Case Study 1 Cemex: A DIGITAL FIRM IN THE MAKING 1. How did digital technology transform the way Cemex ran its business? In previous years when Cemex began‚ the business’ operations ran without the use of digital technology‚ they used telephones as a communication medium between customers and employees. However‚ this proved to be futile because it was very time consuming and costly to Cemex. Phone lines were jammed as customers‚ truckers and dispatchers tried to get orders
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Introduction to IB Tutorial 1 exercise questions Questions: 1. What is a firm specific advantage? An unique strength a firm has that distinguishes him from his rivals‚ and creates a competitive advantage. 2. What is Honda’s FSA? Honda has a very wide range of motorized machines‚ its assortment covers a large group of consumers. 3. What basic but important distinction does Verbeke make? Non-location-bound FSAs versus Location bound FSAs. 4. Why are some FSAs location bound? These FSAs
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WHY DO FIRMS GO PUBLIC? Forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance James C. Brau‚ PhD‚ CFA Professor of Finance Editor‚ Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance July 1‚ 2010 Department of Finance Marriott School Brigham Young University 640 Tanner Building Provo‚ Utah 84602 Phone: 801.318.7919 Fax: 801.422.0741 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1649008 WHY DO FIRMS GO PUBLIC? Six months after he founded Netscape‚ Clark agitated for the company
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We always heard that learning the English is a lifelong journey‚ it seems that English become our life‚ most of Hong Kong student have a better result on English rather than Chinese. It bring out a concern about is it a right decision that we to regard English as important. A focus will be placed on the importance on English‚ the demand of using English and the advice on the language policy. The parents‚ teachers and the politicians believe that English is important as the English status in
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THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG School of Economics and Finance FINA1001: Financial Statement Analysis Second Semester 2009-2010 Dr. Kam-Ming Wan Midterm Examination (90 minutes) April 1‚ 2010 10:40a.m.(12:10p.m. Candidates may use any self-contained‚ silent‚ battery-operated and pocket-sized calculator. The calculator should have numeral-display facilities only and should be used only for the purposes of calculation. It is the candidate’s responsibility to ensure
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Air Pollution Observation between Hong Kong and Chongqing Part 1 General Picture of Hong Kong and Chongqing and Meaning of Comparing A whole host of similarities between Hong Kong and Chongqing make this thesis’s aiming to exploit air pollution and approaches governments take more pragmatic and meaningful. Among the aforementioned similarities‚ the geographical ones could be treated as lurking causes of air pollution and other relative issues. Hence‚ this part is intended to showcase a general
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The Cost of Capital in Multinational Firms Monique N. Mixon University of Maryland University College FIN 630‚ 04 November 2012 Turnitin.com=_________ ABSTRACT This paper examines the cost of capital for multinational firms and determines that the multinational firm should use the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) to evaluate international and domestic investment decisions and to magistrate the enactment of subsidiaries domestically and internationally. This paper also discusses
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SERVICE FIRM COMPETITIVENESS Service firms must constantly improve themselves about quality and productivity in order to compete with rivals. Chase & Hayes created a table to describe the role of operations in the strategic development of service firms. This is an illustration of productivity and quality development. This table categorizes service firms into 4 stages of development according to their competitiveness. This table does not mean that services have to start at stage 1. A firm may start
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Moss and McAdams Accounting Firm Tyrone Adaway BUS 517 Project Management Dr. Flores April 20‚ 2012 1. Explain how you would respond if you were Bruce at the end of the case. I would be furious beyond belief; I would feel very disrespected and unappreciated by the company at the end of this case. To be forced to work with a subpar team member for several months who had shown poor performance and cause my project to run behind‚ only to then be told that not only were they going to remove him
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Image taken from cnx.org Here is an example diagram of a project life cycle. The project starts with the initiation‚ this is where you need to define what your project is so you have a clear specification of what you want to achieve at the end. The next stage is planning‚ when planning it is important to make a clear and simple action plan. With this it will be easier for you to not only follow the plan‚ but also to check back at you plan and see what you still need to do. Financial plans are
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