HBS 9-501-050 Customer Value Measurement at Nortel Networks ’’ Optical Networks Division Nortel Networks was a global player in telephony‚ data and wireless and wireline Internet solutions. Maureen Conroy and Nathalie Sauve‚ members of the Customer Value Management (CVM) Team at Nortel Networks Optical Networks‚ must recommend one of three customer value measurement methodologies to ON President Greg Mumford. In December of 1997‚ ON took a “right-angle turn” ’’ innovative cultural‚ operational
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Although Skilling was the one at the forefront when the Enron ship began to sink‚ the presence of many strong players all competing for individual power within the organization attributed to Enron’s downfall. Although Skilling came in fresh out of HBS ready to aggressively hit the ground running‚ it seems as higher management at the time‚ namely Lay‚ did not have the foresight to control
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Background: Hilton hotels started out in Cisco‚ TX being a small family owned business in the early 1900’s. By 1946 Hilton Hotels Corp became public and 8 years later acquired Promus Corp with the intention of continuing to diversify and cater to all customers whether upper class‚ middle class‚ business or personal. Fast forward to 2007 where now Hilton owns/operates and/or franchises close to 3‚000 properties and 500‚000 rooms in 78 countries ranging from ultimate luxury to middle class hotel chains
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1. How would you evaluate the capital budgeting method used historically by AES? What’s good and bad about it? Historically‚ the AES capital budgeting method primarily used the following assumptions: • All nonrecourse debt was regarded as good • Dividend cash flow were considered equally risky • Project was evaluated by the equity discount rate for the dividends from the project • A 12% discount rate was applied to all projects. The historical method is quite simplistic
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Silic Case Report Title of case analysis: Case Silic Date: 2013/11/17 Summary: The Council of Ministers of the European Union approved regulation on applying IFRS for all companies‚ so Silic‚ a France-based investment property company‚ also faces the substantial impact on their accounting standards‚ needs to choose between historical-cost or fair-value accounting to report its investment properties according to IAS 40. Silic was a major and historical player on the French commercial-property
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allows a company to determine the investment that will best increase shareholder value. With limited funds to invest in projects‚ Wyndham Worldwide must determine where best to invest. Considering the constraints of the project‚ an after-tax cash flow analysis is employed
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Case: Land Securities Group (A): Choosing Cost or Fair Value on Adoption of IFRS Case Number: 9-105-014 Topic: Financial Reporting and Control Description: A U.K. real estate firm‚ required to adopt international accounting standards (IAS) by 2005‚ must change the reporting of its primary asset (investment property) from the revaluation model under U.K. GAAP to either the cost or fair-value model under IAS. This would have a number of effects on European investment property firms‚ including
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1. What is Hilton’s Core Business? Hilton is one of the most internationally recognized names in the lodging industry. It began as a single hotel in Cisco‚ Texas in 1919 started by Conrad Hilton and over the next almost hundred years developed into a portfolio of nearly 3‚000 properties in 78 countries and a workforce of nearly 100‚000 people. In order to finance the quick expansion model‚ Hilton Hotels Corporations morphed into a franchising model. Total real estate investment is
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awareness of consumers and the ascent in the accessibility and mixed bag of fruit juice beverages. The interest and the price of concentrated fruit juice diminished in the universal market in the second 50% of 2008 due to the negative impacts from the worldwide monetary emergency. The global market for fruit and vegetable juice beverages is gauge to achieve 64.46 billion liters by 2015. It is accounted for that the juice drinks section is required to witness expanded request in both esteem and volume as
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HILTON HOTELS CASE Business Context/Key Business Drivers Hilton Hotels is one the biggest lodging company worldwide and has been recently acquired by Blackstone Group. In 2007 Hilton’s portfolio characteristics are: • close to 3‚000 hotels between all its brands; • Properties can be: a) directly owned; b) managed; c) franchised. The latter is the most common solution; • covers almost the possible spectrum of lodging. The IT function is considered part of the core business and the
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