Chad Ogle MGMT 620 HBS Case 9 Starbucks: Delivering Customer Service History In 1971‚ Starbucks started as a small coffee shop which targeted a specialized market of coffee purists. Howard Schultz‚ who later owned the company and initiated the high growth period‚ joined Starbucks’ marketing team in 1982. Main concept of Schultz marketing strategy was too make Starbucks “America’s third place” considering home and work the two other places where Americans spend
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case 16 CALLAWAY GOLF: BIG BERTHA’S TEAM HITS A LONG BALL “Callaway Golf Company designs‚ creates‚ builds and sells Demonstrably Superior and Pleasingly Different golf products. That means that any club‚ ball or putter in the Callaway Golf family must be a significant improvement not only upon the products of our competitors‚ but also our own.” (1) How does Callaway Golf achieve its goals of manufacturing and distributing Demonstrably Superior and Pleasingly Different golf products?
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After hearing bits and pieces about the “Enron scandal” over the years‚ it was interesting to learn about what specifically happened to the global giant company and how it reached its demise in the early 2000s. It seems as though Enron’s downfall had largely to do with the corporate culture instilled within the company from its inception in 1984. The idea of “get big fast” encouraged employees to do whatever they deemed necessary to drive earnings‚ even if it meant leaving ethics at the door. The
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Thoma Bravo – Citect Corporation (HBS 9-209-022) Study Questions 1. Do you think TB or Schneider would create more value as the owner of Citect? 2. TB would assume what risks if they are the winning bidder? 3. Should TB continue to bid on Citect and at what price? Are the expected ROIs and IRRs to TB sufficient at your revised bid amount? (* note: a detailed evaluation model will be constructed during the class session *) Study Questions 1. Is Newell just another conglomerate? How
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For the exclusive use of M. HUSSAIN Harvard Business School 9-582-103 Rev. September 24‚ 1985 Sealed Air Corporation The president and chief executive officer of Sealed Air Corporation‚ T. J. Dermot Dunphy‚ explained the firm’s 25% average annual growth in net sales and net earnings from 1971 to 1980: The company’s history has been characterized by technical accomplishment and market leadership. During the last 10 years we built on our development of the first closed-cell‚ lightweight cushioning
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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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Silic Case Report Title of case analysis: Case Silic Date: 2013/11/17 Summary: The Council of Ministers of the European Union approved regulation on applying IFRS for all companies‚ so Silic‚ a France-based investment property company‚ also faces the substantial impact on their accounting standards‚ needs to choose between historical-cost or fair-value accounting to report its investment properties according to IAS 40. Silic was a major and historical player on the French commercial-property
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Case: Land Securities Group (A): Choosing Cost or Fair Value on Adoption of IFRS Case Number: 9-105-014 Topic: Financial Reporting and Control Description: A U.K. real estate firm‚ required to adopt international accounting standards (IAS) by 2005‚ must change the reporting of its primary asset (investment property) from the revaluation model under U.K. GAAP to either the cost or fair-value model under IAS. This would have a number of effects on European investment property firms‚ including
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distribution have played a major role in its loss of market share. There are two distribution channels when it comes to the golf market‚ on-course and off-course‚ which account for 40% and 60% of unit sales respectively which result in 45% and 55% in dollar sales respectively. Altius’ number one selling product the Victor TX retailing at nearly $50 per pack accounts for 70% of its total golf ball sales. Altius sells the Victor TX in both on-course and off-course retailers‚ however the majority of the sales
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The financial ratios for Smolira golf corporation with the year ending figures rather than average values of year 2012. 1) Short term solvency: a) Current ratio = Current assets/ Current liabilities Year 2011 Year 2012 = 61‚886/46‚755 = 66‚645/53‚773 = 1.32 times = 1.24 times According to this‚ company have current assets more than 1(i.e. 1.32) as compare to
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