Industry: • A lot of small local and regional companies • Compete in residential & commercial construction market o Residential: custom cabinets & millwork for new & remodeled homes. $4.8B market in US in 1996. Only 15% homebuilders contracted for custom cabinetry for high-end home o Commercial $5B in US in 1996 CMR: • Bought in June 1997 (founded 1975 as subcontractor providing custom cabinetry to homebuilders) • 115 employees • $6.8M annual sales (top 5% in industry)‚ 80% is from commercial
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Mearl oil company case review The case is about a manager environmental support system of Mearl Oil Company named Leslie Milne which noticed that there are serious potential environmental and health hazard problems in areas which industrial facilities were discharging wastewater into open ditches. According to this discovery‚ company made a memorandum of wastewater discharge‚ environment and health standard to all Mearl subsidiaries which were then called by Environmental Impact Targets (EITs)
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Case studies in the Oil and Gas industry Piper Alpha Piper Alpha was a North Sea oil production platform operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd. The platform began production in 1976‚ first as an oil platform and then later converted to gas production. An explosion and resulting fire destroyed it on July 6‚ 1988‚ killing 167 men‚ with only 59 survivors. The death toll includes 2 crewmen of a rescue vessel. Total insured loss was about £1.7 billion (US$ 3.4 billion). At the time of
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7 Mar. 2011. . Fortuna‚ Alex Jubak‚ Jim. "What ’s Killing Citigroup—Slowly." MoneyShow. 27 Apr. 2010. Web. 7 Mar. 2011. . Lipman‚ I.A Neilson‚ Leighann C‚ and Megha Chadha. "International marketing strategy in the retail banking industry: The case of ICICI Bank in Canada." Journal of Financial Services Marketing 13.3 (2008): 204-220. Business Source Premier. EBSCO. Web. 8 Mar. 2011. Scott‚ Jonathan A.‚ and William C. Dunkelberg. "Competition for small firm banking business: Bank actions versus
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Group 16: Econ Project #1 Due: 16 October 2003 Introduction by Jamie Ifkovits: Oil is certainly the world ’s largest cash commodity. One of the main products produced from crude oil is gasoline. Gas plays a significant role in the life of people in countries throughout the world. Gas accounts for approximately 17% of the energy consumed in the United States and is primarily used for powering automobiles ("A Primer on Gasolne Prices" 5 Oct 2003). The prices paid by customers at the
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Appex Corporation Under the leadership of Shikhar Ghosh‚ Appex Corporation has undergone several significant structural changes in order to cater to its rapid growth in the past three years. Each of these structural changes just generally improved the operating performance of Appex Corporation for a short period of time‚ ultimately each different structure has generated a new set of barriers and problems that constrained the innovation‚ performance and growth of the company. Based on the changes
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Harvard Business School 9-289-047 Rev. April 1‚ 1998 Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital (Abridged) In April 1988‚ Dan Cohrs‚ vice president of project finance at the Marriott Corporation‚ was preparing his annual recommendations for the hurdle rates at each of the firm’s three divisions.部门 要求报酬率 Investment projects at Marriott were selected by discounting the appropriate cash flows by the appropriate hurdle rate for each division. In 1987‚ Marriott’s sales grew by 24% and its return on equity
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concepts from this course by writing a clear and thoughtful report to an executive-level audience. Please choose EITHER the Delta Oil Diversity Case (see pg. 1) OR the Eclipse Airlines Ethics Case (see pg. 4). Detailed instructions for completing each case assignment are below. Delta Oil Diversity Case You have been hired as a consultant to help Delta Oil improve the management of diversity within their organization. The petroleum industry tends to be heavily male dominated and Delta is
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The History of Marine Corps at Embassies If you have been watching the news lately (2015). You have probably heard all about ISIS and the train incident and even some of the terrorist attacks. Marines play a major role in most of these incidents especially the train incident in Paris‚ France. A crazy person could have kill some people but no‚ the Marines were the heroes. Now let’s learn about The History of Marine Corps at Embassies around the world‚ and some other cool and crazy facts about
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Alberta Oil Sands because of how it affects people’s health‚ there is a limited supply of it‚ and how it affects the environment. Firstly‚ the health of those who live around the Oil Sands is negatively affected. A study made by the Alberta Cancer Board in 2009 showed that people who lived about 250 kilometers away from a tar sands development were experiencing higher than normal rates of cancer (ForestEthics). This study indicates that there is a correlation between one’s health and the Oil Sands;
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