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 study: Intel Corporation 1968-2003 Intel has made numerous strategic changes to its business model over the last 30 years to address changing market conditions and therefore maintain its ability to add value‚ buttressing the organizations effectiveness at capturing profits. The technology landscape has been extremely dynamic over this period and companies that have not adapted rapidly have faced extinction. Intel is amongst the survivors while others such as Compaq no longer exist. The first
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The Boeing Corporation is the world’s leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft combined. Additionally‚ Boeing designs and manufactures rotorcraft‚ electronic and defense systems‚ missiles‚ satellites‚ launch vehicles and advanced information and communication systems. As a major service provider to NASA‚ Boeing operates the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. The company also provides numerous military and commercial airline
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JOURNAL OF FINANCE • VOL. LIII‚ NO. 4 • AUGUST 1998 Agency Costs‚ Risk Management‚ and Capital Structure HAYNE E. LELAND* ABSTRACT The joint determination of capital structure and investment risk is examined. Optimal capital structure ref lects both the tax advantages of debt less default costs ~Modigliani and Miller ~1958‚ 1963!!‚ and the agency costs resulting from asset substitution ~Jensen and Meckling ~1976!!. Agency costs restrict leverage and debt maturity and increase yield spreads
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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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American Connector Corporation (ACC) CASE OVERVIEW American Connector Corporation (ACC) is one of the 28 suppliers of electrical connectors‚ worldwide with sales greater than $100 million. ACC manufactured Electrical Connectors from Sunnyvale‚ California since 1961. Electrical connectors are devices made to attach wires to other wires‚ attach wires to outlets‚ attach wires‚ components or chips to PC boards‚ or to attach PC boards to other boards. Connectors were used in a variety of product
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1. What is Capital One’s business and who are their competitors? Capital One is a financial services company‚ whose banking and non-banking subsidiaries market a variety of financial products and services. The Company operates in Credit Card‚ Commercial Banking and Consumer Banking segments. It issues credit cards‚ loans‚ banking and savings products‚ while determining rates to charge‚ and which customers are risky. Its competitors consist of banks‚ investment banks‚ and other credit card companies
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3 Issues with Others in a Corporations Toomey‚ who had the most corporate experience of those interviewed‚ very much felt that the biggest detriment to creativity was poor workers who were uninterested in their job. He explained that he generally enjoyed the way Dyson and its employees worked on projects. A lot of the time he worked on a small team‚ usually only two or three people‚ on certain projects. His interactions with senior members of the company were also very positive. He described how
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Executive Summary Statement of Problem Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) is a proprietary hospital management company that owns and manages chains of hospitals on a for-profit basis. HCA is currently facing a complex financial situation with their ratio of debt to total capital approaching 70%‚ as opposed to a target ratio of 60%. While some investors welcome HCA’s more aggressive use of leverage‚ others are worried that HCA’s capital structure could decrease the company’s current A bond
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THE PARTIES International Thunderbird Gaming Corporation (‘Thunderbird’) is the Claimant‚ a publicly held Canadian Corporation with its principal offices in San Diego‚ California‚ U.S.A.; the United Mexican States (‘Mexico’) is the Respondent. SUMMARY OF THE FACTS OF THE CASE Thunderbird is engaged in the business of operating gaming facilities‚ conducting investigations in Mexico in 1999-2000 concerning potential “skill machine” opportunities. Pursuant to many meetings and discussions through the
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