The British-Australian mining company Rio Tinto and two of its former executives have been charged for hiding losses and inflating the value of African coal assets. The company bought the Mozambique assets in 2011 for 3.7 billion and sold it later for only 50 million. Despite these charges‚ the company won’t back down and will fight the charges. This comes at a time where coal energy is colliding with new forms of energy and many companies are starting to fight to stay relevant and keep coal as the
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Case Study #1 - Sunspot‚ Inc 1. What are the most likely benefits of forming strategic supply alliances with Sunspot’s key suppliers? A strategic alliance between Sunspot and its key suppliers will result in a relationship based on trust. It’s key for both parties to develop and manage this “institutional” trust or the alliance will fail. Trust will facilitate communication which will lead to less errors and higher quality‚ faster development times‚ and lower costs. Synergies created by
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Solution to Supplemental Case: Ranger Supply Company This case is simply intended to force students to think about reasons for or against international business. As with most cases‚ there are no perfect solutions‚ but there are some general conclusionsthat can be drawn.a.Some of the more obvious factors to consider are:1.Competition. There are similar distributors in Canada‚ whereas Eastern Europe may not havean organized system for the distribution of office supplies. Yet‚ some European firms (likethe
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AEGISPEOPLESUPPORT CASE STUDY AT Aegispeoplesupport‚ corporate social responsibility defines everything that they stand for and do. They actively implement programs for improvement of society and the environment. Every year‚ they better their contribution to the environmental and social causes both financially and with respect to corporate social responsibility. They support social causes around the globe and encourage its employees to contribute towards the communities they live in. They support
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OBJECTIVES 3 IV. SCENARIOS 3 Question 1 5 Question 2 7 Question 3 10 Question 4 12 Question 5 13 Question 6 14 Question 7 16 V. CONCLUSION 18 Bibliography 19 INTRODUCTION The case is about manufacturing company‚ Hospital Supply‚ Inc.‚ that produced hydraulic hoists for the local market. The hydraulic hoist is useful to the hospital for moving bedridden patients. Most of sales made to local hospitals. Significant to activity of sales and production
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Southeastern University In this case‚ we are focusing on Southeastern University‚ one of the largest universities in the state‚ and its purchasing department. There was recently an issue with a purchase made‚ because the transaction not gone through the correct procedures a purchase must follow. The purchasing process begins with a purchase request being submitted to the purchasing department‚ where a clerk stamps and checks it. The policy was to solicit at least two written quotations for purchases
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Rio Bravo IV - operations management case study Executive Summary: Packard Electric Corp. is a peaker in position and signal product distribution in the United States. They supposition they could do the same thing outside of the US so they opened a plant in Juarez‚ Mexico to manufacture harnesses for US and other foreign customers. At the beginning‚ however their results were really paltry. Probably‚ the about important issue was that none of the management had the necessary go across needed
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DATE : May 13‚ 2013 SUBJECT : Analysis of Marine Supply Financial Ratios and Suggestions for Improvements Thank you for allowing us the opportunity to work with your company. As requested‚ we have evaluated your company’s performance based on the existing financial results. Our analysis is based on financial ratios calculated from your provided financial statements. a. Liquidity According to the current ratio‚ it indicates that the company is still doing well in comparison to the industry average
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and goods is that‚ the services requires more professional knowledge and experience to evaluate its performance. The goods has a fixed standard which can be measured. Services as a people’s business is more complicated to analyze‚ particularly for supply department. Furthermore‚ for evaluating and improving the final purpose which is increasing the customer value‚ letting different function departments to do their experts will also make it easy to get feedback and improve their effective and efficiency
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Grande encompasses that of a young‚ virginal girl but flaunts her assets like an experienced‚ sexual woman. I think that it is because of females that attempt to accomplish both a virginal and whore-like paradigm that influence men to expect females to adhere to these expectations. These expectations are unrealistic as it is impossible for women to be saintly and a sexy‚ “bad girl” at the same time. This image that Grande portrays creates the Western obsession
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