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Mabati Rolling Mills Ltd
Authors: K'Aol, George O.; Gatumo, Francis; Low, Murray
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2005
It was early 1999 when the management team of Mabati Rolling Mills Ltd (MRM), led by their CEO Mr. Kaushik Shah, submitted a proposal to the Board of Directors. The proposal identified specific technology upgrading and growth strategies based on process and product innovations that would make MRM the sole manufacturer of superior Aluminum-Zinc coated sheets and coils in Africa...
Commercial Bank of Africa
Authors: Chege, Gerald W.; Anzaya, Mbithe; Mullins, John; Low, Murray
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2006
Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) was a medium-sized bank, incorporated in Kenya. The bank served the Kenyan corporate sector as well as international institutions and organizations with offices in Kenya. In late 2003 Mr. Isaac Awuondo, the Managing Director of CBA, was facing an information technology management dilemma...
Ford Mexico: Bridging the Learning Divide
Authors: Garcia, P; Maguire Lewis, M; Bradberry, R
Product Type: Cases
Source: CIBER Case Collection
Publication Year: 2006
This case explores the changes that Ford made to its Mexican assembly operations from the early 1990s to the present. The case compares the different production systems, productivity and learning transfer at two Ford plants, located in different parts of Mexico.
Firestone East Africa (1969) Limited (Now Sameer Africa Limited)
Author: Lewa, Peter M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2006
Mr. Naushad Noorali Merali, chairman of Firestone East Africa (1969) Limited, had never been known to shy away from any business challenge. He firmly believed that nothing was impossible once a person put his or her mind to solve it. He looked at any business challenge as an opportunity to learn from, whether the outcome was a success or a failure. In January, 1993 the government of Kenya announced that it had put in place a framework for the full liberalization of the economy...
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Authors: Bohmer, Richard M.J.; Ferlins, Erika M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2008
In 2000, Dr. Gary Kaplan became CEO of the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. The hospital was facing significant challenges: It was losing money for the first time in its history, staff morale had plummeted, and area hospitals presented ardent competition. Considerable change was imminent...
General Motors: Acting Strategically?
Authors: Conklin, David W.; Cadieux, Danielle
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
General Motors had a history of bold strategies in a wide variety of areas, including the creation of Saturn, the development of global operations and the formation of strategic alliances with Fiat, SAIC and Daewoo...
Kenya Tea Development Agency
Author: Chege, Gerald W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2005
One morning in March 2001, Mr. James K. Njoroge, the Managing Director of Kenya Tea Development Agency, sat in his office on the eighth floor of KTDA Plaza in Nairobi, the company's head office. He focused his mind on the scheduled board meeting to be held the following week. The meeting had only one agenda item to decide the approach that KTDA should take to solve its information management problems...
What Are Mergers Good For?
Author: Morgenson, Gretchen
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2005
To most investors, mergers are the stock market's equivalent of catnip. Takeover bids typically provide a nice boost to investors' portfolios and confirm their stock-picking smarts. And to hear the executives orchestrating them tell it, they always produce greater profits at the combined company down the road...And yet, for all the profit and promise that mergers seem to hold, the truth about companies combining their operations is a darker one. Academic research suggests that few mergers add up to significantly more prosperous or successful companies...
Sealed Air Taiwan (A)
Author: Paine, Lynn S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
The general manager for U.S.-based Sealed Air Corp.'s Taiwan subsidiary must decide how to improve productivity and achieve profitability...
Haier: Management Control on a Tactical Level
Authors: Lau, Amy; Ho, Emily; Han, Jun
Product Type: Cases
Source: The University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2008
This case study examines: (1) the establishment of Haier's management control system and how it was adapted into the company's internationalisation strategies; (2) how it motivated employees to reach high performance goals; and (3) how it structured the business units to obtain optimal operational efficiency.
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