CASE 3: APPLICHEM 1. Compare the performance of Applichem’s 4 Release-ease plants. Competitive environment Applichem is a company that offers high product customization. Indeed‚ they provide solutions to specific customer problems‚ and then refine the product and process to arrive at a product with broader application. They created a product that was widely used: Release-ease. This product enabled the customers to clean easily the mold at the end of the process‚ which was a bottleneck
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MBA 240 Individual Case #2 11/2/2011 Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty I. Executive Summary The Dove brand has been revitalized with the success of their “Real Beauty” campaign. Dove’s main goals are to continue to improve their brand image and gain market share. The key challenges facing top management to accomplish these goals are; building on the momentum the ‘Real Beauty’ campaign has generated‚ differentiating from their competition and modernizing their brand image. I am recommending
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Marketing Research Case – HDTV Question 1: How can you assess market potential for the HDTV? Attempt a calculation of an optimistic and pessimistic forecast. * The market potential is defined as those in the population who can possibly buy a product. In this case the market potential would be the total number of households. The total number of households in 1990 is 93‚979‚592. This is all the households who do not have a TV current will buy a HDTV and any household that has a TV will replace
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TATA ACE : CASE STUDY Q1 Sketch the Indian and Global scenario of Light Commercial Vehicle Industry? Ans.: In the light commercial vehicle industry‚ India was dominated by three wheelers and four wheeled vehicles with carrying capacity of 0.5 to 1.5 tons. Vehicles like passenger cars and SUVs are also being used a mode of transport to carry goods from one place to another. Rural areas are still dominated by conventional mode of transport like bullock carts‚ bicycle rikshaws‚ horse driven carriages
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CASE: Data Tech‚ Inc. Data Tech‚ Inc. is a small but growing company started by Jeff Styles. Data Tech is a business that transfers hard copies of documents‚ such as invoices‚ bills‚ or mailing lists‚ onto CDs. As more companies move to a paperless environment‚ placing data on CDs is the wave of the future. Jeff had started the company in his two-car garage three years earlier by purchasing the necessary software and signing two large corporations as his first customers. Now he was about
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Apple Case Apple Inc. recently told some customers they would have to pay $1.99 to download a software enhancement that enables a wireless-networking technology already included on some of its computers. Apple’s reason: Accounting rules forced it to make customers foot the bill for the enhancement. That’s an excuse‚ counter accounting experts and officials at the body that sets accounting rules‚ known as generally accepted accounting principles‚ or GAAP‚ for public and private companies. Rather
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Godrej and Boyce: Chotukool Case study Question and Answers Q 1. Assess the business case for Chotukool. What are the critical success factors for their product to succeed? Answer: Godrej and Boyce’s product-Chotukool is an example of Disruptive Innovation. Disruptive innovation‚ a term of art coined by Clayton Christensen‚ describes a process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves up market‚ eventually
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HBR: “Introducing New Coke Case”: Discussion Questions: Directions: You are to write a report on the HBR Coke Case. The report consists of 10 questions. Each question is worth 10 points. Please write in a Q & A format and not essay. Questions: 1. What is the case about? Write a ½ page executive summary of the case which includes at least 3 consumer behavior theories that are evident in this case. Ans: In the late 80s‚ Pepsi market share was catching up with Coca-cola at
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INTRODUCTION Dell Computers was started by Michael Dell in 1984. Dell’s primary differentiator was its business model. It sold primarily on the B2C market and custom built personal computers on demand. Therefore‚ it had very low inventory by comparison to its competitors. As a result of this‚ Dell was able to operate quite efficiently and profitably in its niche market. By the late 1980’s – early 1990’s‚ Dell noticed that its market share was only 1% of total and that industry amalgamations
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Being that Eskimo Pie is a small operation with fairly thin margins‚ they would not qualify for an A or AA bond rating. Thus‚ I am assuming that any bonds they have issued have a BB rating. The long-term bond yield for BB bonds is 11.44%. The case does not provide any information regarding the required return on equity. However‚ by imputing the data from Exhibit 8c into a spreadsheet we can calculate Beta for comparable companies. I calculate the Beta for Ben & Jerry’s to be 1.5994. I calculate
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