Description: CEO William Weldon admitted to lawmakers that his company made mistakes involving numerous recalls, but never explained how they happened. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: 10/01/2010 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2010/09/30/n_tylenol_recall_hearing.cnnmoney/ Questions for discussion: Summarize the plan at Starbucks to expand into other businesses by using the web? Do you think this plan will be successful?… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Part 3 Management: Empowering People to Achieve Business Objectives
HP taps outsider as CEO
Description: Although ex-SAP Chief Leo Apotheker lacks experience in the key consumer market, analysts say he will bring much-needed leadership to the tech giant. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report  Date: 10/01/2010 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/markets/2010/10/01/mkts_hp_apotheker.cnnmoney/ Questions for discussion: According to the report, what are the positive and negative aspects of the recent appointment of Leo Apotheker… Read more »
How Much Do You Think He Makes?
Description: Does knowing your colleagues’ salaries make you happy or disgruntled? Source: Slate.com  Date: 09/28/2010 Link: http://www.slate.com/id/2268886/ Questions for discussion: What does this article have to say about how employees look at their pay? What lessons are there here for management? Which motivational models discussed in the textbook helps explain the results of this… Read more »
Oprah Blesses Facebook Founder Zuckerberg’s $100 Million School Gift
Description: You have to be impressed with Mark Zuckerberg. Not just because the 26-year-old has packed a lifetime of achievement into a period when most late adolescents are still trying to find themselves. In seven years he’s gone from being an awkward college freshman to a reported net worth of nearly $7 billion. Source: BNET.com… Read more »
Why Great Companies Don’t Stay Great
Description: Ever wonder why there are so few perennially successful companies like Cisco and Microsoft? Or why so many once-great companies, like Dell and Nortel, suddenly hit a wall? No, it’s not about innovation or culture, although they are factors. Source: BNET.com  Date: 09/17/2010 Link: http://www.bnet.com/blog/ceo/why-great-companies-dont-stay-great/5585?tag=content;feature-roto Questions for discussion: Summarize the arguments made in… Read more »
After the Financial Meltdown, Where’s America’s Outrage?
Description: Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times noted that 49% of people surveyed had a negative view of Goldman Sachs. Financial companies are busily trying to rebuild their reputations by, among other things, running lots of advertisements touting their lending activities, but numerous reports show that banks are cutting credit lines to both… Read more »
Japan CEOs Learn `Globish’ to Expand Overseas as Economy Stalls
Description: Oki Matsumoto, chief executive officer of online trader Monex Group Inc. and a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partner, has a solution to Japan’s stagnant domestic economy: Learn “globish.†Matsumoto holds regular parties at the Tokyo-based company where employees must speak globish, or global English, a language for non-native speakers using basic grammar and… Read more »
Labor Day’s violent beginnings
Description: The bloody Pullman strike in 1894 spurred the national holiday that recognizes American workers. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report  Date: 09/03/2010 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2010/09/03/n_labor_day_history_2010.cnnmoney/ Questions for discussion: Summarize the historical successes of organized labor that are highlighted in the video. Why do you think the general public is often critical of organized labor? Do… Read more »
Hewlett-Packard’s battered culture
Description: Founders’ folksy approach became guiding principle for other companies Source: Marketwatch.com Date: 08/09/2010 Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/h-p-known-for-its-culture-in-yet-another-scandal-2010-08-09?siteid=nwtwk  Questions for discussion: Why do you think H-P has had so much trouble with its recent CEOs? Do you think H-P will be hurt by this recent problem in terms of management recruitment of other employees, motivation, control,… Read more »
From Kenmore, Talking Washers and Dryers
Description: They’ll explain their problems via phoneâ€â€and, the company hopes, result in vastly more efficient service. Source: Businessweek.com  Date: 08/05/2010 Link: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_33/b4191023607461.htm Questions for discussion: How can the manufacturers justify the additional cost of this technology? What are the benefits received by the companies and their customers? Should manufacturers emphasize this technology as an integral… Read more »
