Discussion Questions for OM 5016 Class 2 Ch 1 &2. Operations Management Introduction and Strategy 1. What is Operations Management? What are major OM decisions? 2. What are the key differences between goods and services? 3. What a role does productivity play? How to measure productivity and what challenges do we have in measuring and improving productivity? 4. What is mission and strategy? How important is it for an organization to develop a mission and strategy? 5. What
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Guidelines”)‚ the United States imposed import restrictions on shrimp caught without using TEDs. In light of this ruling‚ the United States revised its regulations (the “Revised Guidelines”) to require sea turtle conservation programs that were “comparable in effectiveness” to the U.S. program. It also entered into negotiations to protect sea turtles with Southeast Asian countries. When Malaysia challenged these efforts as inadequate in Shrimp/Turtle II‚3 the Appellate Body upheld the Revised Guidelines
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Is This Project Likely To Be Successful? Location‚ Product‚ Pricing Given the information‚ this project seems promising for success assuming high occupancy levels. The Millegan Creek Apartments would be a 390 unit apartment project in Williamson County‚ for a proposed $15‚715‚000 loan. It would be about 11 miles northwest of the CBD and close to many of Austin’s high tech companies. This location would be beneficial because it can service many of the high tech companies’ employees and since
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CHAPTER 11 INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER PRICING Chapter Outline I. Two factors heavily influence the manner in which international transfer prices are determined: (a) corporate objectives‚ and (b) national tax laws. There are a variety of cost‚ especially tax‚ minimization objectives that MNCs might attempt to achieve through international transfer pricing. However‚ MNCs must be careful to comply with national tax laws in setting international transfer prices. II. The three bases commonly used
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Molson Coors Alcoholic Beverages Industry‚ Team 1 Leah Black Professor Shaked‚ FE449 12:30PM Section Industry Information -Make sure to add info about craft beer -Shift away from beer and towards liquor Key Industry Drivers For beer‚ wine and liquor‚ demand from wholesalers is very important. Companies in this industry must work closely with wholesalers to properly promote their product and ensure shelf space at liquor stores. An issue that arises with wholesaling is state restrictions
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through a foodborne illness outbreak‚ as December of 2016. In order to value Chipotle‚ the author has analyzed the strategic outlook and the financial performance of the company‚ as well as conducted both the discounted cash flow analysis and the comparable company analysis. In respect with the overall fast-casual industry in which Chipotle competes‚ although the market competition is intensifying‚ it is expected that this industry will continue to grow in the U.S‚ thanks to the high consumer confidence
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The main content of this chaptersection includes the motivation for applying corpora in translation‚ types of corpora and general application of different corpora in translation studies. 2.1 Why use corpora in translation studies According to Bowker and Pearson (2002:9)‚ a corpus is “a large collection of authentic texts that have been gathered in electronic form according to a specific set of criteria”. (Bowker and Pearson 2002:9) and corpus research has greatly influenced the way we study
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: w‚ x) = P(a‚ x | A‚ w) - P(a‚ x | A‚ w) = p1 - p2 a Power Comparability 5 factors to be considered: 1) Difference in basis 2) Difference in means 3) Difference in scope – responses should be comparable 4) Difference in number of respondents – number should be comparable 5) Difference in change in probabilities (M) (probability of getting a response) Last 3 will give the payoff If 2 out of the last 3 are
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Cost of Capital at Ameritrade 1) Briefly describe the project that Ameritrade is considering In order to maintain its competitive edge in the discount brokerage market‚ Ameritrade is considering making major investment state of the art technology that can prevent system outages and guarantee 100% reliability. The new system would enable Ameritrade to follow its mission of becoming the largest brokerage firm based on the number of trades. As part of the project the firm would also invest in a new
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Blackberry maker Research in Motion is a pure play in smart phones and related software) § Subjective § Adjust firm’s WACC to reflect the riskiness of the project relative to riskiness of the firm 9 Finding Comparable Pure Play § Often difficult to find comparable pure play companies § Honda enters aircraft business § Honda Motors Beta: § Embraer Source: Google Finance 0.96 1.65 10 Systematic vs.
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