February 20‚ 2013 JetBlue Airways Corporation Case Study Report Situation Analysis History JetBlue Airways Corporation was created my David Neeleman. His vision was to create an inexpensive‚ easy way to travel by airplane. He was quoted saying he wants to “bring humanity back to air travel.” David Neeleman was already a seasoned entrepreneur. Two years after dropping out of the University of Utah he established his own business by renting out condominiums in Hawaii. Soon after he established
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integrated into our modern culture and society during that time. In 1995‚ Netscape‚ an early leader and innovator in the Internet and WWW software and web browser market‚ had been going through the initial public offering (IPO) process. Specifically‚ on August 8‚ 1995‚ Netscape ’s lead IPO underwriters recommended to the Netscape board to increase the initial offering price to $28 per share from $14 per share‚ a 100% increase. At this new offering price‚ the firm ’s value would be $1 billion‚ raising
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Shelley Rushing SeaWorld IPO Week 5 SeaWorld Entertainment Inc.‚ was wholly owned by the Blackstone Group L.P.‚ before SeaWorld went public. SeaWorld owns eleven theme parks in the United States and attracts about 24 million visitors (market watch). As noted above they are in the theme park industry just like Disney and Six Flags with a proven business model and plenty of room for growth. It offers strong consumer value proposition and caters to a broad range of guest from all over the world
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United Parcel Service’s IPO Question 1: What are the key success factors and risks for UPS given its business strategy? In the package-delivery industry timely‚ accurate and competitively priced services are the key success factors. With over 13 million packages delivered each business day‚ UPS had drastically invested in technology‚ which had played an important role on its growth. UPS’s well developed computer systems had ensured to UPS customers an excellent service which fulfils its customer
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Characteristic of IPO Initial Public Offering (IPO) has lots of unique characteristics which including short-term underpricing‚ price stabilization‚ and investment banks. IPOs are always underpriced which means the pricing of IPOs often below its market value. This is because of concerns relating to liquidity and uncertainty about the level at which stock will trade. The lesser the liquid and uncertainty about the shares are‚ the more underpriced they will have to be in order to compensate investors
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With the recent Facebook IPO‚ many analysts and Wall Street experts are wondering‚ Is Facebook going to be a relevant Social Media company over the next 5-10 years? Facebook is a free service to its users that allows its customers to keep in touch with friends and family and makes money through advertising. (Lewis‚ 2010) But if 44% of its users never click on those ads‚ will advertisers continue to spend a portion of its marketing budget on Facebook advertising? (Reisinger‚ 2012) Facebook is the
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MANAGEMENT AT JETBLUE 1 Human Resources Management Analysis JetBlue Airways Case Study: JetBlue Airways: Starting from Scratch (Gittell & O’Reilly‚ 2001) Running Head: HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AT JETBLUE 2 Abstract This paper identifies the various impacts of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) laws on JetBlue Airways and the
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The Google IPO Pre-IPO Initiated from their dorm rooms at Stanford University while they were the Doctoral students major in computer science‚ Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in 1998 with the $1‚000‚000 funded by the angel investors. In fiscal 2003‚ Google has generated $961.9 million in revenue and posted $105.6 million in net profit. Head-on competing with another search giant Yahoo.com‚ with 60 million internet users‚ Google has become one of the most powerful search engines
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Environment To evaluate the external environment of JetBlue airways we will use the PESTEL analysis. PESTEL analysis stands for “Political‚ Economic‚ Social‚ Technological‚ Environment and Legal analysis”. Political Factors How and to what extent the government does intervenes in the economy. Political factors can be tax policy‚ labor law‚ environmental law‚ trade restrictions‚ tariffs‚ and political stability. Political factors that are found in the JetBlue case are: Government monitors the airline industry
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and to create the best business model. Nevertheless‚ we think that as an IPO company‚ Blackstone must fully disclose its financial statements and it is also the must-pay and tradeoff to lower the costs of capital. This is also the problem that Blackstone couldn ’t wholly resolve from purely adjusting the financial structure. 2. Risk of employees resigning triggered from the change of compensation package Before going IPO‚ underwriters raised the concerns from unitholders: ‘though it will bring
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