British Petroleum - Transformational Leadership in a Transnational Organization - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 10 pages - Management
The company BP, in the past named British Petroleum is a British company, of research, extraction and oil refining founded in 1909. After its merger with Amoco, Atlantic Richfield (Arco) and Burmah Castrol, it became the largest company of The United Kingdom and the third largest oil company in...
Doing Business and Living in India - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 13 pages - Management
This report is designed for companies or people who currently do business with India (ns) or intend to do so in the future. It will benefit managers who plan to work in an intercultural context. This work promises "to develop new skills for working in India" and "to appreciate the role of...
Competitive Environment Analysis : Haagen- Dazs
Case study - 24 pages - Business strategy
Since it was created in the early 1920s, Häagen-Dazs has become a strong and powerful brand, and is well established in the ice cream market. The company has made quality and originality its motto. Its philosophy is also based on the same principles: 'Find the purest and the finest...
L'Oreal case study: Strategic Management
Case study - 12 pages - Management
L'Oreal is a French-based company specialized in the development, manufacture and marketing of cosmetics and dermatological products. Created in 1907 by Eugene Schueller, the brand has considerably developed itself in a highly competitive market with constant change. L'Oreal has succeeded in...
Business plan for a new board game: Flagpoint
Business plan - 33 pages - Business strategy
A new fun and attractive game is born: Flagpoint. This document describes the development of the new game in all its detail. The study starts with a short introduction of our company and its mission, followed by a detailed marketing research to figure out the needs of our target group. The...
Reward management, compensation, pay systems - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Human resources
According to Jean-Jacques-Rousseau "a human being is by nature lazy? and he will always search for the easy way out. For instance thousands years ago, men were hunting to protect their own life and to survive: it was their only motivation. To deal with that attitude, men at the top of the...
Beneteau, an international market leader - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 39 pages - Business strategy
Beneteau, the giant in the nautical industry, was founded by Benjamin Beneteau in 1884, with the creation of a familial shipyard. After the long wars period, the apparition of the polyester had cost the yard to develop itself considerably, by starting a mass production. Thus, Beneteau has really...
EADS and Intercultural Management - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 7 pages - Management
Since the 1980s, the number of Merger & Acquisition operations has surged on the European and international markets. During the year 2000, the value of the international Merger & Acquisition (M&A) ventures was greater than $1000 billion and more than half were carried out by European companies....
Internationalization process: Michelin - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
The Michelin Company was founded in 1889 in Clermont-Ferrand (France) by Edouard Michelin. Initially, Michelin employed 52 persons in a plant spread over 32 acres. Edouard Michelin benefited of his brother's (André Michelin) support. The two brothers were complementary: André was an innovator,...
Consultant-client relationship and the consequences of the role change during the consulting process - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 10 pages - Management
The client-consultant relationship is usually treated as central to the nature of a management consultancy work. Though it is true that consultants need to have a clear conceptual picture of their definition of consultation, and they need to understand how the operational model they choose helps...
Air France and KLM, Case study - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
To be competitive in the airline industry, companies need to be in control of cost control and management. Companies need to reduce their exposition to risk (fuel management) and control the efficiency of each type of plane they operate. As the industry requires high fixed costs, companies have...
Comparison of HRM models in two different countries: France and China - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 6 pages - Human resources
Raymond Miles introduced the term ?human resources' in 1965 after the evidence that human beings and human relations were changing in a professional environment. Human resources are considered as an ?umbrella' gathering several different approaches rather than a single theory. All these...
Term paper: the subprime crisis:Reasons & Effects - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 8 pages - Finance
Since the last few years, a frightening phenomenon concerning subprime is being observed in the United States of America. Some people think that the financial crisis that the whole world is living through is related to the subprime crisis, and some think that it was the beginning of a very slow...
"Global strategy and Globalization in emerging markets" - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 6 pages - Business strategy
Organizational culture, like national culture, is an iceberg, with some elements above water and others submerged. Elements above water are not only more visible, but easier to understand. Elements below water are difficult to observe and are more important for understanding culture because they...
Case Study: GE's growth strategy - The Immelt initiative
Case study - 10 pages - Business strategy
This report analyses GE's growth strategy, mainly regarding the new management style: since Immelt's appointment as the Chairman and CEO of the American multinational conglomerate, new initiates have been launched. We aim at analyzing GE's businesses and determine how they are driven and how they...
