Rosewood Hotels and Resorts is considering a new brand strategy in an attempt to increase their multi property guest stays‚ revenues and cross selling rates. However‚ the company needs to do so without the expense of possibly diminishing the powerful brand image and strategy of their existing properties. Rosewood has built a customer value proposition on a core set of philosophies‚ as well as‚ strategic and marketing plans designed to create their unique competitive advantage through differentiation
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Dollar General Case 1. Consider the $13.4 million of freight costs. What is the correct (GAAP) method of accounting for these? How did Dollar General in fact originally account for these costs? (Include in your answer a table of the effects on income in any years affected‚ both before and after tax‚ of the correct accounting and the accounting they originally used. The correct GAAP method to account for freight costs is as an expense of Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) that occur at the time
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5. Evaluate Intel’s shift in strategy under CEO Craig Barrett and new CEO Paul Otellini. Craig Barrett’s strategic focus was on innovation and R&D. He aggressively built new businesses thru acquisitions and internal ventures‚ to the tune of $12 billion. Under his leadership‚ Intel entered a myriad of new markets – wireless‚ networks‚ communications‚ and online services. In 1999‚ he changed the corporate mission statement. Intel went from “being the preeminent supplier to the new computing
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Ameritrade Case Writeup questions (do all this as if it is June 1997‚ date of the case): 1. What is Ameritrade’s capital structure? Because there is no preferred stock or long term debt‚ Ameritrade is a 100% equity firm. 2. What is Ameritrade’s cost of equity capital? CAPM= (.0643)+ (1.8264)(.188-.0559)=.2902=29.02% Return on Market=(899.470-757.12)/757.12=.188 Beta calculation on Attached Excel Spreadsheet. 3. What is Ameritrade’s cost of debt capital? Because there is
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Studies in Organizational Culture- Groupon Inc. “Groupon! Get your Groupon! Hot off the presses!” It wasn’t too long ago Groupon Inc. was the darling of Wall Street. Institutional and individual investors alike were anxiously anticipating an opportunity to buy shares of the company dubbed by Fast Company as “the most exciting thing to happen to retail since eBay.” That excitement was mirrored on November 4‚ 2011‚ Groupon’s first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange‚ as the price sky-rocketed
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HBS CASE: THE FASHION CHANNEL Answers by Chenghao Zheng (Chuck) 1. What insight do you get from the consumer and market data? TFC’s revenue for 2006: $310.6 million ($80 million from affiliate fees and $230.6 million from ad sales) Strength: the only network dedicated exclusively to fashion‚ with up-to-date and entertaining information broadcast 24/7 Weakness: no detailed segmentation‚ branding‚ or positioning strategy According to customer analysis: there are four groups of customers‚ Fashionistas
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Marketing Case Study about Groupon.com Groupon: Finding Strength in Numbers Case Study 14.1 talks about the new internet coupon sensation: Groupon. Groupon was recently discovered in Chicago to gain exposure to new businesses through discounted membership deals and has been on the rise ever since. This particular case study attempts to elaborate on the success of Groupon and how it works. The e-coupon was designed to help business owners appeal to new prospective consumers by advertising group
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Sales How does Groupon generate revenue? - Because Groupon relies on its merchants to provide its consumers with products or services‚ they must continue to grow their merchant relationships to provide their customers with new products. Merchants provide the foundation of Groupon’s business‚ so without merchants‚ Groupon wouldn’t have anything to offer to its consumers and therefore not be able to generate revenue - the graph shows the importance of Groupon’s relationships with its merchant. Since
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Stakeholders 5 4.2.8 Directions 5 4.3 Analysis of Apple’s external environment 6 4.3.1 Macro level‚ PEST analysis 6 4.3.2 Meso level‚ Five Forces Model 6 4.3.3 Micro level‚ Business Environment 8 5 Conclusions and recommendations 9 6 References 10 Executive summary Apple started out small‚ producing visionary new products. With the combined strength of Jobs and Wozniak Apple computers soon had developed a clear strategy for the company. They wanted to make top
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Why did LTCM have difficulty raising its level of risk? What is Value at Risk‚ and what role did it play in the LTCM failure? In September 1997‚ the Fund had an annualized standard deviation of approximately 10.7%‚ which was significantly lower than the Fund’s long-run goal of 20% annualized standard deviation. There are several reasons to explain why LTCM had difficulties in raising its level of risk. LTCM structured the majority of its trades in a way that required minimal initial outlay
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