Although Skilling was the one at the forefront when the Enron ship began to sink‚ the presence of many strong players all competing for individual power within the organization attributed to Enron’s downfall. Although Skilling came in fresh out of HBS ready to aggressively hit the ground running‚ it seems as higher management at the time‚ namely Lay‚ did not have the foresight to control
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2010 [Type text] Emerging Company Finance FNCE 480 - Final Frank Kurupacheril [TRENDSETTER’S TWO ROADS] Trendsetter‚ Inc – a warehouse and distribution solution software company for clothing retailers is faced with the usual dilemma. They are running out of seed money that the founders contributed. Now they have received two term sheets from prospective VC’s. The ball is in the founders’ court who have to choose one after weighing pros and the cons. Contents Introduction .
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Banc One Case Analysis Case Summary Banc One has a problem with the alignment of two of its important strategies: (1) rapidly acquiring profitable banks and (2) sustaining high returns while mitigating interest rate risk. Banc One has been very successful in acquiring banks‚ and much of this is done through the sale/transfer of Banc One’s stock. This strategy relies heavily on Banc One’s ability to maintain a high stock price. The second
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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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Executive summary The Ford Ka cannot be marketed to a specific demographic segment‚ as defined by traditional variables such as income‚ age‚ or marital status. Willingness to purchase the Ka was for the most part not dependent on membership in these traditional segments. Alternatively‚ we propose Ford develop a campaign toward a certain segment defined by attitudinal and psychographic variables. We plan to target this segment with tailored advertising campaigns addressing their unique worldview‚
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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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LNG CARRIERS History The first LNG carrier Methane Pioneer (dwt 5034 tons) left the Calcasieu River on the Louisiana Gulf coast on 25 January 1959. Carrying the world’s first ocean cargo of LNG‚ it sailed to the UK where the cargo was delivered. Subsequent expansion of that trade has brought on a large expansion of the fleet to today where giant LNG ships carrying up to 266‚000 m3 are sailing worldwide. At the end of 2005‚ a total of 203 vessels have been built‚ of which 193 are still in service
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How would you assess the challenge of repositioning the Samsung brand? Samsung‚ in wanting to reposition itself as a high value added preferred products provider from a value‚ or cheap OEM products provider‚ faced many challenges. A big challenge for Samsung was that the Samsung brand was at different stages of development in different country markets – so while in some markets the Samsung brand had high brand recognition and loyalty‚ in some the brand had low awareness. This caused management
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--------------------------------------------------Question 1--------------------------------------------------- Boston Beer‚ in response to consumers’ preference changes to more flavorful and bitter tasting brews‚ was founded in 1894. Boston Beer implements a “quality at any cost” strategy with a strong emphasis on product differentiation and implementing quality ingredients into its products. For instance‚ Boston Beer was the first company to employ a stamped freshness date on its bottles and ingredients
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Advanced Financial Management – Professor Dahiya 09/12/10 Case 1 We feel that General Foods Corporation ought to go ahead with the Super Project. While we feel the incremental costs approach lacks a certain degree of sufficiency in taking into account all overhead‚ we believe the $453‚000 cost of using the existing Jell-O facilities would have already been accounted for on the Jell-O balance sheet and thus is a non-factor in determining the profitability of the Super Project. Simply adding the
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