Perspective: Conrail shareholder. 1. Why does CSX want to buy Conrail? How much should CSX be willing to pay? Some of the reasons why CSX wants to buy Conrail are‚ to increase the consolidation in the Railway industry. Further consolidation typically means lower cost for the consolidators fx because economies of scale and synergies and …. A consolidation also results in lower competition inside the industry‚ which typically follows with higher‚ or at least not lower‚ prices and therefore higher
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Long Case Study – Case #12 Google’s Strategy in 2010 Google’s mission statement is: “Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” The biggest management issues that we could see in this case were that Google’s management was pushing too hard its employees to keep its huge growth rates and forgot a little bit about its initial motto‚ which was “make money without doing evil”. Also‚ it was proved that Google helped the Chinese government
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Interco case Introduction Interco is retail a company with essentially four major operating divisions: Apparel Manufacturing‚ General Retail Merchandising‚ Footwear Manufacturing and Retailing. The business climate in 1988 was questioned; cheap imports hurting the profitability of the Apparel group in the US‚ due to less consumer spending the retail group had to deal with decreasing profits. However‚ the furniture and home furnishing group experienced positive circumstances in demographic developments
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Management of Organizations Individual Case Analysis Flextronics Case; Deciding on a shop-floor system for producing the Microsoft Xbox; What actions should McCuster take to reach a decision? Why should he take those decisions? Its Decision time Flextronics prides in a work culture that values fast and very decisive actions. Jim McCusker is at the epicenter of a task conflict. This group decision making process of choosing a shop floor system has to be completed and fast. Time is running
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modernize‚ and automate its manufacturing facilities. They will need a new soldering line to automate their manufacturing and are looking to purchase a robotic test cell. Steve Anderson is the purchasing agent for this new product. What makes this case unique is that Bob Waters and Steve Anderson are very close friends‚ but Gentech did not buy the robotic tetst cell from Omni‚ they went with their competitor. Gentech Office Equipment Company is looking to purchase a robotic test cell in February
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The Boeing’s Case Questions for Thought 1. Identify the stake holders in this case. A. The shareholders because they invested their money into the production of the Boeing’s Company. B. The employees were next because there were some layoffs and cut backs. 2. What is the Procurement Integrity Act? The Procurement Integrity Act prohibits the release of source selection and contractor bid or proposal information. Also‚ a former employee who served in certain positions on a procurement
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA GAUTENG DIVISION‚ PRETORIA CASE NO: CC113-2013 DATE: 2014-09-11‚ 12 In the matter between THE STATE and OSCAR LEONARD CARL PISTORIUS Accused BEFORE THE HONOURABLE MS JUSTICE MASIPA ASSESSORS: ADV J HENZEN DU TOIT ADV T MAZIBUKO ON BEHALF OF THE STATE: ADV GERRIE C NEL ADV ANDREA JOHNSON ON BEHALF OF THE DEFENCE: ADV BARRY ROUX SC ADV KENNY OLDWAGE INTERPRETERS: MS F HENDRICKS JUDGMENT VOLUME 42 (Page 3280 - 3351) iAfrica
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Average winning bid price According to collusion theorists‚ the mean winning bid price in the “rigged” market will exceed the mean winning bid price in the competitive market for each year in which collusion occurs. In addition‚ the difference between the competitive average and the “rigged” average tends to grow over time when collusionary tactics are employed over several consecutive years. Comparison of difference in mean winning bid price between Tri-county and surrounding area per year
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CASE QUESTIONS Cash Flows and Value. Cost of Capital Case 1: Hop-In Food Stores‚ Inc. 1. Determine the correct price for this particular IPO. Use several methods to do this and compare them. 2. What extra information would you try to acquire in a real life situation? Case 2: Chem-Cal Corporation 1. How do you calculate the WACC for this firm? 2. What is the cost of capital of the debt‚ preferred stock‚ and common stock (assume the equity beta is 1.22)? 3. Calculate the WACC. How can a WACC be used
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1 The Acquisition of Consolidated Rail Corporation 1. CSX wanted to merge with Conrail‚ because the consolidated company would have more than $8.5 billion in rail revenue and almost 70 % of the Eastern market. Gain in Operating Income from Cost Reduction would bring additional $370 million by the year 2000. Total gain from revenue increase would result in additional $180 million. And from the operating income would reach $550 million. Another important point in CSX-Conrail merger is the better
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