Case 1: Opening case: Haier of China Moves Overseas to South Carolina 1. What are the various strategic‚ market‚ and economic motives for Haier of China to set up manufacturing operations in the United States Strategic * Shipping refrigerators from Asia could take up to 6 weeks. * Opening Haier’s American factory is as much as a cultural victory as a business one. * Target‚ Wal-Mart‚ Costco and Best Buy * Cultural organization * Discipline of Chinese * Strategic business unit
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1.i. Test Marketing Expense: These can be identified as sunk costs‚ using the with-or-without test. These costs were undertaken to determine whether the Super project was feasible‚ and would exist even if the project were deemed unfeasible. 1.ii. Overhead Expenses: Mr. Sanberg proposed to include these in the fully allocated method used in Alternative III. However‚ we believe that these expenses have already been attributed to the Jell-O line of products‚ and the data does not explicitly provide
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in 2001. Although Haier was faced with international competence‚ it also created more opportunities to infuse advanced technology and designs. For internal analysis‚ Haier was dedicated to gain competitive advantages in domestic market. To start with‚ good relationship with government is a good point. Specifically‚ Haier was a collective enterprise whose ultimate authority was municipal government. It can enjoy the tax benefit at the beginning stage of development. Besides‚ Haier provided differentiated
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Aqualisa Quartz Case Write up Problem: Aqualisa is suffering from a lack of sales momentum with their new Quartz product line due to a lack strategic promotion. The firm is has boldly attempted to innovate the electric segment of the UK’s shower market. Unfortunately plumbing products have little brand recognition amongst consumers and Aqualisa has a small share of the electric shower market further reducing their new product’s visibility. As electric showers have a reputation of being problematic
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TO: Michael Jamal CEO‚ Haier America‚ Inc. FROM: Acquisition consultant DATE: July 15‚ 2008 RE: HAIER/GE Acquisition It is ironic and coincidental this memo comes on the heals of the massive Anheuser-Busch/InBev acquisition. The leak of our interest in GE Appliance by Wall Street Journal blog “Deal Journal” has not sullied our position or interest. It is strongly recommended Haier begin to line up financing for an asset purchase of GE Appliance. Louisville‚ KY-based
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The Haier Group is one of the world’s largest whitegoods manufactures with over 50 000 employees worldwide. The group was founded as “Qingdao Refrigerator Co.” in 1984 in Qingdao‚ Shandong Province‚ China. Haier Group has become a multi-billion dollar multinational with presence in over 100 countries (The Haier Group‚ 2007). Throughout the course of Haier Group’s history‚ the firm has pursued an aggressive globalization strategy. Over the past twenty years‚ the group has expanded from its origins
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TiVo’s problem rests in its inability to convince consumers to change their television consumption habits. Improper targeting and positioning have led to an ineffective product‚ price-point and promotion strategy that has stranded TiVo in the chasm between the early market and the early majority. TiVo is a truly discontinuous innovation‚ a product that requires consumers to dramatically change their past behavior with the promise of gaining equally dramatic new benefits. TiVo’s main challenge is
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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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become whatever the environment forces us to be—good or bad. Rewards and punishments that we receive for behavior shapes what we do and learn. There is no free will. Our behavior is learned‚ and therefore‚ can be unlearned. What we can see and study directly (observable behavior) should be the focus of psychologists‚ not cognition or unconscious processes. (John Watson‚ B. F. Skinner) Humanistic: People are basically good and capable of helping themselves. Individuals are in control of their
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