TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 Apple – An Introduction 3 Macroeconomic Trends 4 Technical Analysis 5 Fundamental Analysis 8 Analysis of Financing Activities 8 Investments and Capital Budgeting Decisions 10 Industry Analysis 11 Performance Analysis APPLE INTRODUCTION Established in 1976‚ Apple ignited the personal computer revolution with the Apple II and the Macintosh. Today‚ Apple designs‚ manufactures and markets personal computers‚ portable digital music players and mobile communication devices
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Subject: Apple and Foxconn controversy from the eye of the consumer Over the last couple years‚ Apple and Foxconn have been partaking in poor business methods thus causing them a great deal of deserved criticism. The consumer‚ must decide whether or not to continue buying from Apple because the consumer is what causes Apple to continue to make new products which results in the poor conditions at Foxconn. Foxconn and Apple violate many ethical‚ moral and basic human principles. The Situation
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creativity. What approaches has Apple relied upon? What alternative have others firms in the industry pursued? What other stoves could Apple implement? Apple is taking the following creativity approaches: imagination and investment. 1) Imagination: Apple is primarily focusing on innovation and flexibility; therefore‚ they are consider to be relying on the "imagination" approach‚ where the key is gear towards the transformation of ideas and experimentation. For example‚ Apple has innovated the iPod music
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Apple and employee motivation Ideally‚ Apple wants to have a workplace that fosters creativity from all the employees. Apple combines extrinsic and intrinsic motivation in order to empower their employees to be innovative. There are numerous methods Apple employs to motivate its employees. Once‚ Apple rewarded its executives by giving them a recognition bonus of 3 to 5 percent of their base salary. This motivating incentive occurred despite the fact that they recently missed their target on
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Big Apple Donuts in City Mall is Kota Kinabalu’s (KK) first dedicated donut shop‚ and beyond the initial teething problems‚ it’s proving quite popular. Called Big Apple Donuts & Coffee‚ Big Apple Donuts do more donuts than it does coffee‚ which isn’t surprising‚ as it’s wedged in between Starbucks Coffee and Old Town White Coffee on the mall-front of City Mall in Kota Kinabalu. Big Apple Donuts started operations in KK late in 2007 to seemingly little fanfare‚ however‚ it proved popular virtually
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Apple Michael Rauchut BUS400 – Prof. J Santanella M 8-10:40 Date: 9/24/2012 Assuming that the development of Microsoft’s Window XP operating system is an accurate example for most of their new operating systems‚ Microsoft’s break even analysis is as followed. On page 46‚ it is said that Microsoft sold 17 million units of the Windows XP in the first 8 weeks and incurred for developing at $1 billion. Revenue for the XP was between $45 and $60‚ which makes the median at $52.50. Assuming the
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Communication (IMC)" is to maximize the impact a company has on consumers. Apple has done an exceptional job using components from IMC and the AIDA (Attention‚ Interest‚ Desire‚ Action) concept to achieve and maintain long-term customer relationship with their consumers while driving Apple brand value. Apple uses promotional and advertising tools to capture the attention‚ interest‚ and desire of the consumer. Apple capture our attention and interest through innovating and sleek imagery
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Corporate Strategy Apple Report Team C Margy Rizkalla Ibrahim Tawakol Pauline Kitur Soukeyna Gaye Kareem Abouelnaga Ehidiamhen Alikah First‚ we have to analyze the situation at which Steve Jobs has taken the decision of disabling Adobe from operating Flash on ipods touch‚ ipad‚ and iphones. Flash has been used in 95% of desktops even Mac itself. At one point in time‚ Apple owned a 20% stake in Adobe and had been working closely together for years. Apple had its doubts about Adobe’s reliability
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These analyses provide Apple with quick‚ executive keys by looking at strength and weaknesses alongside opportunities and threats. Introduction: Apple was launched April 1‚ 1976 by Steve Jobs‚ Ronald Wayne and Steve Wozniak and is considered to be one of the most innovative technologies companies in the world. The company is responsible for products and services such as the Macintosh desktop and laptop computers‚ iTunes‚ iPod‚ iPhone‚ iTouch‚ iPad‚ Apple TV‚ and iCloud. Apple also develops its own
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1. Lack of stakeholder engagement strategy – Apple simply doesn’t believe it needs to engage stakeholders‚ not to mention having an engagement strategy. We can see it every time‚ from not sharing information with Greenpeace about why Greenpeace got it wrong about the power consumption of Apple’s North Carolina data center to not responding at first to Chinese environmental groups investigating pollution issues in Apple’s supply chain in China. Another example is Apple’s tendency to reply to questions
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