Case 4: MAGREC‚ Inc. 1.) Place yourself in the role of the manager. What should you do now? After considering what happened‚ would you change any of your behaviors? If I was Pat: Even though Fred wants me to fire Dinah‚ I believe that if I was to fire her‚ Dinah would file a lawsuit for wrongful discharge. My values and morals should not be the deciding factor in determining if Dinah’s actions are grounds for dismal. As such‚ I would meet with Fred‚ and explain to him the result
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At home but not at home Nicole Constable The main aim of the article is showing that in case of migrants (specifically Filipinas in Honk Kong) the concept of home is not as simple and unambiguous as it may seem. Constable presents different conceptualizations of the notions “space”‚ “place” and “home”. He follows the conception of Ackbar Abbas‚ who writes‚ "We think of a place in terms of definable physical characteristics and situatedness‚ at most as a symbolic structure. A space by contrast
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Kaitlin Tolley MGT 331 Case 4: MagRec Inc. 1. If I were the manager I would have pushed for a more moral‚ honest solution to the problem with Partco. The company should have owned up to the poor quality parts and offer to fix any damaged parts for customers. Even though it would have cost the company time and money‚ it was the right thing to do. I think that if the company were to explain the situation to Partco- with the one bad batch of parts‚ and assured them that it wouldn’t happen again and
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Summary of the Garden Depot Case Overview The Garden Depot originated in 1985 as a small floral company. It began doing larger business since then‚ and became a successful floral company. Janice Bowman was hired by The Depot in 2005‚ and contributed to computer inventory system and a material ordering system. As he found‚ The Depot still had some potential management issues. Eighty percent of its employees were part-time students who only worked in spring and summer. Furthermore‚ no formal performance
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Case Problem: Blades‚ Inc. 1. One point of concern for you is that there is a tradeoff between the higher interest rates in Thailand and the delayed conversion of baht into dollars. Explain what this means. ANSWER: If the net baht-denominated cash flows are converted into dollars today‚ Blades is not subject to any future depreciation of the baht that would result in less dollar cash flows. 2. If the net baht received from the Thailand operation are invested in Thailand‚ how will
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PESTEL Analysis on Apple Inc. In analysing the macro-environment‚ it is important to identify the factors that might influence the organisation’s demand and supply levels and its cost (Kotter and Schlesinger‚ 1991; Johnson and Scholes‚ 1993). A PESTEL is one of the frameworks that help to understand market growth or decline‚ business position‚ potential and direction for operations (Kotler‚ 1998). PESTEL analysis is also useful when entering a new market or starting business operations in a new
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Nucleon‚ Inc. Final Case Table of Contents I. Executive Summary……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………3 II. Strategy Identification……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…4 ▪ Key Issues and Problems III. Strategy Evaluation…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….4 ▪ Industry Analysis – Porter’s 5 Forces ▪ Market Positioning Graph (Figure 1) ▪ Competitor Analysis – VRIO (Table 1) IV. Strategic Option Development……………………………………..…………………………………………………………
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Running head: ANALYSIS OF TARGET INC. Environmental Analysis of Target Inc. Team B Contemporary Issues in Leadership and Management MM590 October 9‚ 2006 Abstract Team B conducted an Environmental Analysis and an Industry Analysis of Target Inc. In the Environmental Analysis‚ competition for customers is always a threat in any business but the success of Target is always looking for new opportunities. The Target Inc. analysis found that competition with the “big box” stores including
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Tax Case 3 Individual Paper 2/22/2014 Attn: Dr. Ott Executive Summary: In this case‚ my group members represented the side of the taxpayer. One of the main issues in this case is whether or not Rex and Agnes Harrell should be able to make deductions in excess of rental income on their beach house. This deduction depends on if the 14-day personal use provision was exceeded. If the 14-day provision was exceeded than income should be limited to rental income as the ISR decided in this case. However
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Tokyo Disneyland – new pricing Case analysis A summary for the board of the company Team of consultants: Desislava Dobreva‚ Georgi Stamenov‚ Toma Koleliev‚ Yavor Kolevski Strategic Management‚ Prof. Dr. Richard Mischak MBA‚ AUBG‚ 2014 19/03/2014 Agenda: I. Executive Summary II. Introduction III. Main body of the report IV. Conclusions and recommendations V. List of references and bibliography VI. Appendices I. Executive Summary Tokyo Disneyland considerations regarding the
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