Diversification C’Airea McCluron Entrepreneurial Finance: Capitalization for the Entrepreneur Diversification Diversification is the practice of spreading your investments around so that your exposure to any one type of asset is limited. This practice is designed to help reduce the volatility of your portfolio over time. Note: Having a lot of investments does not necessarily make your portfolio diversified. For diversity‚ you need several different types of investments. Popular
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Diversification Diversification can be briefly defined as the expansion of a firm into a range of different product areas. Firms may choose to diversify for either of two reasons. First‚ diversification may benefit the firm’s owners by increasing the efficiency of the firm. Second‚ if the firm’s owners are not directly involved in deciding whether to diversify‚ diversification decisions may reflect the preferences of the firm’s managers. Singapore Airlines (SIA) serves as a typical example of diversification
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Kettering University Department of Business MGMT 659 - Strategy Summer 2013 Prof. Irish BUS Project – Microsoft Rakan Mogaddam Contents 1 Current Situation Analysis 3 1.1 Past Performance Indexes 3 1.1.1 Ratios 3 1.1.2 Industry Competitor Comparison 4 1.2 Strategic Posture 4 1.2.1 Mission Statement 5 1.2.2 Vision Statement 5 1.2.3 Strategies and Policies 5 2 Corporate Governance 6 2.1 Board of Directors 6 2.2 Top Management 7 2.3 Stakeholders 8 3 External
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The case against Microsoft was brought buy the U.S. Department of Justice‚ as well as several state Attorneys General. Microsoft is accused of using and maintaining monopoly power to gain an unfair advantage in the market. The case has been under observation for a long time‚ but the Justice department is having trouble coming up with substantial evidence against Microsoft. Specifically‚ the Department must prove:<br><li>That Microsoft has monopoly power and is using it to gain unfair leverage in
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Microsoft’s Financial Reporting Strategy Q1. What are the factors that likely explain the equity and its reported book value of equity? Question 1 2 3 4 5 6 1999 Market Capitalisation: USD 460 Billion Book Value: USD 28 Billion MVE more than 16 times of BVE! Factor 1 Question 1 2 3 4 5 6 Intangible Assets • BVE does not reflect certain intangible assets’ value such as brand‚ customer loyalty‚ and human capital – Likely to provide tremendous earnings growth
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1. How has Microsoft responded to competitive threats and opportunities in the past? What patterns do you see? Microsoft typically entered markets when it realized potential of dominance. The second time IBM asked Gates to build them an OS‚ Gates saw potential‚ believing that the OS would become a standard that other manufacturers could use as well. Microsoft bought DOS from another software vendor‚ modified it and licensed it to IBM. Gates held onto the copyright‚ and as he predicted he was
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The Microsoft Antitrust Case A Case Study For MBA Students by Nicholas Economides* Revised April 2003 Abstract This case study discusses briefly the economic and legal issues pertaining to the antitrust case of the United States and a number of States against Microsoft. * Stern School of Business‚ New York University‚ New York‚ NY 10012‚ (212) 9980864‚ fax (212) 995-4218‚ http://www.stern.nyu.edu/networks/‚ neconomi@stern.nyu.edu Copyright ©‚ N. Economides 2 Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5
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Working Capital Strategies By Forecasted If Microsoft forecasted revenue increase by 20 percent’s for the upcoming year‚ several parts of the annual report will be affected by the 20% increase forecast. First of all‚ the income statements will alter their revenues from 16‚195 million dollars to 19‚434 million dollars. Revenue is not the only thing that changes since there are other expenses that need to be changed. For example in the income statement‚ the operating expenses will not have
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Microsoft Antitrust Case Did Microsoft violated the Antitrust Law? Microsoft Antitrust Case Introduction: Microsoft was formed in 1975 by a university drop out in his junior year called Bill Gates. Bill Gates has been successful to achieve the company’s vision‚ “we want PC on every desk in every home and office”. Microsoft which is a massive company today was only a small company in 1983. It headquarters contained only a small building next to the Burgermaster in Bellevue and another
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The facts of the case 18 States and the Justice Department brought suit against Microsoft to "eliminate Microsoft’s unlawful practices‚ to avoid recurrence of similar practices and to restore the competitive threat that middleware products posed prior to Microsoft’s unlawful conduct. The procedural history of the case Microsoft grew the government’s attention in 1991‚ because word was that it was abusing its monopoly in the PC operating system market. The government had the FTC conduct an inquiry
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