4-Hour Case As a new hire of Silver Ships‚ you have been asked to prepare an industry and company analysis for Mr. Mike McCarty‚ owner of Silver Ships. Your report should also provide specific recommendations with brilliant justifications based on your industry and competitive analysis. Rev. Confirming Pages g Silver Ships’ Strategy in the Military and Workboat Industry CASE 14 David L. Turnipseed University of South Alabama s Mike McCarty walked through the Silver Ships shipyard
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Recommendations for Silver Ships to gain a competitive advantage in the Military and Workboat Industry 1. Focus on the Gulf of Mexico a. As stated in Exhibit 4‚ Silver Ships has had quite a few buyers focused around the Gulf of Mexico. b. Alabama is in the middle of the US shoreline for the Gulf of Mexico. c. Silver Ships can use the International Workboat Show stated in Exhibit 3 to draw more customers from all around the Gulf. i. They have already have had previous
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Additional Accounting Guidance Recoverability Test and Calculation of Impairment Loss Alternative Analysis Summary and Recommendations Appendix Operates one cruise ship that is financed with nonrecourse debt. Decline of 30% in cash flow due to presence of pirates. Financial position as of December 31‚ 2010 ($ in millions) • • • • • Cruise Ship Estimated Fair Value Net Book Value Net Carrying Value Nonrecourse Debt Net Working Capital (Directly Attributable) Remaining Useful Life of Asset $3.0 $4.6
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Introduction After years as a teacher and principal frustrated by the inability to effectively track school and student progress‚ Stacey Boyd and HBS classmate Mandy Lee founded Project Achieve‚ an information management system for schools. In a quickly changing industry with fast-moving competitors‚ Project Achieve aimed to use leading-edge technology to reduce the workload of teachers and administrators while simultaneously keeping parents and students aware of performance. In an attempt to
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8076 e-mail: ascherbina@ucdavis.edu We will learn how to use financial information to value firms‚ projects‚ and securities in a wide variety of industries‚ including real estate. The course will be based entirely on the Harvard Business School case studies and will focus on learning techniques of financial analysis‚ selecting an appropriate valuation model‚ analyzing the quality of financial data‚ finding an appropriate discount rate‚ and forecasting financial variables and cash flows. Corporate
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Case Number 1: Valuing Coca Cola Stock. Executive Summary The Coca Cola Company‚ founded in 1886 in Atlanta‚ Georgia‚ is the premier soft drink producer globally. Besides manufacturing the famous Coca Cola‚ the company is responsible for bringing a variety of different products to the global market such as Fanta‚ Sprite‚ PowerAde‚ Dasani and Nestea. The Coca Cola Company is divided into two main sectors: the North American Business Sector and the International Business Sector. After selling
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RESEARCH VESSEL ------------------------------------------------- NOAAS Ronald H Brown. A research vessel (RV or R/V) is a ship designed and equipped to carry out research at sea. Research vessels carry out a number of roles. Some of these roles can be combined into a single vessel‚ others require a dedicated vessel. Due to the demanding nature of the work‚ research vessels are often constructed around an icebreaker hull‚ allowing them to operate in polar waters. DREDGER The Geopotes
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a question often contemplated by philosophers through philosophical puzzles of change. A popular version of the puzzle includes a man named Theseus and his ship. A ship in which has undergone a gradual change where all of the lumber was replaced by the new cargo of lumber it carried. The question then remains‚ is this still the original ship of Theseus? Philosopher John Locke attempts to answer this question by stating that identity is a subjective matter rather than objective. He begins by separating
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It ’s Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy Capt. D. Michael Abrashoff Warner Books‚ 2002 Author ’s Page Captain D. Michael Abrashoff is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis‚ MD‚ and was a military assistant to the former secretary of defense‚ Dr. William J. Perry. He served as Commander of 310 men and women aboard the USS Benfold in the Pacific Fleet. Abrashoff left the Navy in 2001 and became the founder and CEO of Grassroots Leadership‚ Inc
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Valuing is knowing what social goods are relevant‚ good‚ and valuable. For example‚ tap dancers tap for fun not for money and social standings or social goods. Therefore‚ if you do not value the routes of tap dancing or the reasons why you are tap dancing
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