IB 92C0 MiM/MiB CORPORATE FINANCE ASSIGNMENT GUIDELINES Case Study: Ford Motor Company’s Value Enhancement Plan (VEP) As was announced during the first class in January (and stated in the module outline) you are required to submit a written assignment. Your assignment will be based on the Harvard Business School case study entitled “Ford Motor Company’s Value Enhancement Plan (A)”. The case study is distributed separately. Specifically‚ you are required to read carefully the case study and hand
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Introduction A respectable website states that “There are affordable cars‚ and then there are cars that offer thrilling performance. Rarely do the two ever converge‚ but Japanese automaker Mazda has made it a tradition of coming up with vehicles that combine both of these eminently desirable traits” (Mazda Reviews - Mazda Cars). It is not surprising that year 2013 marked yet another milestone in the Mazda Motor Corporation’s success: the company announced and launched a brand new advertising campaign
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Size per se is not what creates a successful roll-up; what matters is the right kind of size. For Service Corporation‚ multiple locations in individual cities have been more important than many branches spread over many cities‚ because the cost savings (such as sharing vehicles) can be realized only if the branches are near one another. Roll-up strategies are hard to disguise‚ so they invite copycats. As others tried to imitate Service Corporation’s strategy‚ prices for some funeral homes were eventually
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Scientific merit provides evidence‚ proof‚ and need of study to setup a foundation for the researcher to build on. Setting up this foundation provides value to the research being conducted. Scientific merit is important to explore the background information on the topic of interest to make sure there is a need for study. There are many components of scientific merit that help with ensuring the conducted study is appropriate from location of study to procedures being used in a study. Before conducting
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candidate’s employment information is given to help determine the merit raise decision. Before the decision can finalize‚ research and analysis will be conducted. A case solution will include the implementation of management approval‚ budget recommendations‚ communication and essential steps of the new policy to the university‚ and fair distribution of merit raise. Keywords: merit raise‚ human resources‚ performance evaluation‚ merit raise procedures Introduction Small State University
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ENTERNTAINMENT MARKETING CASE MARVEL ENTERPRISES INC ABISHEK BHASIN 2091775562 Marvel Enterprises‚ Inc. is an industry-leading firm whose core business is character-based entertainment. Marvel’s foundation and success is built on their proprietary library of over 4‚700 characters featured in a variety of media for nearly seventy years (1939-2004). Marvel utilizes its character franchises in licensing agreements‚ and publishing of comic books through the division of Marvel Comics. Marvel’s
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BROCHURE ON GUIDELINES FOR SELECTION OF REGULAR LPG DISTRIBUTORS AUGUST 2013 Guidelines on Selection of Regular LPG Distributorship (Applicable to all locations Advertised / Re-advertised from August’13 onwards ) 1. IDENTIFICATION OF LOCATIONS Locations for setting up of LPG Distributorship are identified based on available refill sale potential‚ which can sustain economically viable operation of an LPG distributorship. The refill sale potential is based on several factors
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C2. Ellasaurus Products Enterprises 1. Ellen will use some copyrighted illustrations from her books on the Web site. She will also include themes from the story lines of her books in some of the games that will be available (free) on the site to registered visitors. Prepare a report of about 300 words in which you discuss at least two intellectual property issues that might arise in the operation of the Web site. Intellectual Property (IP) refers to anything created with the mind. This includes
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Accounting 2036 Chapter 1: Introduction I. Private Enterprise and Capitalism a. Private Enterprise i. Individuals own companies that produce and sell services and/or goods for a profit ii. Must be able to obtain cash to begin to operate and grow b. Service companies i. Perform services or activities that benefit individuals or business customers 1. UPS‚ Great Cuts‚ Midas‚ accounting‚ law‚ medicine‚ architecture c. Merchandising Companies i. Purchase goods for resale to customers ii. Wholesalers
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Though there is support from psychological concepts for the implementation of merit pay increasing student achievements‚ there are also opposing arguments as to why merit pay would not help increase student performance. For example‚ educators cannot control who is assigned to their classes‚ and the motivation and ability of the students varies every year (Ramirez‚ 2011). The ability varies because of the different backgrounds the students come from which affects their intelligences‚ learning capabilities
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