Mergers & Acquisitions and value creation for the shareholders
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%...
The application of the flexible production system to high-tech industries and services
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...
Dyson : history, strategies and performances
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...
Case study: How Virgin mobile successfully thwarted competition through innovative marketing
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
This paper focuses on operations of Virgin Mobile, USA. It would be helpful to see what strategies Virgin used by analyzing the competition, consumers and the company aka the three C's. Let us first look at the company itself. When consumers look at virgin, they are concentrated on the...
Mergers and acquisitions: GDF-SUEZ
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...
Waterford Wedgwood Crystal Company
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Waterford Wedgwood Crystal Company is the leader in luxury crystal and ceramics, represented in more than 80 countries worldwide. It produces handcrafted crystal, lamps, giftware and tableware and has the largest variety of products in the market. It is also well-known for manufacturing trophies...
Wells Fargo's cross selling strategies - publié le 26/11/2009
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...
Evolution and framework of e-business
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
E-business is conducting business on internet, not only buying and selling but also providing services to customers and collaborating with business partners. IBM was the first one to use the term “e-business” in October 1997. It launched a thematic campaign built around the term. Not...
From Ponzi to Madoff : same causes, same effects ?
Essay - 11 pages - Finance
Ponzi mechanism is a very simple pyramidal model that ensures unrealistically high and constant returns to its customers. How come? Early customers are paid off with the cash from new customers, attracted by the satisfaction of the old customers, and so forth until the chain collapses. Ponzi...
Advertisement Analysis
Worksheets - 1 pages - Communication
This document is an ad published in 2006 for 'Babybel', a cheese brand. This product is an authentic cheese created in 1952. This campaign aims at boosting its sales due to a new positioning, the 'Babybel light'. Promoting its new product, the brand chooses a funny and simple...
Hilton group: A business analysis
Thesis - 7 pages - Business strategy
The fact that betting and gaming has a higher sales proportion and therefore a higher percentage of turnover means that the Hilton group is a potentially good investment, based on the fact that betting and gaming is continuing to grow and advancing rapidly, especially due to the World cup in...
Understanding the complex relationship between human resource management and trade unions
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
The history of trade unions can be traced back to nearly 400 years ago when such groups as the Craftsmen and the Levelers were organized to protect their own products and interests. At the end of the 18th century, the labor surplus caused by industrial revolution made the working classes...
Corporate culture and communication
Dissertation - 17 pages - Management
This report aims at presenting the concept of post merger cultural integration as the key element for a successful merger operation. The last decade, in the global business is likely to be called the era of the merger. In today's global economy, one cannot turn his back on the opportunities...
Strategic management assignment Marks & Spencer case study
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...
Report on Vodafone's success strategy in Europe
Tutorials/exercises - 59 pages - Business strategy
Following the Schumann declaration (1950) the European Economic Community (EEC) or Common Market, of six nations was established by the Treaty of Rome in 1957. Since this time, the number of member states has increased to fifteen, and successive treaties have gradually strengthened the degree of...
Understanding due diligence
Thesis - 2 pages - Business strategy
Investigative due diligence is meant to answer questions that official records and financial accounts cannot. For example what about the people managing the company? Do they engage in risky or illegal practices? The business of investigative due diligence is more mundane that can be imagined, an...
Emergency, life support for civilian war victims
Case study - 7 pages - Management
In this presentation, we will explain the activities of 'Emergency'. We are interested in it, because we find this kind of an organization is essential and necessary to help needy people all over the world. Emergency is a humanitarian organization founded in Milan, Italy in 1994....
Organizational development Daimler Chrysler: a failed merger
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...
Risk management : Alstom
Case study - 8 pages - Management
Before starting this report, I think it's important to state what risk management exactly is. Indeed, risk management's purpose is to help others create their desired variation from their desired outcome at their desired times. I then decided to analyze risk management in the Alstom...
Risk management - measures, models and factors
Essay - 11 pages - Management
Risk management consists of quantifying and analyzing the potential losses and gains for any investment, and then deciding to invest or not, and taking some appropriate actions according to the risks to be taken, the investor's objectives and the risk tolerance. Basically, there are two steps...
Global logistics and operations
Course material - 11 pages - Logistics
The Lean Manufacturing is a theory which looks for optimization in goods production through the removal of waste and implementation of flow, in opposition to batch and queue. Originally, there are 7 wastes called 'muda', which are: Overproduction (production more important than demand),...
Corporate entrepreneurship : the Gillette Company
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Entrepreneurship is the process of creating value by bringing together a unique combination of resources to exploit an opportunity. Corporate entrepreneurship involves the development within an existing corporation of internal markets and autonomous business units, producing products, services,...
Google case study - publié le 20/11/2009
Case study - 10 pages - Management
The Google Inc. Company was created in 1998 by two young students who met at the Stanford University (USA), Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The company is in the Silicon Valley in California. Its core business is to provide results from a search engine to people. At the beginning, the two founders...
Analyzing financial statements : security Analysis
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Finance
First, let's define what the 'price to book', 'price to sales' and 'price to cash flow' are. The price to book ratio (P/B Ratio) is a financial ratio usually used to compare the stock's market value to its book value. Book value is the term used to designate the...
Understanding the implications of merger of DaimlerChrysler
Thesis - 3 pages - Business strategy
German Daimler-Benz and American Chrysler were merged in 1998. By the mid-1990s Chrysler had survived near bankruptcy experiencing deep and reverse fluctuations in following years. The merger with Daimler-Benz has not tempered these fluctuations even though they have used strategic planning and...
Financial analysis of Nike and Adidas (2000): The big two in the footwear industry
Case study - 7 pages - Finance
Adidas is the biggest footwear company and after analyzing the ratios it has performed as well as Nike over the years, even though it is far behind Nike in terms of revenue and profits. The share price of Adidas is currently at 4877.0 compared to the opening price of 4864.0 that was a 44.0...
Case study: Britannia's strategic expansion into Argentina
Case study - 13 pages - Business strategy
Argentina holds a profitable market for BIL, not only to increase revenue, but also to tap the market, otherwise unexplored by the firm. Post the severe slump in 2002, the sector is prospering at a y-o-y rate of 15.8% (Ebscohost, 2009). In 2007, the industry recorded a growth of 14.7% against...
Case study: Marketing strategy of Air Arabia
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
When Air Arabia was launched a few years back, the main competitors in the airline industry in the region were Emirates Airlines, Etihad Airways and Gulf Air. Emirates Airlines had the biggest share in the market since it had already been established and was known for its high quality service....
Case study: How Toyota achieved success in Europe
Thesis - 11 pages - Business strategy
At the end of World War II, the Japanese government asked the European Automakers to curtail exports to Japan in order to help Japan rebuild its industry. The Europeans reciprocated by limiting their market to Japanese cars (C_p.267). As a result of which the quotas were very limited (e.g. Italy,...
A comprehensive review of change management
Thesis - 22 pages - Business strategy
Changes in an organization takes place for many reasons, it is sometimes done in order to find new ways of executing and organizing work. It is also done to change the processes in which people are utilized. Noteworthy changes in an organization usually occur when the organization wishes to...
