Bilal Al- Qureshi‚ Said Business School‚ University of Oxford 2010 American Chemical Corporation HBS Case Number: 9-290-102 Executive Summary The American Chemical Corporation (AMC) is a large‚ diversified chemical producer. In 1979‚ AMC was forced to issue a tender to sell a Sodium Chlorate plant‚ near Collinsville‚ Alabama. Dixon‚ a specialty chemicals company‚ was willing to purchase the aforementioned plant for $12m with the option to invest a further $2.25m on laminate technology. The
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arms-length basis. But as the scandal shows‚ market performance is only as good as the quality of institutions within and outside the market. In this case‚ the interaction of anachronistic market institutions and political corruption in the context of a liberalized but poorly regulated market produced a crisis of unprecedented scale. BW Resources Corporation was engaged in a scandal that almost led to the collapse of the local stock market. This scandal is considered as one of the most devastating corporate
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Introduction Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) is a proprietary hospital management company. The company has been following an acquisitive strategy by taking over hospital companies and not-for-profit hospitals. The firm is also considering expanding into new health service areas like home health care and outpatient surgery. The company is at a crossroads with regard to its financial goals; HCA currently faces the likelihood of adverse changes to the Medicare/Medicaid policy which could strain
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As of 2012‚ all of the worlds Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) are manufactured by three large companies Seagate‚ Western Digital and Toshiba. According to Fang Zhang analysis‚ Western Digital and Seagate have 90 of HDD market shares (Goodspeed‚ 2012). Since these two companies control majority of HDD market shares‚ team A has decided to do comparative analysis on these two companies. In this paper‚ the financial performance of WDC and STX for years 2011-2014 will be assessed by comparing the financial
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American Connector Corporation (ACC) CASE OVERVIEW American Connector Corporation (ACC) is one of the 28 suppliers of electrical connectors‚ worldwide with sales greater than $100 million. ACC manufactured Electrical Connectors from Sunnyvale‚ California since 1961. Electrical connectors are devices made to attach wires to other wires‚ attach wires to outlets‚ attach wires‚ components or chips to PC boards‚ or to attach PC boards to other boards. Connectors were used in a variety of product
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Solution: Moving from “make do” to “can do” Meeting SUBWAY’s expectations meant IPC needed topnotch management of key issues: Card programs: A newly implemented Gift card program – and management of an existing loyalty card program – brought high customer demand for IPC to handle card issues and placed a serious burden on them to respond efficiently. Customer service: Efforts to address issues were being duplicated and the process was managed manually. There was no real control of customer
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Barrick Gold and the Mine at the Top of the World Introduction The purpose of this case analysis is to identify the main communication problem that the world’s largest gold mining company‚ Barrick Gold‚ is facing in the midst of their major Pascua-Lama developmental project. The following paper discusses the causes of the communication problem and resulting symptoms‚ along with the key stakeholders that are affected and their concerning issue. Finally‚ this paper will provide a solution using
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CASE 1.11 New Century Financial Corporation It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system‚ for if they did‚ I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. Henry Ford From 1962 to 1992‚ Ed HAI LÚA served as the quintessential sidekick and straight man Johnny Carson to Johnny Carson on the long-running and popular television program The To- night Show. After leaving that program‚ HAI LÚA stayed in the television spotlight
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Case solution: Ethical Dilemma What course themes do you see present in the case? Experimental exercise Who Can Catch a Liar is about emotional intelligence and its effect on the productivity of the workers at workplace. Human have inherited the ability to respond various stimulus differently. Being differs from each other in terms of their personality‚ behavior‚ needs‚ wants‚ demands and expressing their emotions at different situation. Emotional intelligence is the ability of the person to know
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McDonald’s Corporation Overview To determine if McDonald’s has competition when it comes to having a business that is profitable and where diversity and career opportunities is what help put McDonald’s way ahead of the competition. The article McDonald’s Corporation describes McDonald’s as the world’s largest restaurant chain and has been in business since 1948 where Dick and Mac McDonald opened up McDonald’s Bar-B-Que restaurant in San Bernardino‚ California. Ray Kroc‚ the man who made
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