Harvard Business Review Reflection Course name: Introduction to International Business Subject matter: HBR Reflection Details article Title: Have You Restructered for Global Success? Author: Nirmalya Kumar and Phanish Puranam Journal: Harvard Busniss Review Date of publication: October 2011 BHM Have You Restructured for Global Success? Introduction The article at hand ‘Have You Restructured For Global Success?’ written by Nirmalya Kumar‚ professor of marketing and Phanish
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Contents Company Background Roaring Dragon Hotel was a state owned enterprise (SOE) and one of the original 3-star hotels in South-West China It had gained reputation as a premium guesthouse The organization was greatly influenced by Chinese culture Employee recruitment was based on Guanxi or connections‚ favouring nepotism Guanxi or connections of employees led to a large number of income-generating contacts The number of employees were 675 and the
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Inc. was a division of Chattanooga Food Corporation‚ which was founded in 1936. The Ice Cream Division of Chattanooga Foods was one of the largest regional ice cream manufacturers in the United States‚ (Sloane‚ The Chattanooga Ice Cream Division‚ HBR‚ p.2). Following the loss of Stay & Shop one of their largest customer‚ Charlie Moore the division’s president and general manager‚ and his executive management had several meetings to discuss the future of the division and their product. Moore was
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HBR Shape Strategy With Simple Rules‚ Not Complex Frameworks by Donald Sull and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt | 10:00 AM September 27‚ 2012 Successful companies shape their high-level strategies by relying not on complicated frameworks but on simple rules of thumb. Managers in these organizations translate corporate objectives into a few straightforward guidelines that help employees make on-the-spot decisions and adapt to constantly shifting environments‚ while keeping the big picture in mind. Take
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Arenes The aromatic hydrocarbons also have the name arenes. They contain in their molecule one or more cycles made up from 6 carbon atoms. When the molecule is formed out of a single cycle‚ the hydrocarbons are mono nucleuses; when the molecule contains more than one cycle‚ the hydrocarbons are poly nucleuses. The simplest aromatic hydrocarbon‚ benzene‚ is compound out of just one such cycle; its formula is C6H6. The representation of benzene through a cycle of 6 carbon atoms with 3 double bounds
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www.hbr.org HBR CASE STUDY How ca n Sarah and Josh work together m ore effectively? Gen Y in the Workforce by Tamara J. Erickson • Reprint R0902X This document is authorized for use only in MBA Global Management by Rob Anthony at Hult International Business School - Boston from October 2012 to February 2013. How I learned to love millennials (and stop worrying about what they were doing with their iPhones). HBR CASE STUDY Gen Y in the Workforce COPYRIGHT © 2009 HARVARD
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practice of management at all? Henry Mintzberg is the Bronfman Professor of Management at McGill University. His latest book is Mintzberg on Management: Inside Our Strange World of Organizations (Free Press‚ 1989). This article appeared originally in HBR July–August 1975. It won the McKinsey Award for excellence. Our ignorance of the nature of managerial work shows up in various ways in the modern organization—in boasts by successful managers who never spent a single day in a management training
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South-Western. Hill‚ C. W.‚ & Jones‚ G. R. (2008). Strategic Management. Boston: Houghton Mifflin . Porter‚ M. E. (2008‚ Janaury). Retrieved January 16‚ 2008‚ from harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/hbr/articles/article.jsp?value=BR0801&ml_subscriber=true&ml_action=get-article&ml_issueid=BR0801&articleID=R0801E&pageNumber=1 Porter‚ M. E. (1980). Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors. New York: Free Press.
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The Value of the Humanities The humanities can be described as the study of how people process and document the human experience. Since humans have been able‚ we have used philosophy‚ literature‚ religion‚ art‚ music‚ history and language to understand and record our world. Through exploration of the humanities we learn how to think creatively and critically‚ to reason‚ and to ask questions. These skills allow us to gain new insights into everything from poetry and paintings to business models and
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The data gathered and calculated in the experiment accurately portrayed the way the reactions would have taken place. The chloride analysis was a little bit off from other groups due to the fact that our AgCl was in clumps‚ creating less surface area‚ thus our product took longer to burn and may not have burned correctly compared to other groups; yet there are several experimental factors that could have caused us to have different results than other groups‚ i.e. different measurements for samples
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