Case Study – Blake Electronics Decision Making Model 1) Defining the Problem: Should Steve contract any of the marketing companies that will assess the favorability of introducing the products to the market? If he will contract any of the two companies‚ which one would he choose (MAI or I&K)? Should the new products be even introduced to the market? 2) Developing a Model: MAI’s proposal directly gives Steve the conditional probabilities he needs - probability of a successful venture given
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1. Electronic Timing should be extremely careful in deciding to use the extra cash flow to pay a special one-time dividend because this could lead to the stock decreasing in price. If the company decides to do this I believe the value of Electronic Timing would decrease. I believe this because there will be a transfer of value between the company and its shareholders. 2. Jessica’s proposal would help with the growth of the company. By deciding “not” to use the extra cash to pay dividends Electronic
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Group 2 Module 2 Blake Electronics Case Study (1) Does Steve need additional information from Iverstine and Walker Our group consensus is that additional information is not needed. We believe that all quantitative information needed to form a decision tree is available in the problem (2) What would you recommend? In progress… Subject to change based on final tree. Our group recommends that Steve moves forward with the production of the Master Control Center residential product. We recommend
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Arrow Electronics Case Study Arrow Electronics is the fastest growing distributors of electronic components in North America and the world’s largest overall at the time of this study. Arrow’s capital structure policy is heavy on dependence on debt financing‚ which is sharp in contrast to its main rival‚ Avnet. CEO Stephen Kauffman is struggling with the implementation of an accurate and reliable way to evaluate his employees. Kauffman implemented an EPR (Employee Performance Review) system
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Group 2 Samsung Electronics Executive Summary Recent quality related issues have put Samsung Electronics‚ one of the world’s largest technology companies at risk. These quality concerns‚ spiked through recent recalls and external complaints‚ have generated a flow of bad news coming to the desk of quality director Kevin Sarni. The issues most commonly found within the complaints related to display issues‚ customer service support‚ faulty electric components‚ audio‚ and safety. Of the main
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Case 9‐2 Innovative Company Descriptions ACC invested capital Debt Preferred stock Capital Common stock structure Gale & Yeaton’s shares Common shareholders’ equity of IEC Income statement Income after income taxes but before interest costs and tax savings Interest expense Tax savings Net income after income taxes‚ interest costs and tax savings. Preferred dividend expense Net income after preferred dividends Common shareholders’ equity Return on common shareholders’ equity Proposal 1 Formula
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Case Summary In 1975 Pioneer maintained relationships with approximately 3‚500 franchise retail outlets‚ the retail outlets benefited from a 5% Pioneer investment in local advertising‚ and attractive gross margins and credit terms. However‚ that same year‚ Pioneer and three competitors were forced to sign consent decrees with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission promising not to engage in alleged anti-fair competition practices – namely requiring distributors to use suggested list prices and punishing
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Kim Electronics (Kimtron). Product. Kim Electronics (Kimtron) is the wholly owned Korean affiliate of Fairtel‚ a U.S. electronic component manufacturer. Fairtel manufactures customized integrated circuits (Ics) for use in computers ‚ automobiles‚ and robots. Kimtron has been Fairtel’s distribution affiliate in Korea‚ but consideration is now being given to making Kimtron a manufacturing affiliate. Kimtron’s products would be sold primarily in Korea‚ and all sales would be denominated in Korean
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Case Name: Fauquier Gas Company I. Major Facts: In this case study presented by Hood (n.d.)‚ Fauquier Gas Company is up against a timeline to supply a new construction project in the works where agricultural land was being developed into residential and commercial use. Fauquier Gas Company is looking for supplier to help with building of 3 ½ miles of new gas pipe that will go online by beginning of September. The manager of supply management Mr. Murphy is having trouble getting any purchasing
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Electronic waste in Guiyu‚ China Introduction of the town: Guiyu is a town located in the Guangdong Province of southeast China. . The population consists of 200‚000 local residents and 200‚000 migrant workers living in the town. The town’s economy purely relied on agriculture before the late 80s. But after that‚ Guiyu has highly involved in e-waste recycling business. Not only myriads of farmers have abandoned agriculture and joined the recycling‚ but also migrant workers in other provinces
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