Key Questions a. What position should Morgan take and what might be the implications? What should guide his decision? b. What would your management scorecard include as you assess Ben and Jerry’s performance?
* Are they ethical? 3. Choose TWO of the criteria from your checklist. Explain why each would influence your decision to invest in a company. * What risk is the company?
What lessons does Grolsch’s history suggest about how to compete in the markets targeted— particularly about modes of entry? 5. What other changes would you suggest to Grolsch's historical strategy? 6. Will the merger with SABMiller add value—or will it be a win-lose deal?
In his first section Paul says that “It is universally acknowledged that education is the key to economic success.” He is actually just stating that to make a generalization of most of the worlds thoughts on education and job success, because right after he makes that statement he goes on to say that “what everyone knows is wrong.” Krugman says that the growing technology and use of software is extremely cheaper than the “old fashioned” way of doing things. Such as using armies of lawyers and paralegals to do legal research. Basically, technology is reducing demand for highly educated workers. Another example he uses are engineers. He says technology is eliminating the need for them because you can make chips much simpler with a computer than a human worker.
To be effective the rewards must be desired by the target group e.g. financial inducements. * Legitimate power – generally known as authority and implies the power to act as well as the power over resources and is invariably limited in some way. * Expert power – which comes from possessing specialist knowledge and skills and is dependent on the expertise being recognised by those concerned, thus credibility is vital otherwise no one will take any notice. * Referent power – generally known as personal power or charisma and comes from the high regard the individual is held by others should this falter or wane then this form of power vanishes, but is often employed in conjunction with other sources.
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Because implementing time-logistics was the sales decline that resulted from “deloading the channel” which could lead to false sense of expected sales and anticipatory inventory. Another defect of time-based logistics is the investment in technology. This investment was not a one-time deal which means the company needs to reinvest to upgrade technology has remained constant from the start. Especially locally owned stores and start-ups did not want it because of the initial investment. 2.
When comparing the two projects one would suggest that the manager presents top management with Project Janus even though the evealuate team scored it less than Project Gemini the net present value out weighed project two. Project Janus is a far less investment and has a longer life of return. The project weighted score can be jusified through other screening methods than just the simplified scoring method. That method does not provide an accurate measuring system mathematically. It doesn’t give on a scale the far difference or relevance between low and high for either project.
Any objectives agreed upon by a management coalition would inevitably be highly ambiguous goals, enfeebling the ability of a top manager or entrepreneur to truly control the direction of the firm. Cyert and March argued that while ‘individuals have goals; collectivities of people do not’ (1992, p.30), and thus the firm could not have well-defined objectives. Premised on this weak (or the absence of) leadership, The Behavioral Theory posits that the firm’s strategies and learning processes are short-term in focus with adaptations induced by crises. Management is unable to reconfigure internal resources because of the immutability of standard operating procedures and the ambiguity of coalition goals. In his discussion of firm strategy, Oliver Williamson notes that in Cyert and March ‘the firm resembles a fire department more than a strategic actor’ (1999, p. 14).