command from the top. Again, they believe that the primary purpose of the subordinates in the organization is doing what they are instructed to do. Transactional leadership involves a situation where leader works by creating a clear structure of what should be ...

Tetra Pak is a leading industry in the packaging and food processing industry. The company has utilized innovative strategies such as aseptic technology and integrated food processing machines into being a leader in innovation, providing excitement to its customers, and producing a wide range in offerings. The paper recommends some ways the company can use to segment its products, and at the same time market them. Factors to be considered during marketing would also be analysed. The importance of the environmental approach in Tetra Pak will be considered with an analysis of the importance of having a positive corporate image. In conclusion, the ...

Finance

Executive Summary
With growing concerns related to climate change, the farming profession is exposing the farmers to significant risk of low yields or other crop related failure. Moreover, with weather trend highly unpredictable, farmers always live under the cloud of high uncertainty relating to their livelihood.
Therefore, farmers are understanding the significance of crop insurance and how these contracts mitigate the risk factor associated with the farming profession. Important to note, American farmers have two insurance options: Multiple Peril Crop Insurance(MPCI) and Crop-Hail Insurance. While the MPCI is a federal crop insurance program and is run through public-private ...

Business Law

The case is a promissory estoppel situation where Dhafir acted upon Hansen’s legal action if any damages occur from the falling tree. Hansen can place a claim stating the cutting of the diseased limb and not the whole tree as a premise. The courts will still proceed with the promissory that Hansen made as it is the ignitor of Dhafir’s decision to cut the tree.

Legal Capacity to Contract and Requirement of Legality

The issue is the involvement of a minor in a contract before they attain the legal age of participating in one. The car sellers will hold John responsible for the debts as ...

People in the corporate world have one common goal of excelling and moving to higher levels in the career. To survive in a career requires a person to build a strong rapport with the surrounding environment and understands its strengths, weaknesses and opportunities. Building a rapport with the workplace environment helps the individual create a positive and lasting relationship with other employees and the management, build good relationships with customers, and get supported for proposal and ideas generated towards growing the individual's career goals. Laura was a young profession dedicated to growing her career and becoming a senior professional ...

Powers Report: The Enron scandal

The Enron scandal that occurred in 2001 has been cited as the biggest audit failure. The scandal would later lead to the bankruptcy and collapse of Enron Corporation. Enron was an American energy company that was based in Houston. It was the largest energy company in the United States. The scandal also led to the dissolution of Arthur Andersen, an accounting firm that was one among the largest five accounting firms in the world. The investigation began when the share price of the company declined sharply from $ 90.75 in the mid of 2000 to less than $1 in 2001 ( ...

There are many approaches that companies in the hospitality industry can use in improving performance in business. Of all the approaches available, expansion into new markets is one of the most common ways through which business is expanded. With the potential expansion into the Chinese market, it is necessary to access the expansion plan to avert any risks that come with entry into a new market.

The hotel has some alternatives in entering the Chinese market. The first one is licensing, where the company will allow a Chinese company to use the Swiss hotel’s expertise and trademark in ...

Introduction

Family businesses are an important part of economic development and prosperity. Many people have established family enterprises in order to experience economic growth. However, the management of family businesses is not easy. Businesses owned by members who share family relations are very challenging to manage. Apart from the business issues that arise from time to time, there are family issues as well. Some of the most striking challenges in running family businesses include succession disputes, family conflicts, gender disputes in the management position, financial weaknesses, mismanagement, work relationship among others (Davis). It is important to keep i9n mind that ...

Introduction

International business market is changing with increasing globalization as businesses face challenges in terms of competition hence a need to employ effective strategies to enhance their competitiveness. Therefore, an effective marketing mix is crucial in establish appropriate product positioning, pricing, distribution and promotion. In this respect, distribution strategies entail consideration of appropriate channel designs that would deliver an organization’s products to clients at the right place and time. In addition, promotion which entails advertising and other strategies requires creativity in order to deliver the products information to customers in a manner that is effective and suitable for the target market ...

Central Issue:

Why did Google and China choose to negotiate a partnership, bearing in mind what was at stake and the difference in their individual objectives? Google would risk going against one of its principles (do not be evil), whereas China would need to rethink its censorship policy.

Recommended Course of Action:

Business institutions and states should look at the best option (negotiation) to ensure that they fulfill their needs as much as possible. Therefore, both parties should be ready to make compromises, but ensure that they do not end up on the losing end.

