Atherley Case Key events John Atherley is the owner of Atherley Furniture Company located near Orillia‚ Ontario. In recent years the progression of his chair division has had mediocre results and profits have been declining steadily each year. From the years 1995 to 1998 Atherley Furniture’s total profits have suffered a 24% loss within that time span. In the company’s chair division there are three models of chairs that have quite the reputation the “Caledonia”‚ “Atherley”‚ and lastly the “Parkdale”
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Case Summary: Carol Burgess is a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier and a part-time trainee for a major west coast city. Her service area makes up a large portion of the state and she has trained approximately 318 new letter carriers in the past five years. The training program Burgess follows goes on for three days (one day for orientation and two days for skill training). Skills training ranges includes things like sorting the mail‚ reading the maps‚ planning the route‚ and many other necessary
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Case Study: Case of the Pricing Predicament This case study represents loyalty and integrity issue beyond fixed or variable prices. Scott‚ the salesman at Standard Machines has made a bid based upon the fix price established by his company at $429K. In this case‚ the company of Occidental Aerospace is taking bid from companies to earn the rights to their contract. Since Standard Machines was a loyal long time standing customer‚ Joan from Occidental Aerospace noticed that Scott’s bid was
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Case Study � PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �1� Malfunction Junction Case Study Dale A. Miller University of Phoenix CJA/473 October 02‚ 2010 Gary Vernon Introduction A case study is a form of qualitative explanatory research that is used to look at individuals‚ a small group of participants‚ or a group as a whole. Research on case studies allows people to understand complex issues that can extend experience and add strength to previous research. Case studies articulate detailed analysis of a minimal
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How to Solve a Case Study A case study is a collection of facts and data based on a real or hypothetical business situation. The goal of a case study is to enhance your ability to solve business problems‚ using a logical framework. The issues in a case are generally not unique to a specific person‚ firm‚ or industry‚ and they often deal with more than one retail strategy element. Sometimes‚ the material presented in a case may be in conflict. For example‚ two managers may disagree about a strategy
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Writing a case study report Josephine Hook‚ Research & Learning Coordinator Josephine.Hook@monash.edu (Source: www.office.microsoft.com) Outline What is a case study? Approaching a case study assignment The structure of a case study report Key elements of a case study report What is a case? A case might be: A real / realistic situation A specific business problem A case is a scenario that gives you the opportunity to identify problems and recommend a course of action in a business
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Case Study PAN EUROPA FOODS S.A C. Opitz and R.F. Bruner By Your Name Table of Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Executive Summary: The report is to provide the shareholders with the firm’s capital budget for the new year‚ 1993. 11 projects will be examined and discussed. Projects will be chosen based on the most needed and urgent projects and based on
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Catherine C. Enriquez November 3‚ 2014 H-1L Integrated Aquaculture Project: A Case Study in the Laguna Lake Development Authority Based on the case study‚ the problems cited by the author are divided into four categories namely Production‚ Marketing‚ Finance and Organization. For Production‚ inadequate water supply due to breakdown of pumps is the main problem of the case study which also causes improper pond drainage system. The poor feed production for the fishes was the problem for Marketing
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Case Study on Carl Robins Carolyn Joel COMM/215 July 28‚ 2014 Dr. Yolanda Orizando-Harding Case Study on Carl Robins BACKGROUND INTRODUCTION This case study pertains to an employee by the name of Carl Robins. He has been employed by ABC‚ Inc as a Campus Recruiter for six months. In early April‚ during Mr. Robins first six months of employment; he successfully recruited 15 new hires. The new trainees were to report to Monica Carrolls‚ the Operations Supervisor‚ as they would be working
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CASE STUDY ANALYSIS OF CORPORATE DECISIONMAKING FOR CELL PHONE DEPLOYMENT Roberts‚ G. Keith1 keith_roberts@redlands.edu Pick‚ James B. james_pick@redlands.edu ABSTRACT The wireless cell phone market has experienced phenomenal growth over the last decade. This paper studies the factors that five companies considered important in deciding to deploy wireless cell phone devices‚ the extent of current use of wireless cell phones‚ the extent of existing utilization and/or planning for web-enabled cell
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