Interview Guide Cases contributed by Management Consulting Club and consulting companies. Note: Case guide is strictly for the use of current HBS Management Consulting Club members. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic‚ mechanical‚ photocopying‚ recording‚ or otherwise—without the permission of HBS Management Consulting Club. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: OVERVIEW OF THE CASE........................................................
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the army he started trying to build a successful career in country music. It took George awhile to really launch his career. George Strait has more than 50 number one hits. George Strait was born on May 18‚ 1952 in Poteet‚ Texas. George’s father‚ John Strait‚ was a junior high school math teacher and his mother was a homemaker. George was in fourth grade when his mother and father divorced. George grew up with only his brother and their father taking care of them. After high school‚ George eloped
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J.D Salinger was a literary writer who was born in New York in the year of 1919. J.D Salinger wrote the famous novel Catcher in the Rye and other famous shorts stories related to World War II. He had influenced literature in America as no one else had during the 20th century. J.D Salinget is a writer who has very strong ideas when writing a book and The Catcher in the Rye was banned for many years on the United States due to the fact that it was controversial and gave children bad influences. Salinger
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Dollar General Case 1. Consider the $13.4 million of freight costs. What is the correct (GAAP) method of accounting for these? How did Dollar General in fact originally account for these costs? (Include in your answer a table of the effects on income in any years affected‚ both before and after tax‚ of the correct accounting and the accounting they originally used. The correct GAAP method to account for freight costs is as an expense of Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) that occur at the time
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Rosewood Hotels and Resorts is considering a new brand strategy in an attempt to increase their multi property guest stays‚ revenues and cross selling rates. However‚ the company needs to do so without the expense of possibly diminishing the powerful brand image and strategy of their existing properties. Rosewood has built a customer value proposition on a core set of philosophies‚ as well as‚ strategic and marketing plans designed to create their unique competitive advantage through differentiation
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in the past years (BMW and Mercedes Benz).The problem of increased road congestion‚ the problem of parking in many European locations and the increasing fuel prices‚ made the small car very attractive to consumers. 3. Environmental Analysis: Fuel prices remained high throughout due to tax which accounts more than 85% of retail price of fuel also environmentally conscious people also appreciated reduced toxic emissions associated with smaller cars. Another reason of the high preference for
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Is Selling Deere & Company (DE) A Wise Strategy? Deere & Company (NYSE:DE) shares have been rising since the start of this year despite falling sales and earnings. DE’s share price spiked almost 21% over the last eleven months‚ supported by improvement in commodity prices. Deere’s stock price also experienced a solid support from its third quarter results and Donald Trump’s win. Trump’s strategy of making changes in energy‚ climate‚ and tax policies could benefit Deere’s future fundamentals. In
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and communications and networking. As for client platforms‚ he targeted innovation on an architectural level. In response to AMD‚ Intel sought to stay ahead by 12-18 months in process technology. He also targeted corporate buyers who were less price sensitive and more technically savvy. With server platforms‚ most of Intel’s energy went towards the high-end server segment that ran corporate data centers. Many of the innovations made by the server group made their way into mainstream processors
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financing combined with the long-short structure of the Fund affected the methods of risk assessment and risk management employed by the firm. One important aspect of the resulting risk assessment methods of LTCM was the fact that trades based on widening price discrepancies would generally attract more capital from investors and arbitrageurs. This influx of further capital usually resulted in lower downside risk on trades as valuations became more extreme. However‚ in our opinion the most important factor
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1. Having in regard all the information that is given in the Case Study‚ what is‚ in your opinion‚ the best Investor/Partner choice for NatuRi Corporation? Is it the Angel Investor‚ the Strategic Investor‚ Waltham Partners or Westlake Partners? Please justify your answers. We are going to discuss each investor separately before coming to our conclusion. 1. The Angel Investor An angel investor bears extremely high risk and is usually subject to dilution from future investment rounds. Therefore
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