Graduate School of Business Administration University Version 2.0 of Virginia UVA-F-1353 Version 2.0 Nike‚ Inc.: Cost of Capital On July 5‚ 2001‚ Kimi Ford‚ a portfolio manager at NorthPoint Group‚ a mutual fund management firm‚ pored over analyst write-ups of Nike‚ Inc.‚ the athletic shoe manufacturer. Nike’s share price had declined significantly from the start of the year. Kimi was considering buying some shares for the fund she managed‚ the NorthPoint Large-Cap Fund‚ which invested mostly in
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Supply Chain: Nike‚ Inc. Mariapaz D. Ruiz University of Phoenix MBA 550 Supply Chain: Nike‚ Inc. The supply chain plays a critical role in the transformation and global growth of a company especially in the current economic situation. The global supply chain is the transformation flow linking the raw materials‚ parts suppliers‚ manufacturers‚ and service support operations into products and services and distributing these products locally for consumers (Chase
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Xin Liang BA 486 10/24/2014 Nike’s CRM Nike manufactures shoes also athletic clothing such as shorts‚ shirts‚ jackets and under armors; wristbands‚ bag packs‚ jerseys and socks are also sold by Nike (Rao‚ 2012). The Nike slogan‚ Just Do It‚ have placed it’s brand in the mind of consumers‚ through the recognition of it’s products and promotional tools used worldwide (Rao‚ 2012). Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is focusing
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Nike Ethical Dilemmas Ethical Audit Report Table of Contents Nike Ethical Dilemmas 1 Ethical Audit Report 1 Executive summary 2 Purpose of the Report 2 A Snapshot of Nike’s Business Ethics 3 Ethical Dilemma’s Facing Nike 4 Nike’s Best Ethical Practices 7 Conclusion 8 References 9 Executive summary As globalization increases the scope of the Multinational Companies (MNCs) to penetrate the market both for cost effective
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Nike Case Study By Mark Colasurdo‚ Andrew McMullen‚ Jonathan Burd‚ Gaoxing Feng‚ and Jie Leng Background: Kimi Ford‚ a portfolio manager at North Point Group‚ is looking into the profitability of investing in the stocks of Nike for her fund that she manages. She is supposed to base her decision the company’s data which was disclosed in the 2001 fiscal reports. While Nike management had addressed several issues that are causing the decrease in market sales and stock price‚ management presented
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moral to how they look at the matter. In this paper‚ the ethical issues we will be covering will be on Nike child labour. NIKE inc‚ a well-known brand in the market that specialize in sporting goods has been reported that the manufacturer engaged‚ were using children as labour from as young as 10 year of age. These children were for the making of sporting equipments such as soccer ball‚ shoes and clothes in Pakistan and Cambodia. Using children as labour were seemed morally wrong for many people
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A Case Analysis of Nike: The Sweatshop Debate Mindi Merritt Class Fall 2014 Instructor’s Name Introduction Nike is a hugely successful global industry that designs and markets shoes and apparel (Coakley & Kates‚ 2013). Most of Nike’s products are subcontracted and manufactured overseas in countries such as China‚ India‚ Vietnam‚ Indonesia and Korea. For decades‚ Nike has been embroiled in controversy where critics claim its products are manufactured in foreign factories with substandard
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months. In 2000‚ it earned a return of 20.7% while the S&P 500 fell 10.1%. At June 2001‚ NorthPoint Group’s return stood at 6.4% while the S&P 500 stood at -7.3%. Nike‚ Inc. is an American multinational corporation which is founded on January 25‚ 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight and officially became Nike‚ Inc. on May 30‚ 1978. The company is engaged in the design‚ development and worldwide marketing and selling of footwear‚ apparel‚ equipment‚ accessories and services
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NIKE CASE STUDY ANALYSIS Q: What characteristics about Nike contributed to their troubles with i2 becoming nothing more than a speed bump? 1. i2’s predictive demand application and its supply chain planner used different business rules and stored data in different formats‚ making it difficult to integrate the two applications. The i2 software needed to be so heavily customized to operate with Nike’s legacy systems that it took as much as a minute for a single entry to be recorded
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CASE 14 NIKE‚ INC.: COST OF CAPITAL Cost of capital denotes the opportunity cost of using capital for a particular investment as oppose to the alternative investment which has similar systematic risk. It is extremely important since it is used in evaluating whether a project is feasible or not in the net present value (NPV) analysis‚ or in assessing the value of an asset. WACC (weighted average cost of capital) is the proportional average of each category of capital inside a firm (common
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