Ryan Waldschmidt Boston Chicken‚ Inc. 4/20/09 1. The unique business strategies of Boston Chicken acts as a differentiator to the market to obtain a competitive advantage. Boston Chicken’s business strategies are the key to achieving and sustaining this competitive advantage. Boston Chicken was going to utilize several different aspects to achieve their overall business strategy. First‚ they used collaboration with high quality area developers. Instead of franchising to large number of
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BOSTON CHICKEN‚ INC* At the end of 1996‚ Boston Chicken was one of the hottest names on Wall Street. Operating in the highly competitive restaurant industry‚ the chain had grown from 18 stores in 1991 to over 1‚000 stores in 1996 and in its short history had raised over $1 billion in public offerings. EPS had grown from just $0.06 in 1993 to $1.01 in 1996‚ representing an annual growth rate of well over 100%. At the end of 1996‚ Boston Chicken traded around $40‚ representing a price-earnings multiple
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Assess Boston Chicken¡¯s business strategy. What are its critical success factors and risks? Boston Chicken wanted to be a home meal replacement. Its main strategy includes (1) focus on franchising to larger regional developers who will open new stores in the region; (2) focus on home cook taste food and keen on introducing new varieties of food choices; (3) rapid expand to open new stores; (4) keen on operation and process improvement. Such a strategy made the business expand fast in term
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Boston Chicken Case 1. - Assess Boston Chicken’s business strategy. What are its critical success factors and risks? Boston Chicken’s business strategy comes from a different franchising structure in which BC‚ instead of selling store franchises to multiple franchisees‚ sells franchises to 22 regional area developers across the 60 largest U.S. metropolitan markets. This 22 are developers are committed to open 50 - 100 other stores. Therefore‚ its strategy is focused in rapid growth and reaching
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BOSTON CHICKEN‚ INC.: CASE STUDY AND ANALYSIS 1. Assess Boston Chicken’s business strategy. What are its critical success factors and risks? Boston Chicken Inc (abbreviate as BCI as follow). is chain of fast food restaurants‚ and also in the business of take-out home cooked food. Boston Chicken restaurants mainly sell rotisserie-cooked chicken‚ fresh vegetables‚ salads and other side dishes available for take-out. Because Boston Chicken is fast food restaurants chain‚ its
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Individual Case Analysis Boston Chicken‚ Inc. MSAF670 – MSAF Capstone Brian Wendel Boston Chicken was founded in 1989 by Scott Beck to operate and franchise food service stores with the firm’s concept to combine fresh‚ flavorful‚ and appealing meals associated with traditional home cooking with a high level of convenience and value (Palepu‚ 2013). The firm was basically trying to create the atmosphere for a customer of getting a home cooked meal at a reasonable price and in very little time
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Accounting Research Vol. 49 No. 3 June 2011 Printed in U.S.A. Earnings Quality Based on Corporate Investment Decisions FENG LI∗ Received 25 July 2007; accepted 20 September 2010 ABSTRACT In this paper‚ I examine a new approach for measuring earnings quality‚ defined as the closeness of reported earnings to “permanent earnings‚” based on firm decisions with regard to capital and labor investments. Specifically‚ I measure earnings quality as the contemporaneous association between changes in the
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Boston Chicken Inc. Case Study 10/22/08 (All amounts listed in thousands) 1. Boston Chicken implemented a franchising strategy that differed from most other franchising companies at the time. Boston Chicken focused its expansion through franchising the company through large regional developers rather than selling store franchises to a large number of small franchisees. In that‚ an established network of 22 regional franchises that targeted their operations in the 60 largest U.S. metropolitan
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Overview of Quality of Earnings - Some Guiding Principles/Framework The issue of earnings quality arises because of the cost/benefit trade off between cash accounting and accrual accounting. For our purposes‚ we want reported earnings to do two things: 1) to accurately represent current operating performance 2) to aid in accurately forecasting future operating performance These requirements for high-quality earnings mean that the reported earnings amounts for a particular period
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Boston Chicken Case Boston Chicken Inc is chain of fast food restaurants‚ and also in the business of take-out home cooked food. The main business strategy of Boston Chicken is differentiation. To achieve their overall business strategy‚ Boston Chicken implemented four strategies. First‚ Boston Chicken focused on franchising to larger regional developers after a careful screening process. Second‚ Boston Chicken diversified their product offering by keeping introducing new varieties of
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