Kim Fuller In the early fall of 2002‚ Kim Fuller was employed as a district sales engineer for a large chemical firm. During a routine discussion with plant chemists‚ Fuller learned that the company had developed a use for the recycled material‚ in pulverized form‚ made from plastic soda pop bottles. Because the state had mandatory deposits all beverage bottles. Fuller realized that a ready supply of this material was available. All that was needed was an organization to tap that bottle supply‚
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HBS 9-501-050 Customer Value Measurement at Nortel Networks ’’ Optical Networks Division Nortel Networks was a global player in telephony‚ data and wireless and wireline Internet solutions. Maureen Conroy and Nathalie Sauve‚ members of the Customer Value Management (CVM) Team at Nortel Networks Optical Networks‚ must recommend one of three customer value measurement methodologies to ON President Greg Mumford. In December of 1997‚ ON took a “right-angle turn” ’’ innovative cultural‚ operational
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refered to the primary factors in the other words while mativational factors are those factors which need fulfillness of the hygiene factors so that they can exist Using two motivation theories of your choice. Explain a) The similarities and b) The difference between the two theories. Similarities In the lower levels of the Maslows hierarchy of needs‚ money is biggest motivator. However money is a short term method of motivating people. This is similar to what the Herzberg two- factor model
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because they don’t want to lose its employee just “high pay level” of competitor companies offering to the employee. MFS want to leave its employee not for pay level but other things such as team work cultures‚ individual development circumstance in MFS‚ and fitness between firm’s value and its employees. They assume that the employee who want to get high pay level could have possibility to turnover MFS when other company offer high pay level compared with MFS. Considering this kind of system‚ factor
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Midland Resources 1. How are Mortensen’s estimates of Midland’s costs of capital used? How‚ if at all‚ should these anticipated uses affect the calculations? The cost of capital is the minimum acceptable rate of return for new investments in the corporation. Estimates of Midland’s cost of capital are used in many analysis within Midland‚ including asset appraisal for both capital budgeting and financial accounting‚ performance assessments‚ M&A proposals‚ and stock repurchase decisions. These
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Business Strategy Apple Case 09 March 2012 “All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer‚ But what none can see is the strategy Out of which victory is evolved.” Sun Tzu (1) 1 Executive summary 2 2 Introduction 3 3 Apple INC.: An overview 3 4 Strategy Analysis 4 4.1 Branch of economic activity 4 4.2 The 8 key concepts 4 4.2.1 Competitive advantage 4 4.2.2 Long term 4 4.2.3 Organization 4 4.2.4 Scope 5 4.2.5 Environment
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correlation between S&P500 returns and HG Corp Bonds (recent history is implicitly more weighted)‚ s.d. of the S&P500 and s.d. of the HG Corp Bonds (Exhibit 4) Same 2 Risk-Free Rate Estimated to be equal to 10y US Gov Interest Rate as of April 1988 (Table B) Same 3 Current Leverage Using financial statements (Exhibit 1)‚ we estimated the market value of debt and divided by market value of assets. Market value of debt is estimated to be equal to its book value. Market value of assets is equal to market
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three divisions – lodging‚ contract services and restaurants – with dissimilar operations. The company uses three separate hurdle rates for the three divisions to value the proposed projects. It is believed that this strategy is more appropriate that using a single firm-wide discount rate because the operations of the three divisions differ drastically. However‚ the company has to ensure that the company uses an appropriate discount rate for each division. Therefore‚ we calculate the appropriate cost
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Bond Law Review Volume 10 | Issue 2 Article 6 12-1-1998 Holding Company Liability for Debts of its Subsidiaries: Corporate Governance Implications Damien Murphy Follow this and additional works at: http://epublications.bond.edu.au/blr Recommended Citation Murphy‚ Damien (1998) "Holding Company Liability for Debts of its Subsidiaries: Corporate Governance Implications‚" Bond Law Review: Vol. 10: Iss. 2‚ Article 6. Available at: http://epublications.bond.edu.au/blr/vol10/iss2/6 This
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Ameritrade Case Writeup questions (do all this as if it is June 1997‚ date of the case): 1. What is Ameritrade’s capital structure? Because there is no preferred stock or long term debt‚ Ameritrade is a 100% equity firm. 2. What is Ameritrade’s cost of equity capital? CAPM= (.0643)+ (1.8264)(.188-.0559)=.2902=29.02% Return on Market=(899.470-757.12)/757.12=.188 Beta calculation on Attached Excel Spreadsheet. 3. What is Ameritrade’s cost of debt capital? Because there is
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