Japan: Taste of the protocol
Case study - 2 pages - Management
Japan is said to be a difficult market to penetrate and this will probably not change overnight. What makes Japan a hard business partner is its combination of strong cultural roots and rapid economic success. For foreign businessmen, this dichotomy is very confusing, especially in interpersonal...
Nike's brand building strategy
Case study - 6 pages - Management
Nike, one of the best known brands in the world, was established in the United States in 1972 by Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman. The name 'Nike' owes its origin to the Greek goddess of victory, Athena Nike. In 1971, a graphic art student created the logo that became the memorable logo of...
Risk management in a supply chain
Case study - 4 pages - Management
The management of risks has constituted a strategic issue for companies since the early 90s. Risk Management involves being able to control risks, or at least prevent them. The main objectives behind this process are: increasing the competitiveness of a company, and reducing the company's...
ThyssenKrupp Elevators
Case study - 5 pages - Management
An introduction to the company: It is often said that first impressions are the best impressions, when we arrived at the company with its high tower, it brought on a sense of seriousness, grandeur and security. ThyssenKrupp works to offer all classes of society and all organizations that may...
Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Case study - 3 pages - Management
Currently, the pace of globalization is being accelerated by the development of new information technology. This modifies the relationship that companies share with third parties like customers, suppliers and partners, and makes it more complex. The companies have to constantly work towards...
Reality of participative management in India
Case study - 3 pages - Management
‘Participation in Irrigation: what has changed since the Act of 2000 in Tamil Nadu?' (Olivia Aubriot), and ‘The scientific and rational management of Indian forest resources' by Emmanuel Bon, are instances of application of management models of space separation. We present these two...
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Medical Tags
Thesis - 10 pages - Management
This small business venture attempts to solve a problem that many hospitals have to deal with on a daily basis along with paramedics who serve injured patients. Hospitals spend millions of dollars on patient filing and patient information. However, many times, physicians may lose crucial...
An investigation into the Informatics Industry Sector: The case of Apple
Thesis - 16 pages - Management
Apple Computer Incorporation is an innovative company settled in the media and high technology world. It is the seventh biggest company in the world which is present in hardware and software as well as online services. The fact that Apple practices different activities does not help to exactly...
The consumer behavior with the advent of information age
Thesis - 6 pages - Management
Over the past few years, the Internet democratization, due to the Web development, shows major changes in several sectors of social and economic life. The main effect of this growth was to cause a very fast modification of the reality in which consumer evolves. Indeed, we can observe the creation...
Analysis of a company: H&M
Thesis - 31 pages - Management
Large companies and major conglomerates tend to have a more enhanced transparency than small and medium sized businesses. They are present in our daily life via their marketing campaigns, communications and advertising. Their products incite our desires to gain ownership over these seemingly...
Study of the Porsche company
Case study - 20 pages - Management
Registrations, turnover, and financial results: all these have only grown for Porsche over the years. The arrival of the Cayman was witnessed on November 26, 2005, but the hybrid Cayenne and Panamera arrived in 2009 and offered outstanding performance. Amid a global automotive industry in serious...
Strategic Management: The market of applications for Smartphones
Thesis - 10 pages - Management
The Smartphone applications market is skyrocketing: While operators recorded 3% global profit in 2009, the application market is on track to reach 17 billion Euros in 2012, versus 4 billion in 2009 (with already some 7 billion application downloads). This means a growth of about 50% during the...
Estee Lauder: Brand management
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
The Group Estée Lauder Companies is a family organization, marked by the importance of the service and the balance between regions, brands and businesses. The company Estée Lauder Inc was founded in 1946, when Joseph Lauder and his wife Estée Lauder began their production of cosmetics in the city...
Bombardier & Adtranz : Strategic Management
Thesis - 4 pages - Management
The rail equipment industry is divided into six departments: services, propulsion and controls, total transit systems, rail control solutions, rolling stock and fixed installation. First and foremost, moneymaking policies cannot go apart from public subsidies: Government regulations are to be...
United Colors of Benetton: An overview
Case study - 8 pages - Management
The clothing market is doing well with a growth rate of 2.5%, even though the market is unstable due to certain aspects (environmental, economic, socio-cultural, etc.), Despite saturation, Benetton is a brand that continues to sell quality clothing. However, given the explosion of mega stores,...
