Landslide Southwest China‚ Yiliang County References: http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/04/world/asia/china-landslide-school/index.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/10/05/china-landslide.html The southwest part of China is surrounded by hills and mountains. The area is also surrounded by many plate boundaries so it is a common place for many earthquakes and landslides to occur. The area is often in long periods of droughts followed by heavy showers. The area is covered with basin
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What did you find impressive about the way Karcher handled the process? (i.e. the things that would work for your company) It is clear from the case study that one of the benefits of Karcher’s approach was that it sparked his imagination and motivated him to look for ideas and invent new features for the Presenter. His method gave him a new sense of inclusion in the product development. Listening to the customer gave him an awareness that the engineer’s personal tastes is not necessarily what
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Ameritrade – case study Executive Summary Ameritrade provides online brokerage services and operates an Internet-based financial management services business. 90% of the company’s revenues are from the provision of discount brokerage services. The company’s objective is to improve its competitive position in deep-discount brokerage. In order to achieve this objective‚ the company must grow its customer base‚ requiring an investment of $100 million to upgrade its technological capabilities as well
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minus imports that occur within a country. GDP is used as a measurement of economic growth and shows a country’s economic situation. The GDP of Chile is reported by the World Bank and‚ though it fluctuates around the trend‚ shows a relatively stable growth. The GDP was last recorded at $9447‚07 in 2012. From 1987 until 2013 the annual growth rate of Chile averaged 5.5%. The global economic slump had a relatively small effect on the country which resulted in negative economic growth in 2009. After
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MEMORANDUM To: Acquisition Team From: Adriana Pinzón – Consulting Team CC: James Biteman - CEO Date: 27-09-2010 ------------------------------------------------- Subject: Recommendations about the acquisition of Sanford Corporation. Bearing in mind our philosophy or “profit growth by acquisitions”‚ I would like to recommend to the Acquisition team the evaluation of Sanford Corporation for purchase‚ for the following reasons: Even though it is a $600 Million acquisition‚ the most profitable
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continue being creative and innovative in seeking out added services such as data and wireless Internet use to increase yearly revenue; how can Ontela and their counterparts target the right consumers which will utilize both without compromising ARPU? Case Response: Section A 1. Based on the three customer personas‚ which customer segment should Ontela target? a. Ontela’s objective was to increase the use of wireless carrier service and increase average revenue per user (ARPU). In order to do this
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Chile is a narrow strip of land that is situated between the North Pacific Ocean in the west and the Andes Mountain in the east with coordinates 30 00 S and 71 00 W. Chile is also located in the Pacific Ring of Fine‚ sharing a land boundary with Argentina in the east‚ Bolivia in the north-east and Peru in the north. (Maps of World‚ 2015). Besides its mainland territory‚ Chile has islands located on the Pacific Ocean. Santiago sits 3724 km (2314 miles) from the equator (Date and Time‚ 2017).
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Matching Dell 1. Analyzing Dell’s value chain and competitive strategy‚ explain how Dell was able to succeed (build competitive advantage) in the low profitable situation of the PC market. “Value Chain Analysis” is a tool for analyzing the value creation system of competitors. Objective is to develop a value creating system with competitive advantage. A value chain is a chain of activities. Products pass all activities of the chain in order and at each activity the product gains some value. The
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Harvard Simulation Synopsis – Week 6 Assignment Finance 571 February 8‚ 2015 Faith Walker Eric Hohl Abstract Through the study of the chapters of the Fundamentals of Corporate Finance‚ it has allowed the reader to review possible investments and projects that business management takes to make capital budgeting decisions and improve income and rate of return. This paper discusses the findings of the simulation completed for Sunflower Nutraceuticals‚ which was completed as a part of the Harvard Business
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Case study 1 (a) What is the intrinsic value? A: The intrinsic value is a way to estimate the real value of a company or a capital‚ according to the present value of its future cash flow. Why is the intrinsic value so important? A: Intrinsic value is all important and is the only logical way to evaluate the relative attractiveness of investments and businesses. It shows investors the growth ability and profitability of the company or capital‚ which focus on its future trends. How to estimate
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