Basis for Recommendation:

I chose the arbitration option because both Google and China ...

Foreign Investment in China Banking Sector: HR Challenges

According to China’s perspective, foreign investment and participation can be also controlled by the government the way it controls national banks. Moreover, China managed to be quite successful in attracting foreign capital, while the only gap is the implementation of Human Resource policies. The partnership should be well-grounded and compatible with Chinese culture and values. The banking industry in China is being under a strict control of the government. There is a specific hierarchy of institutions that are established to exercise control. The entrance and exit from the banking system for small institutions are very complicated. The total ...

A Case Study

Introduction
Sports Tourism or Sport Tourism in general is the activity of traveling to different locations around the world to witness or take part on a sporting event. This activity is all about sports participation and is reinforced by leisure. In the late 1990s, information published connected to this topic is about Sports and Tourism. The role of sports to promote holiday tourism, meaning sports only played a minor role to attract travelers into a certain area in the world (Bull & Weed, 2011). So it is clear that Sports Tourism right now, doesn’t have the certain factors to ...

Renault–Nissan Alliance is a Franco-Japanese strategic partnership founded in 1999 between two famous automobile manufacturers Renault (France) and Nissan (Japan).

The following 4 steps are considered to be crucial in the history of the Alliance:
- Renault helped Nissan in the field of financial recourses and management;
- the Alliance identified and exploit synergies and economics of scale;
- in 2008 the Alliance pursued opportunities for joint projects (building electric cars, constructing plants in India and Morocco);
- expansion of the Alliance with other major partners to indentify and exploit further opportunities (this was consistent with Gosh's vision for the Alliance: to become one of the three automotive companies in terms of quality, technology and profitability in the industry).

Ghosh’s vision for fourth stage is to create greater value through further expansion.

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Answer 1

As a legal person, a company can be sued by any person if the directors had entered into a contract with the person and failed to honor the deal, therefore, resulting to financial loss to either party. However, recent case laws have shown that there are instances when directors can be held liable or personally liable for any financial loss to a creditor or any other party. An instance where a company’s director makes statements on behalf of the company that can be considered as lies or misrepresentation of the company can result to the civil suit against both the company and the ...

Introduction

The case study by Rebecca Henderson and Cate Reavis, entitled What’s Driving Porsche? Is an investigation into the current realities for the Porsche car company (Henderson and Reavis, 2009). Porsche has made some significant changes in recent years, ceding control and gaining control within certain parts of the automotive industry; the purpose of this report is to give a thorough discussion of the changes that are occurring in the automotive industry, particularly the luxury automotive industry, and examine how these events have affected Porsche as a company and as a brand. The transitory nature of the automotive industry branding tactics have ...

Accounting Concepts

Answer 1)
Partnership is a business organization with two or more owners who agree on sharing profits at an agree ratio but at the cost of unlimited liability. Apart from profits, they must agree on the appropriate management structure also. Following are some pros and cons of a partnership firm:

Pros:

- It is easy to set up
- It offers diversified decision making process
- Profits fo the firm are taxed only once as onwer’s income

Cons:

- Regular collisions among partners might be possible and thus achieving consent of all may be slow and expensive
- ...

Introduction

One of the outstanding collections of contemporary art is the Rubell Family Collection (RFC) which was founded in 1964 in New York City immediately after its founders Donald and Mera Rubell tied knot. Being one of the largest privately owned contemporary art collections, the RFC showcases its collections in a 45,000 square foot warehouse owned by former Drug Enforcement Agency. The museum of RFC comprises 27 galleries, a film and lecture theatre, a research library with more than 40,000 volumes, a media room, a gift shop, a book store and a sculpture garden. The collection which is open for public view since 1996 features ...

The constant amelioration of management strategies and policies are essential to achieve success of any organization. Increased technological advances and globalization have opened up space for competition and more actors are joining the service industries. The medical field is not an exception. Indeed, any organization that seeks to make profits out of the goods it sells or services it renders must adopt and implement sophisticated business management strategies to stay in the game. In the case study, Javier Perez, who has recently graduated from a respectable business school in the United States recognizes this fact. He comes up with a number ...

