Today I will talk about Facebook; it’s a very topical subject particularly since Facebook submit paperwork to regulators for an IPO‚ 1 month ago. But let’s start with a little part of history Histoire «From Harvard dorm room to all Canadian and US University : Mark Zuckerberg‚ 28‚ founded Facebook while studying psychology at Harvard University. Zuckerberg had already developed a number of social-networking websites for fellow students‚ including Facemash‚ where you could rate people’s attractiveness
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Blue Pointe Healthcare- Premium Development Introduction Blue Point Healthcare is a non-profit healthcare coverage provider that has shown its interest in providing health coverage to a big consortium consisting of 75000 employees. The health coverage would provide the employees of the consortium with coverage on the health treatment received by them on a routine as well as on emergency occasions. The primary healthcare needs‚ the acute health issues‚ the surgical costs incurred‚ outpatient
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John D. R. Leonard took PepsiCo seriously when one of its Pepsistuff commercials made an offer of a Harrier jet—the famous high-tech "jump jet" used by the U.S. Marines. In a TV commercial that aired in 1995‚ Pepsi jokingly included the Harrier as one of the prizes that could be received with a mere 7 million Pepsi points. While that sounds like a lot of points to get from drinking Pepsi products (roughly 190 Pepsis a day for 100 years)‚ the company also allowed customers to purchase points for 10
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didn’t know what a spreadsheet was‚ etc. So I started at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadsheet. I read that and got a good base of spreadsheets and the history. First of all‚ Microsoft Excel is the industry standard in spreadsheets (history on spreadsheets can be accessed at the above website address). With Excel‚ you can create a shared workbook and place it on a network location where several people can edit‚ change‚ and work on the contents of a workbook‚ I discovered. Therefore‚ if the people
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Case Study – The Blue Spider Project 1. Discuss the project management organization on the project. Strengths? Weaknessess? Recommendations. Parks Corporation used a matrix project management organization on the Blue Spider Project. It was a multi-disciplinary team where the members came from different functional units such as Research and Development‚ Engineering‚ Manufacturing‚ Quality Control‚ Purchasing‚ and Finance. Gary Anderson‚ the Project Manager‚ was responsible for the project but his
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Winter Survival Exercise Situation You have just crash landed somewhere in the woods of southern Manitoba or possibly northern Minnesota. It is 11:32 am in mid-January. The small plane in which you were travelling crashed onto a small lake. The pilot and co-pilot were killed. Shortly after the crash‚ the plane sank completely into the lake with the pilot and co-pilot’s bodies inside. Everyone else on the flight escaped to land dry and without serious injury. The crash came suddenly before the
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Report of the lessons learnt in the Blue Spider Project Case studies. The Blue Spider Project that Gary Anderson managed for Parks Corporation was a good example of an unsuccessful project. There were many aspects that increased project risk and contributed to the problems encountered. Some of those problems could have been prevented or resolved if Gary Anderson applied proper project management methodology. In any project‚ one of the most important success factor is the project manager being
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IPO structure in INDIA Initial Public offering or stock market launch or commonly known as ‘IPO’ which takes place in primary market is a type of public offering where the shares of the stock of the companies which seeks the capital in order to finance their investments for expansion of existing structure is sold on a securities market regulated by SEBI (Securities exchange Board of India) & commonly done by privately owned companies which transforms into publicly traded company. Steps involved
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The Blackstone IPO 1. If you were a fund LP how would you view the structure Blackstone has put in place to go public? IPO offered Blackstone certain advantages: - Access to the capital markets‚ as a new source of funds. - Blackstone could also use its own stock for the acquisitions. - It changed compensation structure and provided more incentives to junior management and help to keep top employees motivated long-term. Blackstone decided to adopt the MLP
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Read the "JET Copies" Case Problem on pages 678-679 of the text. Using simulation estimate the loss of revenue due to copier breakdown for one year‚ as follows: In Excel‚ use a suitable method for generating the number of days needed to repair the copier‚ when it is out of service‚ according to the discrete distribution shown. In Excel‚ use a suitable method for simulating the interval between successive breakdowns‚ according to the continuous distribution shown. In Excel‚ use a suitable
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