“Ocean Carriers” case Assume that Ocean Carriers uses a 9% discount rate. 1) Do you expect daily spot hire rates to increase or decrease next year? (5 points) 2) What factors drive daily hire rates? (5 points) 3) How would you characterize the long-term prospects of the capesize dry bulk industry? (10 points) 4) Should Ms Linn purchase the $39M capsize? Make 2 different assumptions. First‚ assume that Ocean Carriers is a US firm subject to 35% taxation. Second‚ assume that
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Harvard Business School 9-290-021 Rev. August 7‚ 1995 RJR Nabisco - 1990 In the spring of 1990‚ the firm of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) was in negotiation with lenders regarding the refinancing of a $1.2 billion bridge loan due to be repaid in full by February‚ 1991. The bridge loan was part of the $24 billion financing of KKR’s leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco in early 1989. Originally‚ KKR had planned to retire the loan with the proceeds of a $1.25 billion public offering of
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Products Case Study: Wilkerson Company Lessons learned from this topic and case study: 1. Managers need to be able to estimate the costs of different responsibility centres and products to assist with monitoring the performance of different departments and also to assist with decision making about product pricing‚ profitability of individual products‚ assist with decisions when making changes to product lines and various other managerial requirements such as controlling costs and valuing inventory
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PART “A” 1) Pick an organization with which you are familiar. it can be an organization in which you have worked or one that you interact as a customer or one you have searched on the web. For this organization answer the following questions: a) Write a brief summary of the organization´s operations (industry‚ products‚ country‚ etc) Inditex is one of the world’s largest fashion retailers‚ welcoming shoppers at its eight store formats -Zara‚ Pull & Bear‚ Massimo Dutti‚ Bershka‚ Stradivarius‚ Oysho
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Consulting Case Book The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Management Consulting Group Casebook Supplement Supplement of Additional Cases and Guides for the 2000-2001 School Year The University of Chicago GSB Management Consulting Group 2000-2001 (1995‚ 1996‚ 1997‚ 1998‚ 1999‚ 2000 by the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Management Consulting Group‚ Chicago‚ IL. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced
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Vegas. Due to the proximity of El Paso to Ft. Worth‚ they are only plant to ship to Ft. Worth. The costs associated with each shipment are described in detail in Appendix 2.2A. From these distribution centers‚ meters are shipped to one of nine customer zones. The Ft. Worth center services Dallas‚ San Antonio‚ Wichita and Kansas City‚ the Santa Fe center services Denver‚ Salt Lake City‚ and Phoenix‚ and the Las Vegas center ships to Los Angeles and San Diego. The purpose of this report to compare the
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Commercial and International trade law 1. Introduction Carter plc. agreed to carry Scrutton plc.’s goods on board Carter’s ship from Portsmouth to Santander in Spain. And then sold it to Todd‚ but in the voyage‚ there are accidents‚ the goods were lost and damaged. The problems arose in this case involve international maritime transport and sales of goods‚ while Carter.plc‚(the carrier) Scrtton.plc(the shipper) and Todd(the buyer) are companies in British or Spain‚ and each country is the
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Titanic Case Analysis Estate of Hans Jensen vs. The White Star Line Facts: The White Star Line was owner of the Titanic‚ which was the largest and most luxurious ship in the world at the time. On April 10th‚ 1912‚ the Titanic left from Southampton‚ England with 2‚227 passengers aboard bound for New York City. On April 14th‚ the ship struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland and sank about 2 ½ hours later. Passengers‚ mostly women and children‚ were loaded into lifeboats‚ however only 705
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Continuous Replenishment Program & Vendor Managed Inventory Table of Contents CRP and VMI: Focus on Efficient Replenishment of Products 3 VMI Background and Objectives 4 A CRP and VMI Model 5 The Technology Backbone of CRP and VMI 6 How Movex Supports VMI 7 Benefits 8 Drawbacks 9 Conclusions: The Future of VMI 10 2 CRP and VMI: Focus on Efficient Replenishment of Products In response to the current use of supply chain buzzwords‚ this document
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The interesting events from CoBot’s standpoint are those‚ which were not expected or least expected to happen‚ from the CoBot’s past task execution data. We define these interesting events as anomalies-- deviation from the expected data. The expected value for an event can be computed from the respective log table‚ we create by analyzing the bag files. Using the expected data we identify the instances which are anomalies‚ and verbalize them comparing it with a past instance or the expected data for
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