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House of Tata: Acquiring a Global Footprint
By Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu, Richard J. Bullock. 2008
Chronicles the globalization of the Tata Group, one of India's largest business groups. Since 2000, many Tata Group operating companies…
have aggressively built international businesses, particularly through overseas acquisitions. After describing the globalization rationales and approaches of the major Tata Group companies, the case asks students to consider whether Tata Motors should pursue the acquisition of the Jaguar and Land Rover brands owned by US-based Ford Motor company.Football Hooligans
By Nigel Cawthorne. 2012
First-hand accounts of football violence, from infamous Millwall to Man U. Once dubbed 'the English disease', British match-day thuggery has…
spread right across Europe and beyond. Here is the inside story of that phenomenon from those that were there, taking part in the mayhem. 'Yob Laureate' Dougie Brimson and his brother Eddy offer a compelling description of match-day madness; Colin Ward goes steaming in, while other pieces detail the irresistible aggro of the local Derby, the tragedy inside Heysel Stadium and the violence surrounding England's 1998 World Cup match against Tunisia. Finally, Dougie Brimson asks if the police are not just another 'firm', simply participants in the violence.Lobbying for Love? Southwest Airlines and the Wright Amendment
By Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Dennis Yao, Libby Cantrill, Patricia Wu. 2007
The fall of 2004 brought exciting news to Love Field, the Texas headquarters of Southwest Airlines. Delta Airlines, one of…
Southwest's main competitors, had announced that it would dramatically decrease service from the nearby Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) airport, cutting the number of daily flights from 250 to a mere 21. Gary Kelly, Southwest's newly minted CEO, thought about what appeared to be a golden opportunity. How could Southwest best capitalize on Delta's withdrawal? As Kelly saw it, Southwest had several options to pursue the new business opportunities. A first was to service the canceled Delta routes from Love Field. A second possibility was to encourage members of Congress to repeal the Wright Amendment, which limited Southwest's flight offerings from Love Field. An alternative to fighting for the repeal of the Wright Amendment was for Southwest to lease the 18 gates that Delta had left at DFW. Kelly carefully considered his options. Was now the time to call his lobbyist?LinkedIn (A)
By Mikolaj Jan Piskorski. 2006
In the summer of 2005, LinkedIn, a two-year-old start-up, was choosing between two options to monetize its 5 million business…
people network. Members could contact each other through trusted intermediaries on the network to offer or seek jobs, consulting engagements, expertise, and financing. The company had outpaced its competitors by building the most populous online business network, but it had little revenue to show its investors. The first revenue option entailed keeping the existing features unchanged and rolling out a bundle of eight new services for a monthly fee of $15. These services would be targeted at network members who had forged many connections, logged in frequently, and viewed the profiles of many other members. The second proposal involved changing a basic design feature of LinkedIn by allowing members to contact each other without intermediaries for a fee. Fewer members would avail themselves of this feature, but those who did would be willing to pay as much as $5-$15 per message. This option ran a substantial risk of alienating members and would prompt some to abandon LinkedIn.Learning Agility
By Linda S. Gravett, Sheri A. Caldwell. 2016
This book concretely defines the concept of learning agility and offers a business case for why organizations of all types…
should concentrate on building and sustaining this approach. It provides readers with a holistic approach towards the topic, and helps leaders leverage the learning agility of individual employees to sustain a learning-agile workplace culture. Synthesizing academic research and practical approaches, this book takes leaders through ways to interview and assess potential employees for learning agility, develop and foster an environment for learning agility, and measure the results of a learning agile workplace. The authors present an innovative learning agility assessment which has been developed, tested, and implemented by clients and outline metrics which can measure the results of a learning agile workforce. This little-understood but highly advantageous approach is crucial for leaders to understand if they wish to deliver results and impact their organizations' bottom line.Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge
By Etienne Wenger, Richard A. Mcdermott, William Snyder. 2002
In order to find out how to make the best use of the knowledge that a company's employees possess, the…
