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Case Map for Hitt, Ireland & Hoskisson Strategic Management: Competitiveness & Globalization, 8th Edition (Cengage/South-Western, ©2009)
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Ice-Fili Michael G. Rukstad; Sasha Mattu; Asya Petinova Product#: 703516
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Stephen P. Bradley, Pankaj Ghemawat, Sharon Foley Pub. Date: September 18, 2003 Product#: 9-794-024
Bally Total Fitness John R. Wells, Elizabeth A. Raabe Pub. Date: November 14, 2005 Product#: 9-706-450
Nucor at a Crossroads Publication Date: Aug 31, 1992 Availability: In Stock Author(s): Pankaj Ghemawat, Henricus J. Stander III Type: Case (Field)
Setting Setting: Russia; Food industry; $25 million revenues; 2002
Setting: United States; Retail industry; large; $68 billion revenues; 440,000 employees; 1994
Setting: United States; Fitness industry; $954 million revenues; 22,200 employees; 20032004
Setting: Charlotte, NC; Steel industry; Fortune 500; $1 billion assets; 1987
Description Designed as an overview of all aspects of the strategy process: industry analysis, positioning, dynamics and sustainability, and scope issues of corporate strategy, including vertical integration, horizontal diversification, and location issues. Ice-Fili is the largest ice cream producer in Russia in 2002, but is facing strong competition from Nestle despite its success over other multinational competitors. Contains detailed exhibits, allowing deeper analyses. Teaching Purpose: To introduce students to strategy. Subjects Covered: Business policy, Competition, Competitive strategy, Corporate strategy, Emerging markets, Five forces, Food processing industry, General management, Industry analysis, Manufacturing industry, Russia, Strategy formulation. Description: Focuses on the evolution of Wal-Mart's remarkably successful discount operations and describes the company's more recent attempts to diversify into other businesses. The company has entered the warehouse club industry with its Sam's Clubs and the grocery business with its Supercenters, a combination supermarket and discount store. Wal-Mart experienced a drop in the value of its stock price in early 1993, which it still has not made up. Wal-Mart has advantages over its competitors in areas such as distribution, information technology, and merchandising, to name a few. Subjects Covered: Competition, Discount department stores, Industry structure, Strategy formulation, Strategy implementation. A modest health and tennis club in 1962, Bally Total Fitness had grown to become one of the major firms in the $14 billion U.S. health club industry in 2004. Throughout its history, Bally had faced its share of challenges as it rose to become a leading health club operator. The last couple of years had proven particularly difficult, however: Bally's stock price had collapsed, it restated earnings in 2003 to the chagrin of stockholders, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission began investigating the company's accounting procedures. Also, Bally faced significant competition from the likes of privately owned 24 Hour Fitness, which had $1 billion in sales in 2003. In 2004, under the direction of CEO Paul Toback, the company streamlined advertising efforts--targeting undertapped segments of the population--cut costs, and modified the firm's internal controls. Management's focus remained on increasing membership and maximizing revenue per member. Would Toback's efforts get the company's price back up, inspire stockholder confidence in Bally, and resist a rumored takeover, enabling Bally to remain a major player in the industry? A rewritten version of earlier cases. Subjects Covered: Accounting, Competitive strategy, Five forces, Health, Industry analysis, Industry structure, Profits, Service organizations. Description: Nucor is a minimill deciding whether to spend a significant fraction of its net worth on a commercially unproven technology in order to penetrate a large but hitherto inaccessible segment of the steel market. This case is an integrative one designed to facilitate full-blown analysis of a strategic investment decision. Subjects Covered: