Product and Service design plays a strategic role in helping an organization achieve its goals. A good product or service design can ensure customer satisfaction‚ quality and production costs. On the other hand‚ if an organization is offering poor product or service‚ customer’s feedback in the form of lack of interest will result in poor sales. Also quality and production costs are affected by poor design of the product or service. Some key reasons to design or redesign a product are simply. They
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Case #3 “Marriott Corporation” The Cost of Capital” What is the weighted average cost of capital for the Marriott Corporation and cost of capital for each of its divisions? – What risk-free rate and risk premium did you use to calculate the cost of equity? – How did you measure the cost of debt? – How did you measure the beta for each division? Solution What risk-free rate and risk premium did you use to calculate the cost of equity? – Risk-free rate proxy The risk-free
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Urban Development & Planning in the Palestinian Territories Presented By: Director‚ Urban & Regional Planning Unit An-Najah National University‚ Nablus Dr. Ali Abdelhamid Introduction: Urban development and planning practice and experience in Palestine which stemmed back to mid 19th Century had passed through various changes and developments in terms of characteristics‚ policies‚ principles‚ and management. The urban planning system in Palestine seems to be unique in its composition
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GEELY’s ACQUISITION of VOLVO 1. Introduction to the Case This Case is about * The Automotive Industry of China * The acquisition of “Volvo” by “Geely” (a Chinese firm) * Geely is an automotive company in China‚ which was engaged in producing non-luxury cars for its local market in the country since 1998. * Li Shufu was the founder of the company‚ who was basically a poet and has a philosophical attitude towards life. * The time of the case is year 2010. 2. Situational
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Environmental Change Unit andTransport Studies Unit of the School of Geography and the Environment‚ Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities‚ Faculty of Law‚ Saïd Business School‚ Department of Economics and the International Institute for Environment and Development. Throughout the programme‚ students will benefit from the University of Oxford’s unrivalled digital library resources to enable them to complete the assignment tasks and prepare research projects. The aim of the MSc is to provide an intellectually-rigorous
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The Agency Problem and Control of the Corporation‚ Mergers and Acquisitions The Agency Problem and Control of the Corporation Corporate managers are the agents of shareholders. This relation creates a problem for shareholders who must find ways to induce managers to pursue shareholders interests. Financial managers do act in the best interest of the shareholders by taking action to increase the stock value. However‚ in large corporations ownership can be spread over a huge number of stockholders
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Francho Garza Güell 27/12/2012 PRODUCT DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS INDIVIDUAL EVALUATION 1. EDM (Electrical discharges machine ) and WEDM ( Wire Electrical discharges machine). • Fundamentals of process; Principles of EDM Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) is a controlled metal-removal process that is used to remove metal by means of electric spark erosion. In this process an electric spark is used as the cutting tool to cut (erode) the workpiece to produce the finished part to the
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VIDEO CASE STUDY PRODUCT DESIGN AT REGAL MARINE The 7-minute video available from Prentice Hall‚ filmed specifically for this text‚ supplements the written case. 1. The concept of product life cycle applies to Regal Marine because Regal is constantly under pressure to introduce new prod-ucts—and those products have life cycles of relatively few years. As the video suggests‚ it is a matter of typically less than five years before a boat is out of style and its life cycle terminated. This is a
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Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital Executive Summary J. Willard Marriott started Marriott Corporation in 1927 with a root beer stand‚ expanding it into a leading lodging and food service company with sales of over $6 billion by 1987. At the time‚ Marriott had three main lines of business‚ lodging‚ contract services and restaurants‚ with lodging generating about 51% of company’s profits. The four key elements of Marriott’s financial strategy were managing hotel assets rather than owning‚
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American Home Products Corporation Symbol : AHP NYSE : AHP Business Description : American Home Products (AHP) is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world‚ based in Madison‚ New Jersey‚ USA. American Home Products is a corporation involved in the production and marketing of over 1500 consumer goods allocated among four distinct business lines. AHP is a company with virtually no debt and an impressive amount of cash in its balance sheet. The company is characterized by its
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