| Brown-Forman Board Report | Potential Acquisition of Southern Comfort Corporation | | This board report summarizes the arguments for why it is believed that the acquisition of Southern Comfort Corporation (including Caligrapo Inc.) is a strategic fit that will increase shareholder value through increased sales and profitability | | Vinny Perumal | 3/7/2011 | | CONTENTS 1. Executive Summary 2 2. Background 3 1.1 An Industry Analysis 3 1.1.1 A Mature Industry
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Unit 8- LS312 STRATEGIC PLANNING‚ POLICY AND CONTROL Denia Mukusha Kaplan University Cost Justified Compensation /Discrimination This case takes place in a large computer operations company. The stakeholders in this case are as follows: Joe‚ who has been recently promoted to the position of District Manager of Computer Operation. Mary is the Divisional Manager of Information Systems and Joe reports directly to her. John is the President and CEO of the company and the immediate boss to Mary
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CASE PRESENTATION: Mr. Z is a visiting professor of biophysics at a large university medical center. The Z family came to the United States two years ago and will be in this country for five years. Family members include the doctor; his wife‚ Mrs. Z; their two children‚ who are four and seven years old; and Mr. Z’s mother. The family has adopted the traditions of a prominent culture in their country of origin‚ where the husband is conventionally the primary decision maker and the husband’s
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American Barrick Resources Corporation Case a. Explain the value chain for gold mining firms (how can a mine create a competitive advantage relative to its rivals). What are the factors that may explain exceptional performance of ABX relative to the other gold mines? To create a competitive advantage‚ a mine has to properly manage its exposure to gold price fluctuations. This is not an easy thing to do since there are so many factors to consider: when‚ how much‚ and how to hedge the gold
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A. The first sign of communication problems surfaced at Cerner corporation on March 13th‚ 2000 • The CEO‚ Neal L. Patterson sent a memo to the entire corporation with extremely hard remarks • The CEO did not consider the fact that this memo can be leaked to outside worlds if sent to entire corporate • The CEO did not consider the impact of his message on the all different kinds of employees that the company has B. The message sent by CEO has no objective • The message should have been discussed
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Journalism Ethics – A Case Study It is always important for reporters to remember to incorporate the right ethical guidelines when writing a story‚ so that the news remains objective‚ informative and proper. However‚ some like to ignore ethics in order to make their news story more interesting to read and thus‚ gather a wider readership. Some of the many issues of journalism ethics include the limits of free speech‚ accuracy and bias‚ fairness and privacy‚ the use of graphic images‚ conflicts of
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these are a dilemma for Wal-Mart because it is such a large employer and is well respected by other employers. This puts Wal-Mart in a corporate leadership position and the way in which Wal-Mart handles situations with employees is viewed by other corporations as potential solutions to their employee problems. This is also dilemma for Wal-Mart because it is such a large employer and its decisions affect a great number of people. Wal-Mart employs over 1.4 million people in the United States alone‚ encompassing
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Table of Contents 1.0 Abstract Biovail Corporation‚ a large pharmaceutical company and had applied advanced drug-delivery technologies to improve the clinical effectiveness of medicines. It is recently had its stock downgraded by a well-known pharmaceutical analyst and a number of other analysts were also scrutinizing the company. The outcome was not favorable‚ as Biovail ’s acquisition methods were labeled as unethical and their accounting practices were questioned
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TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 1994 Core-Competencies The core competence of Toyota Motor Corporation is its ability to produce automobiles of great quality at best prices‚ thereby providing a value for money to the customers. This core competence of quality can be attributed to its innovative production practices. The quality aspect of Toyota’s products have revolutionized the automobiles in the past and almost all the automobile companies had to try and better the quality of their products. It is a
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Costco Costco Wholesale Corporation is the largest wholesale club operator in the United States. Costco stores offer discount prices on an average of about 4‚000 products‚ ranging from alcoholic beverages and appliances to fresh food‚ pharmaceuticals‚ and tires‚ making it fall into other type of industry; Warehouse Clubs & Superstores. To shop at Costco‚ customers must be members -- a policy the company believes reinforces customer loyalty and provides a steady source of fixed revenue (Hoover’s
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