FINS3630 HBS Case Assignment S2‚ 2014 Dr Lixiong Guo Case Materials: HBS case “Shenzhen Development Bank” Assignment: Investing in any business entails an in-depth analysis of the performance and risk of the target before the investment. When investing in FIs‚ since FIs hold very different assets than industrial firms and are subject to strict regulations‚ investors have to pay attention to some special issues and risks that are specific to FIs. In this assignment‚ you are required to write
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H A R v A R D " u s r N E s sl t " H o o L | 5 9-399-1 0 R E V :F E B R U A R Y 5 ‚ 2 0 0 4 2 C H R T S T O P H EA . B A R T L E T T R MEC WOZNY GE’sTwo-DecadeTransformation: fack Welch’s Leadership Jack Welch glowed with pride at General Electric’s Annual Meeting in March 1’999. For the first and‚ time‚ GE’s revenues exceeded $100 billion‚ operating margins were at an all-time high of 1’6.7"/"‚ earnings per share had increased1/% over 197’s record level. In recognition of this
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who should act as a leader in this team. For example‚ Sasha considered the HBS student as business plan writer and just as some interns who can share their heavy workload‚ that’s why he even asked them to phone the alumni to ask help in product marketing [1]‚ while Henry and Dana think they should set the tone during the contest session and ultimately design the business plan for the company and the product. However‚ the HBS students gradually felt that they are being overused by the founders of MGI
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Do Some Business Models Perform Better than Others? A Study of the 1000 Largest US Firms Authors: Peter Weill‚ Thomas W. Malone‚ Victoria T. D’Urso‚ George Herman‚ Stephanie Woerner Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper No. MIT Center for Coordination Science Working Paper No. 226 Copyright © 2005 Peter Weill‚ Thomas W. Malone‚ Victoria T. D’Urso‚ George Herman‚ and Stephanie Woerner Abstract Despite its
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4357 OCTOBER 24‚ 2011 CHRISTOPHER A. BARTLETT ARAR HAN Levendary Café: The China Challenge Levendary Café was spun out from private equity ownership in January 2011‚ and the following month‚ Mia Foster was named as its new CEO. The departing CEO‚ Howard Leventhal‚ was the beloved founder of the popular chain of 3‚500 cafés. He had grown a small Denver soup‚ salad‚ and sandwich restaurant into a $10 billion business‚ but after 32 years was moving on to new interests. This was Foster’s first
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The interesting events from CoBot’s standpoint are those‚ which were not expected or least expected to happen‚ from the CoBot’s past task execution data. We define these interesting events as anomalies-- deviation from the expected data. The expected value for an event can be computed from the respective log table‚ we create by analyzing the bag files. Using the expected data we identify the instances which are anomalies‚ and verbalize them comparing it with a past instance or the expected data for
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HARVARD BUSINESS CASE: ALIBABA’S TAOBAO (A) GROUP 2 – GMBA Question 1: What are the major differences in the web designs of Taobao and eBay in China? Which is preferred to on-line buyers and sellers in China? Why? Taobao sought to distinguish itself from eBay in numerous ways. So Taobao’s web designs were imbued with a strong local culture that reflected a deep understanding of Chinese consumers and an attitude of informality. First of all‚ the website was designed like a Chinese department store
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9-511-094 REV: JUNE 13‚ 2011 SUNIL GUPTA RAY WEAVER DHARMISHTA ROOD Gro oupon n e as of On November 29‚ 2010‚ the technology industry wa buzzing with rumors o Google’s bid for Group pon‚ a two-y year-old web bsite that pro omoted daily deals offeri y ing deep dis scounts from local merch hants. Google reportedly offered at lea $3 billion‚ eclipsing a r e o ast rival $2 billion bid from Y Yahoo. And as Groupon re a esisted‚ Goog quickly rai gle ised its offer t as much as $6 billion.1 to s
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Developing a Rural Market e-hub The case study of e-choupal experience of rrc B. Bowonder‚ Vinay Gupta and Amit Singh Abstract potential to‚male significant.inroads in a traditional agrarian economy like India. Indian agro-sector has been‚ exploiting the benefits to rcr. jnnovative lCi ’apptication platforms are being created by private sector players in conjunction with local farmers. one such private initiative has been by ITC Ltd in the state-of M.onvu piuJ"r6. rt n"‚ helped the farmers in
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