SPORTS DAY SPORTS DAY Name: Yash Nayak Class: 9 B Instructed by: Mr. Alok Kanchan SPORTS DAY OF OUR SCHOOL The annual sports day of our school is a very big event Sports day starts with march past and some cultural events On this day almost all students of our school take part in different sports events like high jump ‚ long jump ‚ slow cycle race etc. On this day parents are allowed to come and see their child’s performance in sports events The students those
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Microsoft Computers Financial Analysis Microsoft is currently the largest company in the computer industry. With a market capitalization of $291 billion‚ Microsoft has built an empire by dominating software sales for personal computers. Stock growth over the past 25 years has increased by more than 30‚000%. However‚ Microsoft’s growth has substantially decreased since the market collapse of 2001(Niemond 25 April 2007). From June 2004 to June 2005‚ Microsoft saw a 33% growth in net income
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Porter’s Five Forces Model of Industry Structure An industry is a group of firms that market products which are close substitutes for each other (e.g. car industry‚ travel industry). Some industries are more profitable than others. Why? The answer lies in understanding the dynamics of competitive structure in an industry. The most influential analytical model for assessing the nature of competition in an industry is Michael Porter’s Five Forces Model‚ which is described below: Porter explains
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PACE UNIVERSITY- ACC-615 DR. FINN Financial Statement Analysis IBM and Microsoft Bill Jacoby 4/20/2010 Financial Statement analysis for two comparable companies; IBM and Microsoft ACC-615 Dr. Finn; William Jacoby Microsoft Corporation is the world’s largest software company. Microsoft has five operating segments; client‚ server and tools‚ online business services‚ Microsoft business division and entertainment and devices division. They develop personal computing software including the
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Labs Lab 1: Learning @Risk Basics In this lab you will create and run a Sales spreadsheet model. Please take your time on this lab; even though it is easy‚ it is your one guided opportunity to learn how to use the @Risk software. Launch @Risk from the Start menu. Begin by building the following spreadsheet: 1 2 A Sales Forecast C D E Sales Dollars in Millions 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 B Customers Big Guy Little Guy New Guy Zero-One Guy Total Sales This Year $25
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This essay is an attempt to apply the Five Forces Model for industry analysis and business strategy development formed by Michael E. Porter of Harvard Business School in 1979 that draws upon industrial organization (IO) economics to derive five forces that determine the competitive intensity and therefore attractiveness of a market. Within the ambit of Porter’s typology‚ this essay aims to analyze the attractiveness of industries for investment and seeks to identify their potential for change or
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This case study focused on the Microsoft Corporation and charges made by their competitors‚ the Federal Trade Commission‚ and the Department of Justice of antitrust violations and a monopoly of the computer operating systems and applications software‚ software development tools (e.g.‚ programming language software)‚ and hardware peripherals (e.g.‚ Microsoft Mouse) that Microsoft specializes in. It focused on numerous issues that would lead one to believe that Microsoft was in fact monopolizing the
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What are the five competitive forces described by Michael Porter? Comment on them briefly 1. Threat of entry New entrants to an industry bring new capacity and a desire to gain market share that puts pressure on prices‚ costs‚ and the rate of investment necessary to compete. Particularly when new entrants are diversifying from other markets‚ they can leverage existing capabilities and cash flows to shake up competition‚ as Pepsi did when it entered the bottled water industry‚ Microsoft did when it
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E-mail address: sasmith@uh.edu Website: www.bauer.uh.edu/ssmith (access directly or thru Blackboard Learn) Dept. Fax: (713) 743-4940 Required Text: The UH Customized Version of Essentials of Modern Business Statistics (With Microsoft Excel)‚ 5th edition‚ by Anderson‚ Sweeney‚ and Williams. Grading Scale: 90 and up A 62-64.9999 D+ 85-89.9999 A- 58-61.9999 D 82-84.9999 B+ 55-57.9999 D- 78-81.9999 B 54.9999 and below F 75-77.9999 B- 72-74.9999 C+ 68-71.9999 C
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Michael Porter’s Five Forces Model is a model used to analyze a particular environment of an industry. An industry is a group of firms that market products which are close substitutes for each other‚ such as the automobile industry. According to Porter‚ there are five forces that determine an industry’s long-run profitability and attractiveness. These five competitive forces are the threat of entry of new competitors‚ or new entrants; the threat of substitutes; the bargaining power of buyers; the
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