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    American Home Products (AHP) has established a strong track record of revenue growth and return on equity over the past decade‚ producing a host of products in four separate business lines: prescription drugs‚ packaged drugs‚ food products‚ and housewares/household products. AHP’s distinctive culture emphasizes conservatism‚ cost control and risk aversion. AHP’s corporate structure also concentrated most decision-making authority with the incumbent chief executive‚ William F. Laporte. This approach

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    HBS 2.2.4

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    Activity 2.2.4: It’s All in the Reflexes Introduction Although we are all different and have our unique identity‚ there are times when we behave in exactly the same way. We blink if something is headed toward our eyes. We pull our hands away quickly if we touch something hot or sharp. The automatic response of a muscle to a stimulus is called a reflex. This action is controlled by the human nervous system and is considered an involuntary response – it happens without our even having to think

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    dividend are fairly certain‚ and most preferred stocks do not have a maturity date. Finally‚ common stock is presented but neither the future cash flows (from dividends) nor the final value is known with any degree of certainty. The case describes Home Products‚ Inc‚ a leading manufacturer of prescription and ethical drugs; specialty foods and candies; and proprietary drugs. Total revenues in the last fiscal year were in excess of $9 billion. Company’s capital structure is made up of 34% long-term debt

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    Hb 3476 Analysis

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    Law Enforcement and prosecution based programs are not part of the HB 3476. They have prosecutorial obligations that would eliminate any confidential agreements. They have dual responsibilities to victims and offender accountability within the laws that regulate them. Confidentially protections apply to services‚ communication‚ and records made before‚ on‚ or after passage of HB 3476. The second part to HB 3476 is creates an evidentiary privilege‚ which is referred to as “advocate privilege” (CITE)

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    American Home Products 1. How much business risk does American Home Products face? How much financial risk would American Home Products face at each of the proposed levels of debt shown in case Exhibit 3? How much potential value‚ if any can American Home Products create for its shareholders at each of the proposed levels of debt? (See Exhibits 1 and 2 ) American Home Products currently has low business risk due to the conservative nature of their business. They piggyback on first movers

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    HBS CONCLUSIONS

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    1 Why is the story of Phineas Gage considered so extraordinary? What does his story teach us about the brain? Phineas Gages’s story is so extra ordinary because a metal rod was impaled through his head and destroyed most of his frontal lobe. His story has taught us that different parts of the brain control different things and the part of his brain that got injured effects a person’s memory‚ personality‚ and emotion. 2 New research is using functional MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)‚ a scan of

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    HBS Aqualisa Quartz

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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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    HBS 9-501-050 Customer Value Measurement at Nortel Networks ’’ Optical Networks Division Nortel Networks was a global player in telephony‚ data and wireless and wireline Internet solutions. Maureen Conroy and Nathalie Sauve‚ members of the Customer Value Management (CVM) Team at Nortel Networks Optical Networks‚ must recommend one of three customer value measurement methodologies to ON President Greg Mumford. In December of 1997‚ ON took a “right-angle turn” ’’ innovative cultural‚ operational

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    IDEAS How to Brand a Next-Generation Product Published: April 23‚ 2012 Author: Carmen Nobel Upgrades to existing product lines make up a huge part of corporate research and development activity‚ and with every upgrade comes the decision of how to brand it. Harvard Business School marketing professors John T. Gourville and Elie Ofek teamed up with London Business School ’s Marco Bertini to suss out the best practices for naming next-generation products. Key concepts include: • Companies often

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    HBS- Airborne Express

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    HBS- Airborne Express Background Information Seattle based Airborne Express was the third largest express mail business in the 1990s. The product of two specialist airfreight carriers‚ Airborne Express began operations in 1968 and targeted businesses requiring regular‚ high-volume shipments of urgent items. Airborne maintained low cost operations by focusing on efficiency. We discuss how the express mail industry evolved throughout the 1990s and what Airborne did to remain competitive. How and

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