MARRIOTT RESTRUCTURING A Written Analysis of a Case by Lloyd Ty Brief Synopsis of Data On October 5‚ 1992‚ Marriott Corporation announced their plan to restructure the company by splitting itself into two separate companies. The first of the two companies‚ Marriott International (MI)‚ would manage and franchise over 700 hotels and motels. In addition‚ it would manage food and facilities for several thousand businesses‚ schools‚ retirement homes and health-care providers. On the other hand‚ Host
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hurdle rates is critical to accepting or rejecting projects‚ Marriott should be precise by calculating and using division-specific rates on division-specific projects. We used the WACC method so that our hurdle rates would reflect appropriate cost of debt and cost of equity‚ as explained in our subsequent analysis. We found Marriott’s hurdle rates: 8.646% for hotels‚ 10.94% for restaurants‚ 11.094% for contracts‚ and 9.688% for the entire company. Marriott should use the division-specific hurdle rates
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Assignment | Cost of Capital‚ Capital Budgeting and Financial Planning | Chapter(s) | 9‚ 10‚ 12 | Group Name | | Student Name(s) | | Date | | Instructions: HW Assignments will be uploaded to Kean Blackboard and must be accessed from there. You must work in groups where assigned (or independently if not assigned to groups) on homework assignments. Points are noted against each question. You are required to submit Home Work assignments electronically on Kean Blackboard using MS-Office
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Marriot Case Study AF 325 12/12/11 1. The divisional hurdle rates at Marriott have a significant impact on the firm’s financial and operating strategies. For every 1% increase in the hurdle rate there would be a 1% decrease in the net present value of projects inflows. It makes sense to institute these divisional hurdle rates in each of the company’s three divisions since it will assure that projects taken on will have a positive net present value. It is essential for Marriott to make
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Edition Cases 1. Capital Mortgage Insurance Corporation (A) © The McGraw−Hill Companies‚ 2007 Case 1 Capital Mortgage Insurance Corporation (A) Frank Randall hung up the telephone‚ leaned across his desk‚ and fixed a cold stare at Jim Dolan. OK‚ Jim. They’ve agreed to a meeting. We’ve got three days to resolve this thing. The question is‚ what approach should we take? How do we get them to accept our offer? Randall‚ president of Capital Mortgage Insurance Corporation (CMI)‚ had called
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Harvard Business School 9-298-101 Rev. March 18‚ 1998 Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital In April 1988‚ Dan Cohrs‚ vice president of project finance at the Marriott Corporation‚ was preparing his annual recommendations for the hurdle rates at each of the firm ’s three divisions. Investment projects at Marriott were selected by discounting the appropriate cash flows by the appropriate hurdle rate for each division. In 1987‚ Marriott ’s sales grew by 24% and its return on equity stood
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The Cost of Capital LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter‚ students should be able to: • Explain what is meant by a firm’s weighted average cost of capital. • Define and calculate the component costs of debt and preferred stock. • Explain why retained earnings are not free and use three approaches to estimate the component cost of retained earnings. • Briefly explain why the cost of new equity is higher than the cost of retained earnings‚ calculate the cost of new
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Case 1: Capital Mortgage Insurance Corporation Background Capital Mortgage Insurance Corporation (CMI) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Northwest Equipment Corporation (NEC). NEC expects Frank Randall‚ company president; to build CMI into a larger more diversified financial service company. To do this Randall wants to acquire Corporate Transfer Services (CTS) a small relocation services company‚ as part of a plan for diversification. Informal discussions took place with the principal stockholders
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assistant‚ Joanna Cohen‚ to estimate Nike’s cost of capital‚ which‚ per Cohen’s analysis‚ came to 8.4%. Background The cost of capital is the minimum return that a company should make on an investment or the minimum return necessary for investors to cover their cost. Two main factors of the cost of capital are the cost of debt and the cost of equity. The capital used for funding a business should earn returns for the investors who risk their capital. For an investment to be worthwhile
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Strategic Planning: Marriott and Hyatt Lori Scholl University of Maryland‚ University College Business Management 364‚ Section 4015 May 24‚ 2012 I. Mission and Vision Statements Mission Statement Organizing the direction of a business or corporation is essential because it can increase profitability and provide broad guidelines for how to accomplish the organization goals. This is where a mission statement becomes useful. A mission statement should be short‚ concise‚ and to the point. Employees
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