Submitted by - James Sykes & Chandran V.E IntroDELAYS AT LOGAN AIRPORT Boston’s Logan airport is one of the busiest airports in the United States. In the late 90s‚ despite three runways in service‚ the airport was increasingly concerned about rising landing delays. The airport began to strategize on how to reduce the rising delay times and costs associated with them. Out of the few strategies that they developed‚ we believe that peak-period pricing will be the most effective way in reducing delay
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Case study number 1 Question 1: Which company orientation (product‚ production‚ selling or market) can best describe McDonald’s activities? What makes you think so? In the case of McDonald’s activities the company orientation is selling and I will explain why. In first I’ll explain what is the selling orientation‚ and in second why it’s the McDonald orientation. If we look at the definition in the book “Marketing Management” the selling philosophy or orientation is “a focus on making sales
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Harvard Business Case: Pillsbury Cookie Challenge 1. What are the challenges that Ivan Guillen faces in his role as the marketing manager of the RBG business? What is the team currently doing to support the RBG cookies segment? Who is the team currently targeting? Mr. Guillen is facing the problem regarding the growth of volume in the segment of the Refrigerated Baked Goods (RBG). His main concern was that as the refrigerated cookie sector is the most profitable and in contrast to market volume
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of Laumann Construction From: Denise Hensen (Representative of Laumann constructions) Date: 7 October 2012 Subject: Agreements for the expansion of Konopnicka Airport Introduction On 3 October‚ the negotiations about the PPP took place. The PAA and the Ministry of Infrastructure have made the decision to expand Konopnicka Airport. Laumann will be responsible for the construction‚ which will be financed by the Weber-Merkel Bank. The total cost of the expansion cannot exceed €120 million. During
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MCDONALDS CASE PART B I. INTRODUCTION McDonalds is a very famous fast-food restaurant with more than 31‚000 worldwide branches. Its main dishes are hamburger and fries. McDonalds has limited choice of food but in turn it serves its patrons fast. However‚ the restaurant is about 41 years olds now and consequently it becomes penetrated and mature‚ it has more competitions and tough challenges. In Operation management term‚ McDonalds has highly qualified operating system‚ its kitchen and its management
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Questions for Week 7 Case: * Fashion Channel Read the Fashion Channel case and answer the questions below. Please note the following additional guidance: The discussion of alternatives indicates that for the first scenario‚ an investment in programming would be required but the case does not indicate how much that might cost. You can either assume that this spending was flat or you can assume an increase. In either case‚ specify your assumption and base your findings on that assumption
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Michael Barrett Michael Bacci Michael Ploch Bhargavi Bheemanapalli FIN 6416 Case 1: Valuing Coca Cola stock Executive Summary The case that has been presented is a valuation of Coca Cola‚ its current stock price‚ and whether Coca Cola has the potential to be a good recommendation for clients to add to their portfolios. The analysis herein takes into account historical Coca Cola financial information‚ and uses the information to ascertain whether or not Coca Cola‚ at its current stock
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Case #2 – Volkswagen: IT Budget Volkswagen AG is the parent company to Volkswagen of America (VWoA) and therefore sets the budget from which IT projects are funded by. Managing which IT projects are given funds and when is a very important business decision because only projects linked to the corporations’ strategy and goals should be given any support. An important process in judging which projects are funded is by prioritizing them into specific categories; however all the more important “Stay
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1. | 2003 | 2004 | 2006 | Breakeven Sales | $8‚005‚000 | $7‚890‚000 | $11‚117‚000 | Breakeven Sales Ticket | 4‚981 | 5‚177 | 7‚158 | Margin of Safety | $578‚000 | $212‚000 | -$406‚000 | The breakeven point in the number of ticket sales from 2003 to 2004 increased by 196 tickets. The breakeven point in the number of ticket sales from 2003 to 2006 increased by 2‚177 tickets The breakeven point in the number of ticket sales from 2004 to 2006 increased by 1‚981 tickets The breakeven
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Harvard Business Case Analysis How would you categorize Kearney’s commitment to the company? How might you change or maintain this commitment? Eugene Kearney is very committed to Old Colony Associates (OCA). Kearney is committed in that he has been with the company for 13 years‚ loves going to work every day and aspires to maintain a higher level management position. However‚ he clearly needs to make improvements to his current level of commitment to OCA. Kearney needs to realize that commitment
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