CASE 1 - AMAZON .COM: THE BRINK OF BANKRUPTCY Summary: Amazon.com is a global leader in online-retail. The company was born out of the tech boom of the 1990’s and founded by Jeff Bezos. Since its founding as an online bookseller‚ Amazon.com and drastically grown to expand its product offerings‚ fulfillment‚ and customer service. This growth required huge investments in technology and processes to support the complex business. Today‚ Amazon .com sells‚ or auctions‚ books‚ music‚ videos‚ toys
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Dinky Company produces small gadgets with brief economic lives. They have received firm commitments for one of their products in development‚ with a market life of the next three years. In order to begin production‚ Dinky must purchase additional machinery and lease additional production facilities. We will use the NPV to determine whether or not initiating production is in the best interest of Dinky Company. Question 1: Calculate Dinky’s weighted average cost of capital using market weights
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1. Compute the cost of a single preschool class and a single birthday party using the current cost system. Preschool Class Costs Birthday Party Costs Building Related $216‚000 Does not count Salaries $50‚000+$20‚000*2=$90‚000 $5‚000*2=$10‚000 Supplies & Foods $18‚000 $3‚000 Advertising Does not count Does not count Total $324‚000 $13‚000 Unit Cost $270 $86.67 2. Would you recommend that TRU continue to allocate the building-related costs only to the preschool program? What alternative
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of stockout will be 0.2177 At 28‚000 the probability of stockout will be 0.0582 3. Compute the projected profit for the order quantities suggested by the management team under three scenarios: worst case in which sales = 10‚000 units‚ most likely case in which sales = 20‚000 units and best case in which sales = 30‚000 units: Order Quantity: 15‚000 were cost price is $16‚ selling price $24 & after holiday selling price $5 |Unit Sales |Profit | |10‚000
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INTEGRATION Similar cases have made us understand that the willingness/unwillingness of firms to exploit IT capabilities could have significant effects. 1- The Crisis at Encyclopedia Britannica We would recall the refusal of Britannica to partner with Microsoft on a multimedia CD-ROM version of the encyclopedia‚ owing to its “traditional way of selling. They regarded an IT initiative that would have reduced the cost of printing encyclopaedias as one that would ‘both cannibalize revenue and reduce
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Introduction Green Toy Inc. was founded in 2006‚ created by Robert von Goeben and Laurie Hyman together. Green Toys™ are a line range of environmentally friendly toys made in the USA from 100% recycled milk jugs. Very suitable for ages 0-6 years old‚ Green Toys ™ has been specifically development in order to develop children’s fine motor skills‚ creativity and imagination. A firm favorite among parents‚ their range covers everything from cars and trucks‚ imaginative play toys‚ including games of
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1.2.3 S3 Bucket Buckets are known as a container for storing objects in Amazon S3. For example‚ the object named photos/puppies.jpg is stored in the Johan smith bucket‚ and then it is addressable using the URL http://johansmith.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/puppies.jpg Various purposes of the buckets are: Buckets manages the Amazon S3 namespaces to a greater extent‚ and also they find accounts which are responsible for data transfer and storage charges‚ they perform a significant role in access control
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Precast Telford held a toy drive in December in support of the United States Marine Corps Reserve’s “Toys for Tots” program. The Telford team placed collection boxes at their facilities and encouraged employees and vendors to donate unwrapped gifts. Through their efforts‚ a lot of children will receive toys for Christmas this year. Oldcastle Precast Telford is committed to helping the community in a meaningful way‚ and looks to expand the number of participating vendors in future Toys for Tots drives.
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is a one of the way that Amazon uses to motivate it employees‚ that involves redesigning jobs so that they are more challenging to the employee and have less repetitive work (Woods) . The purpose of job enrichment is to make the position more satisfying to the employee. To accomplish Overall goals of the company often include increasing employee job satisfaction‚ reducing turnover‚ and improving productivity of employees. One of the Amazon approaches that they use is Amazon Connections is internal
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