ACF: CONGOLEUM CORPORATION Summary Congoleum Corporation has three product market segments: home furnishings‚ shipbuilding and automotive and industrial distribution. In 1979‚ First Boston Corporation bid for an LBO of Congoleum for a price per share of $38. The purpose of this analysis is to assess Congoleum as a LBO candidate and determine whether the offer made by First Boston Corporation is fair. 1. Is Congoleum a good LBO candidate? In other words‚ does this company have a lot of debt
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1) What were the major mistakes made by Corwin Corporation? Inappropriate handling of the Peters project and improper project selection process. They went for a new product development project that does not fit within Corwin’s conservative business perspective. Even though Corwin Corporation had a product selection policy defined‚ they did not evaluate the request from Peters‚ in line with the policy. If Corwin Corporation had followed its policy guidelines‚ the project might never been accepted
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Data Analysis and Decision Making Under Uncertainty Week 12 Workshop Store24 Solutions 2 Data Analysis & Decision Making Under Uncertainty (2009) Part 1: Developing a model for FutureContribution Figure 1 Plots of each predictor variable against FutureContribution Scatterplot of FutureContribution vs CYJCWScore Correlation -0.063 50000 50000 Scatterplot of FutureContribution vs BanBoredomScore Correlation 0.164 FutureContribution FutureContribution 45000 40000 35000 30000 25000 20000 15000
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Nitish @ Solutions Unlimited 1. Introduction Nitish (B.Tech and M.Tech ‚ IIT Madras and M.B.A from XLRI‚ Jamshedpur) was working with a consultancy firm for two years where he showed great promise. He was well liked by all and appreciated by his boss. He had gained sound knowledge of preparing business plans and had also gained insights into the intricacies of collecting and analysing data while in the consultancy firm. To further expand his career horizon‚ on the recommendation of his friend
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Case Summary for Capital Mortgage Insurance Corporation Overview The president and senior vice president of Capital Mortgage Insurance Corporation (CMI) hope to acquire Corporate Transfer Services (CTS). Currently‚ CMI is a business that sells mortgage insurance to banks and other mortgage lenders. However‚ executives at CMI desire to expand their business into the real estate relocation industry. Essentially‚ this industry works to assist employees who have been transferred to a new city as
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by Acme Corporation? -Acme Corporation faces the ethical issue of bribery in order for buyers to purchase their products. This type of behavior can cause the corporation million dollars of fees and decline of consumer trust. Moreover‚ if outsiders get a word of Acme’s misconduct‚ the corporation can loose large portion of revenue and damage its reputation. What should Acme do if there is a desire to make ethics a part of its core organizational values? -In order for Acme Corporation to prosper
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strategy of producing low cost and high quality products. It had embarked on a program of acquisitions to meets its aggressive goals of growing sales 15% annually. It had acquired only financially successful companies. But in 1979‚ it acquired Skil Corporation‚ a financially mediocre performing company for $58 million. Skil was a leading manufacturer of portable power tools serving the professional and consumer markets‚ the circular saw being the strongest and best seller amongst those tools‚ which it
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Executive Summary Loctite Corporation should introduce the new adhesive system Bond – A – Matic 2000 (BAM) as complementary product to the SuperBonder adhesive line. The target customers are plant managers in companies using more than 1 lbs. of instant adhesive per year. Loctite should employ a direct mailing campaign for BAM’s marketing efforts. The new adhesive system will support the company’s strategies to capture 35% of the CA market with the SuperBonder line. Customer Analysis 1. Market
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Whirlpool Corporation’s Global Strategy We want to be able to take the best capabilities we have and leverage them in all our companies worldwide. David Whitman‚ Whirlpool CEO‚ 1994 Quoted in the Harvard Business Review In 1989‚ Whirlpool Corporation (Whirlpool) embarked on an ambitious global expansion with the objective of becoming the world market leader in home appliances. Beginning with the purchase of a majority stake in an appliance company owned by Philips‚ the Dutch electronics firm
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