Marriott corporation Group -1 Akasha.J Dhivya Priya.R Gayathri.P.A Sadhana.S Srikumaran.M.A Components of Marriott’s Financial Strategy Growth Objective: Is to become the preferred employer and provider in lodging‚ contract services and restaurants‚ and to be the most profitable company in the industry. 1. Manage rather than own hotel assets: Lowers accounting assets on the books thereby increasing the ROA. Sharing of risk that comes from the properties and provide Marriott to operate with
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A marketing research on the segmentation‚ targeting and position of different brands in Marriott International Course: Principles of Marketing Faculty responsibility: D. Sleeman Program: PGD2 Name: YAO Feng (Emma) Words Count: 2632 Date: 02.10.2008 Statement of Authorship “I certify that the totality or assigned portion of this assessment is my own work and contains no material which may have been used for the award of any degree or diploma in any institute‚ college or university. Moreover
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| Marriott Case | Cost of Capital | | Facts: Dan Cohrs is preparing the annual hurdle rates for the three divisions of Marriot Corporation (Lodging‚ Contracts‚ and Restaurants) which will have a significant impact on the firm’s financial and operating strategies. Marriott’s has been truthful to its operating strategy to remain a premier growth company‚ Marriott’s sales and earnings per share have doubled over the last four years. In 1987 Marriot’s sales rose 24%‚ the return on equity
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------------------------------------------------- Abstract: The case examines Marriott International’s (Marriott) various innovative HR practices‚ which earned it the reputation of being ’the best place to work’ in the hospitality industry. It describes Marriott’s ’Spirit to Serve’ culture and the company’s HR philosophy which guided its various HR initiatives. The case gives an overview of the best practices employed by the company in the recruitment‚ selection‚ training and development of employees
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LSBF Marketing management Executive summary This course work was undertaken as part of the assessment in Marketing Management module. It focuses on new product line extension in the example of Apple Inc.’s recent product iPad and comes up with a marketing plan for the extension to it. New product extension is in the form of utilizing iPad as an external monitor and in the future as a control device over other electrical equipment that have some user interface to connect. Work findings
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Marriott Corporation (A) Introduction In 1927 J.W. Marriott Sr. founded the Marriott Corporation (MC) and during the 1980s experienced a huge growth. Marriott’s main strategy in those days was developing hotel properties around the world and selling these properties to outside investors while retaining lucrative long-term management contracts. MC was a conservative company and it stressed the themes of careful attention on the details‚ the organization and its employees. Quality was the one of the
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Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital (Abridged) General Approach The company is split into 3 divisions Lodging‚ Contract Services and Restaurants. The WACC for each of the 3 divisions and then subsequently the entire corporation’s WACC need to be calculated. This will be done through calculating the WACC for each of the 3 divisions and then taking a weighted average of these 3 divisional WACC numbers to get the overall Marriott Corporation WACC. 1. Calculating the Beta a
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luxury brands travel? Avoiding the pitfalls of luxury brand extension Mergen Reddy a‚ Nic Terblanche b‚ Leyland Pitt c‚*‚ Michael Parent c a Capgemini Consulting‚ P.O. Box 785827‚ Sandton‚ 2146‚ South Africa Stellenbosch University‚ Private Bag X1‚ Matieland‚ 7602‚ South Africa c Segal Graduate School of Business‚ Simon Fraser University‚ 500 Granville Street‚ Vancouver‚ BC V6C 1W6‚ Canada b KEYWORDS Luxury brands; Brand extensions; Degree of adjacency; Premium adjacency matrix Abstract Brand extensions
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Harvard Business School 9-289-047 Rev. April 1‚ 1998 Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital (Abridged) In April 1988‚ Dan Cohrs‚ vice president of project finance at the Marriott Corporation‚ was preparing his annual recommendations for the hurdle rates at each of the firm’s three divisions.部门 要求报酬率 Investment projects at Marriott were selected by discounting the appropriate cash flows by the appropriate hurdle rate for each division. In 1987‚ Marriott’s sales grew by 24% and its return on equity
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QUESTION 1 Are the four components of Marriott´s financial strategy consistent with its growth objective? With regards to the overall strategy of primarily being a premier growth company‚ we analyze the 4 components as follows: 1. Manage rather than own hotel assets • Marriott developed the projects‚ established long term management contracts consisting of 3% of revenues and 20% of the profits. The assets were then sold to partners. Not owning hotels provided Marriot with greater liquidity
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