Groupon has effectively used personal selling by partnering with businesses that are able to offer consumers daily deals (Ferrell‚ Hirt & Ferrell‚ 2014). The more consumers that purchase each product will determine if the deal can become available to that group of customers. The consumer can then purchase this product and share the information about it with their friends to promote that certain business or product. The more likes‚ comments or shares means the more aware the consumers will be. This
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Many of the students I serve have diagnosed disabilities in reading comprehension and oral expression. Therefore‚ I anticipate that the course “RDG 511 – Corrective Reading Instruction‚” will give me new approaches to meeting this students learning needs. The course “RDG 516 – Reading: The Five Pillars” will also potentially elaborate on the knowledge I gained in READ 7131‚ where I encountered theories
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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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Case: Dell Computers (A): Field Service for Corporate Clients [HBS 9-603-067] 1. What are the key challenges DELL should be concerned with as it enters the large scale server market? Support service in server market is more critical than in personal computer market‚ especially when the server is a large scale one‚ since a problem in server even for a short time could cause serious problem in the customer’s business. Having realized the importance‚ competitors such as Hewlett-Packard and IBM
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HBS Case: AQUALISA QUARTZ – SIMPLY A BETTER SHOWER. 1. (A) After spending 5.8 million developing the Quartz‚ the product is definitely worth the investment because (1) The Quartz is the product that answer directly to the customer needs and wants. Most consumers need and want the product that can fix the problems – poor pressure‚ fluctuations in pressure and tolerance in using. (2) Choosing a shower brand depends mostly on which brand plumbers are familiar to so with new technology of the
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1. Coupons are a tried-and-true promotion method‚ and the Internet includes other couponing sites. How does Groupon differentiate itself? a. Groupon is a business that helps other businesses try and make a profit from their business. Groupon helps a business gain exposure and attract interested shoppers through a discounted membership deal. Groupon helps the business come up with a deal on discounted good or services. The owner of the business sets the terms from the business deal the minimum and
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solve for the 3 × 6 FRA rate (the three month rate‚ three months forward). 6) Let X be the average short-term rate over the next year (time zero to time one). There is a 20% chance X will be 5%‚ a 30% chance X will be 7%‚ a 20% chance X will be 9%‚ and a 30% chance X will be 15%. Solve for the price of a chooser option on the average interest rate where
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Chapter 10 Groupon: Decisions! Decisions! Decisions! – Discussion Questions 1. What are the key decisions that Andrew Mason has made during Groupon’s brief history? How have these decisions influenced Groupon’s evolution as an Internet-based business? Andrew Mason’s key decisions during Groupon’s brief history have been the following. 1) The decision to form an internet based company. 2) The decision to offer coupons in the unique way at a group rate. 3) The first major key decision that Mason made
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Midland Resources 1. How are Mortensen’s estimates of Midland’s costs of capital used? How‚ if at all‚ should these anticipated uses affect the calculations? The cost of capital is the minimum acceptable rate of return for new investments in the corporation. Estimates of Midland’s cost of capital are used in many analysis within Midland‚ including asset appraisal for both capital budgeting and financial accounting‚ performance assessments‚ M&A proposals‚ and stock repurchase decisions. These
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-MFS- 1. Does the MFS system have weak or strong pay-to-performance? What type of behavior does the MFS system motivate? Basically‚ culture of MFS is focused on teamwork and community so that MFS manages their employees very fair and its compensation system also reflects this characteristic. For sustaining this team –based culture of MFS‚ which don’t prefer star(anti star culture)‚ MFS assesses their employees to the ways that not only fund-performance(performance factor) but also contribution
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