The City Bus Corporation Case Study By Stacy Knapp Excelsior College The City Bus Corporation provides school bus transportation to public schools in Lancaster County the city owns fifty buses that are garaged in three different cities within the county. The firm faces competition from two larger bus companies that operate in the same area. Public school boards and private schools generally award contracts to the lowest bidder‚ but the level of service and overall performance are also
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No 3. The Extended Case Study- Vector Aeromotive Corporation Zhenhua Rui 09/20/2010 Vector Aeromotive Corporation was a company which designed‚ manufactured and sold exotic sports cars. Vector was the only U.S.-based manufacture of exotic sports cars‚ and his major competitors were Ferrari and Lamborghini. Gerry Wiegert is the President and founder of this company. In 1987‚ the board of directors was formed with three directors. This case shows events happening between the board and President Gerry
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Anna James Case Study: HealthSouth Corporation Scandal Week3 Forensic Accounting: Ethics and Legal Environment Professor Erskine Hawkins HealthSouth Corporation is a large‚ public healthcare company that operates 93 inpatient rehabilitation hospital‚ 49 outpatient rehabilitation satellites‚ six long-term acute care hospitals‚ and 25 home health agencies. According to the company websites‚ it is “one of the nation’s largest healthcare providers specializing in rehabilitation”.5 The company
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Case Study 15.1: TRANSACT INSURANCE CORPORATION Steven L. McShane‚ University of Western Australia‚ and Terrance Bogyo‚ WorkSafeBC TransAct Insurance Corporation (TIC) provides automobile insurance throughout the southeastern United States. Last year‚ a new president was hired by TIC’s board of directors to improve the company’s competitiveness and customer service. After spending several months assessing the situation‚ the new president introduced a strategic plan to strengthen TIC’s competitive
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Introduction The Teletech Corporation is a “provider of integrated information movement and management”‚ as it defined itself. It had two main business segments: the first one was Telecommunications Services‚ which provided long-distance‚ local‚ and cellular telephone service‚ accounted for 75% of the market value of the firm; the second one was the Products and Systems segment‚ which produced computing and telecommunications equipment‚ accounted for other 25% of the market value of the firm. The
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the following duties: 1) duty of care – duty to make/delegate decisions in an informed way; 2) duty of loyalty – duty to advance corporate over personal interests; 3) duty of good faith – duty to be faithful and devoted to the interests of the corporation and its shareholders; 4) duty not to “waste” – duty to avoid deliberate destruction of shareholder value. There is no reason to believe that the duties of Vector’s board should be any different. The major conflict between Vector’s board and its
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Interwest Healthcare Corporation Case Study Saint Leo University Summary Interwest Healthcare is a nonprofit organization that uses a management information system to house their patient’s intake‚ treatment‚ and release information at the 10 hospital’s owned by the company. Their chief financial officer (CFO)‚ Vijay Singh‚ worries that the company will possibly face management planning issues as well as the possibility of losing their federal funding due to hospital staff members entering information
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BACKGROUND OF THE CASE Gian Auto Corporation is a manufacture and supplier of components for manufacturers and suppliers of parts for automobiles‚ van and trucks. The company maintains an excellent track record with over 10 percent increase in sales in each year. One of the critical success factors of company’s business strategy is the location of its plants in favorable business environments and areas with lower wage rates. One of GianAuto’s earliest plant is the Denver Cover Plant‚ which basically
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Orbis Financial Corporation Ltd.‚ a custodian‚ works as an efficient stock market intermediary facilitating smooth execution and settlement of daily trades through sophisticated technology and systems developed in-house. Transparency and effectiveness of its functioning‚ is further enhanced due to its zero conflict business model‚ as a Non Broker‚ non-banker and Non Fund Manager with unidirectional focus on custodial services. The team at Orbis is a group of professionals which endeavors
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Case 7-5: Dell Computer Corporation Discussion questions 1. What is Dell’s strategy? Dell’s strategy was based on: • Market leadership as a result of a persistent focus on delivering the best possible customer experience. Direct selling‚ from manufacturing to consumer‚ was a key component of its strategy. • Its reputation as one of the world’s most preferred computer systems companies and a premier provider of products and services that customers worldwide needed to build
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