Description: Late-night burger chain White Castle announced this week that it will start offering a 99¢ veggie slider, essentially a vegetarian version of the mini beef burgers the chain is known for. Source: Businessweek.com Date: Jan 02, 2015 Link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2015-01-02/white-castle-introduces-veggie-sliders Questions for discussion: How does this decision makes sense from an operations point of view? What… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Management
Delta baggage handler wants his job back
Description: Kip Hedges worked as a baggage handler for Delta for 26 years. He was fired after speaking out about employees’ low wages. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Dec 11, 2014 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2014/12/11/fired-delta-worker.cnnmoney/ Questions for Discussions: What are the issues in this case? Do you think Delta managers have handled this situation properly? What… Read more »
Why it’s great to work for Google
Description: Glassdoor asked thousands of employees to rate their companies. Here’s why Google ranked the highest. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Dec 10, 2014 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2014/12/10/google-best-place-to-work.cnnmoney/ Questions for Discussions: Summarize the key reasons given for Google’s ranking. What lessons are there for other firms?
Sony exec, producer apologize after insensitive emails
Description: Sony Pictures Entertainment Chair Amy Pascal and Oscar-winning producer Scott Rudin have both issued apologies after Sony’s massive corporate hack revealed an email exchange of the two making distasteful jokes about President Obama. Source: Fortune.com – video report Date: Dec 11, 2014 Link: http://for.tn/1Biqvlv Questions for Discussions: What lessons should all managers take away… Read more »
Chris Rock Is Right: Hollywood Isn’t Fair to Black Films
Description: Chris Rock has made a career of being blunt, particularly about race. So when he wrote in the Hollywood Reporter last week that the movie business is “a white industry,” his appraisal was familiarly provocative. And by most measures, his remark was also right. Source: Businessweek.com Date: Dec 12, 2014 Link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-12/top-five-chris-rock-is-right-hollywood-isnt-fair-to-black-films#r=hp-ls Questions for Discussions: What… Read more »
How Wall Street Puffed Up Sales of $800 Down Parkas
Description: Fashion doesn’t take many cues from dog kennels in Fairbanks, Alaska. But in Lance Mackey, a rangy 44-year-old professional dog-sled racer with a greasy ponytail and a chunk of jaw lost to a battle with cancer, a high-priced parka has found a winning spokesmodel—even if Mackey doesn’t seem too concerned with his head-turning wardrobe. Source: Businessweek.com Date: Dec 09,… Read more »
What is “Ban The Box”?
Description: In a movement gaining steam across the country to help ex-convicts find employment, ‘Ban the Box’ prevents businesses from asking about arrests and criminal records in the first stage of a job application. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Dec 05, 2014 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2014/12/05/ban-the-box.cnnmoney/ Questions for Discussions: What is this program about, from a… Read more »
Polaroid’s Cube camera takes on GoPro
Description: Polaroid’s retro resurgence is getting a modern makeover. It’s launching the Cube, which is a 35mm video camera that aims to appeal to a broad demographic. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Dec 04, 2014 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2014/12/04/polaroid-cube.cnnmoney/ Questions for Discussions: Do you think this product can revitalize the Polaroid brand image, especially with younger… Read more »
Three Chinese Proverbs Expose Gaps in U.S. Business Education
Description: Having taught in MBA programs and worked for many years in China, I have found that most Western business students have little insight into the mindset of an economic power that is on a path to surpass the U.S. in the near future. Source: Businessweek.com Date: Dec 05, 2014 Link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-05/business-school-doesnt-prepare-mbas-to-compete-with-china#r=most%20popular Questions for Discussions:… Read more »
Success Draws Competition for Luxury E-Retailer Yoox
Description: In an unmarked warehouse at a vast industrial park on the outskirts of Bologna, a three-story-tall robot is mining for a gem: a $980 sleeveless cocktail dress from Armani, in French size 42. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Dec 06, 2014 Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/business/international/success-draws-competition-for-luxury-e-retailer-yoox.html?ref=international Questions for Discussions: What is the basis for this business model success? How… Read more »
