2013 FM421 – Applied Corporate Finance Case Assignments • • • • You will find an Excel file with exhibits from the case on Moodle. Assignments MUST be submitted before class on Moodle. One per group is enough Please include your candidate numbers (not names) on your assignment In class‚ you will have 10 minutes to present your solution‚ followed by a class discussion. You may want to prepare slides (max. 7) to support your presentation. “American Home Products” State clearly all assumptions that
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Harvard Case Study Analysis What is an ANALYSIS? analysis Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural analy·ses \- s z\ Etymology: New Latin‚ from Greek‚ from analyein to dissolve (from ana- + lyein to loosen‚ dissolve) + -sis -1 : separation or breaking up of a whole into its fundamental elements or component parts 2 a : a detailed examination of anything complex (as a novel‚ an organization‚ a race) made in order to understand its nature or to determine its essential features : a thorough study
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and this reputation could be harmed because of the similar product names if the Bond-A-Matic launch is not successful. Advertising concerns are also an issue. The first concern is whether or not the price should be included in the advertising of the dispenser. Further‚ as Bond-A-Matic is a new product with a different customer set‚ there is a question to how much emphasis will actually be placed on the Loctite name. Again‚ if the product is unsuccessful‚ the overall Loctite brand name will be damaged
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and enhance their corporation. They are led to focus on a strategy of maximizing merchandizing and television revenues and in some cases stock values‚ on an international basis. This business model is not unique as Manchester United and Disney’s Lion King have already adopted it. Manchester United was of course main inspiration because it is master of this new globalization and commercialization model with million supporters worldwide. They have developed subbrands and products targeted to
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Case Synopses Walmart Stores‚ Inc. 09/12/13 Which strategic management concepts are useful in the analysis of this case? 1. SWOT Analysis Walmart’s internal strengths and weaknesses and environmental opportunities and threads are: Strengths Highly motivated and committed employees (Associates) Top management involved on daily operations (street managers) Latitude price setting (allows more profitability in different locations) Technology oriented (Satellite system and logistic
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Market Soft Case study Situation: MarketSoft founded by Greg Erman‚ in 1999 had designed an innovative software product that addressed the problem of managing sales leads across the “extended enterprise”. The product eLeads was strategically developed upon extensive research to address three critical areas many of the fortune 1000 companies in the modern times are facing: 1.Leads get lost 2. No qualifying systems for the leads exist and 3.The leads are never tracked. Problems: 1. The entire
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College-educated Environmentally conscious Early adopter of new products and services The opportunity: Market hole in short-term‚ on-demand‚ private car access. ELEVATOR PITCH (5) Who we are: Robin Chase Antje Danielson CEO and cofounder VP of environmental affairs and strategy and cofounder • MBA at MIT and substantial business experience • House-mother • Ph.D. geochemist who supervised undergraduate energ y policy research at Harvard • House-mother Our mission: Our goal is to provide reliable
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Corporations were drawn to IDEO because the company had a proven system of developing the best products by using their key ingredients for innovative strategy. In this case‚ I will analyze the founder’s main issues‚ development of the Palm V‚ Handspring‚ and my own managerial perspective of the process. Founder’s Main Issues The main issues of the case are in the hands of Dennis Boyle. He is faced with an interesting dilemma. Should Boyle: Sacrifice the steps in IDEO’s development process
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ICE-FILI CASE 1 - How attractive is the Russian ice cream industry in 2002? The main data about the attractiveness of this market are: - The consumption is about 6 times lower than in France‚ Canada‚ US because of a different mode of consumption. Indeed‚ Russians consider Ice Cream as an “on the go” snack and not as a dessert they can have at home. - producing in Russia implies a certain adaptability of recipes since traditional Russian ice creams contain less fat and are made with natural
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activities. Products pass all activities of the chain in order and at each activity the product gains some value. The chain of activities gives the products more added value than the sum of added values of all activities. It is important not to mix the concept of the value chain‚ with the costs occurring throughout the activities. A diamond cutter can be used as an example of the difference. The cutting activity may have a low cost‚ but the activity adds too much of the value of the end product‚ since
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