CASE: GS-3A DATE: 05/01 (Rev’d. 3/8/04) Hewlett-Packard Company DeskJet Printer Supply Chain (A) INTRODUCTION Brent Cartier‚ Manager for Special Projects in the Materials Department of Hewlett-Packard (HP) Company’s Vancouver Division‚ clicked off another mile. It had been a long week and it looked like it would be a long weekend as well‚ based on the preparation that needed to be done for Monday’s meeting with Group Management on worldwide inventory levels for the DeskJet Printer product line
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Case 1 Riverside Leisure Centre Introduction The Riverside leisure centre was opened in 1973 with a leisure pool‚ sports hall‚ 4 squash courts and changing rooms. June West is the new and very ambitious manager. Squash courts 1 and 2 have been recently refurbished and are fully booked most of the day. The other two squash courts next to the fitness room are now in urgent need of repair and are rarely booked. The fitness room is too small. It is clear that the leisure centre is losing members
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into a popular suite‚ MS Office. It also began to offer “competitive upgrades” – discounts for customers who were switching from WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3.Starting in 1995 and all the way to 2008‚ MS was the dominant provider of word processors‚ spreadsheets‚ and presentation software. Internet Browsers. Bill Gates sent a memo to his top team in 1995‚ making it clear that their focus on the Internet is crucial to every part of their business. A section in the memo titled “Competition” highlighted
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9-580-104 REV: AUGUST 16‚ 1985 BENSON P. SHAPIRO JEFFREY J. SHERMAN Cumberland Metal Industries: Engineered Products Division‚ 1980 Robert Minicucci‚1 vice president of the Engineered Products Division of Cumberland Metal Industries (CMI)‚ and Thomas Simpson‚ group manager of the Mechanical Products Group‚ had spent the entire Wednesday (January 2‚ 1980) reviewing a new product CMI was about to introduce. (See Exhibit 1 for organization charts.) The room was silent‚ and as he watched
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BLADES‚ INC. CASE Assessment of Future Exchange Rate Movements As the chief financial officer of Blades‚ Inc.‚ Ben Holt is pleased that his current system of exporting “Speedos” to Thailand seems to be working well. Blades’ primary customer in Thailand‚ a retailer called Entertainment Products‚ has committed itself to purchasing a fixed number of Speedos annually for the next 3 years at a fixed price denominated in baht‚ Thailand’s currency. Furthermore‚ Blades is using a Thai supplier for some
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Harvard Business School 9-290-021 Rev. August 7‚ 1995 RJR Nabisco - 1990 In the spring of 1990‚ the firm of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) was in negotiation with lenders regarding the refinancing of a $1.2 billion bridge loan due to be repaid in full by February‚ 1991. The bridge loan was part of the $24 billion financing of KKR’s leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco in early 1989. Originally‚ KKR had planned to retire the loan with the proceeds of a $1.25 billion public offering of
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service‚ 1926 begins telephone service via two-way radio‚ 1947 transistor invented at Bell Labs‚ the first microwave relay system‚ 1962 launches its first satellite‚ 1977 installs the first fiber optic cable‚ 1992 starts AT & T Wireless after acquires McCaw Cellular Communications‚ 1996 launches AT & T Internet service‚ 1999 forms AT & T broadband after acquires cable company TCI. Technology is the driver of the telecommunication industry. Without highly advanced technology and services‚ there would
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The interesting events from CoBot’s standpoint are those‚ which were not expected or least expected to happen‚ from the CoBot’s past task execution data. We define these interesting events as anomalies-- deviation from the expected data. The expected value for an event can be computed from the respective log table‚ we create by analyzing the bag files. Using the expected data we identify the instances which are anomalies‚ and verbalize them comparing it with a past instance or the expected data for
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Case 3: Jackpine Mall Jane Rodney‚ President of the Rodney development company‚ is creating a shopping centre at Jackpine Mall. She had already decided on a few stores to include within the shopping centre but could not decide on the next few. With our knowledge of decision modeling‚ we can achieve the most feasible solution for Jane. We based the decision of allocating the remaining few stores through our Present Value function: MAX = 28.1CM + 34.6CW + 50.0CV + 162.0RF + 77.8RL + 100.4RC
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needs to stay cash positive on a daily basis in order to finance its operations and business expansion. Based on the information in the case‚ prepare a projected cash budget for the four months September through December 1979‚ a projected income statement for the same period‚ and a pro forma balance sheet as of December 31‚ 1979. See attached excel spreadsheet below. | | | | | | | | | | | | Pro Forma Statements | | | | | | | | (thousands of dollars) | | | | | |
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