Case study 4 – Economic Turmoil in Latvia 1.) In 2008 Latvia experienced a banking crisis that stemmed from a poorly regulated banking sector. The banking sector was using aggressive lending to grow the increased inflow of foreign capital‚ most of which came from Russia. This lead to a property bubble‚ similar to what was happening in the United States of America (US)‚ prices were being bid up by borrowers who had access to cheap loans. Before the government could step in to control the bubble
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Orbis Financial Corporation Ltd.‚ a custodian‚ works as an efficient stock market intermediary facilitating smooth execution and settlement of daily trades through sophisticated technology and systems developed in-house. Transparency and effectiveness of its functioning‚ is further enhanced due to its zero conflict business model‚ as a Non Broker‚ non-banker and Non Fund Manager with unidirectional focus on custodial services. The team at Orbis is a group of professionals which endeavors
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TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 1994 Core-Competencies The core competence of Toyota Motor Corporation is its ability to produce automobiles of great quality at best prices‚ thereby providing a value for money to the customers. This core competence of quality can be attributed to its innovative production practices. The quality aspect of Toyota’s products have revolutionized the automobiles in the past and almost all the automobile companies had to try and better the quality of their products. It is a
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Group 5: Acorn Industries‚ Continental Computer Corporation‚ and Goshe Corporation Goshe Coporation In the case study on the Goshe Corporation‚ we are introduced to the head of the organization‚ Banyon. He announced that there would be an average salary increase of 7% for workers. The problem began to arise when the Finance division only received a 5.5% salary increase. The scientific programmers in the Finance division felt that their Electronic Data Processing (EDP) efforts should be duly
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Meredith Corporation Video Case Study #1 About Meredith Corporation Meredith Corporation is a marketing company that deals with many well known brands‚ including magazines such as Better Homes and Gardens‚ Family Circle and Ladies Home Journal. Their publications reach about 30 million readers in 8 out of 10 homes. They serve the media as well‚ with brands on television and other markets. Meredith Corporation is popular in marketing items that serve the home and family‚ health and wellness
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Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital April 2012 Executive Summary Determining the appropriate cost of capital for new investment projects for a diversified company like the Marriott Corporation is not an easy endeavor. However‚ it is an important exercise because the more effective the process‚ the better it can help to support the company’s growth objective with its financial strategy. The four components of the financial strategy are: manage rather than own hotel
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Marketing management CASE 1: McDonald’s CORPORATION IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM How are Customer tastes changing in the fast-food industry? What impact do these changes have on McDonald’s? First‚ people are trying to eat more and more healthy food. This has an impact on the fast food industry and especially on McDonald’s‚ the world’s largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants. As people think about their health‚ they eat less often at McDonald’s and it as an impact on the sales. Secondly
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Manufacturering Corporation (RMC) is considering moving some of its production from traditional numerically controlled machine to a flexible manufacturing system (FMS). It’s computer numerical control machines have been operating in a high variety‚ low volume manner. Issues 1. 1 . As a productions manager for R.M.C‚ what do you recommend? Why? 2. Prepare a case by a conservative plants manager for maintaining the status quo until the returns are more obvious. 3. Prepare a case for an optimistic
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Read the case “Zychol Chemicals Corporation” given below and concisely answer the questions that follow at the end of the case study. As a general guideline‚ please try to limit your answers to a paragraph or two for each of the questions. Bob Richards‚ the production manager of Zychol Chemicals‚ in Houston‚ Texas‚ is preparing his quarterly report‚ which is to include a productivity analysis for his department. One of the inputs is production data prepared by Sharon Walford‚ his operations
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first year management students. The goal of this magazine is to inform the readers about what’s hot and happening in the consulting world‚ engage them in engrossing case studies and contribute to their consulting knowledge base. The last month marked a great success of Conflux‚ the November 2012 edition. It was an intra college case study challenge. We are delighted by the overwhelming participation from both junior and senior batches. We look forward to organizing such events in future as well
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