The south Florida Jewish gastric center is a medical institution that already has presence in four foreign countries. In addition, the medical institution plan to open another 25 oncology centers outside the united states of America. This report directed to the CEO aims unfolding some of the issues which needs to be resolved before the program can be implemented to import new patients and residence. Some of the issues to consider before the program is implemented to import new patients include:
Accommodation; accommodation is very important factor which should be considered before a medical program is implemented to import new ...

Introduction

The case study of Carlos Ghosn in relation to his management of the partnership between Nissan and Renault illustrates the wealth that could be derived from cultural diversity if buoyed with proper and positive management. Indeed, as the study notes, both companies were faced with unique and different problems but needed the synergy and diversity present in either of them for survival and growth. However, the leadership and managerial practise stands out as the most critical in such cases. It should be noted that Nissan had indelible and traditional Japanese set up being a Japanese company while Renault having been ...

D’Artagnan is a troubled business partnership of Ariane Daguin and George Faison. Ariane was a 20 years old student whose parents are chefs while George was a Texan who had a taste for French food. They met at Columbia University, though their friendship was sealed at their raucous outgoings to New York City histros. They both decided to start a foic gras distributorship company in New Jersey. They named the company D’Artagnan after Alexander Dumas’s musketeer.
They began the industry by distributing foie gras with other local farm delicacies to chefs. The partnership was strong. Ariane knew and understood the ...

In the 21st century, the entire world has grown to be an arena of criminal activities. The community we live in has become too violent, and in extreme occasions, criminals have absolutely controlled the streets. Arguably, crime and criminal activities affect the community negatively in various aspects, which include economic, social and political. Hence, it is crucial to reestablish the law enforcing agencies and develop effective models and strategies to control and prevent crime. Community policing is one of the effective strategy used in most cities today. In this case, it is based on community-police coordination; the police and ...

SWOT Analysis

Strengths of Netflix
Strong market position
Multi-platform streaming
Track record of building successful partnerships
Ownership of original programming
No ads in its programs
Weaknesses of Netflix
Competitor Redbox has made significant inroads to Netflix’s DVD rental market.
The Netflix service is dependent on outside providers of streaming hardware and internet services in order to reach its customers.
Opportunities for Netflix
Competitors of streaming entertainment are more expensive (Amazon Prime), have ads (Hulu), or are available only over a single platform (Apple). Netflix could make an issue of this in its marketing materials.
There may be markets for different ...

Introduction:

The case study has pointed out different challenges that is faced by a project manager. The book written by Laufer discusses about different core principles of leadership that is related to this case study. It can be used to successfully manage a project at different environment to achieve the desired objectives. There are many government employees who are not interested on new culture but prefer to close the project. The case study symbolizes it more clearly. As time passes Judy shows them importance of new culture and make them work on it to have profit and an air of ...

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Executive Summary
SunEdison is a renewable energy company. Its revenue comes from semiconductor wafer manufacturing, solar energy business and TerraForm Power (wind power and global business). The company has recently filed for bankruptcy due to poor operational performance and its inability to serve its $11 billion debt. Luckily for the company, first and second lien holders have provided the required capital to continue operation. Overall, the renewable energy market is growing at a very high rate. However, due ...

The case study reveals that there are a number of challenges faced by Tesla. These challenges rose up when the environmentalist came up with laws and regulations so as to limit the fuel emission from cars. Then technology chipped in which called out for making car models which are based on the latest form of innovative technologies in terms of fuel consumption. Many international car manufacturers have also joined the automobile industry including the companies from Korea, Japan, and China. Due to the increase in care manufacturing companies, the competition has also soared for Tesla.
There were some questions ...

Background of the Case

Globalization and the internationalization of business brings a number of opportunities to the companies, which, at the same time, come with the challenges to deal with governance structures and keeping the business operations under control, given the growing complexity of the business in general. Whirlpool Corporation is the leader in the global home appliance industry. During its over 100 years history the company have experienced tremendous growth, applying different strategies, from organic expansion to Merger and Acquisition (M&A) strategies, resulting in building a wide portfolio of brands, such as Brastemp, Whirlpool, KitchenAid and Maytag among others, outlining the focus ...

Absolut vodka has developed into one of the largest spirit corporations in the world. The Swedish company’s campaign of “constant creativity” have caused it to perform strongly over the years. Absolut was founded in 1879 by Lars Olsson Smith, and by the time he was in his twenties, Smith controlled one-third of the Swedish vodka production by improving the production process and using local products (Pernod Ricard). Distilling this fine liquor in a country where vodka was already a rich tradition, Smith invented the process of continuous distillation, where the liquor is continuously distilled through its production. This ...

