MEMORANDUM Date: March 10‚ 2013 Subject: Competitive Advantage‚ Car Sharing and Strategic Approach: Assessment‚ Impact and Recommendations To: Andy Taylor‚ CEO From: Jason Gonzales‚ VP Strategy ______________________________________________________________________ Introduction This memo addresses three key issues: Enterprise Holdings’ current competitive advantage‚ the impact of the car sharing business on the structure and profitability
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Walters‚ P and Rashid‚ T (2013) Events Management principles and practices. London: Sage publications limited. Read‚ J and Barrow R (2013) Croydon council cuts employee car usage in half with Zipcar[Online] Available at: http://www.zipcar.co.uk/press/releases/croydon-council-cuts-employee-car-usage-in-half-with-zipcar (accessed 24th November 2014). Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (2007) The Urban Environment‚ 26th report. Norwich: Crown. Sheepdrove Eco Conference Centre (2014) [Online] Available
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BUS 611: Enterprise Rent-A-Car Case Questions 1. Rental car companies provide the use of a car for their customers‚ but what did Enterprise do to create a unique rental experience? How has Enterprise established a competitive advantage over its competitors? All companies provide customers with a car to drive but Enterprise took a unique approach to the car renting experience. Although Enterprise is the largest and possible most well-known rental car company‚ they focused on giving each customer
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Overview A. Case: Yale University Investments Office. Investing in Start Ups B. Case: Technical Data Business Plan. Week 2: A. Case: Technical Data Corporation 9-283-072 (to be handed out in class during week 1) B. Case: Zipcar Week 3: A. Case: Honest Tea B. Case: UltraVisual Medical Systems Week 4: A. Case: Dropbox “It Just Works” B. Case: Horizon Communications Week 5: A. Case: RightNow Technologies B. Case: edocs‚ Inc.
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&RPage |1 Entrepreneurial Finance 2013 - Case Assignment Questions R&R R&R case brings up major themes that we will see over and over again in this course. This case also differs significantly from most of the other case you will read in this course as it provides a full story of an entrepreneurial venture. In most other cases in this course‚ the entrepreneur is faced with a decision/dilemma at the time of case. In these cases I will ask you to put yourself in the entrepreneur’s shoes and come
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SCHULICH TALENTED ENTREPRENEUR NETWORKING NIGHT February 13th‚ 2013‚ Mavrik Winebar Special Thanks to Our Wonderful Sponsors: Razor Suleman is founding CEO of Achievers‚ Inc. (formerly I Love Rewards Inc.). Razor started his first business at the age of 15. Following his passions for business and sports‚ Razor began importing and selling hockey cards between Canada and the United States. He then went on to start his own campus branded apparel company called Razor’s Edge. From there he went on
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Enterprise rent-a-car I. Background information a. About ERAC A private car rental business with a fleet more than 850 000 vehicles‚ founded in 1957 Based in St Louis‚ Missouri‚ serving US‚ Canada‚ Germany‚ Ireland and Puerto Rico and UK Largest car rental company in North America Highest customer satisfaction for rental car and rental car in airport 95% of customer say they are satisfy with the service Largest purchaser of car in the world b. Marketing mix Customers: ERAC serves these
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IT at Work 1.1 Watson Wins Jeopardy‚ Leaving Human Champions in Its Silicon Dust Questions 1. Explain how Watson figured out the most likely response to win the tournament. Watson parsed the question down into keywords and sentence fragments in order to find statistically related phrases. Watson was able to quickly execute thousands of language analysis algorithms simultaneously to compile potential answers and determine the level of confidence associated with each one. 2. View the IBM demo‚ “Turning
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Case solutions Case 2: Intel: Strategic decisions in locating a new assembly and test plant. Dalian in China is the most attractive site for Intel to locate Assembly and Test plant in terms of its low-costed workforce and high labor productivity with skilled workers‚ reliable and qualified power infrastructure‚ as well as a relatively open environment and the increasingly mature law and regulation. |Criteria |
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are included in this is the car. There has been no definite explanation regarding this phenomenon. However‚ one of the visible changes is a resident of young age prefer to use public transportation‚ bicycle‚ or transportation services provided by Zipcar‚ a start-up that provides services of car- Now‚ slowly but surely‚ the pattern of consumption society in the land of Uncle Sam began to change. They are no longer focused on the ownership of the goods‚ but at the consumption of the goods without the
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