1) Citation Palsgraf v. Long Island R. Co 248 N.Y. 339‚ 162 N.E. 99 (1928) Court of Appeals of New York 2) Key facts a. The plaintiff‚ Helen Palsgraf‚ was waiting for a train on a station platform. b. A man carrying a package was rushing to catch a train that was moving away from a platform across the tracks from Palsgraf. c. As the man attempted to jump aboard the moving train‚ he seemed unsteady and about to fall. d. A railroad guard on the car reached forward to grab him and another guard
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ATLANTIC COMPUTER Atlantic Computer‚ a large manufacturer of servers and other high-tech products‚ has assigned Jason Jowers the responsibility of developing the pricing strategy for the new ‘Atlantic Bundle’. The bundle incorporates a new Tronn server and the Performance Enhancing Server Accelerator (PESA) software tool which allows the Tronn to perform up to four (4) times faster than its standard speed. The Tronn was specifically developed to meet an emerging U.S. marketplace opportunity and
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Emeritus‚ University of Michigan MARY KAY KANE Professor of Law‚ Chancellor and Dean Emeritus‚ University of California‚ Hastings College of the Law LARRY D. KRAMER President‚ William and Flora Hewlett Foundation JONATHAN R. MACEY Professor of Law‚ Yale Law School ARTHUR R. MILLER University Professor‚ New York University Formerly Bruce Bromley Professor of Law‚ Harvard University GRANT S. NELSON Professor of Law‚ Pepperdine University Professor of Law Emeritus‚ University of California‚ Los
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business strategy. Dell ’s business strategy has been differentiation through low cost‚ speed of delivery‚ and customer service by integrate logistics‚ manufacturing‚ distribution‚ inventory management. Dell ’s SCM strategy is perfectly aligned with its business strategies. Some of specific strategy has been just-in-time manufacturing model which reduces the inventory to bare minimum‚ keeping inventories within 15 minutes of manufacturing locations‚ building the computers to a customers specification
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R for Programmers Norman Matloff University of California‚ Davis c 2007-8‚ N. Matloff December 4‚ 2008 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This document is no longer being maintained. My book on R programming‚ The Art of R Programming‚ is due out in August 2011. You are welcome to use an early draft at http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/˜matloff/132/NSPpart.pdf; it was about 50% complete and contains bugs‚ but should be useful. Licensing: This work‚ dated December 4‚ 2008‚ is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No
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Employed Case : Dell Computer Corporation Summary : Dell Company In 2005‚ Dell Computer Corporation‚ which headquartered in Austin‚ Texas‚ was the world’s largest direct-selling computer company‚ with 57.600 employess in more than 80 countries and cutomers in more than 170 countries. Dell’s climb to market leadership was the result of a persistent focus on delivering the best possible. In less than two decades‚ Dell became the number one retailer of personal computers‚ outselling IBM and
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Dell’ s Working Capital Assignment 1 Questions to assignment 1. How Dell was’s working capital policy a competitive advantage? 2. How did Dell fund its 52% growth in 1996? 3. Assume Dell’s sales will grow 50% in 1997‚ how might the company fund this growth internally? How much would working capital need to be reduced and/or profit margin increased? What step do you recommend the company take? 4. How would your answer to question 3 changes if Dell also purchased $ 500 million of common
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Congoleum Corporation Executive Summary In valuing the target company Congoleum after an LBO by First Boston found the expected free cash flows generated by this firm from 1980 to 1984. These numbers were based on values provided in the case. From there‚ we employed the Adjusted Present Value method to discount these cash flows because we assumed that Congoleum was varying its Debt to Equity ratio during those years. We discounted these cash flows by the required return on assets that was in
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Sofitech computers CASE LOgistics Activity Type: Individual Case Material/Resources You May Use: Open Book (Anything) Deliverable(s): One document not to exceed 4 pages (single-spaced). Appendices‚ tables and figures do not count towards page size limit. Background The following provides high-level information about auditing a fictional entity‚ called Sofitec Computers‚ created for this case study. This case does not include a complete description of the entity or the industry‚ nor does it provide
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the period from 01 September 2004 up to 20 September 2005. CHANGES IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWS Rules & Regulations Implementing Republic Act No. 9239 otherwise known as the Optical Media Act of 2003 In February 2005‚ the Optical Media Board (“OMB”)‚ under the Office of President‚ promulgated the Rules and Regulations Implementing Republic Act No. 9239 (Implementing Rules”)‚ otherwise known as the Optical Media Act of 2003 which took effect on 02 March 2004. The Implementing Rules enhance
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