COMPANY CASE #3 Harrah’s Entertainment: hitting the CRM jackpot BACKGROUND BACKGROUND The company was founded in 1937 with a bingo parlor in Reno‚ Nevada. Around 1946‚ the founder opened Harrah’s Club at its present location on North Virginia Street in downtown Reno. Since that moment on there were several purchases of clubs‚ until 1962 when Harrah’s constructs 400-room hotel tower in Reno‚ so development and expansion was not very fast before the 70’s. From
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rP os t HKU978 NIKHIL CELLY op yo HAIER IN INDIA: BUILDING PRESENCE IN A MASS MARKET BEYOND CHINA In a short 25 years‚ Haier Inc had emerged from being a small refrigerator factory in northeast China to becoming the world’s biggest appliance seller by retail volume. It had exported to developed markets in the 1990s‚ set up factories overseas and created a global retail chain that made it an unmatched success in China. This company that made its name by exporting refrigerators
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The BOEING 777 CASE SUMMARY In October 1990 Boeing officially announced the launch of the latest addition to the Boeing family: The Boeing 777. The Boeing 777 is a long range‚ wide-body‚ twin jet engine jet. In this case study we are trying to evaluate the 777 project. This project seems a bit risky since R&D and design expense are very high for this project and the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq has increased the oil prices. 1. We know that there are two ways to increase return on equity RoE
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assets? If so‚ how‚ if not‚ why not? On the one hand‚ the circumstances of the sale make me less willing to buy. In particular‚ both Universal and the federal government think that American’s acquisition creates antitrust issues. If this is the case‚ American could use its market power to change the nature of the market and make Dixon’s new plant unprofitable by setting lower prices for sodium chlorate in its other plants. On the other hand‚ the circumstances make me more willing to buy the assets
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increased rate of unemployed and job dissatisfaction. As imply‚ many people engaged in direct selling because direct selling have the vast opportunities available to young and old alike to earn additional income to supplement their lifestyle‚ and in this case‚ their golden years. The context of this study will define what sales agent is‚ how they perform; what are the importance of rewards to the effectiveness performance of sales agents in selling products and how does distributors motivate their salespeople/sales
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FINANCE 301 DR. SHELDON NOVACK CASE STUDY ROTH FINANCIAL ADVISORS PART #1 INTRODUCTION Roth Financial‚ founded nearly 10 years ago‚ is a financial services firm which has a diverse base of clients. The founder of this start-up firm‚ Hugo Roth‚ developed a reputation for himself and also his associates by the way the financial firm conducts business. As the firm grew‚ so did the firm’s reputation for honesty and fair dealing. Hugo Roth established a reputation for training and helping
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CASE 1 GolfLogix - How does the xCaddie create value? Is it compelling? To start with I am going to talk briefly about GolfLogix and its different products. GolfLogix is a quite recent company which was founded in 1999 in Arizona (US). It was based on a simple concept‚ using the GPS to aid golfers to improve their game or to make it easier. For this reason‚ GolfLogix developed the xCaddie‚ a handheld GPS receiver. Nowadays‚ the company offers two different systems. The first one is
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HKU833 STEPHEN KO AIRASIA: FLYING LOW-COST WITH HIGH HOPES AirAsia started out as a Malaysian government-controlled‚ full-service regional airline that offered slightly lower fares than its number-one competitor‚ Malaysia Airlines (“MAS”). In December 2001‚ private entrepreneur Tony Fernandes took over the debt-ridden airline for the symbolic sum of US$0.26. Despite the air-travel downturn following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks‚ Fernandes believed that the timing for entering
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Case II FNAN 421 Executive Summary The following case provides an analysis of six publicly traded stocks for the purpose of determining which amongst them would be prime candidates for a portfolio in terms of optimal return. Specifically‚ this paper discusses what options should be written or bought and exercised on the qualifying stocks to maximize profits. In order to accomplish this task the stocks will be measured and compared based on their market performance in terms of returns‚ betas
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table below presents the approach for calculations at corporation level and division level according to each of the variables. Marriott’s capital structure comprises debt (fixed and floating) and equity. Marriott Corporation Business Lines 1 Beta of Debt (⬬d) Computed using correlation between S&P500 returns and HG Corp Bonds (recent history is implicitly more weighted)‚ s.d. of the S&P500 and s.d. of the HG Corp Bonds (Exhibit 4) Same 2 Risk-Free Rate Estimated to be equal to 10y US Gov
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