Bloomington Hospital’s Open-Heart Unit Case Notes Prepared by Charles M. Byles‚ Virginia Commonwealth University Introduction The case centers on the decision by the Bloomington Hospital (BH) board to add a cardiovascular (CV) surgery unit to its range of services. The CV decision came as a result of a strategic planning exercise by the board. Other additions to the services of the hospital were recommended in the decision‚ but none generated the level of criticism aroused by the CV decision
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St. Francis College of Commerce January 23‚ 2012 COLLEGE OF COMMERCE Group 5 Saint Francis University Case Background St. Francis is a medium-size private university located in a major port city in the Visayas. It was one of the better private universities in the city and well known primarily for its engineering and science courses. The University had a total of
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Rosewood Hotels & Resorts: Branding to increase profitability and lifetime value BACKGROUND Rosewood Hotels and Resorts is a private hotel management company established in 1979 by the Caroline Rose Hunt Trust Estate. It is a well known company in the luxury hotels market which owns 17 iconic properties in 7 different countries (http://www.rosewoodhotels.com/en/the_company/). The first hotel was The Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas; afterwards the company expanded its “collection of unique
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PANERA BREAD (CASE #8) CURRENT SITUATION * The principal strategic was to make great bread broadly available to consumers across the United States. * The strategic give us the recognized as the nation ide leader in the specialty bread. * The driving concept behind panera bread was to provide a Premium specialty bakery and café experience to urban workers a suburban dwellers looking for a quick-service meal and move aesthetically pleasing dining experience. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
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CASE: GS-3A DATE: 05/01 (Rev’d. 3/8/04) Hewlett-Packard Company DeskJet Printer Supply Chain (A) INTRODUCTION Brent Cartier‚ Manager for Special Projects in the Materials Department of Hewlett-Packard (HP) Company’s Vancouver Division‚ clicked off another mile. It had been a long week and it looked like it would be a long weekend as well‚ based on the preparation that needed to be done for Monday’s meeting with Group Management on worldwide inventory levels for the DeskJet Printer product line
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Confirming Pages CASE 6 lululemon athletica‚ Inc. Arthur A. Thompson The University of Alabama I n early 2012‚ investor interest in lululemon athletica— a designer and retailer of high-end‚ yoga-inspired athletic apparel under the lululemon athletica and ivivva athletica brand names—was surging. Over the past 30 months‚ growing numbers of female shoppers were patronizing the company’s stores to pay premium prices for lululemon-branded items that offered performance‚ fit‚ and comfort and were
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any share in the dividends declared by the partnership. She therefore prayed that the defendants be ordered to render accounting to her of the partnership business and to pay her corresponding share in the partnership profits after such accounting‚ plus attorney ’s fees and costs. ISSUE: Whether or not Abad Santos is an industrial partner and is entitled to the shares of the partnership? HELD: Yes. It is not disputed that the provision against the industrial partner engaging in business for
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INTRODUCTION * Wrigley has a one sided capital structure * Their interest rates has been at their lowest in 50 years * However‚ they have the leading market share in a stale low technology business * Blanka Dobrynin‚ the managing partner of Aurora Borealis LLC (a company who used a hedge fund to invest in companies who are in distress‚ merger arbitrage‚ change-of-control transactions‚ and recapitalization) wanted to investigate a potential investment of $3B in Wrigley * Wrigley
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HBR CASE STUDY Good Money After Bad? Jack Brandon’s initial idea has not panned out‚ and the cash is nearly gone. But he’s got a new plan. Will you back him a second time? by John W. Mullins F Daniel Vasconcellos overlooking the sparkling lights of San Francisco‚ Christian Harbinson gazed across the bay to the hills above Sausalito. “There’s nothing like a vigorous hike‚” he thought‚“to clear the mind before a crucial meeting.” It was a mild March evening‚ and the 35-year-old venture
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continue to keep the code up to date for all platforms as each one splinters into new incarnations‚ releases new hardware and OS updates * At least 170 devices running Android OS‚ with widely varying features‚ from keyboards to cameras to button‚ plus different screen shapes and sizes * Lack of governance in the Android market led to a proliferation of malware
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