Robin Chase Antje Danielson CEO and cofounder VP of environmental affairs and strategy and cofounder • MBA at MIT and substantial business experience • House-mother • Ph.D. geochemist who supervised undergraduate energ y policy research at Harvard • House-mother Our mission: Our goal is to provide reliable and convenient access to on-demand transportation‚ complementary to other means of transport. ELEVATOR PITCH (6) Financial plan: EBIT for Boston $1‚053‚68 Pay Back
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Ameritrade – case study Executive Summary Ameritrade provides online brokerage services and operates an Internet-based financial management services business. 90% of the company’s revenues are from the provision of discount brokerage services. The company’s objective is to improve its competitive position in deep-discount brokerage. In order to achieve this objective‚ the company must grow its customer base‚ requiring an investment of $100 million to upgrade its technological capabilities as well
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Harvard Case Review and Analysis 1. Jeff Immelt’s strategies for GE were solid in a theoretical sense. The company should have been delivering above-average returns and seen all the positives that he preached about it. The reason this did not happen and they faced some humiliation in 2008 until 2010 were due to GE Capital. Immelt thought that they were diversified enough to survive the economic downturn. However this proved to be wrong. In an interview for BusinessWeek magazine David Magee
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difficult. Plumbers tended to make purchases in trade shops‚ however only 40% of all trade shops in the U.K. carried the Aqualisa brand. Even if plumbers did want to install a Quartz shower‚ the majority of stores did not carry the brand. Aqualisa needs to push their brand into more stores in order to increase volume. In addition to the small volume in trade shows‚ the sales force of Aqualisa does an inadequate job of promoting the Quartz. The sales force spends about 90% of their
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Part One Wal-Mart opened its first store in 1962 in Arkansas. Since the opening of the first store they have been one of the largest retail store. Much of their success is owned to the founder‚ Sam Walton. Walton believed in low prices and great service. He had great success with this vision over the span of his career. Sam died at the age of 74 in 1992. Little did he know that in the future his visions of providing great service and low prices‚ would come at a cost. The cost being several discrimination
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WAL-MART CASE STUDY ANALYSIS SWOT STRENGTH ▪ Information Technology : They have a strong information technology system as implemented EDI‚ Information system‚ UPC at POS‚ Satellite system‚ Pick to light system‚ Vendor management inventory system which was not implemented by any other competitor. ▪ Supply Chain (Strong). They had a long term relationship with the supplier as there was no non sense negotiator as they eliminated the manufacture representative from negotiation with the suppliers
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STUDENT: | Louis-Claude ROUX | PROFESSOR: | Philippe René Gillet | CASE: Virgin Mobile USA “Pricing for the first time” | DATE: 20/02/2012CLASS: MBS-Entrepreneuriat | PART I) ANSWERS BASED ON MY “GUT FEELINGS” Virgin Mobile targets the 14 to 24-year-olds market. The case lays out three pricing options. Which option would you choose and why? I would go for option number two for several reasons. The first one is that I think offer number one is not sufficiently different from the rest
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Are multination corporations such as Wal-Mart helpful or harmful to the global economy? To a lesser extent‚ multinational corporation such as Wal-Mart are harmful to the global economy. Multinational corporation is a corporation or company that is registered in more than one country or that has operations in two or more countries. Global economy generally refers to the economy‚ which is based on economies of all of the world’s countries’ national economies. Also‚ global economy can be seen as the
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reach. This could establish the brand globally and maintain supremacy of this brand with continuing to maximize profits and enhance their corporation. They are led to focus on a strategy of maximizing merchandizing and television revenues and in some cases stock values‚ on an international basis. This business model is not unique as Manchester United and Disney’s Lion King have already adopted it. Manchester United was of course main inspiration because it is master of this new globalization and commercialization
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1. PepsiAmericas In 2000 PepsiAmericas merged with Whitman Corp and became the second largest Pepsi bottler of the United States. On the 1st of March 2010 PepsiAmericas became a division of PepsiCo’s‚ Pepsi Beverages Company. Today PepsiCo makes $60 billion in revenues and has 285‚000 employees. PepsiAmericas chose to implement a PeopleSoft ERP solution to increase the profitability of the company. The core ERP components helped PepsiAmericas to improve its business by establishing a complete
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