BoReissROBERT REISS Robert “Bob” Reiss, HBS 1956, started out as a waiter at resorts in upstate New York. He moved on after HBS to run the personalized-pencil division of a small New York company. He saw that as an opportunity to learn about running a business while someone else “picked up the tab.” He then started a sales rep company and soon stumbled on opportunities in adult games like chess and magic. Eventually he sold his company to a needlecraft company. Bob then founded R&R to create and
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It was early 1991, and Michael Eisner, chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company, was sitting down with Frank Wells, president and chief operating officer, and Gary Wilson, executive vice president and chief financial officer, to discuss Disney's prospects for the new year. These men were still basking in the glow generated by another record revenue- and profit-breaking year in Disney's history. Disney's businesses were performing at an unprecedented level, and confidence was high. The
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SLIDE 1. The Walt Disney Company. The Entertainment King. SLIDE 2. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” Walt Disney SLIDE 3. Case question: Had The Disney magic begun to fade? SLIDE 4. About The Company SLIDE 5. Walt Disney Company is largest media and entertainment conglomerate Other ventures: -Studio Entertainment -Parks and Resorts -Consumer Products -Media Networks SLIDE 6. Walter Elias Disney SLIDE 7. • Walter Elias Disney
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CHAPTER 1 An Overview of Financial Management SOURCE: Courtesy BEN & JERRY’S HOMEMADE, INC. www.benjerry.com STRIKING THE RIGHT BALANCE $ BEN & JERRY'S F or many companies, the decision would have been an easy “yes.” However, Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc. has always taken pride in doing things make money. For example, in a recent article in Fortune magazine, Alex Taylor III commented that, “Operating a business is tough enough. Once you add social goals to the demands of serving
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Power Play (A): Nintendo en los videojuegos de 8-bits Una empresa fuerte y el resto a los débiles. Hiroshi Yamauchi, presidente de Nintendo Co., Ltd.1 Los orígenes de videojuegos para el hogar volvió a 1966, cuando un ingeniero de Sanders Associates, un militar de EE.UU. firma de consultoría de sistemas, desarrolló un juego de pelota y pala llamada Odyssey que podría ser reproducido en un televisor. Pero la industria se inició realmente en 1972 con la fundación de Atari Corporation, que gozó de
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workers in third world countries who earn as little as 12 cents per hour drudging away in harsh and even dangerous work environments. Such workplaces are referred to as sweatshops and are especially common in the apparel and shoe industries and in toy making. Many critics object to sweatshops on the grounds that they harm the workers or violate basic human rights. These moral objections are aimed at certain sweatshop practices such as coercion, unsafe working conditions, deception, paying workers
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Outsourcing 1/60 ABSTRACT: The main focus of this project is investigating and exploring the impact of outsourcing on one of the most iconic Danish companies (LEGO), which attracted our attention during the preparation of this project. We decided to focus on a single case study, because we felt that dividing our efforts by investigating more than one company, would not allow us to focus in sufficient detail on the domino effects that outsourcing can have on a singular institution. The
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507-P01 5 DE MAYO DE 2005 ANITA ELBERSE Marvel Enterprises, Inc. Era 29 de junho de 2004, um dia antes do lançamento nos cinemas da tão esperada seqüência do filme Homem-Aranha, baseado no personagem mais popular da Marvel Enterprises. O filme parecia destinado a seguir os passos do recordista de bilheterias original ao oferecer sua mistura familiar de forte ação e drama. Porém, Peter Cuneo, o Vice-Presidente e ex-CEO, sabia que sua equipe havia realizado um resgate que nem o Homem-Aranha
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