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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Q1. How attractive is the video game console industry in 2008? The video game industry can be seen as part of the broader entertainment industry‚ which is a sector that involves most part of the population all over the world‚ especially in the developed countries. The more countries will develop‚ the broader the entertainment industry’s consumer base will become‚ with the consequence of greatly widening video game industry’s potential customers. More specifically‚ video game console industry has
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The growing complexity and rapid changes facing the business world today makes it imperative for Flextronics to develop an integrated system to more effectively manage its business. An integrated environment will improve information sharing‚ collaboration‚ global competitiveness for multi regions. MANAGING SELF As a global project team leader‚ McCusker should manage himself‚ which means that he has to observe his emotional reactions and identify any interpretations of the situation�. Both Hungary
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Collaboration How leaders avoid the Traps‚ Create unity‚ and reap big results (Morten Hansen) Goal: Show power of effective collaboration and the great dangers of incompetent collaboration. Also author want to explain how to collaborate. Summary: Morten Hansen said: “Good collaboration amplifies strength‚ but poor collaboration is worse than no collaboration at all.” What is the goal of collaboration? The goal of collaborations is not to get people work together‚ collaboration must
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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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making process which are uniformly deployed at the franchisee level across the globe. * Innovation at franchise level was centralized‚ standardized and put across all the outlets. * Determine the key elements of Operation Strategy of McDonald’s? * The key elements of the operations strategy implemented by McDonald’s were: * Revolutionizing the entire supply chain‚ introducing innovation in product & process * Standardizing operating procedure in the form of Operating
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Supernova refers to a new way to manage client relationships that originated in one of Merill Lynch’s Indianapolis offices. The first preparation before the process of Supernova was establishing relationship with client in the area of client satisfaction; The frequency and quality of contact Rapid response to problems Attention to details The changes required to implement the Supernova process includes Maintaining minimum contact time Reducing the number of
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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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