Weeks before Christmas 1993‚ retailer Merry-Go-Round Enterprises Inc. was in trouble. Its stores catering to teenagers were eerily empty‚ thanks to an ill-timed bet on bell-bottom trousers and oversized hip-hop clothes. As losses piled up and suppliers threatened to bolt‚ the company turned to a newly hired law firm to find turnaround experts who could save it. The lawyers’ recommendation: Bring in consultants from Ernst & Young. To worried creditors‚ the solution for Merry-Go-Round was obvious:
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In this recent Ninth Circuit case the issues centered on compatibility between video games. Accolade copied a Sega video game to obtain compatibility with the Sega Genesis game system. Accolade decompiled the machine readable object code from a Sega game in order to achieve compatibility with the Sega system for games that it wished to independently create and market. Accolade then created a manual containing only the functional specifications of this decompiled code and not any of Sega’s actual
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Case Analysis: RJM Enterprises‚ Inc. – Romancing the Vine Brief Background The case is introduced in late 1998 with Ron McManisat a crossroads of sorts regarding his family owned business. Currently‚ McManisenjoys moderate success as a mid-sized‚ Central Valley grower of grapes who sells his product to valley based wineries. His particular plot of land affords the added benefit of being able to produce high quality grapes in an area that is largely thought to produce grapes found in cheaper
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HBS Case Report: Shenzhen Development Bank Contents Executive Summary This report provides an analysis and evaluation of Newbridge’s proposed investment into Shenzhen Development Bank. Methods of analysis include an assessment of the bank’s financial performance‚ examining factors such as its asset quality‚ earning capability and capital adequacy. It also provides an in-depth analysis into the appropriateness of the price Newbridge must pay for the
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Davenport’s article “Putting the Enterprise into the Enterprise System” discusses the pros and cons of Enterprise Systems. These systems gather data—manufacturing‚ sales‚ logistics‚ financial‚ etc.‚ and then pull this data into a central warehouse that helps companies make informed business decisions. However‚ the Article’s main theme is‚ that while these can be powerful tools for an organization‚ the adoption of a cookie cutter solution may be counterproductive. The part that most interested me
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HBS Case: AQUALISA QUARTZ – SIMPLY A BETTER SHOWER. 1. (A) After spending 5.8 million developing the Quartz‚ the product is definitely worth the investment because (1) The Quartz is the product that answer directly to the customer needs and wants. Most consumers need and want the product that can fix the problems – poor pressure‚ fluctuations in pressure and tolerance in using. (2) Choosing a shower brand depends mostly on which brand plumbers are familiar to so with new technology of the
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FINS5530 HBS Case Assignment Semester 2‚ 2013 Instructor: Lixiong Guo Readings: 1. Note on Bank Loans. 2. US Bank of Washington case. Assignment: Please prepare a Credit Proposal Memo similar to the one shown in Exhibit 1 of “Note on Bank Loans”. Given the limited information you have from the case‚ you are not expected to include all components of Exhibit 1. The following is a suggested structure of your report: Purpose of the credit extension o Keep this part short
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HBS 9-501-050 Customer Value Measurement at Nortel Networks ’’ Optical Networks Division Nortel Networks was a global player in telephony‚ data and wireless and wireline Internet solutions. Maureen Conroy and Nathalie Sauve‚ members of the Customer Value Management (CVM) Team at Nortel Networks Optical Networks‚ must recommend one of three customer value measurement methodologies to ON President Greg Mumford. In December of 1997‚ ON took a “right-angle turn” ’’ innovative cultural‚ operational
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Publications gave us Marvel Comics #1. Emerging between the usual romance‚ western and crime magazines that lined the racks‚ Marvel Comics was an alternate breed. Its cover demonstrated a gigantic orange figure‚ The Human Torch‚ melting bullets on his blazing chest. Inside‚ The Torch was joined by Namor the Sub-Mariner‚ an oceanic superhero from the Antarctic. The cover price was just ten cents. Over the past 70-odd years‚ Marvel Entertainment has evolved from that first issue of Marvel Comics into one
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Introduction Tennessee Sunshine Inc. is a mid-sized Tennessee company that specializes in creating exotic sauces from imported fruits and vegetables. The CEO Bill Stooksbury saw the pressing need to institute an enterprise risk management program in the company and has asked the firm’s financial analyst to prepare a report to brief the firm’s executives on this topic. In this case study‚ the concepts of enterprise risk management‚ the various components of an ERM framework‚ the reasons risk manage
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