These groups and individuals are called stakeholders those directly affected by the practices of an organization. Ethics and social responsibility are very important to be consider either it is personal life planning or planning for success of business. When companies develop strategic plans‚ they must consider what role ethics will play and how social responsibility will affect the plan keeping stakeholders need at the forefront. If businesses and individuals make willful effort to behave ethically
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se | 2010 | | BUSI 640 Leigh Healey Alex Lutz November 30th | [Marriott Case Study] | Professor Triantis | 1. What is the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for Marriott Corporation based on its target debt-equity ratio? Use a 34% tax rate. WACC = [(E/D+E) * Re] + [(D/D+E) * Rd(1-Tc)] Be = [1 + (1-Tc) d/e]*Ba 1.11 = [1+(1-.34}.41/.59]*Ba Ba = .76098 Using statistics from page four of the assigned case study: Risk Free rate (Rf) = 8.72 % (10yr rate)
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Marriott’s three divisions and for the firm as a whole. Marriott should find the hurdle rates for its divisions separately because its divisions operate in separate industries and therefore face different business risks. Marriott’s vice president says that increasing the hurdle rate by 1% would decrease the present value of project inflows by 1%. Since finding appropriate hurdle rates is critical to accepting or rejecting projects‚ Marriott should be precise by calculating and using division-specific
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Ethics and Strategic Planning Ian Planes MGT/498 January 30‚ 2013 Becka‚ Johnson Ethics and Strategic Planning Ethics and social responsibility play an important role in developing a strategic plan. Standards and principles regarding business ethics within an organization must be determined to properly define its direction to make its decisions to pursue their strategy. To accomplish this‚ an organization must realize they do have responsibilities. They have responsibilities not only to themselves
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Strategic Planning Wissam AlHussaini‚ PhD ! Outline ! What is Strategy? ! Strategic Planning Process ! Environment Analysis ! Setting Objectives Thinking Strategically: The Three Big Strategic Questions 1. What’s the organization’s present situation? 2. Where does the organization need to go from here? 2. Markets to be in ! Stakeholders’ needs and groups to serve ! Direction to head 3. How should it get there? ! An organization’s answer to will we get there? how is its strategy
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Prominence‚ Adversity‚ the Plan Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts‚ as one of the most distinguished brands in the hotel industry worldwide‚ has earned its reputation with its dedication to high quality service. In spite of enjoying some appreciable profits and rapid development of the scale of the company in the early 1990s‚ there was no common core value among all the hotels. It was this concern that led to the introduction of the "Shangri-La 2000" strategic plan. In this essay‚ the changes in the company
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FBE 421 Marriott Corporation ------------------------------------------------- Introduction Founded in 1927‚ Marriott Corporation has become one of the leading food service companies in the United States. As of 1987‚ Marriott recorded a profit of $233 million on sales of $6.5 billion and retained a high sales growth rate of 24%. Marriott runs on three major lines of business lodging‚ contract services‚ and restaurants. Lodging division which includes 361 hotels generated 41% of 1987 sales
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Marriott Rooms Forecasting Executive Summary In the case of the Hamilton hotel‚ Snow needs to make a decision as to if 60 additional rooms reservations should be accepted which could lead to overbooking (Weatherford & Bodily‚1990). It is a problem of capacity utilization that is being faced in this particular case where revenue maximization is aimed while minimizing customer dissatisfaction. In this report the case is put forward and various methods have been chosen to come to a sensible conclusion
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a. What business is Marriott in? Are the four components of Marriott’s financial strategy consistent with its growth objective? b. How does Marriott use its estimate of its cost of capital? Does this make sense? c. What is the weighted average cost of capital for Marriott Corporation? • What risk-free rate and risk premium did you use to calculate the cost of equity? • How did you measure Marriott’s cost of debt? 1. Are the four components of Marriott ’s financial strategy consistent
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Federal Express‚ which is now called FedEx‚ is one of the nation’s courier firm that offers overnight courier‚ heavy freight‚ ground‚ logistics‚ and document copying services. FedEx strategic planning defines how and what the organization expects to do to reach its vision. The mission statement‚ operating strategy and values of FedEx are going to be the discussion focus of this section of the paper. The mission statement of FedEx is to provide access to a "growing global market place through a
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