Wal-Mart 1. What is the ethical dilemma facing Wal-Mart in this case ? Do Wal-Mart’s associates also face an ethical dilemma? If so‚ what is it ? Wal-Mart is facing an ethical problem by implementing computerized scheduling system. Indeed‚ before the store managers had to arranged manually the schedule for the employees but Wal-mart begun to use Kronos system to create work schedule. Obviously‚ this implementation helps to increase the profit margin of the company. But what are the consequences
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Tim Burton is known for his movies that are appealed by children‚ yet have a dark and eerie twist. His films all have certain cinematic techniques that create a spooky and creepy feeling. In these films‚ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‚ Edward Scissorhands‚ and Corpse Bride all use lighting‚ music/sound‚ and editing as these techniques. In Burton’s films he uses many cinematic techniques to create the dark and eerie feeling. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‚ low-key lighting is shown when people
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distinctive as his characters by creating fantastical but mysterious worlds. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands are some of his most popular films and both illustrate characters who are outcasts onto the society around them. Burton uses the contrast of lifestyles in the characters‚ low key lighting and characterization within Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands to show that even though outcasts may not ever fit it‚ they can have a positive change on society
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Aaron Taylor’s article on “How to See Things Differently: Tim Burton’s Reimaginings” in Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock’s The Works of Tim Burton: Margins to Mainstream describes how Burton uses his own authorial signature in reproductions of pre-existing texts in order to create a “reimagining” of these works that is both profitable and popular. Throughout most of his text‚ Taylor explains the marketing strategy and reasons behind the use of the term “reimagining”. According to him it allows Hollywood
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Case Study: Personal Video Recorders 1. Discuss how PVRs will affect the demand from advertisers? The increase usage of PVRs will result in the decrease of the demand from advertisers. The reason is that the more people use the PVRs to record TV shows and skipping commercials‚ the less viewers that commercials can reach which makes the commercials are less efficient. Therefore‚ there would be less demand from the advertisers. 2. Qd = 30 – 0.0002P +26V a. The price should charge at
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expensed them all as R&D. Assume that 60% of the reported R&D could have been capitalized and spread out over the following two years. For example. The amount of R&D capitalized into 1995 would be evenly spread out among 1996 and 1997. If this were the case how much would net income have been in 1997 and 1998? What would be the percentage increase in net income from 1997 t0 1998? Compare that to the actual reporting change in net income from 1997 to 1998 Year 1995 1996 1997 1998 Revenue 6075 9050 11936
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2014 IDEO CASE STUDY 1) How would you characterize IDEO’s process‚ organization‚ culture and management? IDEO was a firm founded by David Kelley in 1991. The success that the company achieved was directly associated with the great creativity/innovative process that the company introduces. Starting to explain a little the phases of the process‚ IDEO’s product development process follows several phases‚ and each one‚ contains methods like Observation‚ Brainstorming‚ Prototyping and Implementation
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( Answers to Mini-Case Questions BioCom Inc. This mini-case provides a review of the methodology and rationale associated with the various capital budgeting evaluation methods such as payback period‚ discounted payback period‚ NPV‚ IRR‚ MIRR‚ and PI. 1. Compute the payback period for each project. |Time of Cash Flow |Nano Test Tubes |Microsurgery Kit | |Investment |−$11‚000.00 |−$11‚000.00
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1. See Appendix A 2. Liquidity ratio. The firm’s liquidity shows a downward trend through time. The current ratio is decreasing because the growth in current liabilities outpaces the growth of current assets. The quick ratio is also declining but not as fast as the current ratio. From 1991 to 1992‚ it only decreased 0.35 units while the current ratio decreased 0.93 units. Looking at the common size balance sheet‚ we also see that the percentage of inventory is growing from 33% to 48% indicating
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Focus in the Video Game Industry The video game industry has gone through six generations of consoles‚ and the seventh is now underway with new consoles from Nintendo‚ Sony‚ and Microsoft. Atari led the first generation of the video game industry. They were able to create the first home video game Pong in 1972‚ and they were the first to develop the interchangeable cartridge and the joystick. The creation of the interchangeable cartridges allowed for third party independent video game developers
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