Sony Pictures Entertainment

Sony Corporation’s PEST Analysis Introduction Sony Corporation is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of electronic product. It engaged in business through electronics, motion pictures, music and financial services. Though it used to be a leading manufacturer, Sony Corp has now been entangled with low sales rate and financial strain in many of its product lines (Euromonitor, 2014). This paper demonstrates three events of Sony Corporation as a case study to analyze how these external factors

Physical Security Attack on Sony Pictures Sony Pictures is one of the American entertainment company, which was founded on December 21st, 1987. At first it was called as Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc., later in August 7th 1991, it was named as Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., also known as Sony Pictures. Sony Pictures suffered its first breach in 2011, where one million user accounts were hacked. But the hack happened on November 2014, included 100 terabytes of data being stolen and it effected

ATTACK ON SONY PICTURE ENTERTAINMENT Lafayette Fedrick Class: ISSC361 American Military University Class number: 4349756 Instructor: Professor Date: 24 January, 2015 ATTACK ON SONY PICTURE ENTERTAINMENT What type of attack was launched on Sony? The assault on Sony network is believed to have been started with a simple spear phishing attack. This phishing attack allow the hacker group ‘Guardian of peace’ to gain access to the network by stealing network credentials. More than likely the

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Our companies are known for creating products that enrich people's lives.  Through Sony Corporation of America and its operating companies, we’re equally dedicated to improving people's lives.  Our commitment extends to helping local communities, fostering better educational systems, supporting the arts and culture, helping disadvantaged youth, protecting and improving the environment and encouraging employee volunteerism. Our strategic philanthropy and corporate

Baby Driver is an exhilarating and comical, blockbuster hit by Sony Pictures released on June 28, 2017. The action-filled, crime thriller movie follows the fast life of a young getaway driver in Atlanta, Georgia, who’s mischievous childhood of boosting cars led him into the debt of a kingpin. Now, Baby, the young driver, is forced to work for the kingpin in multiple heists which he consistently listens and relies on music to fuel his drive intensity. On his last job, the heist goes wrong leaving

the reality of the joke dawned when Sony Pictures Entertainment made an announcement that both Rogen and Goldberg would direct the movie dubbed “The Interview.” The movie was to be officially released toward the end of 2014. However, just before the release of the movie a tragic incident unfolded that left hackers in total control of Sony Pictures Entertainment Network. A group by the name The Guardians of Peace (GOP) had breached Sony Pictures Entertainment and brought their operations to a standstill

Lessons Learnt in IT Failure: Sony Entertainment Hacking Introduction Information technology is the new topic in the world which has been mostly developed in the past decade. The management of the information has been a top priority in this world of data science. And every day there is new leaks of information by different means .These IT failures come with a huge economic loss. Research show that IT failures each year costs a 2% average cumulative abnormal drop in stock prices over a 2-day event

contents Introduction 3 Types of Mergers 3 Types of Acquisitions 4 Motives behind M&A 5 Problems faced in Mergers and Acquisitions 6 Problems faced in Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions 7 Sony's Acquisition of Columbia Pictures 8 Sony 8 Columbia Pictures 9 Analysis: Star Framework 9 Fig: Choice of Entry Mode 15 Failure of the Acquisition 15 Reasons for the Failure 16 Merger between Daimler-Benz and Chrysler Corporation 18 Daimler-Benz 18 Chrysler Corporation 18 Analysis: Star

Japanese electronics manufacturer Sony Corporation faced operational and financial stagnation. Reported losses were huge even for such a big conglomerate as Sony, net income in 1999 fell to 121.83$ billion from 179$ billion in 1998 and following decrease continued till record 16.75$ billion in 2001. Shareholders worried as the stock price was falling down even though top management made some structural changes: assets were sold, work force was reduced by 17,000. Sony had the only choice to do some reformations

Vertical Integration Back in 2002, Sony geared themselves toward a vertical strategy as reported by Rob Weisenthal, VP and CFO of Sony Corp. of America, “Under the USA umbrella, we undertook a number of vertical initiatives for each operating division. These have already produced significant operational streamlining and financial performance improvements.” As discussed in his release, Weisenthal talked about Sony Pictures Entertainment and their strategy to restructure television operations, where