it gained popularity for music sharing‚ it attracted the attention of the music industry accusing Napster for breaching plaintiff rights and copyright violations which saw them facing law suits from artists like Dr. Dre ‚ music companies like EMI‚ BMG. In July 2001‚ after an intense battle with the recording companies Napster had to shut down its operation in order to comply with the injunction issued by the US Court of Appeals. It paid millions of dollars in law suits and liquidated its assets under
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company garnered rave reviews from respected Wall Street Analysts‚ Bezos clearly understood that this was not the moment to dwell on the past. In the fast moving world of the Internet‚ he and his firm continued to face many formidable challenges. This case describes how Bezos has managed to build a rapidly growing retail business on the Internet and the challenges he and his top management currently face as other industry giants such as Barnes & Noble‚ and Bertelsman‚ the German Publishing Conglomerate
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__________________________ HBS Professor Thomas R. Piper and writer Jeffrey DeVolder prepared this case solely as a basis for cla ss discussion and not as an endorsement‚ a source of primary data‚ or an illustration of effective or ine ffective management. The authors thank John A. Schweig of W. W. Grainger‚ Inc. (HBS MBA 1983)‚ and Mary A. Noonan of Arrow Electronics (HBS MBA 1990)‚ for their valuable contributions to the development of this case. This case‚ though based on real events
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Financial Management 2013 Case 1: Laurinburg Precision Engineering HBS 9-193-098 1. The face value of each bond is $1000‚ to be paid in 5 years time. The effective rate of the bonds is 10% p/a‚ as dictated by the investor’s willingness to pay. The face value needs to be discounted to its present value‚ according to this effective rate (5% semi-annually for 10 6 month periods). The market value (present value) of each $1000 bond is $613.91. 2. Period | Date | Principal Due | Next Period Interest
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Case 2: Health Development Corporation HBS 9-200-049 1. Did the purchase of the Lexington Club real estate increase the value of Heatlh Development Corporation (HDC)? Calculate the NPV of the purchase. • Use pre-tax cashflows. • Assume the revenues of the Lexington Club grow by 5% per year. • Assume that the appropriate discount rate for real estate cashflows was 10%. • Assume a 20 year life of the facility. (Hint: In calculating the NPV of the decision to buy the real estate‚ you only
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"My children never realised their father was a hero." It took Tata by surprise‚ as he expected to encounter anger and sorrow. The above anecdote is narrated by Rohit Deshpande‚ professor at Harvard Business School (HBS)‚ who was interviewing Tata for a five-part video case study on crisis management at the Taj during 26/11. Deshpande started to teach the course at Harvard from October 2010. His students‚ especially non-Indians‚ were transfixed by the topic and were incredulous why employees
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Session 2 Case: Laura Ashley Holdings plc: That Battle for Survival Study Questions: 1. Assess Laura Ashley’s recent performance. How serious is the company’s present predicament? 2. Identify reasons for poor and deteriorating financial performance. 3. What strategy recommendations would you offer to Mr. Cheong that would best serve the interests of Laura Ashley’s shareholders? Session 3 Case: Global Wine War 2009: New World versus Old Study
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Marketing Management‚ 4th edition (ISBN #: 978-0-13-602660-0 or 0-13-602660-5). Required Harvard Business School (HBS) Cases: • The following cases can be purchased at the Campus Bookstore or the Harvard Business School Online Publishing (http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/case_studies.jsp). o Mattel and the Toy Recall (A) (#9B08M010‚ Ivey School Case) o Heineken N.V.: Global Branding and Advertising (#9-596-015) o Strategic Inflection: TiVo in 2005 (#9-706-421)
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Abstract Electronic Arts or better known yet as (EA) is known as one of the biggest gaming development companies still around today. Electronic Arts is the organization in which develops markets and distributes the so called EA games. The man behind Electronic Arts Inc is Trip Hawkins who hired designers and programmers to develop EA games as early as 1982. During that time‚ the company developed only home computing games that laid the foundation of today’s EA games which include the Battlefield
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It’s A Hard Mob Wive For Us Since the 1940s when the first black and white television was invented and only the wealthy‚ affluent families could afford it – the act of watching a pre-programmed show such as Father Knows Best or even a live showing of the Channel Four News became a phenomenon. Society has evolved around the television. Imagine having a family room where the couches do not face the TV‚ or having to read the newspaper every morning instead of flicking on the nice flat screen and watching
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