authoring consultants lift models from Xerox, Daimler Chrysler and the World Bank to show how to tap into the wisdom within.Market-Wise Retention: Competing in the War for Talent
By Harvard Business Review Press. 2002
From a market perspective, some employees add more value to a company than others. This chapter focuses on why managers…
should be less concerned with overall turnover and more concerned with focusing retention resources on those employees who offer the most value to the organization.Infosys in India: Building a Software Giant in a Corrupt Environment
By Rawi Abdelal, Rafael Di Tella, Prabakar Kothandaraman. 2006
Shortly after Infosys was founded in 1981, its managers faced a major turning point when they made a decision to…
operate without giving in to the petty corruption rife in the Indian economy. Within just a few years, that decision had truly defined the company. Over the next 25 years, Infosys managers went to extraordinary lengths to avoid even the most modest of practices that they considered inappropriate. Explores the practices and methods that Infosys adopted instead, considers their costs, benefits, and generalizability, and contextualizes the problem within Indian political and economic institutions that continue to evolve.Philips Medical Systems in 2005
By Pankaj Ghemawat. 2006
ICICI's Global Expansion
By Tarun Khanna, Ramana Nanda. 2005
Delta Blues: U.S.-Vietnam Catfish Trade Dispute (B)
By Regina Abrami, Alan W. Tu. 2005
Delta Blues: U.S.-Vietnam Catfish Trade Dispute (A)
By Regina Abrami. 2005
Examines the growing tensions between strategies of national development and the rules of international business. At issue is how increasing…
globalization is changing the rules of national development for both developing and developed countries. The comparative focus on aquaculture, and the catfish industry in particular, also offers a window into a growing international industry and its potential as a source of poverty alleviation around the globe. Also discusses the U.S. antidumping policy and its processes of investigation.Oracle vs. salesforce.com
By David B. Yoffie, Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. 2005
Explores the phenomenon of software becoming a service. Salesforce.com has catapulted into the lead for offering a customer relationship management…
(CRM) solution as a Web-based service. Siebel, the leader in CRM packaged software sales, has to devise a strategy to compete with salesforce.comInterpretation of Elasticity Calculations
By Pai-Ling Yin. 2004
Wal-Mart Stores in 2003
By Pankaj Ghemawat, Stephen P. Bradley, Ken Mark. 2003
Examines Wal-Mart's development over three decades and provides financial and descriptive detail of its domestic operations. In 2003, Wal-Mart's Supercenter…
business has surpassed its domestic business as the largest generator of revenues. Its international operation seems poised to become the next growth driver for the company as it marches toward the trillion dollar sales mark. But problems are starting to surface even as the company is winning recognition as the number one company in the Fortune 500--unions keep pressuring its minimum-wage employees and allegations of gender discrimination are alleged. Teaching purpose: To introduce students to creating a competitive advantage.Central America: Strategy for Economic Integration
By Michael E. Porter, Niels W. Ketelhohn. 2002
Social Media Audit
By Urs E. Gattiker. 2013
Social media has drastically improved the way we can reach target audiences and serve our customers. Like its financial counterpart,…
the social media audit (SMA) can be described as a formalized review of anorganization's social media activities. However, contrary to financial audits, social media audits are not guided by government regulations or a set of professional rules and standards. This book will address social media marketing issues using a cost benefit approach, while presenting a systematic approach to review the organization's social media activities. Using the checklists and templates provided in this book will enable readers to conduct an audit that helps identify target areas for performance improvement and recommendations for how to achieve these objectives. Social media platforms discussed include: Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Twitter, Tumblr, and Xing.One Country, Two Systems?: Italy and the Mezzogiorno (A)
By Bruce R. Scott, Jamie L. Matthews. 2002
GDP per person in northern Italy caught up with average incomes in Britain, France, and Germany in the 1970s, but…
incomes in southern Italy (the Mezzogiorno) fell further behind. This was partly due to cultural and societal differences that dated to the Renaissance, but even more obviously to northern dominance of the new nation in 1860 and Mafia dominance of much of the south. This case focuses on 50 years of efforts to correct this problem. Italy, with its north-south income divergence, is a good metaphor for the global economy with its divergence between First World and Third World incomes. A rewritten version of an earlier case.Project Valuation in Emerging Markets
By Robert E. Kennedy. 2002
Alan Greenspan
By Huw Pill, Allison Morhaim. 2002