Business Case Study: Yahoo. Inc!

Background
This paper seeks to examine Yahoo Inc. and give an in-depth analysis into the business financial, market, and general performances on the years 2010 and 2011. It further identifies the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing the business in its operations and finally gives recommendations that could induce improvement of the business processes and approaches in a bid to increase its competitiveness, performance and stability in the market. It’s purely an objective compilation based on factual information derived from the company’s annual reports and an analysis of the same in the global market context.

Stakeholders and customer need

Yahoo is ...

Website: http://www.keuriggreenmountain.com/

Industry: Produces and sells coffeemakers, specialty coffee, and related products (teas, hot cocoa, among others).

BACKGROUND and HISTORY
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters was created in 1981 in Vermont, as a small specialty coffee roaster, which expanded rapidly in the next 20 years. The company acquired the brewing-machine maker Keurig in 2006. It was a publicly traded company from 1993 to December 2015, when investors led by JAB Holding Company acquired GMCR for the amount of $13.9 billion (Yahoo Finance).
GMCR describes itself as a “personal beverage system company revolutionizing the beverage experience through the power of innovative technology” (Keurig Green Mountain, Inc.). Their portfolio is comprised of 80 brands and more than ...

Business Case Study: Yahoo. Inc!

Stakeholders and customer need
Yahoo is a top player in online marketing through advertisement space and portals among other online marketing tools. Later, the company diversified its activities to include music, photo sharing, and blogging. Diversified activities aim at serving the customers' needs. Indeed, in the year, 2012Yahoo was ranked at position three regarding market share and some online visits as illustrated in the figure below.
Figure 1: Internet use traffic data
The company has faced serious management investment challenges that might jeopardize its return of investments and attractiveness to global investors. The dire blunt was felt in 2008 ...

Introduction

Technology advance and innovation paved way for the introduction of the Apple’s iPhone. However, Steve Jobs had the view that targeting only 1 percent share of the market, they could sell over ten million phones. That was considering that the brand was going into a highly competitive market with more players and the view that the product was the best in the world. However, the iPhone was subject to various market forces that determined its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats as well as the strategies that Apple could apply. In that respect, this analysis presents a summary of ...

Question 1

There are four strategies that UNICEF can implement to minimize and end child marriages in Niger. These are the empowerment of girls with skills and information, provision of economic support for families and communities, provision of basic services, and implementation of anti-child marriage policies and laws. All these strategies are sustainable interventions that can result in long-term outcomes.

Question 2

Main strengths are a long-term presence in Niger, adoption of an action-oriented approach and partnerships with NGOs. Shortage of experienced staff and complex bureaucracies are the major weaknesses facing UNICEF. The greatest opportunity is a willingness by UN member states to ...

Introduction

Boeing and Airbus are the two major aircraft manufacturers in the world, with their rivalry starting in the 1990s, and as it intensified, they absorbed other plane making companies or forced them to exit the market. Airbus, being a European consortium of companies headquartered in Toulouse France is the leading airplane manufacturer in Europe while Boeing is an American company which manufactures commercial and military aircraft, satellites, weapon and electronic defense systems among other tasks. On the other hand, COMAC is a Chinese state-owned limited liability company that is mainly the manufacturer of commercial aircraft for China and also ...

Philips Healthcare.

1. Why has Philips launched HealthSuite?
Growing health care spending, aging population, legislation changes and increase in IT investments by the hospitals are the major factors that determined Philips’ interest in launching an innovative healthcare platform.
Health care spending in US is expected to increase 50 percent between 2014 and 2020. In 2009, people aged 60 and over comprised 11 percent of the population of the United States. This number is expected to go up to 22 percent by 2050. The 2010 Affordable Care Act has changed the fee-for-service approach used by most of the U.S. hospitals to fee-for-value ...

Strategic Management

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Overview of Wikipedia’s Strategy
Wikipedia is thought to be the unique example of a market player that implements the principles which have been previously declared. It means that the thesis consisting in creation of the free online encyclopedia was proven by the consequent and following actions, taken by the website. The company has managed to be powerful competitor, when there were other online free information players, such as Britannica and Encarta.com. The former was represented by Microsoft Inc (Blue Ocean Strategy Institute, 2011).
When the online information platform was only being formed, it was the ...

