Ferrell Case Studies Samples For Students

Nineteen seventy-one Starbucks opened in Seattle’s popular Pike Place Market. Joining the company in 1982, Howard Schultz proved the driving force behind the rapid success of the company by creating a retail coffee-bar culture. By 1985, Schultz’s confidence in his European inspired idea presented Starbuck’s first café latté in the new downtown location as well as introducing its Christmas Blend. This set the momentum resulting today in the organization operating close to 17,000 stores across 55 countries around the world and remains “the third largest chain restaurant in the Unites States” (Farrell, Fraedrich, and Ferrell 319).
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Question 1

I think Walmart is doing more than enough to become more sustainable. It is quite evident that the company is very serious about becoming more sustainable in the future. Walmart has set goals since 2005 that it has since made considerable effort to meet. The firm aims at reducing the emission greenhouse gases in all its stores. The company has since achieved a 5% decrease in these emissions, as per 2012. This is a huge step towards its 20% target. Walmart also aims at attaining maximum efficiency in all its stores through design and use of prototypes: a target that it has ...

Question One

Challenges
As highlighted in the Real World Case Study, there are various challenges that organizations face while operating in the global environment. These challenges may be classified into cultural, political, and geo-economic.

Cultural

There are a few cultural issues that companies should considers when implementing IT infrastructure of the global domain.
There is a need for IT systems and subsystems to accommodate the cultural preferences.
The user needs vary from one country to another; each market has specific needs (O’Brien & Marakas, 2011)
Political
As revealed in the case study, there are a couple political challenges that firms face in ...

The case highlights that the business opened its first theme park in 1955 in California with the icon character of Mickey Mouse. In 1983, the part expanded its roots to the international market by opening part in Tokyo, Japan. These expansions led them part to Paris, France, and finally in Hong Kong in 2005. However, the critical issues that have been discussed in the case are cultural differences and social issues. The case explains that the global expansion for any company is a tricky business and organizations have to overcome political, legal, social, economic, and cultural barriers. The company ...

Discern how a more effective ethics programs and a more viable code of conduct could have mitigated the ethical issues faced by Nike.
An effective ethics program helps an organization establish a culture that has concern for their employees well being (Mullan 2010). The organization will consider employees as an important part of their business and strive to ensure that they are working in safe conditions. In the case of Nike a more effective ethics program would have ensured that they do not hire children to work for them in their factories. It is not ethical to hire children, Nike would have ...

Introduction

In his case, Ferrell (2012) discusses Enron Corporation from when it was formed, when it collapsed and all that followed after its collapse. Enron Corporation is an American company headquartered in Houston, Texas. This company was formed in the year 1985 through the merging of two gas pipeline companies. Enron Corporation deals in products and services such as natural gas, and also electric power generation and distribution. However, in the year 2001 when Ken Lay was the Chief executive officer and at his time of his stepping down, Enron was faced with financial problems which eventually led to its ...

The Monsanto Company was discovered in the year of 1901 in St. Louis, Missouri by John F. Queeny and since then has dealt in the production of diversified products intended for the agricultural and consumer market. The Company has had a tremendous development and growth rate in the past century considering their operations in a diversified range of products. These included petroleum, fiber, agricultural chemicals and also the genetically modified (GM) food crops. The companies operation has also had and experienced a fair share of economical and ethical challenges of functioning over the many years of industrialization.
The ethical issues that ...

Delineate the ethical issues and dilemmas the company faced.

The coca cola company has the largest distribution systems globally, and is also among the largest beverage companies marketing four of the world’s top five leading soft drinks (Ferrell et al 2011). There has been ethical issues and dilemmas which have caused it to lose its stand in the global market, stocks as well as deter its future growth. The company had ethical issues related to product safety where they were accused of selling hazardous products to consumers. This happened in Belgium in June 1999, about thirty school children became ill after consuming Coca Cola products. This contamination ...

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The case study is focused on describing unethical practices adopted by CompCARE a subsidiary of PharmaCARE. The company is involved in workplace discrimination, and not managing safe appropriate working conditions. All people involve in the processes and getting impacted by the ParmaCARE operations are stakeholders of the scenario. Major stakeholders in the case are: PharmaCARE, CompCARE, WellCo, employees working in the CompCARE, people of Colberia, and regulatory authorities of Colberia. WellCo recently acquired CompCARE and will get impacted by all the decisions taken by the old management in the past. Employees are facing major health challenges due to ...

Part 1: Profile of USAID

USAID is an acronym that stands for United States Agency for International Development. It is a non-profit organization that carries out interventions in hard hit areas, primarily in third world developing countries. It is a federal agency of the government of the United States of America primarily tasked with delivering civilian foreign aid.
- Areas of Interest
USAID has interest in many areas around the globe. Firstly, it is important to identify the areas of operational interest for the organization. USAID seeks to help overseas people who are struggling to live a better life, live in the reins of democracy ...

Section A

Question1Discuss 5 benefits derived by DeeCell with their careful segmentation and profiling of the target customers for the campaign.
- The first benefit was saving on cost. The company did not have to roll out massive and costly advertisements.
- Their strategy was effective. The company was able to access the telecommunication solutions that it would present to individual call centres. The strategy also enabled DeeCell to gain the trust of its customers through personalized services.
- The company could get to know the demands of its clients better and therefore enhance its demand forecasting.
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Apple Incorporation is a company that was established in California in 1977 and which consists of wholly owned subsidiaries that manufacture, design and market a number of products which include iPad, iPhone, Mac, iPod and various software applications for both consumers and professional applications (Annual Report, 2011). The company caters to a number of consumers which include small and mid-sized businesses, Government, education and enterprises. The fiscal year of Apple consists of either 52 or 53 week period and it ends on last Saturday of every September.
The business strategy that the company has chosen for itself is providing the best ...