Case study of intercultural management: Lenovo
Case study - 5 pages - Management
Lenovo is an innovative international technology company, based in the Chinese cultural environment. It was born from the acquisition of the IBM Personal Computing Division by the Lenovo Group. Today, Lenovo is headquartered in Purchase (NY), and its main activities are directed from Beijing,...
Analysis of E-business at Dell, HP and IBM
Thesis - 10 pages - Management
It is now recognized that new technologies, especially Internet access, tend to modify communication between the various players in the professional-consumer relationship. E-business (electronic business) is a broad concept that could be synthesized by the use of electronic means (especially...
Program of equitable trade: Analysis of Nespresso
Thesis - 4 pages - Management
Since 2003, the market for hot drinks has recorded a significant drop in sales volumes, due to a transfer of purchases to other products such as fruit juices and other product formulas. This has forced the industry to put forward further innovation to attract new consumers. These developments...
Study of the Brand Montblanc
Thesis - 11 pages - Management
Montblanc is one of the most prestigious global brands. The white star of Montblanc symbolizes the commitment to use high quality materials, and to perform workmanship of great finesse and craftsmanship to provide a highly distinctive style. It is a strong company which has survived the century...
E-Branding in the Swiss hotel industry
Thesis - 25 pages - Management
This research studies the evolution of traditional branding to e-branding within the context of the Swiss hotel industry. From a study of the database of 2448 hotels in Switzerland, this research explored the various domain names in use among them. This is based on several criteria such as:...
Five forces of the model to support AREVA (2010)
Thesis - 6 pages - Management
In order to deal with the consequences of globalization and the internationalization of trade, countries have come up with growing energy needs. Emerging countries are investing heavily in infrastructure and need electricity to power them.The United States alone account for 25% of global...
Ikea - Easyjet: a common low-cost concept
Case study - 8 pages - Management
How is the choice of a comparison between two companies which are not operating in the same segment motivated? Indeed, nothing (or almost nothing) seems common between Ikea and EasyJet, except that 'if you look closely, you can perceive a common basis, a concept that both companies have made...
Internal control and risk management: Application to Eurostar
Thesis - 6 pages - Management
The Eurostar Group is an EEIG (European Economic Interest E) which is responsible for managing commercial passenger service on the Paris London route among others. The fleet of 27 trains is owned by three companies belonging to the EEIG (SNCF, SNCB and EUKL). Each of these three companies is...
Management report: The Clarins group
Case study - 16 pages - Management
In 1954, Jacques Courting opened beauty salons in France under the name of Clarins. To complement the activities of these institutions and to benefit all women with his long experience, Jacques Courting decided to create effective products to be used at home in the early 1960s. The team included...
Windsor Deluxe: a luxury hotel in Alexandria
Case study - 4 pages - Management
The tourism sector is undergoing a sea change. Spurred on by economic globalization, we are witnessing a dramatic increase in tourism and therefore increased competition; however, tourism remains very sensitive to the economical, political, social and security conditions. Consumers are spending...
Establishment of an H&M store in Morocco: Inter-cultural variables and organization
Thesis - 16 pages - Management
Intercultural management aims to make us work and reflect on the well defined cultural differences between people involved in the inner workings of the enterprise. Indeed, the cultural differences encountered when setting up a company in a foreign country should not cause problems. On the...
The speed of innovation and the impact of Moore's law
Case study - 4 pages - Management
Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, formulated a law in 1965 stating that the speed and power of computers doubles every 18 months at constant cost (it is actually the story of transistor density on the silicon wafer). To offer a simple example: if I buy a computer today for 1000 Euros, it will be...
IKEA: Leadership and organizational culture
Case study - 9 pages - Management
It all began in 1943, when a young man Ingvar Kamprad, 17 years old, decided to create his own company, starting from a reward from his father for having finished his studies. This small company located at Agunnaryd in Sweden has now become a major performer in the world of organizations,...
'The third dimension of management', Robert R. Blake and Jane S. Mouton (1987) - foreword, chapters I and II: The grid of managerial development
Case study - 4 pages - Management
Theoreticians Robert R. Blake and Jane S. Mouton were the first to theorize on the dynamics of organizations. The most recognized part of their work relates to the grid of managerial development, which they developed. It conceptualizes management according to the various styles of leadership....
Inclusion of employees in the collective performance of companies
Case study - 4 pages - Management
As part of the discussions initiated in February 2009 by the President of the Republic on the distribution of value added, the Movement of French Enterprises or ‘Mouvement des enterprises de France' (MEDEF), formulated last July, several proposals to develop the employee savings, considered...
