Case: Mountain Man Brewing Company 1. What has made the Mountain Man Brewing Company successful? What is distinctive about MMBC’s product‚ customers and brand equity? Reasons why MMBC has been successful: * MMBC used their history and status as an independent family owned brewery to enhance the feeling of authenticity of their brand‚ which resonates with its core drinkers – blue collar‚ middle to low income men over the age of 45. * MMBC has very high brand awareness – in a recent
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What are the challenges of managing a matrix organization like GM’s basketweave? How has GM chosen to address these challenges? GM’s basketweave structure fits into a simultaneous organization structure perfectly. The purpose of implementing this matrix structure is to achieving both differentiation and integration within different regional segments and also within functional units. The new structure will help “to overhaul processes and reduce overlapping product lines‚ eliminating similar‚ often
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Introduction Benton Textiles have developed a new process‚ which can apply a special finish to certain types of textiles. The subsequent analysis will discuss two of the key questions that every company faces when it introduces a new product: Which market should the company target? And how should the new product be priced? The alternatives for Benton is either to enter the higher priced market‚ to the lower priced market‚ or to combine the two and first enter the higher priced market and then move
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Managing Business Operations Case Analysis: Blanchard Importing and Distributing Co. Inc. (HBS Case 9 - 673 - 033) Submitted by: Tushar Kothavale (130) NMIMS‚ FT MBA 2009-2011 1) Correct the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) and Reorder point (ROP) quantities for each of the five items mentioned in the case. We first predict the annual demand for the year 1972 based on trend for 4 months of 1972 based on corresponding months of 1971. Calculations for Annual demand (R): The assumption made
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August 29 2013 The Honorable Thom Ellis North Carolina State Senate/House of Representatives North Carolina General Assembly Raleigh‚ NC 27601-1096 Dear Senator Ellis‚ I strongly urge you to oppose the HB 693 law that deprives the teenagers in NC of medical confidentiality. We talk about our right to be free‚ our right to have privacy and to make discretionary decisions about our health‚ where are they? The question at hand‚ “Legislated parent-child relationship vs. Open parent-child relationship
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solidarity) and the historical congeniality ("gentlemen with brains") has been reversed: a customer reported to Beers his direct witness of O&M political infighting over an account and creativity has declined. The changes in the industry make a compelling case for a communal culture: creativity still need to be fostered through high sociability and the globalisation trend require some higher level of discipline and coordination achieved through high solidarity. O&M organisation‚ described as "light center
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1. What are the problems? Market leadership and technological innovation have marked Sealed Air’s participation in the U.S. protective packaging market. Several small regional producers have introduced products‚ which are less effective than Sealed Air’s but similar in appearance and cheaper. The company must determine its response to this new competition. The company is faced with a difficult choice of choosing from a range of feasible options ranging from doing nothing to introducing a new product
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2. How did Ducati become the second most profitable motorcycle maker in the world despite its small scale? Platform Approach: Ducati divided the bike into a small number of component and sub-component assemblies. A supplier was responsible for managing and delivering the component. The platform approach minimizes detailed‚ multi-step assembly processes. Consequently‚ fewer Ducati man-hours are needed to assemble a motorcycle. The assembly expertise of each component is concentrated at the supplier
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CASE 2: VALUING CAPITAL INVESTMENT PROJECTS CORPORATE FINANCE GROUP Y Growth Enterprises‚ Inc When valuing any project‚ the free cash flows must be determined in order to be able to successfully implement any method of capital budgeting. Growth Enterprises is currently considering four projects. Each has an equal required initial investment of $10‚000‚000 which is followed by a set of cash flows different for each project. Depreciation figures for each project were calculated on a straight-line
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A R T I C L E www.hbr.org A New Game Plan for C Players by Beth Axelrod‚ Helen Handfield-Jones‚ and Ed Michaels Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 A New Game Plan for C Players 10 Further Reading A list of related materials‚ with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and applications Product 8598 A New Game Plan for C Players
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