Case 1: Corwin Corporation Table of Contents Summary of Findings…………………………………………………………… 3 Background Information……………………………………………………….. 3 Problem Statement……………………………………………………………… 5 Analysis of Alternatives………………………………………………………… 5 Detailed Recommendations……………………………………………………. 6 Implementation and Evaluation……………………………………………….. 7 References……………………………………………………………………….. 9 Case 1: Corwin Corporation Summary of findings This case is about a reputed rubber component manufacturing
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Monroe College School of Business MG112 Winter‚ 2013 Acme Corporation Tautvydas Kieras Professor Borak 1. What are the potential ethical issues faced by acme corporation? The biggest ethical issue is that ACME is taking care of one of their biggest client needs to go to the adult entertainment club. If media finds out about Acme Corp is paying for clients to go to places like this‚ they are going to think that Acme Corp is bribing their clients to stay with them. 2. What should
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Case 1 Atlantic Corporation Maastricht University School of Business and Economics Corporate Governance and Restructuring 1. Is the acquisition of Royal’s linerboard mill and box plants a sound strategic move? Consider the short- as well as long-term outlook for linerboard prices and the profitability of the linerboard industry. Furthermore‚ what basis‚ if any‚ is there for expecting AtlanticRoyal’s combined linerboard and box mill operations to do better/worse than the industry overall?
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Managing Complex Project Assignment (Fall 2013) *** Teradyne Corporation: The Jaguar project *** By SIMONE GUPTA (Submission Date) November 15th 2014 1. Compare and contrast Teradyne’s traditional project execution strategy to the approach it used in Jaguar. What was similar? What was different? In 2001‚ Teradyne made fundamental changes in their strategic direction and technology. In Jaguar project‚ Teradyne Corporation focused more on up-front planning and design‚ reorganization
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Birla Corporation Case Business activities based on the recent developments The Given data states that Birla’s Profits had been increased from 4.19 crore in 2002-03 to 41.56 crore in 2003-04 and their 88.75% sales consist of sales from cement division. But this was the case in both years 2002-03 and 2003-04 which means those profits were achieved only by improvising on internal factors of the company like improvements in performance of Cement division by achieving the higher capacity utilization
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Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital (Abridged) 1. How does Marriott use its estimate of cost of capital? Does this make sense? Marriot use cost of capital as the hurdle rate (minimum rate of return required to accept the project) to discount future cash flows for the investment projects of the three lines of business (Lodging‚ Contract Services and Restaurants). They use this rate to calculate NPV and net present value over cost to decide for the profit rate. Since cost of the project
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Debt Equity Debt/Equity Ratio Return on Equity 15‚000‚000 2‚250‚000 0 2‚250‚000 1‚350‚000 1‚000‚000 1.35 0 15‚000‚000 0.00% 9.00% Worst Case 10% 16‚500‚000 2‚475‚000 500‚000 1‚975‚000 1‚185‚000 1‚000‚000 1.185 5‚000‚000 15‚000‚000 33.33% 7.90% Expected Case 30% 19‚500‚000 2‚925‚000 500‚000 2‚425‚000 1‚455‚000 1‚000‚000 1.455 5‚000‚000 15‚000‚000 33.33% 9.70% Best Case 50% 22‚500‚000 3‚375‚000 500‚000 2‚875‚000 1‚725‚000 1‚000‚000 1.725 5‚000‚000 15‚000‚000 33.33% 11.50% 1. For sure‚ the company can
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FBE 421 Marriott Corporation ------------------------------------------------- Introduction Founded in 1927‚ Marriott Corporation has become one of the leading food service companies in the United States. As of 1987‚ Marriott recorded a profit of $233 million on sales of $6.5 billion and retained a high sales growth rate of 24%. Marriott runs on three major lines of business lodging‚ contract services‚ and restaurants. Lodging division which includes 361 hotels generated 41% of 1987 sales
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THE ZALE CORPORATION Zale Corporation is a leading specialty retailer of diamonds and other jewelry products in North America. The Company has significant brand name recognition as a result of each of its brands’ long-standing presence in the industry‚ having 2.349 stores in the United States‚ Puerto Rico and Canada. The Company´s vision “provide customers with quality merchandise at the lowest possible price” has remain the same since its first store opening in 1920´s. The Mission of Zale Corporation
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Case Questions: 1. Option #3 suggests Stryker Corporation to build its own facility to manufacture its own PBCs. Under the current situation that some contract manufacturers have weak performance in quality and delivery‚ the benefits of this option are obvious as following: First of all‚ option #3 promised the highest degree of control over quality and delivery‚ which can solve the major problem that Stryker has faced with recently. On the other hand‚ self-manufacturing offers an opportunity
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