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Harvard Business Review's 1990 Article 'The Core Competence of the Corporation' Reviewed

that also has not made the effort to identify and enhance its core competencies. This is one route to losing competitive advantag...

Overview of the Pepsi Bottling Group

Company, which spun off its own bottling operations in 1986 (Hoovers Company Profiles, 2003). PBG also is in good position to acqu...

Kellogg's Corporate Strategy

In nine pages this paper examines Kellogg's in a consideration of its corporate history, strategy, mission, core competency, and t...

Vertical Integration as a Means of Expansion: the Case of BMD

The writer discusses the case of BMD, a lumber yard company, which attempted to expand and maximize profits by acquiring other com...

Current Trend Changing and Business Planning

In five pages a student submitted case study is used in examining how a medical practice can turn around through planning, core co...

Performance Case Study of Dial Corp

In eleven pages Dial Corp's performance is assessed through such tools as Porter's Five Forces model, PEST and SWOT analyses, with...

Hewlett Packard and Core Competencies

In twelve pages this paper considers core competencies in a case study of Hewlett Packard. Five sources are cited in the bibliogr...

German Expansion Efforts of Wal Mart

In forty pages the problematic expansion of Wal Mart into the German market is examined in an overview of background, strategies, ...

Analysis of Delta Airlines

decreasing, with only US$ 790.0 million in losses in 2003 compared to US$ 1,272.0 losses in 2002. However, this must be outing a s...

Student Provided Case Study on Pfizer's Marketing

their herd. This is also where there may be different values. We have seen with the larger business there is a desire to control t...

2000 Home Depot, Inc. in Harvard Case 9 101 117

attention from professional contractors; and reduce operating costs as much as possible. At the end of 2000, the stock market had...

Value Chain Analysis of Papa Geno's Herb Garden

like surveys (2001). On the day this paper was written, the home page is announcing a Free Drawing to win one of 23 prizes. Papa...

Strategy at BMW

such had more benefit of economies of scope and scale. For example, the merger between Daimler and Chrysler in 1998 had been diffi...

Waste Industries USA - Internal Analysis

Waste Industries acquired five hauling operations in the suburbs of Atlanta, in eastern North Carolina, and in Greenville County i...

Study Questions on Philips Electronics

In five pages business strategy, value chain methodology, and core competence questions regarding Philips Electronics are examined...

Changes at Sears

strategy to increase Sears bottom line. Sears has suffered with a declining market share for years even in their core product ca...

The Master's Prepared Nurse: Competencies in Health Care

"benefits and burdens of... treatment", helping patients to "understand their prognosis", and emphasizing the importance of patien...

Modified Leadership Construct for Health Care

are more easily measured. You can determine how much time is spent on the task, how much on team development, and how much on each...

Core Business Processes and the Positive Impact of Business Process Reengineering

a better impact on a companys bottom line. BPR, its Definition and Background BPR can be basically defined as ". . ....

Personal Mission, Core Values and Life Goals

organizations run smoothly; the companies have to have a set of "core values" which they retain literally forever; they have a cor...

Enhancing Cultural Competency

leaders should facilitate their development of trans-cultural nursing skills such as being able to assess patterns that are eviden...

3M Case Study

and the increasing economic pressures meant a series of reorganisation were needed to bring costs back under control. The strategy...

3M and Customer Service

other organizations have envied and virtually no one could duplicate. Much of the current culture at 3M can be traced to the pron...

Using Technology in Business

its online procurement service, something that began for internal use but has since been marketed (Chronister, 1997). TPN is a por...

Overview of Electronic Commerce

In five pages corporate electronic commerce is considered in a company comparison of GE and 3M. There are no other sources listed...

The 3M Company and Quality Management

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at quality management. Issues of quality management and strategy are examined through t...

Challenges at the 3M Company

companys longstanding penchant for innovation would survive in the new environment" ("3M Company," 2009). In examining the history...

Case Study about Scotch-Brite (3M) in Canada

cost per case is $11.15 from Perth and $12.25 per case from Alexandria. That is a difference of $1.10 per case in reduced costs i...

Educational Analysis

While she maintains the separation of teacher and pupil, at the same time she is able to transcend that barrier to reside within t...

Reducing Prejudice

contemporary forms of prejudice" (Dovidio et al, 1999, pp. 101-105). Intergroup contact as a method of reducing prejudice ...