Ameritrade Case Writeup questions (do all this as if it is June 1997‚ date of the case): 1. What is Ameritrade’s capital structure? Because there is no preferred stock or long term debt‚ Ameritrade is a 100% equity firm. 2. What is Ameritrade’s cost of equity capital? CAPM= (.0643)+ (1.8264)(.188-.0559)=.2902=29.02% Return on Market=(899.470-757.12)/757.12=.188 Beta calculation on Attached Excel Spreadsheet. 3. What is Ameritrade’s cost of debt capital? Because there is
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5. Evaluate Intel’s shift in strategy under CEO Craig Barrett and new CEO Paul Otellini. Craig Barrett’s strategic focus was on innovation and R&D. He aggressively built new businesses thru acquisitions and internal ventures‚ to the tune of $12 billion. Under his leadership‚ Intel entered a myriad of new markets – wireless‚ networks‚ communications‚ and online services. In 1999‚ he changed the corporate mission statement. Intel went from “being the preeminent supplier to the new computing
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HBS CASE: THE FASHION CHANNEL Answers by Chenghao Zheng (Chuck) 1. What insight do you get from the consumer and market data? TFC’s revenue for 2006: $310.6 million ($80 million from affiliate fees and $230.6 million from ad sales) Strength: the only network dedicated exclusively to fashion‚ with up-to-date and entertaining information broadcast 24/7 Weakness: no detailed segmentation‚ branding‚ or positioning strategy According to customer analysis: there are four groups of customers‚ Fashionistas
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BPSM (FedEx-UPS) Creating Value at FedEx and UPS From the company’s founding close to 30 years ago‚ FedEx’s strategic competitiveness has been based on an obsession with‚ and careful nurturing of‚ delivery speed and reliability as its core competencies. These competencies have been critical to the pursuit of the opportunities that were associated with Frederick W. Smith’s early vision of today’s fast-cycle global economy. Believing that value could be added to business firms’ operations if
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CREATING A METHODOLOGY 1 QUESTIONS 1. What can you determine about the corporate culture from the fact that they waited this long to consider the development of an EPM system? It is clear from the description that the company has been a vertical organization so far. So far‚ there are units that are managed by managers who would like to continue to maintain the reporting structure and power. Should a formal project management office be put in place‚ they are clearly afraid to lose power and control
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themselves‚ rather than create value for shareholders‚ which is what a public company should strive to do. The energy at Enron is focused in the wrong areas as employees seem to do whatever is necessary to stay “alive”. Although Skilling was the one at the forefront when the Enron ship began to sink‚ the presence of many strong players all competing for individual power within the organization attributed to Enron’s downfall. Although Skilling came in fresh out of HBS ready to aggressively hit the
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MARKETING IS ALL ABOUT CREATING VALUE. USING BOTH CRITICAL ANALYSIS AND PRACTICAL EXAMPLES‚ EXAMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH CREATING VALUE TO CUSTOMERS AND TO THE FIRM ARE AN INTRINSIC PART OF MARKETING TODAY. Different people have defined marketing differently. On the face of it‚ it may be thought of as the process by which an organisation reaches out to the consumers with the products or services that it has to offer in order to make profits. If we dwell deeper‚ it ’s worth mentioning that marketing
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Silic Case Report Title of case analysis: Case Silic Date: 2013/11/17 Summary: The Council of Ministers of the European Union approved regulation on applying IFRS for all companies‚ so Silic‚ a France-based investment property company‚ also faces the substantial impact on their accounting standards‚ needs to choose between historical-cost or fair-value accounting to report its investment properties according to IAS 40. Silic was a major and historical player on the French commercial-property
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Introduction Benton Textiles have developed a new process‚ which can apply a special finish to certain types of textiles. The subsequent analysis will discuss two of the key questions that every company faces when it introduces a new product: Which market should the company target? And how should the new product be priced? The alternatives for Benton is either to enter the higher priced market‚ to the lower priced market‚ or to combine the two and first enter the higher priced market and then move
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