negative beta implies that security A would stabilize the returns on a portfolio since the returns on A are negatively correlated to the market. The riskiness of a portfolio is determined by its beta value. Security A has a negative beta (-0.5)‚ which makes it less risky when compared with positive beta value for security B (0.5). In addition‚ if we consider a standalone risk‚ standard deviation plays an important role. It is used as an indicator of risk‚ security A has 30% standard deviation which
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Week-1 Assignment CASE STUDY Dollar General: Heavy on Organization‚ Light on Systems Managing Technology for Organizations April 20‚ 2006 Dollar General‚ a family of small‚ neighborhood store delivers with convenience and value on the basics needs of their customer. The store vows to help their customers save time and money just as it competitors Wal-Mart and Dollar Tree. However Dollar General believe that combination helps our customers have a better life‚ and that is important to
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INTRODUCTION Dollar General is an aggressive‚ competitor in the deep discount retail industry. Recent annual sales figures totaling $6.9 billion across 29 states (close to 7‚000 stores) has placed the chain at the top of the dollar store category of discount retailers‚ surpassing chains Family Dollar‚ Fred’s and Dollar Tree. The company also competes aggressively with chains such as Wal-Mart‚ Kmart‚ CVS and Rite Aid. The store currently offers a product line of general merchandise that includes
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Q1: Describe Dollar General’s business strategy. What has the company been so successful? A1: Dollar General’s main business strategy is to focus on being the leading distributors of consumable basics‚ with 30% of the merchandise at $1.00 or less. Dollar General believes in maintaining an assortment of consumable merchandise and making shopping for everyday items hassle free and simplistic. Deriving most of their customer basis from Low‚ Middle and fixed income earners. With under-serviced
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The primary activities (Porter‚ 1985) of the company include the following: • Inbound logistics These are the activities concerned with receiving the materials from suppliers‚ storing these externally sourced materials‚ and handling them within the firm. Here goods are received from a company’s suppliers. They are stored until they are needed on the production/assembly line. Goods are moved around the organisation. ~ Fresh fruit and vegetables are delivered and prepared every day. • Operations
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Camy Villegas Assignment 1 Research Report April 25‚ 2011 Information technology has become such an essential part of a company’s success in today’s world. As recent as 10 years ago it was unheard of to run a company solely though the internet. Today we have Amazon.com‚ which is one of the biggest internet companies and which led the way for the rest of them to follow. Another company that was born during the .com boom is Netflix. It got its start in 1997 as an idea to rent DVD’s over the
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Often times individuals have conversations trying to pin down the exact monetary value of each individual life. However‚ money is not the only way one can measure the worth of a life. Assigning dollar value is not an accurate way to value a person’s life‚ instead a life should be valued by the experiences lived in it. All lives are equally valuable and should be treated that way. Do to unfortunate circumstances‚ people sometimes lose limbs‚ when this occurs the government will often give them a
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Value Chain Analysis Before making a strategic decision‚ it is important for Apple to understand how its activities or products create values for customers. One way to do this is to conduct a value chain analysis (VCA). VCA “refers to the idea that a company is a chain of activities for transforming inputs into outputs that customers value. The process of transforming inputs into outputs compromises a number of primary and support activities” (Hill and Jones‚ 2001‚ p.133). Each value is considered
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everyone gives life a certain value for each person they meet. Some people are too important to put value on‚ depending on the perspective of the appraiser‚ others can be priced quite easily by someone else and be difficult to by another. Based on the readings given to work with contradicting one another‚ someone cannot wholeheartedly agree with all of the passages. People put dollar value on life and in some places it is deemed as bad to do so but it is the only way we can value things. The idea of paying
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Value Chain The value chain also chain as value chain analysis is a concept from business management that was first described and populated by Michael Porter in 1985. A value chain is a chain of activities for activities for a firm operating in a specific industry. The chain of activities gives the products more added values then the sum of added values of all activities and also said that‚ value chain is an interrelated series of process that produce a service on product to the satisfaction
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