Case Studies C-1 INTRODUCTION Preparing an effective case analysis C-3 CASE 1 CASE 2 CASE 3 CASE 4 CASE 5 CASE 6 CASE 7 ABB in China‚ 1998 C-16 Ansett Airlines and Air New Zealand: A flight to oblivion? C-31 BP–Mobil and the restructuring of the oil refining industry C-44 Compaq in crisis C-67 Gillette and the men’s wet-shaving market C-76 Incat Tasmania’s race for international success: Blue Riband strategies C-95 Kiwi Travel International Airlines Ltd C-105 CASE 8 Beefing up the beefless
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Recruitment and Selection Case Studies Queensland Corrective Services Good Practice Areas: • Marketing to attract the right candidate • Simplifying and streamlining recruitment and application processes What were your recruitment and selection challenges and objectives? From 2004 to 2005 Queensland Corrective Services (QCS) had been reviewing and refining its strategies for managing offenders to improve community safety and crime prevention through humane containment‚ supervision
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2 New Product Development 2.1 Introduction New product development is a multi-stage process. Many different models with a varying number of stages have been proposed in the literature. We briefly review these models and propose a new model that is better suited to decision making regarding product performance and specification. In this chapter we start with a discussion of products and product life cycle in order to set the background for the later sections of the chapter. The outline of the
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RISK & INSURANCE MANAGEMENT CASE – 1 a. With regard to the fuel oil prices risk: (1) Discuss how Juanita could use futures contracts to hedge the price risk. Futures contracts are one of the most common derivatives used to hedge the price risk. A futures contract is as an arrangement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a particular time in the future for a particular price. The main reason that companies or corporations use future contracts is to offset their risk exposures
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CASE 14‚ PAGE 46 LGA INDUSTRIES: EMPLOYING UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS QUESTION: What factors appear to be affecting LGA Industries’ staffing practices? RESPONSE: The factors that appear to be affecting LGA Industries’ staffing practices are as follows: Limited workers available due to the company was located in a small town Most of the staff was immigrant workers and they did not have the appropriate documents to work. The employment application process was not handle properly The company did
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Arnold Schwarzenegger This case focuses on the rise of Arnold Schwarzenegger to the governor’s seat of California and integrates a variety of topics such as goal setting‚ leadership‚ power and influence‚ and personality. After presenting a brief background on Schwarzenegger‚ the case proceeds to describe the actions that Schwarzenegger took to become governor. The case offers students an opportunity to observe how setting difficult goals for oneself and being committed to those goals results in
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1. Why was Dakota’s existing pricing system inadequate for its current operating environment? Profits only when clients placed large orders for cartons Real drop of profits if many clients place small orders Wrong cost determination for individual customers Wrong cost determination for new services provided by DOP (to small charges for the desktop delivery‚ then the actual cost of it) 2. Develop an activity-bases cost system for Dakota Office Products (DOP) based on Year 2000 data. Calculate
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While the United States has the most expensive health care system‚ it is fairly inaccessible and the quality of care falls short when compared to many healthcare systems in the world. Statistics obtained from The World Bank’s 2013 database show that the U.S. has the highest health care costs of any industrialized nation. In a report released by The Common Wealth the U.S. consistently underperformed relative to other industrialized countries on most dimensions of performance indicators (Davis‚ Stremikis
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Management Practice CA1 Handup first week after Easter Typed‚ 3-5 pages please CA: Case study: Brownloaf MacTaggart: control and power in a management consultancy Background Brownloaf MacTaggart (BM) is the engineering consulting division of Watkins International‚ a large international firm of chartered accountants and management consultants. Watkins was established as a chartered accountancy practice in 1893. Following decades of moderate growth it entered the management consultancy market
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CASE STUDY : 7-3 QUAlLITY METAL SERVCE CENTER Q1. Is the capital investment proposal described in Exhibit 3 an attractive one for Quality Metal Service Center? Yes‚ the purpose of a company is to maximum the profit‚ and as Elizabeth Barret suggested‚it can help company to make more profit. So the capital investment proposal described in Exhibit 3 is an attractive on for QMSC. Investment in machine $540‚000 10 years cash inflow $286‚000 PV of cash inflow $39‚182 Payback period = 4.5 years NPV=
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