Description: Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) — Bloomberg Businessweek’s Ashlee Vance tours Tesla’s factory floor. (Source: Bloomberg) Source: Bloomberg.com – video report Date: August 07, 2013 Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/a-tour-of-tesla-s-factory-floor-mODU5sP6RC~HNgoCzv6uYw.html Questions for Discussions: How does reducing inventories of parts help control costs of production? How else can management strategy reduce production costs?
Posts Categorized: International Business
Body Glove: Perfecting the wetsuit
Description: Twin brothers Bill and Bob Meistrell created the first practical wetsuit out of neoprene. But finding the perfect material meant a lot of trial and error – including with old Pontiac parts. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: August 06, 2013 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/smallbusiness/2013/08/06/sbiz-hwgs-body-glove.cnnmoney/index.html Questions for Discussions: What does this report say about management style… Read more »
Rhea Lana’s Unpaid Moms ‘Don’t Care About Making Minimum Wage’
Description: Rhea Lana Riner is on a mission to get government off her back. As chief executive and founder of Rhea Lana’s, a children’s consignment franchise business based in Conway, Ark., Riner has been investigated twice in the past two years for labor violations, first by the Arkansas Department of Labor and then by the… Read more »
How UrgentRx Crashed the Party at the Cash Register
Description: The checkout line in Duane Reade drugstores encompasses some of the most coveted real estate in New York. Within a five-foot radius of the cash register, dozens of the biggest brands in the world vie for attention from hooks, racks and shelves, every inch of which have been allocated according to the product’s place… Read more »
The 7 Deadly Sins Of Management
Description: A friend and colleague just sent me a blog post about David Ogilvy, the original Mad Man and legendary American advertising guru, and his ideas on management. Some of them are timeless and sharp; some seem dated (especially the conspicuous absence of any references to women). Some make me think he must have been… Read more »
Why the Tumblr Deal Is a Disaster for Entrepreneurs
Description: I have never met a fast-growth entrepreneur that I did not like. Sure, some are weird and scary smart, but what I like about fast-growth entrepreneurs is that most have a riverboat gambling streak that makes them fun, free and a little different from most small-business and corporate types. Source: NYTimes.com Date: June 06,… Read more »
Another E-Commerce Experiment in Brick and Mortar
Description: BaubleBar, a New York startup that sells women’s accessories online, is opening a popup shop in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood tomorrow. The 4,000-square-foot location will serve Godiva chocolates and specialty cocktails and offer tablet computers that customers can use to demo personalized jewelry. Beyond the bells and whistles, the idea is to give customers the… Read more »
How to do great business in bad zip codes
Description: Lessons from corporate leaders on how to take your business global. Source: Fortune.com Date: June 08, 2013 Link: http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/06/08/global-corporate-strategies/?iid=SF_F_River Questions for Discussions: What does the article have to say about how to take your business global? What other ideas do you think are critical for success in international business?
Where cell phones go to die
Description: Much of the world’s electronic waste ends up in Guiyu, China, where old parts are recycled but chemicals like mercury leak into the water. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: May 31, 2013 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2013/05/31/t-china-electronic-waste.cnnmoney/ Questions for Discussions: Who should be held responsible for e-waste? Explain why the e-waste recycling business is centralized in… Read more »
One Obstacle Won’t Budge in Japan’s Fight With Deflation
Description: Vending machines stocked with sodas are ubiquitous here, tucked away, it seems, in every nook and cranny of the country. They are found along Omotesando, the tree-lined shopping avenue known as the Champs-Élysées of Tokyo, and their glow lights up the back streets of hot spring towns like Hakone. They are even atop Mount… Read more »
