Executive Summary The case‚ Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital (Abridged)‚ concentrates on making decisions based on capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) to measure the opportunity cost for investments. Dan Cohrs‚ the Vice President of Finance of Marriott Corporation‚ had to deal with making recommendations for the hurdle rates at Marriott Corporation and its three divisions which are lodging‚ restaurant and contract services. In calculating
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Harvard Business School 9-282-042 Rev. September 15‚ 1986 Marriott Corporation The idea of repurchasing shares was no stranger to Bill Marriott by January 1980. Almost five million shares of common stock had been repurchased on the open market by Marriott Corporation during 1979 at a total cost of $74 million and an average price of $15.16 in the belief that they were undervalued—a belief that still was not fully reflected in the market price. At $19 5/8‚ the stock was selling at only six
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Summer 2011 edition - £120 construction industry forecasts 2011-2015 Key Points Include: • • • • • • Construction output to fall 0.5% in 2011 before falling a further 2.8% in 2012 Total housing starts in 2011 less than half needed to meet number of households created Public sector construction work to fall by 26% by 2014 Private sector construction work to rise by 23% by 2015 Roads construction set to halve by 2014 Energy construction set to rise threefold by 2015 Overview The prospects
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have chosen Hotel Equatorial Malacca to do our market plan. Hotel Equatorial has 3 branches in Malaysia such as Kuala Lumpur‚ Penang and Malacca. These 3 state is very familiar for tourist where they always have a vacation over here. Especially Malacca state is one of the best tourism and heritage area. Hotel Equatorial Malacca has located in the center of the Malacca town which is nearby A’Famosa and St. Paul’s Hill. So that‚ we would like to suggest and do some market plan for this hotel services
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SWOT Analysis ITC. Formerly Imperial Tobacco Company of India Limited (ITC). ITC is one of India’s biggest and best-known private sector companies. In fact it is one of the World’s most high profile consumer operations. Its businesses and brands are focused almost entirely on the Indian markets‚ and despite being most well-known for its tobacco brands such as Gold Flake‚ the business is now diversifying into new FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) brands in a number of market sectors - including
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What is the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for Marriott Corporation? WACC = (1 - τ)rD(D/V) + rE(E/V) D = market value of debt E = market value of equity V = value of the firm = D + E rD = pretax cost of debt rE = after tax cost of debt τ = tax rate = 175.9/398.9 = 44% Cost of Equity Target debt ratio is 60%; actual is 41% [Exhibit 1] βs = 1.11 βu = βs / (1 + (1 – τ) D/E) = 1.11/(1 + (1 – .44) (.41)) = 0.80 Using the target debt ratio of 60%: βTs = βu (1 + (1 – τ) D/E)
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SWOT Analyses A SWOT (Morrison‚ 2013)—strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities and threats— analyses was undertaken to assess whether entering the Peru market would be worthwhile. (See Table 6 for summary of SWOT analyses). Strengths One of the most important strengths of BNP Paribas that would be relevant to Peru would be its having good digital‚ mobile‚ and internet banking services (BNP Parabas‚ 2015). The bank has positioned itself as particularly strong in this area. These services are some of the
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II. SITUATION ANALYSIS 2 a) Economic Environment & Industry Trends 2 b) Organizational & Political Environment 3 c) SWOT analysis for Rosewood 5 III. PROBLEMS FOUND IN SITUATION ANALYSIS 6 IV. STRATEGIC ALTERNATIVES 9 a) Corporate Branding 9 b) Individual Branding 11 c) Selective Corporate Branding 12 PROPOSED BRANDING STRATEGY - SELECTIVE CORPORATE BRANDING STRATEGY 13 SUMMARY 15 APPENDICES 16 I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Rosewood Hotels & Resorts (Rosewood)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS AIRASIA’S BACKGROUND......................................................................3 SWOT ANALYSIS FOR AIRASIA.............................................................3 * Strength * Weakness * Opportunities * Threats LIST OF REFERENCES...........................................................................6 AirAsia’s Background AirAsia was previously owned by DRB-Hicom‚ a government-linked company. Its airline had not been able
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Report Summary The purpose of this study is to analyze the premium segment of the hotel industry. We have carried out Porter’s Five Forces Model analysis of the premium segment of the hotel industry and compared it with some industries like IT‚ Cement and Textiles which have shown growth potential in recent times. This has been carried out to give an idea of the forces relative to other industries for an investor. Next‚ we identified some of the dimensions of strategy for the industry and analyzed
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