Established in January 1999‚ Pine Street Capital (PSC) was a market-neutral hedge fund that specialized in the technology field‚ facing market risk and trying to decide whether and which way to use in order to hedge equity market risk. They choose technology sector because the partners of PSC felt that they have enough ability to evaluate this sector and specially be good at picking out-performing stock. Short-selling of NASDAQ and options hedging strategy are the two major hedging choices for PSC
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REPORT ON CARRIBEAN INTERNET CAFÉ CASE Assignment - 1 CASE SUMMARY David grant is an MBA student hoping to open Caribbean Internet Cafe in his hometown Kingstons‚ Jamaica upon his graduation as he always wanted to be his own “boss”. Due to low accessibility and usage of internet in Jamaica‚ David thought of it as a good timing to pursue this business opportunity. He has gathered data on all the relevant costs: equipment‚ rent‚ labor‚ etc. He has also found a partner in the local telephone
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Overview of Case Study Levendary Cafe was appointed with a new CEO in January 2011. Mia Foster is a first time CEO with no international management experience‚ faced with a major challenge at Levendary Cafe‚ a $10billion US-based fast chain. However‚ the Levendary Cafe already established in China market while departing CEO Howard Leventhal in the position. Strategically‚ many of the corporate staff have become concerned that the company’s major expansion into China is moving too far from Levendary’swell
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Arcadia Cafe is a restaurant‚ coffee shop‚ and bar located on Welch Avenue in Ames’ campustown area. The business is co owned by Liz Jeffrey and her husband and has been in Ames since 2011‚ but has been located on Welch for one year. One of Arcadia’s main goals is to “do what we do well” according to Jeffrey. Another goal Jeffrey talked about for Arcadia is to bring all people of Ames to eat there‚ both Iowa State students and Ames community members. Jeffrey and her husband went to school at the
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McCoy W0479049 Cohesion Case Competitive Advantage Making BusinessDecisions I I just recently inherited my grandfather’s coffee shop‚ The Broadway Cafe. He started it in 1952‚ but unfortunately the business has been declining over the years. Business is declining‚ because of how outdated the Cafe is. Now that the Cafe is mine‚ I am determined to keep the business running by turning the coffee shop back into the hotspot it once was. In order to bring the Cafe up to date with the 21st century
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Cohesion Case In order for our business‚ The Broadway Café‚ to become more competitive in this environment‚ I deem it necessary to build a collaboration tool that will stimulate contact‚ knowledge‚ information‚ and events among employees‚ customers‚ suppliers‚ and all others who are interested in the business. A collaboration system is an IT-based set of tools that supports the work of teams by facilitating the sharing and flow of information. Collaboration systems allow people‚ teams‚ and
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/ service in the context of Bangladeshi market. The selected product was a café that provided both products and services which was target to the university youth of Banani‚ Mohakhali area to help them enjoy the times in their universities much more excitingly. The name that was selected for this café was “The Hangout” and it will be located in Banani and therefore the target costumers will be able to reach the café with ease. A market survey was also carried out in order to determine the
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The lone survivor is a story by Patrick Robinson and Marcus Luttrell. Marcus and his team of navy seals‚ had a mission to survey the Taliban leader. They come across a farmer and his goats‚ they captured them and decided they had to let them go. The farmer told the Taliban to send the 500 troops to take them out three of the four died. When I read this story it made me believe that to never give up. “Find an excuse to win ‘’Marcus was left with 200 troops chasing him. Marcus didn’t give up. He hid
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Mba 555 - Case Study Table of Contents Summary 3 Introduction 4 Facts 4 Café Latte 4 Cynthia Chan 5 Stuart Chan 7 Rob Chan 8 Jeff Burns 8 The Chan Family 9 Inferences 9 Cynthia Chan 9 Stuart Chan 10 Rob Chan 10 Jeff Burns 11 The Chan Family 11 Problems 12 Decision –Additional Options 14 Behavior Assessment 15 Cynthia Chan 16 Stuart Chan 16 Rob Chan 17 Decision Assessment 17 Lessons Learned 19 Case Study: Café Latte‚ LLC Summary Café Latte‚ a new espresso bar‚ is about to
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Pages 2-3 Café Fusion questionnaire and diagrams Page 4 Policies and improvements Pages 4-7 My personal experience in Café Fusion Page 7 Benchmark (what the café will strive to be like) Pages 8-9 Changes and developments Pages 10-11 Conclusion Page 12 Bibliography Page 13 I have been hired as the front of house supervisor in the established venue of Café Fusion. I will be attempting
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