should be found liable for any infringements. Further Microsoft reached a licensing agreement in April 2010 with HTC to pay royalties on Android based handsets ("Patent wars"‚ 2011). More recently‚ Apple launched a lawsuit against Samsung in April 2011 claiming Samsung copied design features of the iPhone in its Galaxy line of Android phones (Quigley‚ 2011). These are just a few examples of legal challenges faced by smartphone manufacturers. Mentioning all lawsuits in the past several years is beyond
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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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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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Samsung Electronics Questions 1. Why should Samsung globalize? Globalization should consider as Samsung’s second strategy‚ as Kim mentioned in the article. The world becomes a single market‚ which is associated with globalized resources and systems. Globalization should consider as a beneficial and efficient plan for the company. First of all‚ when Samsung goes global‚ Samsung can gain greater market share‚ increase sales and profits. In the case study‚ the article mentions that not only there’s
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Discussion Questions for Samsung Electronics: 1. What are the characteristics of the DRAM industry? What is the profit potential of the industry? What are the KSF? 2. What recommendation would you make Chairman Lee regarding Samsung’s response to the threat of large scale Chinese entry? Should Samsung invest in China? 3. What were the sources of Samsung’s cost advantage in DRAMs in 2003? Make sure that you can derive the $1.39 cost advantage in Table 7a based on the tables 7b to 7k. What are the
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INTRODUCTION McCusker is the project team leader and had authorized the organization of a cross-functional and cross-regional project team in Flextronics. McCusker should reach a decision with regards to which shop-floor system to implement in the facilities as soon as possible. Main stakeholders in this decision are Mexico team‚ Hungary team and Microsoft. From long term perspective‚ Flextronics needs to integrate the different shop-floor systems present in each facility into one system. The growing
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CASE: SAMSUNG ELECTRONIC CORPORATION: GOVERNANCE OF CHAEBOLS Copyright: Prof. Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes Professor Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Rakhi Kumar‚ Yale MBA02 prepared this case as the basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate the effective or ineffective governance of an organization. Prof. Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes INTRODUCTION Case: Samsung Electronics Prior to the Asian currency crises‚ South Korea was an investment destination for several institutional
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Samsung should focus on to invest more in semiconductor business and leave the Chinese Collaboration. Korean’s are pioneered and they expertise in making semiconductor products. Samsung focus on differentiation strategy‚ low cost and high quality memory products and targeted niche market. Samsung have too much organization experience and knowledge about design and its production process. Samsung focus on making nanotechnology with high accuracy and energy efficient products. Expand more on R&D system
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HBS Case Review: Mt. Everest Case Study Introduction The case of Mt. Everest focuses on two commercial expeditions‚ Adventure Consultants and Mountain Madness‚ and the tragic event on May 10‚ 1996. These two commercial expeditions were lead by Rob Hall and Scott Fischer‚ and were consisted of 20 members. Both leaders were experienced climbers‚ but due to several factors‚ the expedition resulted into five deaths including Hall and Fischer. The event has thought managers to evaluate the importance
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