To : President‚ Marriott Corporation From : FLO299 Subject : Marriott Corporation – The Cost of Capital Date : April 6‚ 2010 The Importance of the Cost of Capital The cost of capital is important as it forms the basis for Marriott’s investing and financial decisions. By understanding and knowing the cost of capital‚ Marriott is able to select relevant investment projects for the company‚ determine incentive compensation‚ and repurchase undervalued shares when needed. The returns
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Construction Ver. 2.2 Level: Gold candidate Courtyard by Marriott‚ Chevy Chase is a 226room hotel located in the Friendship Heights neighborhood of Chevy Chase‚ MD. The hotel primarily serves the business travelers visiting various corporate headquarters and institutions in the area‚ including National Institutes of Health and GEICO Insurance. The project consisted of an extensive renovation and re-branding from a Holiday Inn to a Courtyard by Marriott while incorporating sustainable features to demonstrate
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Marriott International‚ Inc. is a widely recognized and diversified global lodging firm which engages in the franchise and operation of hotels‚ timeshare properties‚ and housing properties. It operates through the following business segments: North American Limited-Service; North American Full-Service; and International. The firm operates hotels the management model‚ franchise model‚ and the leased and owned model. The company operates 16 brands that cover full-service‚ extended-stay hotels‚ and
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Marriott International envisions itself to be the world’s lodging leader. Its mission is to provide the best possible lodging services experience to customers who vary in backgrounds‚ language‚ tradition‚ religion and cultures all around the world. Marriot is committed to environmental preservation through using environment-friendly technology and engages in social responsibility and community engagement. We value our shareholder’s so we will only take steps that will ensure
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A product line extension is the use of an established product’s brand name for a new item in the same product category. Line Extensions occur when a company introduces additional items in the same product category under the same brand name such as new flavors‚ forms‚ colors‚ added ingredients‚ package sizes. This is as opposed to brand extension which is a new product in a totally different product category.Line extension occurs when the company lengthens its product line beyond its current range
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HBR Case #1 Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital Group 16—Tutorial Mon 11:30am Group members LIU Ying‚ Chloe | 1155019350 | LUO Yingying‚ Irika | 1155020931 | TIAN Tian‚ Sarah | 1155019114 | WU Jiajie‚ Jesse | 1155019061 | 17 September 2012 Executive Summary By 1987‚ Marriott Corporation had grown into a large multi-dimensional company with over $5 billion assets in lodging‚ contract services and restaurants. The company enjoyed fast growth in both sales and assets at around
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John Willard Marriott September 17‚ 1900 – August 13‚ 1985 Born on September 17‚ 1900 in Marriott Settlement‚ Utah‚ as the eldest son of a poor farmer‚ J.W. Marriott was said to have learned to ride a horse before he could walk. Early in his upbringing‚ Marriott was held to a very strict and high standard of conduct from his father. His father also gave him responsibility at an early age making him a sheepherder on the farm to help his family. At the age of 19‚ he preached the gospel as a Mormon
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Tactics have characteristically now become performances in which activist use to advance their cause. Some movements seeking change are increasingly using new forms of tactics so that their messages are more contentious and effective. Some tactics‚ such as marches‚ sit-inn and even riots have been used by many different social movement organization and activists over the years to enact change. As some of these tactics have become routinized‚ some activist‚ have taken it into their own hands to change
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promotional sale tactics to lure customers into buying - and buying more. The revelation was borne out in an analysis of the Consumer Council based on its daily surveillance of online prices of the two supermarket chains on 288 items over a 5-month period between October 2008 and February 2009. (Prices of these 288 items were available and monitored throughout the entire study period). The analysis cited‚ as an example‚ the case of the price movement of a popular brand of canned beer 330ml
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Price elasticity: products with high quality or being highly processed tend to be inelastic demand‚ while row materials are usually elastic. For example‚ a price increase in a car only leads to little decrease in demand‚ in the contrary; a price increase in oil could leads to huge change in market. Market-skimming pricing: two examples came to my mind when I saw this concept‚ Samsung and Apple. As I know that‚ Samsung often set an extremely high price when they release a new cellphone‚ after few
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