ASSIGNMENT 2: PRADA Refer to the HBS case "Prada: To IPO or Not to IPO" and answer the questions below. Note: Complete the related textbook chapters (RWJJ Chapters 14‚ 15 & 19) before attempting this case. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM SAID TO BE FACING PRADA? Prada got some financial trouble. First‚ Prada failed for several times to IPO due to various reasons like SARS‚ financial crisis‚ etc. Second‚ because of the long-term debt maturing in one year‚ Prada needed to raise more than 1 billion euros
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WALMART NEGOTIATION CASE: Walmart the world’s largest retailer‚ sold $315 billion worth of goods in 2006. With its single-minded focus on "EDLP" (everyday low prices) and the power to make or break suppliers‚ a partnership with Wal-Mart is either the Holy Grail or the kiss of death‚ depending on one’s perspective. There are numerous media accounts of the corporate monolith riding its suppliers into the ground. But what about those who manage to survive‚ and thrive‚ while dealing with the classic
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MGMT 6620: Operations & SCM HBS Case Study Zara: IT for Fast Fashion 4/9/2013 1. What is the Zara “business model”? What weaknesses‚ if any‚ do you seen in this business model? The value propositions offered by Zara to its main customers who are young‚ fashion conscious city-dwellers is offering new styles within the time-frame of several weeks as well as providing assortment of choices for customers and the uniqueness of clothing styles fitting individual customer needs. To achieve
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Based on the financial information‚ it is clear that lululemon has performed extremely well using a focused differentiation business-level strategy. However‚ as the case study noted‚ until recently‚ lululemon has been unchallenged in serving a distinct premium yoga niche for women. Dozens of established apparel companies‚ including Nordstrom‚ Adidas‚ Nike and Under Armour‚ have now entered this attractive segment
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9-580-104 REV: AUGUST 16‚ 1985 BENSON P. SHAPIRO JEFFREY J. SHERMAN Cumberland Metal Industries: Engineered Products Division‚ 1980 Robert Minicucci‚1 vice president of the Engineered Products Division of Cumberland Metal Industries (CMI)‚ and Thomas Simpson‚ group manager of the Mechanical Products Group‚ had spent the entire Wednesday (January 2‚ 1980) reviewing a new product CMI was about to introduce. (See Exhibit 1 for organization charts.) The room was silent‚ and as he watched
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undoubtedly wish to add/subtract to this paper. I received a high grade on this but it was early in the course and so less analyses were expected. Meaning‚ you will want to apply those course concepts that suggest alternatives that actors in this case could choose‚ as relevant to where you are in the course. Kirkham had a ’strategy’ on paper‚ but it was too vague to help select which New Product Development to fund/cancel. The Harvard professors presented tools to help structure these decisions
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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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Answer 3 A.) Strategy to be pursued proactively: On a broad level‚ an organisation can adopt any of the three strategic concepts i.e. a) Differentiation b) Cost Leadership c) Response. Differentiation: Steel is such a product that not much product innovation can be done. Cost Leadership: Chaparral Steel is already a cost leader in the market with its limited range of products. But if it needs to expand itself in terms of capacity‚ it needs to come up with a new product line and that too at a
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