1.0 Background
According to Wiefels, the term marketing communication refers to all activities or strategies that are applied by a given organization or company to communicate to customers or market their goods and services. The process of market communication may apply various strategies such as advertising, branding and use of websites or even direct sales presentations. Hong Kong Disneyland is the smallest in the world and it was occasionally reported to have made losses. Based on the challenges that it (Hong Kong Disneyland) faces, the following strategies may facilitate the improvement of the number of tourist visits.
2.0 Specific ...

According to Amy Shuh in the case Cole Parker: Cole and Parker: Socks That Start Business, Jeff had taken a trip to Colombia where he was humbled by the generosity expressed by the people in the region, and upon his return, he entered into a partnership with Diana to form Cole and Parker. Using one for many business models, they established a socks business where the profits of each socks was loaned out to young entrepreneurs through Kiva and upon payment of the loan, it was reinvested for the purposes of funding other micro-loans. However, during their initial stages ...

Organizational Ecology

Reports on February 9th this year show that the Coke Company managed to overshadow the Wall Street’s anticipation by reporting substantial profits which were attributable to the higher prices of its products. Revenue in the quarter of the financial year ending December decreased to $10 billion, which was 8 percent drop. At the same period in the previous quarter, the company recorded $10.9 billion. Somer (2010) says that “These figures exceeded the anticipation of the analysts. Equivalently, the profit went up to $1.24 billion traded at 28 cents per share, up from $770 million trading at 17 cents ...

Question 1: Why Google made the move

Google’s drive to get into the wireless market via the utilization of the 700MHZ Spectrum Auction was a chance to set up a fifty-state network. Apparently, such new product development would enable this company to turn out to be a cellular network operator. Indeed, this market encompasses corporations such as Verizon and AT&T; Google would not merely compete with such companies but would as well obtain an opportunity to engage in networking with other entities to come up some innovative products (Aune, 2008).
The possibility of getting into the wireless market gives Google several prospective practices of growth ...

The university is in to contract with Tenex Company where the company supplies the University with stock tab paper. When they entered into the contract, the company was to supply stock tab paper on a fixed price basis. Now that the prices for the stock tab paper have gone up, Tenex approaches the University's purchasing department so that they can go to a guaranteed margin approach as opposed to what they had agreed earlier, fixed price. The university's purchasing department responds to the Company (supplier) reminding them that the case would have been different had the prices gone down. ...

Describe and discuss different entry strategies that Arla Foods has implemented in emerging and less-developed markets. Present advantages and disadvantages for each strategy identified.
Multinational wants to enter new markets, reach new consumer segments, and create new revenue streams. Globalization as a phenomenon has been the key trend and with a borderless economy in terms of the business environment, going global or internationalization as a phenomenon is a vital element of Arla Foods way forward in terms of stamping a global presence.
Arla Foods is operating in the European Union and many of the emerging or less developed markets, ...

Management Perspectives

The following Case Study will deal with QBE Insurance, revealing and discussing its organizational structure, strategies, role and legitimacy of management and also about the role of ethics and ethical practices.
QBE Insurance is one of the biggest insurance companies in the world with headquarter in Sydney. It works in all main insurance markets with general number of employers 14 500 people in 37 countries of the world. The company is listed in top 20’s largest insurance and reinsurance companies of the world. The major strategy of the company is that how they define it, to bring really ...

Now that Joan has to rise to the helm of the family company, she has to prepare for the task that lay ahead of her. Although the company has been running for quite some time, it still requires to be revamped in order to be on a profit-making trend. For a period of time, the sales of the company have stagnated while the cost of production has risen. This implies that there are mishaps in the company which needs addressing. Addressing the problems in the company will not only require a fresh blood and management, but also administration skills ...

Questions for the Wal-Mart Case

Questions for the Wal-Mart Case

This section highlights all those successful strategies which Wal-Mart could pursue in future as these strategic decisions have proved to be fruitful for the company which are discussed as follows:

Joint Venture in Mexico

When entering and operating in any known or unknown marketplaces, Wal-Mart may consider entering the new location through joint venture with a local or domestic firm. This strategy was already pursued in Mexico where Wal-Mart acquired market leadership and launched WALMEX. Instead of employing robotic model of supply chain, as done in the United States, Wal-Mart may consider entering into distribution contracts with local ...