Q1. How attractive is the video game console industry in 2008? The video game industry can be seen as part of the broader entertainment industry‚ which is a sector that involves most part of the population all over the world‚ especially in the developed countries. The more countries will develop‚ the broader the entertainment industry’s consumer base will become‚ with the consequence of greatly widening video game industry’s potential customers. More specifically‚ video game console industry has
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Dahiya 09/12/10 Case 1 We feel that General Foods Corporation ought to go ahead with the Super Project. While we feel the incremental costs approach lacks a certain degree of sufficiency in taking into account all overhead‚ we believe the $453‚000 cost of using the existing Jell-O facilities would have already been accounted for on the Jell-O balance sheet and thus is a non-factor in determining the profitability of the Super Project. Simply adding the cost of erosion to Jell-O’s sales ought to be
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1. How would you evaluate the capital budgeting method used historically by AES? What’s good and bad about it? Historically‚ the AES capital budgeting method primarily used the following assumptions: • All nonrecourse debt was regarded as good • Dividend cash flow were considered equally risky • Project was evaluated by the equity discount rate for the dividends from the project • A 12% discount rate was applied to all projects. The historical method is quite simplistic
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Executive summary The Ford Ka cannot be marketed to a specific demographic segment‚ as defined by traditional variables such as income‚ age‚ or marital status. Willingness to purchase the Ka was for the most part not dependent on membership in these traditional segments. Alternatively‚ we propose Ford develop a campaign toward a certain segment defined by attitudinal and psychographic variables. We plan to target this segment with tailored advertising campaigns addressing their unique worldview‚
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Case Assignment 3 Affinity Plus (A) Table of contents Introduction 2 The benefits of “employee latitude” 2 The disadvantages of “employee latitude” 3 Balancing the tradeoffs between different degrees of latitude 3 Reasons for the high employee turnover at Affinity Plus 4 Management control system changes 5 The alignment of indirect lending and the MOE 6 Conclusion 6 Bibliography 8 Introduction In this case assignment the credit union Affinity Plus‚ which is based in Minnesota‚ will
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* What is McDonald’s key value proposition? * McDonald’s key value propositions are listed below. These propositions helped McDonald’s to build an unparalleled network of loyal suppliers and entrepreneurial franchisees that contributed greatly in moving the McDonald’s bandwagon ahead. The propositions not only differentiated McDonald’s from the competition but also helped build an operating model that was extremely difficult to emulate. The key value propositions are: * Quick service &
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products • remodel stores according to 3 demographics • eateries • value pricing strategy Liquidity Trouble •NCS liquidity trouble • mixed results from Van Horn’s Strategy • terms loans 1985 - 1988‚ E/D from 2.5 to 4.6 • asset sales and sale/leasebacks •Unforeseen Events • escalating costs of State of Texas worker’s compensation • Gulf War • gas price war between major oil companies • heavy rainfall‚ twice normal weather •Last Ditch Efforts • unable to sell California stores
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Misuse of media for the sake of publicity‚ sales and promotion News and media in general play a very important role for every single one of us. In fact‚ it is the media that defines much of how we perceive the world around us. Without news and media groups‚ we will be constantly left out in the blue on a lot of information for both the important ones and the silly ones that we enjoy reading anyway. For this very reason alone‚ news and media groups carry an immense amount of responsibility to deliver
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How would you assess the challenge of repositioning the Samsung brand? Samsung‚ in wanting to reposition itself as a high value added preferred products provider from a value‚ or cheap OEM products provider‚ faced many challenges. A big challenge for Samsung was that the Samsung brand was at different stages of development in different country markets – so while in some markets the Samsung brand had high brand recognition and loyalty‚ in some the brand had low awareness. This caused management
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Services Marketing PEOPLE‚ TECHNOLOGY‚ STRATEGY Sixth Edition CHRISTOPHER LOVELOCK JOCHEN WIRTZ Services Marketing People‚ Technology‚ Strategy S I X T H E D I T I O N Christopher Lovelock Yale University Jochen Wirtz National University of Singapore Upper Saddle River‚ New Jersey 07458 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lovelock‚ Christopher H. Services marketing : people‚ technology‚ strategy / Christopher Lovelock‚ Jochen Wirtz.—6th ed. p. cm. Includes
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