paper or electronic submission(Web page) 2. Business Paper Preferences ‚ Due 10-11-2012(Web Page) 3. Computer Lab Hour(if you know Microsoft Access‚ You may not attend) Date Time : Oct 10 and 11 : 08:00 -09:30 PM Location: Baskin Engineering Building Room 109 Instructor: TAs. * Due to space limit: you should arrange Date and time(All class are same) Class Objectives • What is Competitive Advantages • Porter’s competitive forces model • Companies develop competitive strategies using information
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Credit card‚ one of the greatest inventions in last century‚ is widely used in nowadays. The first credit card that can pay for different businesses was invented by Frank McNamara and Ralph Schneider‚ the founders of Diners Club‚ in 1950. After a long time development‚ it is believed that credit card is one of the popular tools for payment transaction. According to a research in 2008‚ there were around 80% of United State adult own at less one credit card (Foster‚ Meijer‚ Schuh‚ & Zabek‚ 2010). It
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2. TELETECH CORPORATION 1. How does Teletech Corporation currently use the hurdle rate? Currently Teletech uses a single hurdle rate for both their Telecommunications Services and Products and Services divisions. The hurdle rate is the cost of capital based on an estimate of the corporation’s WACC. 2. Please estimate the segment WACCs for Teletech (see the worksheet in case Exhibit 1). As you do this‚ carefully note the points of judgment in the calculation. Corporate Telecommunications
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Using a credit card leads most Americans into debt. Be careful making statements about “most” Americans I. Primary support point 1 (paragraph 2): Reasons to not use credit cards Supporting details: A. the expansion of credit that let America get into trillions of dollars in consumer debt has been made available by the easy use of credit cards 1. the economic collapse could have been prevented 2. why expand it more? B. Credit cards increase your risk of identity theft C. Credit cards add
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Study : How much do credit card companies know about you? 1. What competitive strategy are the credit card companies pursuing? How do information systems support that strategy? The competitive strategy that the credit card companies are pursuing is product differentiation and customer and supplier intimacy. Product differentiation – we make use of IS in order to create new product and services at the lower cost. According to the case‚ the credit card companies are making use of the data to track
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Credit cards are one of the most popular forms of payment for consumer goods and services in the United States. To use a credit card legally‚ you must be eighteen or older‚ but many teenagers disregard this law and sign up for a credit card through the junk mail they get in their emails. Credit cards work in a very interesting way. You get a limit of how much you can spend each month‚ and you must pay off that money by a certain date. If you don’t pay off that money‚ you must pay a certain amount
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segment Net Income‚ the PayPal business would be worth $9B. • Off-eBay growth will be key. We estimate that‚ by 2011‚ eCommerce and online travel will combine to be over $1 trillion worldwide‚ up from $770B in 2008. By our estimates‚ PayPal accounted for ~4.2% of the off-eBay volume of combined eCommerce and travel last year. We believe the number would need to rise to more than 6.0% in F’11 in order for the company to meet the low end of its F’11 revenue target. • Increasing on-eBay penetration remains
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Problems and Questions – Risk Measurement and Hurdle Rates in Practice Rem.: Use 5.5% as your equity risk premium‚ for T. Bonds‚ where none is given‚ and 8.5% as your short term ERP. 1. In December 1995‚ Boise Cascade’s stock had a beta of 0.95. The Treasury bill rate at the time was 5.8%‚ and the Treasury bond rate was 6.4%. a. Estimate the expected return on the stock for a short-term investor in the company. b. Estimate the expected return on the stock for a long-term
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Advantages (government websites) 2 - Cost of Equity‚ Appropriate Discount Rate (WACC) Cost of equity 1. Formula Risk Free Rate + (Market Premium x Overall Company Beta) 2. Each part a. Risk free rate (10-year T-bill) i. bond rating chosen * interest rate * b. Market premium c. Beta i. Appropriate Discount Rate (WACC) 1. Formula Weight of Debt x After-Tax Cost of Debt) + (Debt to Equity x Cost of Equity) 2. WACC (important – why is it important for the company‚ Tesca‚ to know this?) 3. Each part
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commodities‚ the prime purpose of the money commodity is to be exchanged‚ now or in the future‚ for directly consumable or productive commodities. A man will always earn more money at a higher wage rate‚ less money at a lower. But what is earning money but another name for buying money? And that is precisely what is done. People buy money by selling goods and services that they possess or can create. We are now attempting to arrive at the demand schedule for money in relation to various alternative purchasing
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