Bankruptcy and Restructuring at Marvel Entertainment Group Chen Ziqiang Wu Libin Lin Yingshuai Deng Linli Lim Yihao 2011/11/29 1. Why did Marvel file for Chapter 11? Were the proble ms caused by bad luck‚ bad strategy‚ or bad execution? We think that Marvel filed for Chapter 11 mainly due to its bad business strategy. Three o f its six b usiness lines‚ Trading cards‚ Stickers and Comic Books started facing the decline in sales after year 1993. There were two main reasons for this
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Question 1: Choose one or more definitions from the theory discussed in class to describe CRM as implemented by Harrah´s Entertainment Inc. I believe that the combination of Kotler´s and Zigmund‚McLeod‚ Gilbert definition of CRM perfectly describes the situation of Harrah´s Entertainment Inc. Kotler refers to CRM as: “the process of managing detailed information about individual customers and carefully managing all customer touch points to maximize customer loyalty”. Zigmund‚ McLeod‚Gilbert definition
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World Wrestling Entertainment‚ Inc. Executive Summary With over twenty years of experience in the sports entertainment business and the mergers of some of the leading companies in the wrestling industry‚ Vince McMahon organized the World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.‚ in the late 1970s. The organization consist of an integrated media and entertainment company engaged in the development‚ production and marketing of television and pay-per-view programming‚ live events and the licensing and sale of
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CASE SEMINAR CORPORATE FINANCE Marvel Enterntainment Group Bankruptcy and Restructuring May 20‚ 2013 Audrey Huai Kuan Khoo Chen-Fong Lin Marcin Sadowski Hasmik Saturyan Question 5 (Homework) As a public debt holder‚ would you vote for or against the proposed restructuring plan? Why‚ or why not? How would you expect Carl Icahn and the other secured and unsecured creditors of Marvel to vote? Hint: What options do public debt holders have‚ and how much would they gain under each alternative
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Herrera Marketing Management Spring 2013 Case #1 – The ‘Comic’ Book is Always Better Marvel Comic Books – Printed Edition Strengths | Weaknesses | Strong Brand Equity Strong Financial PositionCore UsersLeadership | Distribution PointsFocus on Digital Growth | Opportunities | Threats | Foreign MarketsPromotion PointPlacement Opportunities | Digital Comic Books Competing Media | Strengths. a. Strong Brand Equity – Marvel Comics has strong name recognition in the United
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Case Reading: Marvel Enterprises‚ Inc. 1. In your view‚ what strategic direction should Marvel Enterprises’ Vice Chairman Peter Cuneo and his colleagues pursue? Why? How? • I believe the company should focus on developing their lesser-known characters and making them known to their audiences. Granted they now have the resources to expand beyond the current business model to take on more capital-intensive activities‚ their efforts may be in vein if they don’t have well-developed characters
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Marvel Enterprises‚ Inc. (b) Why was Marvel’s turnaround so successful? Would you characterize that success as a fluke? Or do you view it as sustainable? Why? How? Marvel’s success is definitely not a fluke and its business model is very sustainable. Because Marvel’s new strategy chose to monetize the content library via licensing characters for use with media products. In an era during which mass media is so important in people’s life‚ only one media tool - publishing is not strong enough
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Case Study: Marvel What does Marvel’s current Success look like? Marvel’s current success is largely thanks to a three-pronged approach. It utilizes its characters fame to promote revenue in comic book publishing‚ toys‚ and licensing. After successfully navigating a near collapse‚ the company has re-invented itself by truly focusing on its library of characters. By redeveloping its products – like focusing on quality of publishing‚ modernizing for younger generations‚ changing structure to four
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genre. This makes diversifying more difficult. • Marvel competes not only with DC Comics but also with other types of films (such as action‚ suspense‚ thriller‚ horror‚ sci-fi‚ etc.). When people go to the movies for entertainment‚ they don’t typically just go to watch comic book hero movies. Therefore‚ Marvel faces competition from a wide range of genres (and production companies like Paramount that produce different genres of movies). • Marvel can turn each comic book character into its own brand
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Case studies Spring 2011 (60 points) Each illness is caused by a bacterium (NOT viral) Choose one of the three cases and complete the assignment by following the guidelines. Write a typed‚ well constructed (complete sentences‚ proper grammar) report of not more than three double spaced pages (4 points). Devote at least one paragraph to answering each of the 6 questions. (8 points each) Include a reference section with at least 4 citations including at least one published reference. Use
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