Procter & Gamble ------------------------------------------------- ADMN 404: Assignment #2 Leah Cohen EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Procter & Gamble started in 1837 with William Procter and James Gamble coming together to make and sell candles and soaps. This simple business has since transformed into a global manufacturing‚ distribution and marketing company providing over 300 brands to consumers. Today‚ Procter & Gamble is the world’s biggest consumer products company with more than $80
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Management Consulting Club Case Interview Guide Harvard Business School Management Consulting Club Case Interview Guide Cases contributed by Management Consulting Club and consulting companies. Note: Case guide is strictly for the use of current HBS Management Consulting Club members. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic‚ mechanical‚ photocopying‚ recording‚ or otherwise—without the permission of HBS Management Consulting Club
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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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Material total‚ price and usage Practor & Gamble original budget for the product Alpha 577 does not include the variances in material total‚ price and usage. To create a budget‚ its necessary to calculate all the direct and indirect costs‚ usage and their variances of the materials used. The direct material costs can be traced in full to the product‚ service or department that is being cost. The indirect material costs cannot be traced directly to the product‚ service or department and are
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However‚ sales promotion is the array of method or techniques that marketers use to stimulate or improve immediate purchase. In most cases‚ sales promotion is used in conjunction with other promotional tools especially advertising and personal selling to achieve desire result. But unlike advertising and personal selling‚ sales promotion comprises a wide variety of technical promotional tools of short term incentives designed to stimulate a target market response. In other words‚ sales promotion
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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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excessive sales promotion result in dilution of brand equity? Group 4 Amandeep Singh Gandhi Chetna Kirtan Acharya Murthy BBTGS Ravish Malik Sirish CP Vivek Singh Contents What is sales promotion? Why is it required? Decisions involved in sales promotion Types of sales promotion Sales promotion to be used at different stages of the product lifecycle Direct and interactive marketing A special case: Intrusive sales promotion Conclusion What is Sales Promotion? Sales promotion is an
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Case Report | Creating Sustainable Competitive AdvantageWall Mart | | | 1. Background 2.1. Retail Discount Merchandise (wide variety) National Market B2C Retail Discount Merchandise (wide variety) National Market B2C Market Discount Merchandise (wide variety) National Market B2C Discount Merchandise (wide variety) National Market B2C Merchandise (wide variety) National Market B2C Merchandise (wide variety)
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Business Strategy Apple Case 09 March 2012 “All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer‚ But what none can see is the strategy Out of which victory is evolved.” Sun Tzu (1) 1 Executive summary 2 2 Introduction 3 3 Apple INC.: An overview 3 4 Strategy Analysis 4 4.1 Branch of economic activity 4 4.2 The 8 key concepts 4 4.2.1 Competitive advantage 4 4.2.2 Long term 4 4.2.3 Organization 4 4.2.4 Scope 5 4.2.5 Environment
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