Organizational culture relates to the values and norms that are involved in the running of an organization (C. Ferrell, Fraedrich & Ferrell, 2012). Through a proper and established culture, an organization can have the capable to realize its goals and objectives. The ethics portrayed while running an organization are used in the evaluation of the organization’s corporate culture. Ethics in corporate culture can be evaluated via a number of ways. Encouraging employees to devote themselves in the running of the organization and top-level management effectively communicating with their subordinates creates a proper, ethical climate in the organization.

Summary

The case study presents an ...

Wal-mart is one of the largest companies in the United States and its’ neighborhood. With diverse economic activities across the world, it has managed to overcome the many impediments that are always associated with smooth running of large corporations. The company is among the top firms holding the economy of most cities across the world. In business, one has to implement ways of survival and competing successfully with other investors. For this regards one of the major strategic plans that can give you an upper hand in this field is lowering prices of your products and services. this made ...

Introduction

People have always adhered to compliance with rules, regulations and standards that govern everyday living. Most people are aware that there are universal codes of ethics and morals that guide in decision making, as well as in the assuming the expected conduct of behavior. Ethics, most especially, is crucial in business. As asserted by Pitts & Kamery (2003), “ethics are important to firms for a variety of reasons: including the legal responsibilities of the executives, costs of violations, and reputation” (p, 79). Likewise, organizations that design ethical codes of conduct were proven to be more successful and last longer (Wadhwa, 2009; Worcester, ...

BUSINESS: UNETHICAL BUSINESS PRACTICES

L. Dennis Kozlowski, CEO of Tyco International Scandal
A fish rots from the top down. This phrase sums up the scandal of Tyco International when its CEO, Dennis Kozlowski, was found guilty on many fraudulent accounts. His actions were in direct violation of the accounting ethics. Kozlowski was arrested along with many of his company officials as partners in crime. When the CEO of a company is involved in violating code of ethics and professionalism, the employees and subordinates find it convenient to follow suit.
Former chief executive and chairman of Tyco International, Dennis Kozlowski and firm’s CFO ...

1.0 Introduction
Operating in a constantly changing business environment is a challenging task. Therefore, those organizations are most likely to develop and expand that take strategic initiative and avail opportunities available to them. However, the expansion could be international or regional where decision is made on the basis of target market and competing regions. This paper overviews case of Southwest Airline and proposes a marketing plan for expansion in a new market.
2.0 Overview of South West Airlines
South West Airlines is one of the largest low-cost airline in the world. The airline was founded on 1967 by Rollin ...

Introduction

- Background of the Organization
In this paper, the Four-Part Model is applied in the context of the social responsibility activities of the Coca Cola Corporation. In this regard, the specific components of this model will be discussed, and the effects of their application within this organization will also be analyzed. The Coca Cola Corporation is one of the largest soft-drinks` manufacturer in the United States and the globe at large. The company`s operations are found in almost all the countries in the world, and its corporate social responsibility programs are also run parallel to the company` ...

Determine the impact of this event on ARC’s benefits of business ethics. ( Employees' commitment, investor loyalty, customer satisfaction, and bottom line.)
Providing relief to disaster victims, facilitating people in preparing for disasters and responding to emergencies is the core business of the ARC. In the event of September 11 in 2001, the ARC benefits of ethics suffered negative impact. The organization operates independently and has about 35000 employees and about half a million volunteers. The organization has a set of policies and regulations that govern how everyday situations and issues are addressed. When the USA was under a terrorist attack ...

Introduction

Branding is an important marketing function that helps companies differentiate their products and position their products better (Hunger & Wheelen, 2007). Himalaya Shampoo is a product Himalaya Drug company, India. The Indian shampoo market has grown in leaps and bounds and this presents the company with several marketing opportunities. It uses the differentiated strategy to establish itself in the Indian market.

Background of the relationship between the organisation and the industry context

Himalaya Drug company offers Ayurvedic generic drugs and solutions which enable consumers to avail high quality and natural products like soaps and shampoos. The industry for these products is growing as the standard of living, spending capacity and awareness about ...

Introduction

According to Mainan & Ferrell, corporate social responsibility (CSR) can also be referred to as corporate citizenship or sustainable social business. CSR involves the activities undertaken by an organization in order to ensure that it complies with the ethical standards and law. Corporate social responsibility is an objective of an organization which entails the organization to participate in the well being of the surrounding community. For example, the organization can sponsor some students from the community within which it operates . Organizations engage in corporate social responsibility for various reasons such as a way of improving the human resource. Risk management and ...

Starbucks is a coffeehouse chain that is headquartered in Seattle, United states f America. It is the biggest coffeehouse in the world with a global presence of 19,972 coffeehouses in sixty countries. Though it is synonymous with coffee, Starbucks also deals with salads, sweet pastries, hot and cold sandwiches, hot and cold drinks, snacks, coffee beans, mugs and tumblers. This paper will analyze the Starbucks Company for its strengths, the weaknesses it suffers from, the opportunities it can utilize of and the threats it has to overcome The paper will also define the internal and external factors that the company ...