Company: In 1998‚ Lasik Vision Corporation was the first laser vision correction provider in North America to offer “affordable‚ value-pricing” and to promote it with direct-to-consumer advertising. At the time‚ this was a new approach for a medical services company and allowed it to capitalize on a larger mass appeal for the procedure. Dr. Wallerstein was the National Medical Director of LASIK Vision Corporation and oversaw medical standardization
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Fluor Corporation (NYSE: LFR) - a publically traded company on the New York Stock exchange‚ founded in 1912. The company offers many services as a part of its five segments business: oil & gas‚ industrial & infrastructure‚ government‚ global services‚ and power subsidiaries. Fluor Corporation provides engineering‚ procurement‚ construction‚ fabrication and modularization‚ commissioning and maintenance‚ and project management services worldwide. The business operates in the United States and Canada
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Stryker Corporation Case Study Justin Noakes Executive Summary In 2003‚ the Stryker Corporation is contemplating a change in their sourcing strategy for printed circuit boards (PCBs)‚ which are used in many of their instruments. Recently‚ Stryker’s suppliers of PCBs have become less reliable. They want to eliminate this problem by building a PCB production facility and produce the boards in house. In other words‚ they want to in-source the production of PCBs. This would give the company
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suppliers’ financial situation‚ their estimated per unit total cost‚ evaluation as well as a sourcing risk management plan for the supplier selected. Terms of reference To prepare sourcing strategies for key purchased items for Pacific Systems Corporation (PSC)‚ starting with selecting the most appropriate supplier for potentially the next few years Recommendations After carefully considering the estimated per unit total cost‚ SureTech did come out with the lowest cost at $162.5 per unit for
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Case Study: Project Selection and Change Management In a Kerzner (2003) case study‚ Corwin Corporation is an internationally known rubber products manufacturer with a reputation for quality. Corwin’s management is conservative and favors expanding markets for existing product over new product development. The company receives frequent requests to manufacture specialty products. A strict management policy and a risk adverse culture results in a 90% no bid on specialty product inquiries. However
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Project Genesis | Atlantic Corporation | ACE Consulting Group | “A service we provide with excellence“ | ------------------------------------------------- Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to assess the viability of the acquisition of Royal Paper Corporation’s (Royal) Monticello mill and box plants by Atlantic Corporation (Atlantic). This will be conducted through the evaluation and analysis of whether this project is profitable
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Case Writeups : Sealed Air Corporation 1) What has been happening in this market? How has Sealed Air (SA) been doing? To what do you attribute SA’s success? Sealed Air had achieved 25% annual growth in net sales and net earnings from 1971 to 1980. The company has been keeping a technical leadership position in the market. During 10 years‚ the company built on its development of the first-cell‚ lightweight cushioning material‚ introduced the first foam-in-place packaging system‚ and engineered the
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The IMAX Corporation was coined from Multiscreen Corporation. Muiltiscreen Corporation dealt with combination of many small projectors to project one large image. This method of creating large movies had many difficulties. It led to the original founders of IMAX to embark on a mission to find a simpler way to project large cinemas. Upon the discovery that the image from a single [projector is far more clear than those of combined projectors they changed their name from multi screen to IMAX. IMAX
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1.1 Introduction Polaroid Corporation was founded in 1937 by Edwin Land who dropped out of Harvard College in order to focus on the research on the polarization of light. He developed the first instant camera in 1948. From that time onwards the instant camera was the main product of the company. 90% of the company’s efforts were tied up to this product over the next decades. Within four decades‚ sales of the firm grew from $142000 to over $1 billion. Significant break- through of Polaroid included:
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CapitalBanc Corporation case 2.4 1- Management assertion is a set of information that the management provided it to the auditor‚ so the auditor will make sure there are no material misstatements. According to AU 326‚ paragraph 3‚ management assertions can be either explicit or implicit and can be classified according to three categories: Assertions about transactions‚ assertions about accounts balance‚ and assertions about presentation and disclosure. The auditor has to keep in mind that the
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