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Sebastian Koths, Gerhard Patzki, Kirsten Strobl, Julia Santiago, Maria Cristina The following paper presents an analysis of the sustainable competitive advantage of Ryanair and the question why other airlines are not able to imitate Ryanair’s success easily. Therefore, the text is separated into five parts. First of all Ryanair’s business model is revealed by analyzing its capabilities and core competences before the second part will shed light on Ryanair’s financial statement. Subsequently, this

Europe, and King Pharmaceuticals and Forest Laboratories in the US. SUMMARY • Menarini has firmly established itself as a domestic marketing partner of choice within the Italian market. The success of Menarini is in part due to the unique landscape of the industry within Italy which limits the success of foreign players attempting to penetrate the market directly; • Almirall has established itself as key marketing partner for Big Pharma in its home market of Spain, developing a specialist expertise

Ikea Introduction : Ikea furniture is a true success story. Ingvar Kamprad founded Ikea in 1943, an international home products retailer specializing in flat pack furniture.  Ikea is now the largest furniture manufacturer in the world. The word Ikea is just the acronym of Ingvar Kamprad, Elmtaryd represent the name of his parent’s farm and Agunnaryd is the name of his origin’s village (“Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd”). The first Ikea store was opened in Sweden in 1958. The first

class. 11) How was your transition from high school to college? Did you face any particular problems? 12) What are your standards of success in school? What have you done to meet these standards? 13) How have you differed from your professors in evaluating your performance? How did you handle the situation? • Personality 1) How do you determine or evaluate success? Give me an example of one of your successful accomplishments. 2) How would you describe yourself? What specific goals, including

male counterparts. Women attributed the difficulties to reach these assignments by barriers from the company policies and not by lack of motivation. Moreover, Colwill (1984) observed that male managers will often attributes the success of women to luck, while the success of men is attributed to hard work. It implies that it will be more difficult for women to prove themselves as acceptable for international management positions even if they are extremely motivated. I.2: Host-country managers’

Short term project • Duration: Each project is 3-6 months long. Results are delivered at the end of each project. • Size of the process reviewed has to be small enough to achieve fast results • Cross functional team are key for project success as AW champions support with their knowledge on methodology but operational team bring their business knowledge for process understanding and improvement solution finding • XX systemic method targets sizeable projects allowing fast results.

airlines called “low cost” or “discount carrier” with lower operating cost structure. Ryannair airline, a low cost company, was a pioneer in Europe and remains the most powerful in the discount airspace industry. So what are the reasons of such a success, and how does the company manage to separate them self from their competition? It is always fair? To answer these questions we will make a presentation of the firm, then draw its financial analysis and finally carry out a survey of its competitive

“Effective leaders blend the paradoxical combination of deep personal humility with intense professional will.” (Collins 2001) “Effective leaders manifest humility. They routinely credit others, external factors and good luck for their companies’ success. But when results are poor they blame themselves. They also act calmly, quietly and determinedly – relying on inspired standards, not inspiring charisma, to motivate.” (Collins 2001) “Become a tempered radical – an informal leader who quietly challenges

Louis Vuitton, the world's first designer label. The LVMH group made a profit of €2bn on sales of €12bn in 2003. Other market leaders include PPR(Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, after it purchased the Gucci Group) and Richemont. Success Factors There is a wide range of key success factors in launching a new brand from the marketing investment decision to the innovation to the retailing. The most important issue is marketing. These brands invest a huge amount of money in advertising and promotion. Gucci

couples). The first emission of TV reality in sense we hear today date of 1999. It acts of the emission in Netherlands Big Brother which has as a principle of filming during several weeks 12 participants locked up. This emission gains a great success and is exported in 70 countries. In France, it is M6 which will start to diffuse this type of program with Loft Story in 2001 and 2002. TFI will follow with Star Academy in 2001, Nice People and lately Secret Story. 3. Different types of TV