Formosa Plastic Group (FPG) was founded in 1954 and headquartered in Taipei‚ Taiwan with over 47‚000 employees. FPG was the largest private diversified chemical company that produced and sold a broad range of products which mostly related to plastic. It also operated 6000 bed hospital‚ medical college‚ a nursing school‚ and a technical college. FPG was organized into three major corporations and other affiliated companies. Those three major corporations are Formosa Plastics‚ Nan Ya Plastics
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QUESTIONS 1. Explain the importance of risk adjustment in the capital budgeting allocation process by answering the following questions. a. Explain why risk adjustments are important and how they can affect firm value. Without the correct risk adjustment the firms stock will lose value by taking on high risk projects. The firm could also be considered uncompetitive if they reject low cost/low risk projects. b. Explain how the single hurdle rate currently used by Northern Forest Products can change
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Case Assignments Case 1: An ERP Story 1. What are the project’s main characteristics and challenges identified by Jean Roberge? 2. In your opinion‚ does the project have other characteristics or challenges that Jean Roberge did not identify but should also be taken into account? Case 2: Mrs. Field Cookies 1. Describe and evaluate the role of information technology at Mrs. Fields Cookies in terms of the following: a. IT architecture b. IT and Organization
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discuss the difference between reconstructive‚ plastic and cosmetic surgery and the psychological benefits of them and argue the reasons that outweigh the health risk. First‚ what are the differences between them? Reconstructive surgery is to to correct‚ fixed or repair some sort of physical deformities. Some of examples of this would be from a birth defect (cleft palate)‚ trauma (some sort of accident)‚ or medial issues (breast cancer). Plastic surgery is to transfer skin tissue from one place
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currently have the lowest gross margin among all products‚ because competitors had been reducing prices on pumps and Wilkerson adopted its prices in order to remain competitive and to maintain the volume. 2. Given some apparent problems with Wilkersons cost system‚ should executives abandon overhead assignment to products entirely by adopting a contribution margin approach in which manufacturing overhead is treated as a period expense? Our conclusion is‚ that they should not adopt a contribution margin
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BUSINESS POLICY SPRING TERM 2012 BUS 450 Questions for the Next Several Cases Friday‚ February 24 Case: Competition among NA Warehouse Clubs (case 4 in text) 1. What is competition like in the North American wholesale club industry? Which of the five competitive forces is strongest and why? Use the information in Figures 3.4‚ 3.5‚ 3.6‚ 3.7‚ and 3.8 (and the related chapter discussions on pp. 57-70) to do a complete five-forces analysis of competition in the North American
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Problem: In January 2012 the board of directors of Orateme has to decide what would be the best use to invest the company’s financial resources. Alternatives: During the meeting that took place on January 13th 2012‚ the board identified a few alternatives: 1) Leverage the current job boards to appropriate client associations‚ providing access to the network of associations and their respective members e.g. Nursing cheer network (David Flowers‚ current President). 2) Getting more serious with continuing
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third-parties‚ as well as launching new products such as the iPod in the market which brought Apple back into the spotlight. Discussion about this issue is elaborated in the main discussion section. The first section briefly describes the current situation in the case study‚ and applies using analysis tools. This will further relate to Apple’s strategic factors and success and how it uses the STP (Segmentation‚ Targeting‚ and Positioning) tool to explain its market position. The report will
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I worked at Time Inc.‚ one of the biggest companies in the magazine industry‚ for the last two years as a data analyst. Time Inc. owns many of the major brands that people typically purchase such as People‚ Time‚ Sports Illustrated‚ Money‚ Fortune‚ and many more. The trends in this industry have led to large declines in print‚ which I will refer to as newsstand copies‚ and increased content on the brand’s respective website. I worked specifically for People and Sports Illustrated and our team was
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GAP INC. CASE STUDY: QUALITY AND PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH TRUST GAP INC. BOOSTS QUALITY‚ ACCOUNTABILITY AND PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH THE ADOPTION OF RESULTS-ONLY WORK ENVIRONMENT (ROWE) GAP INC. CASE STUDY: QUALITY AND PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH TRUST - GOROWE.COM Introduction The economic climate of the past several years has been challenging for industries across the board‚ and clothing retail has been no exception. Response strategies are varied‚ from aggressive traditional marketing to increased reliance
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