The application of the flexible production system to high-tech industries and services - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Management
More than 20 years ago, Toyota revolutionized the production methods in the car industry due to its flexible production system called Toyota Production System. Originally called 'Just in Time Production', this system was built on the approach created by Sakichi & Kiichiro Toyoda and...
Mergers & Acquisitions and value creation for the shareholders - published: 29/09/2010
Dissertation - 34 pages - Finance
2008 was hit by one of the worst financial crisis in history and also by the record number of cancelled Mergers & Acquisitions. According to Dealogic, the financial data provider, the whole value of the transactions for 2008 comes to 3.280 billions of dollars which represents a decrease of 29%...
Innocent Drinks or how a non-corporate attitude can be an exemplary corporate culture
Case study - 3 pages - Management
My company being a small one (4 people, me included), I couldn't really write a whole essay about corporate culture. I decided to base my paper on the company that motivated me i.e, Fresh Marketing. Founded in 1998, after a very original market survey , it's main objective is to create...
Glaxo Smithkline : inter-cultural overview - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 10 pages - Management
In today's markets, international trends represent a large part of exchanges. In most cases, companies act on an international level: they try to sell their products all over the world in order to find new opportunity markets. They expect to find competition-advantaged resource providers on...
Sanofi Aventis, corporate strategy - publié le 29/09/2010
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...
Mergers and acquisitions: GDF-SUEZ - published: 29/09/2010
Case study - 10 pages - Finance
The expression 'mergers and acquisitions' (abbreviated M&A) refers to the aspect of corporate strategy, corporate finance and management dealing with the buying, selling and combining of different companies that can aid, finance, or help a growing company in a given industry grow rapidly...
Dyson : history, strategies and performances - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
A new vacuum cleaner appeared due to Dyson, the inventor of the first bagless hoover. The successful British firm decided to outsource its manufacturing department to Malaysia in 2002, which caused many reactions. We will study the history of the company, its strategy and performances taking into...
Strategic management assignment: Marks & Spencer case study - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 3 pages - Management
Marks & Spencer is a British clothing and food retailer created in 1884 at Leeds (www.marksandspencer.com). It is the largest retailer in the United Kingdom and the firm is listed on the London stock exchange. The company was in a terrible crisis of growth in the early 2000s. Competition became...
Wells Fargo's cross selling strategies
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
Particularly in the United States, the link between politics and banking has always been strong and notably with lobbies so that the US government was used to helping the banking system when crisis hit the country but was also used to withdrawing during auspicious periods. These are partly the...
Business research and professional development - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 7 pages - Management
Is knowledge management a key factor in performance and sustainability in the management of organizations in the modern times global competitive market place? What are the issues of this concept and what does it provide organizations? How do managers perceive knowledge management? The objectives...
Organizational development Daimler Chrysler: a failed merger - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 14 pages - Management
When Daimler and Chrysler announced that they would merge, it was seen as the main industrial merger seen since a very long time. This merger was expected to give birth to a new industrial giant which was supposed to become the fifth largest automobile manufacturer worldwide. The merger between...
Revolution at Oticon : the spaghetti organization (1994) - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 11 pages - Management
Oticon is a famous Danish manufacturer of high-quality hearing aids, which is based in Hellrup in Denmark. It is a niche company which was born in 1904. At that time hearing aids were not available in Denmark. Hans Demant decided to import hearing aids there as his wife was hard of hearing. The...
Intercultural management : EADS's merger - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 12 pages - Management
Intercultural management is born from the process of expansion of business areas, or globalization. To expand business activities, companies can not only develop their industry on their own market, they also have to make strategic choices like joint venture, merger, acquisitions, alliances, and...
Interview with Mr Steeven Mallet, financial director of the USA subsidiary of the Clarins group
Case study - 6 pages - Management
For this assessment, I decided to interview Mr Steeven Mallet, the financial director of the American subsidiary of Clarins Group, situated in Miami. As part of our course, our classmates were supposed to go to study in New York but I have never been there before. So I thought that it could be a...
Cross Cultural Management : Expatriate Interview - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 3 pages - Management
Jean Claude T is a 51 years old Frenchman who works and lives in Shanghai, China. He is married and has two children who study at the university. He was an expatriate for a French automobile company, Citroën, for many years. He has spent three years in Hungary and six years in Kuala Lumpur,...
