Essays on CEO

1. Introduction

1.1 Statement of Purpose

The Crink Insighters Company will be a medium size market research agency that will be located in Troy, Michigan. The company will occupy will occupy the back 3600 square feet of 743 Main Street on the Second and Floors. This is a new business in the start-up phase. The company will however establish other centers across the major cities in the country. The Crink Insighters will be market research agency that will be running a series of surveys for our clients. The company will be offering two types of research services: Branded research, which will entirely be ...

Enron’s Case Study

Enron was one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of natural gas, oil, and electricity. Before 2002, it was considered one of the most profitable limited companies whose shares value rose from $19.10 in 1999 to $90.80 at the end of 2000 financial year. These successes is attributed to the board of directors and the top management team who always look for new ventures, partnerships, and make crucial decisions of the company. On several occasions, the company’s Chief Financial Officer, Andrew Fastow had many investments for the company and the board of directors never questioned his decisions, little ...

The Members of the Board of Directors of Tesco Corporation consists of persons that meet the standards of independence required of TESCO by law, regulations and the stock exchange listing requirement. The board is responsible for the management of the business and affairs of TESCO. It oversees the stewardship of TESCO and its operations. The board oversees the executive management of the company, which includes the daily operations; reviews the identified principal risks; and review the systems designed to manage these risks. Currently, the board consists of 16 members. The qualifications, experience, and the suitability of the members in ...

Question 1

a) According to the National article, the “inextricable link” highlighted was the link that existed between the independence of the board and good corporate governance.

b) According to the National article, financial, legal and future mergers are the areas that really need independence even on a small executive board. The reason why it is very essential to have independence even on a small scale is because it would be quite expensive to bring in a person as a full employee in those areas.

c) In accordance with the 2010 UK Corporate Governance Code, except for smaller companies, at least half of the board, excluding the ...

Strategic change

1. From the start Welch started, his tenure at a very demanding period since all the sectors of the economy was facing recession. There were high interest rates and a tough dollar intensified the situation. The country was going through difficult times with most people being laid off due to depression in the economy. This situation ideally was too difficult for any manger that had just joined the company and high expectations were anticipated from him. What could he do was what many remained speculating on whether the new CEO would meet the standards of his predecessor (Bartlett & Wozny, 2005). ...

The modern world is a global village where information exchange and information processing are of paramount importance. Companies are linked to their customers and suppliers by numerous information networks, the ever-expanding internet being a major player in the industry. Thus, information processing is a way to view organizations and their designs. Both information systems and individuals possess a capacity to process information, but this capacity, however, is not unlimited and the scarcity of information-handling ability is an essential feature for the organization’s demand for information processing and its capacity for processing information (Burton et al, 2001).

As modern business organizations become more ...

The companies that we considered are: Apple Inc, Hewlett Packard, Nokia, and Wal-Mart. Before settling on these five, we had examined dozens but we settled on them after going through them carefully.

Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart is an American multinational corporation that runs discount and warehouse stores. It is the largest public corporation by revenue in the world (Soderquist 26). It is also the largest grocery retailer in US and runs Sam’s club retail warehouse in North America. It operates under 55 different names in the 15 countries it operates. It is listed in Dow Jones industrial average. Its current stock ...

Abstract

Health care managers or health services administrators are responsible for directing and managing operations in hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare institutions. They are in charge of physical infrastructure, programs, services, staff, relations with other institutions and finances. Initially the above functions were performed by appointed physicians or other healthcare workers with little or no training in management, thus the ambiguity in the roles of healthcare managers. The healthcare managers also represent the institution in professional and community meetings. The educational qualifications and skills for this position vary from one institution to another as well as from one state ...

Introduction

The paper is first going to define major terms as used in this paper and then then give a brief description of the company in question; Procter and gamble company. In order to give a detailed analysis of the Intellectual Portfolio of Procter and Gamble, the paper will divide the Intellectual Properties into the three major ones claimed by the Procter and Gamble, Patents, Trademarks and Designs[ CITATION Rya08 \l 1033 ]. In each intellectual property, the paper will give the meaning of the property and give an account of the provisions of the law regarding the same. The paper will ...

Before its collapse in December 2001, Enron was ranked by Fortune as the 7th largest company in the United States and was viewed as one of the most innovative companies in the world. It initially started as a gas and utility company and grew quickly through innovative strategies to a leading trader in energy supply, steel, paper pulp and fiber optic bandwidth.

BACKGROUND

Enron’s rapid expansion required huge investment in assets which was mainly financed through debt. This debt was hidden by means of establishing special partnerships entities to effectively remove any negative effects to the company which may be evident ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

A list of issues was listed down and they included: time taken off by employees due to strain injuries, use of internet by employees for personal use, the new employee who is on a wheelchair, how to retain employees, on site day care, alcohol during parties and the business culture of Kenya.

A comprehensive research was carried out and some solutions were arrived at. It was discovered that at work massages would help with strain; monitoring employees internet use; getting a new office down stairs for the employee on the wheelchair; motivating the employees would retain them; an onsite daycare was ...

Executive Summary

Respondents have ranked Apple and Google as the two most innovative companies for the fourth straight year. Apple has held the post of top winner according to a survey since 2005 (Müller, 2011). The company has shown strong results since 2000, with an increase in revenue of more than 450% in eight years and net profit increase of more than 1700%. According to Steve Jobs, the company achieves these growth armed with the strongest product line, talented employees, and best customers in the industry. Apple leverages a combination of top-down and bottom-up innovations strategy to create innovations. Apple has built an ...

Abstract

AllSport Ltd is a leading sports retail store based in the United Kingdom. It was started in February 2008 with one store in London. It has since expanded to four other locations around the UK. AllSport Ltd retails a wide range of sporting gear and equipment. The company is also engaged in the production of selected sporting gear. This report was compiled so as to examine the various aspects involved in creating and running a business. The roles of various managers were examined and SWOT and Pestle analyses carried out to examine the company position. It was found that AllSport was in a ...