1) What are the roles of comparative and competitive advantages in Hyundai’s success? Illustrate your answer by providing specific examples of natural and acquired advantages that Hyundai employs to succeed in the global car industry. ANS: Demand in South Korea is too low to sustain indigenous automakers like HMC and Kia‚ thus exporting is a necessity to attain the economies of scale needed to remain competitive in a tough industry. South Korea enjoys various national competitive advantages
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business: Cartwright Lumber Company Nature of the business: Retail distribution of lumber products Overview The Cartwright Lumber Company had been found in 1994 as a partnership by Mark Cartwright and his brother-in-law Henry Stark. Later in 2001‚ Mr. Cartwright bought out Stark’s shares and incorporated the business. Now‚ Mr. Cartwright is a sole owner and president of the company. The business is located in the Pacific Northwest region and does the retail distribution of lumber products in the
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Moving Headquaters Overseas Question 1. What are the drawbacks and benefits associated with moving business unit and corporate HQ to another country? According to the textbook‚ benefits associated with moving business unit and corporate HQ to another country must significantly outweigh thier drawbacks. At the business unit level‚ it is likely to be efficiency gains by moving business unit HQ closer to the center of gravity of the business. It makes more effective interaction between the different
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FACTS: OL‚ an LLC‚ is reimbursing their mechanics for the cost of their training. If the mechanics have to travel‚ OL will reimburse their meals and lodging. OL will also reimburse the mechanics for any purchased tools necessary for the business. Each employee is eligible for a maximum reimbursement of $2‚000 and must submit documentation to OL to receive the reimbursement. ISSUES: Are OL new polices on the reimbursement of tools and training deductible as equipment and training expenses under
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Case 1: Clarkson Lumber As a financial consultant to Clarkson Lumber‚ I analyzed four potential scenarios with relatively high probabilities of occurring given Clarkson Lumber’s current situation. The four scenarios analyzed are continued rapid growth of Clarkson Lumber with Suburban Bank as the creditor‚ slowed growth with Suburban Bank as the creditor‚ continued rapid growth with Northrup Bank as the creditor‚ and controlled rapid growth with Northrup bank as the creditor. Clarkson Lumber’s
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Case Study One – Zatswho LLC. 1. What tips can you offer Cooper and Schwinoff about family members who start and run a business together? What pitfalls would you warn them to avoid? Some tips that I would offer Cooper and Schwinoff would be to listen to one another and compromise on what you may or may not think is the right thing to do. A tip that I would offer Schwinoff would be that even though Trisha is your mother stand up for what you think is the right thing to do with the company but
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the forestry land. softwood lumber is the one of the biggest export products of Canada valuing at 8.6% of total exports. Canadian softwood lumber is sold to united stated below the production cost. Due to market distortions in Canada encourage the government to overproduction of lumber‚ uneconomic decisions by lumber producers‚ and dumping of lumber in us. The US markets were bombarded with profit loss due to the cheap lumber from Canada; therefore the start of lumber dispute began. There has been
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hult international business school | Clarkson Lumber Company | | | Adeeb Valiulla | 1/3/2011 | | Summary Experiencing rapid growth in business and generating fairly good profits‚ Mr. Keith Clarkson the sole owner and president of The Clarkson Lumber Company still faced a shortage of cash and found it necessary to increase his borrowings‚ he was therefore on a look-out to start off a new banking relationship where he could not only borrow a larger loan amount but also one that
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Clarkson Lumber Case FIN 4422-002 Spencer Ely September 22‚ 2011 Clarkson Lumber appears at first glance to be a healthy‚ successful company with increasing sales and rapid growth. Clarkson Lumber has relatively low operating cost‚ allowing them to give competitive prices‚ which results in their increasing sales. However‚ even with continual increases in sales‚ Clarkson Lumber has a constant cash flow problem that can be credited to several factors with the result of looking for additional
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Kilkenny Lumber Case Study Assignment Part I 1. Productivity of the crew would be below standard. I believe for the productivity to be below standard because they were sent to this crew because of their lack of work. Just because they have been assigned to another crew‚ does not mean that they will begin to work well right away. When compared to the Equity Theory‚ I believe there to be positive inequity for the three men assigned to the new group. For being assigned to the group due
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