HBR Case Study BY JOHN HUMPHREYS‚ ZAFAR U. AHMED‚ AND MILDRED PRYOR World-Class Bull Inspired sales ploy or ethical breach? be kidding me‚ Sam‚” Jeremy sputtered. “Chris brought in the single biggest piece of business we’ve won here in more than two years. He’s our top performer! He broke that logjam with Armadillo! He was absolutely brilliant!” From the window of his 10th-floor office at Specialty Fleet Services‚ sales vice president Jeremy Silva spied two of the bright yellow repair trucks of Armadillo
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poultry and meat products. Spun Steak employs thirty-three workers‚ twenty-four of whom are Spanish-speaking. Garcia and Buitrago are fully bilingual production line workers. Spun Steak employees spoke Spanish freely to their co-workers during work hours. Spun Steak received complaints that Garcia and Buitrago made derogatory‚ racist comments in Spanish about two co-workers. The president of Spun Steak concluded that an English-only rule would promote racial harmony in the workplace and would enhance
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Case 2-2: 1. With respect to the adjustments related to goodwill‚ answer the following: a. Why does the adjustment for goodwill amortization increase net income under Country A GAAP but decrease net income under Country B GAAP? The adjustment for goodwill amortization increases net income under Country A GAAP but decrease net income under Country B GAAP because of how SKD amortizes goodwill for a period of 20 years while for Country B goodwill is only amortized for a period of 5 years. This leads
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Current year (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Exit Previous year (1) Store associate 0.53 0.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.41 (2) Shift leader 0.00 0.50 0.16 0.00 0.00 0.34 (3) Department manager 0.00 0.00 0.58 0.12 0.00 0.30 (4) Assistant store manager 0.00 0.00 0.06 0.46 0.08 0.40 (5) Store manager 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.66 0.34 Forecast of availabilities Next year (projected) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Exit Current Workforce Previous year (1) Store associate 8‚500 4505 510 0 0 0 3485 (2) Shift leader 1
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Irony in "The Story of the Hour" Summary: Dark irony plays a major role in "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. A long-suffering wife who celebrates her husbands’ death dies from the shock of discovering he is still alive. In "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin‚ there are many moments when Chopin’s craft of writing feeds the irony of the story. One perfect example‚ "assure himself of its truth by a second telegram" (772). This sentence subdued me into believing that Mrs. Mallard’s husband
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Finance Theory I – Case 2 Tracy Hsiao‚ Baltic Ocean Evaluation of AQR Momentum Funds Date: Dec. 5th‚ 201r Past performance of momentum strategies – CAPM & Fama‐French MOM 4 factors model In Table 1‚ we could evaluate the past performance of momentum strategy‚ Short Decile 1 and Long Decile 10‚ a.k.a. L/S (10‐1). Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) E(R) = α + Rf + β (RM - Rf) + By applying to CAPM‚ we got a β that is almost zero (-0.08) showing the strategy could effectively diversify and reduce
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PROCEDURAL HISTORY Ms. Palsgraf successfully sued the Long Island Railroad Company for compensation for her injuries in the Kings County‚ New York State Circuit Court. The Long Island Railroad Company appealed this decision to the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court‚ Second Department‚ which upheld the lower court’s ruling. The company appealed once more to the New York Court of Appeals‚ which agreed to hear the case. FACTS OF THE CASE The Plaintiff was purchasing a ticket on the railroad
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Case 2-1 Cynthia Cooper and WorldCom Cynthia Cooper details her trials and tribulations about her experiences at WorldCom in the book Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower. The following excerpts from the book describe the actions she took to uncover the fraud at WorldCom and reactions of key players in the accounting department‚ top management‚ the audit committee and the external auditors. Cooper was first alerted to the fact that there may have been a problem
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mass of your chosen structure and the mass of the “Long Sutton Studio”. State any assumptions you have made. Show your working. Dead Load Calculation: Let‚ Concrete unit mass = Munit = 2400 kg/m³ Slab Thickness = 0.2 m Column Size = 0.3m x 0.3m Column height =
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Toyota’s European Operating Exposure • It was January 2002‚ and Toyota Motor Europe Manufacturing (TMEM) had a problem – Mr. Toyoda Shuhei‚ the new President of TMEM was on his way to Toyota Motor Company’s (Japan) corporate offices outside Tokyo to explain the continuing losses of European manufacturing and sales operations – The CEO of Toyota Motor Company‚ Mr. Hiroshi Okuda‚ was expecting a proposal from Mr. Shuhei to reduce and eventually eliminate the European losses. The situation was intense
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