Questions and Answers of Essentials Of Contemporary Management

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., long known for squeezing its suppliers on prices, is now pressuring companies including Unilever and Colgate-Palmolive Co. to help the world's biggest retailer remove a billion
James Michael Logsdon, a Louisville auto mechanic, hadn’t been in a classroom in 40 years when his company went out of business in 2015, but he was keen to learn something new. He enrolled in a
For U.S. airlines, doing right this week meant plunking down cold, hard cash. United reached a settlement with a passenger who was dragged off a plane and bloodied. It also said it would pay as much
At the end of the movie Back to the Future, mad scientist Emmett “Doc” Brown reappears with his time-traveling DeLorean, newly powered by garbage thanks to a fictional recycling reactor from the
In October 2013, Tracy Chou publicly challenged tech companies to tell the world what percentage of their software engineers were women. Surprisingly, it worked. Within a year, Apple, Facebook,
When BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager, announced it was setting up a new office in Budapest this year, with 500 open positions, it was inundated by applicants from an unlikely
One winter morning in 2008, Scott Lippman was driving to Taos Ski Valley in New Mexico. He should have been giddy—a storm had dropped fresh powder overnight. But he wasn’t. “On every run, I
Twentysomethings sip gourmet coffee in comfy booths as a chill soundtrack plays. There’s funky art, as well as skylights and an artificial putting green, and on some nights, there’s even a happy
Describe the five-step process managers can use to implement organizational strategies.
More than half a century ago, Revlon founder Charles Revson famously described the true business of cosmetics makers: “We sell hope.” Today the same could be said about what the large,
Starbucks Corp.’s new chief, who took the job this month, isn’t getting much of a honeymoon. The shares declined as much as 3.8 percent Friday after quarterly sales missed analysts’ estimates,
Seek out a local entrepreneur and ask him or her how and why they started their business. Ask the person to describe the company’s culture and whether behavior control plays a major role in
Cindy Mi loved English so much as a child that she spent her lunch money in middle school on books and magazines to practice. By 15, she was good enough to tutor other students. At 17, she dropped
Tim Cook has talked up a lot of technologies since becoming Apple Inc.’s chief executive in 2011. Driverless cars. Artificial intelligence. Streaming television. But no technology has fired up Cook
When Deutsche Bank sent senior Wall Street executive Leslie Slover to run its expanding outpost in Jacksonville, Fla., she wasn’t entirely ready for the lifestyle. Gone were the skyscrapers and
When Facebook went public five years ago, the world had a pretty vivid picture of who Mark Zuckerberg was. As much as anything, that image was of Jesse Eisenberg’s fictionalized performance as
How can achieving superior quality help a company’s bottom line?