Morrissey Forgings‚ Inc. This heavily disguised case is set in the "mature" woodstoves business in 1986. It is not based on The Vermont Castings Company. The issue is product line strategy based on product line profitability. In early 1986‚ Tim Morrissey was reviewing the disappointing 1985 results of operations for his company (see Exhibit 1). The business had been founded in 1938 by Tim’s grandfather as a modernization of an older iron forge company which Tim’s great-great-grandfather had
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rP os t HKU978 NIKHIL CELLY op yo HAIER IN INDIA: BUILDING PRESENCE IN A MASS MARKET BEYOND CHINA In a short 25 years‚ Haier Inc had emerged from being a small refrigerator factory in northeast China to becoming the world’s biggest appliance seller by retail volume. It had exported to developed markets in the 1990s‚ set up factories overseas and created a global retail chain that made it an unmatched success in China. This company that made its name by exporting refrigerators
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increased rate of unemployed and job dissatisfaction. As imply‚ many people engaged in direct selling because direct selling have the vast opportunities available to young and old alike to earn additional income to supplement their lifestyle‚ and in this case‚ their golden years. The context of this study will define what sales agent is‚ how they perform; what are the importance of rewards to the effectiveness performance of sales agents in selling products and how does distributors motivate their salespeople/sales
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CASE STUDY : 7-3 QUAlLITY METAL SERVCE CENTER Q1. Is the capital investment proposal described in Exhibit 3 an attractive one for Quality Metal Service Center? Yes‚ the purpose of a company is to maximum the profit‚ and as Elizabeth Barret suggested‚it can help company to make more profit. So the capital investment proposal described in Exhibit 3 is an attractive on for QMSC. Investment in machine $540‚000 10 years cash inflow $286‚000 PV of cash inflow $39‚182 Payback period = 4.5 years NPV=
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HKU833 STEPHEN KO AIRASIA: FLYING LOW-COST WITH HIGH HOPES AirAsia started out as a Malaysian government-controlled‚ full-service regional airline that offered slightly lower fares than its number-one competitor‚ Malaysia Airlines (“MAS”). In December 2001‚ private entrepreneur Tony Fernandes took over the debt-ridden airline for the symbolic sum of US$0.26. Despite the air-travel downturn following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks‚ Fernandes believed that the timing for entering
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LEHIGH University Discussion Case TW-2001-2 AstroPower West‚ LLC1 Company Background AstroPower‚ Inc. (www.astropower.com)‚ the largest US-owned manufacturer of solar electric power products‚ began as a division of Astrosystems Inc.‚ founded in 1983 as an outgrowth of semiconductor research at the University of Delaware. In 1989‚ the company was incorporated in Delaware‚ and grew rapidly. In the several years up to 2001‚ Astropower was the fastest-growing major manufacturer of solar electric (photovoltaic
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Case Study 5: General Electric Prices Clarence Burke began working for the heavy-equipment division of General Electric as soon as he graduated from college in 1926. Clarence was an energetic‚ hard-driving‚ and tenacious person and looked forward to a promising career at GE. The heavy electrical equipment division at GE was the oldest part of the company‚ around which the rest had been built‚ and it still accounted for a quarter of its sales. Moreover‚ GE dominated the heavy electrical equipment
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Ann. Section(s) 19-12-101‚ the "criminal attempt" statute‚ the trial court affirmed the juvenile court order and sentenced the girl to the Department of Youth development for an indefinite period. The issue in this case is to determine whether the defendant ’s action in this case constitute a "substantial step" toward the commission of second degree murder under the new statue. The "substantial step" issue has not yet been
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w rP os t S 910D05 OPERATIONS STRATEGY AT GALANZ op yo Dr. Stephen Ng and Barbara Li wrote this case under the supervision of Professors Xiande Zhao‚ Xuejun Xu and Yang Lei solely to provide material for class discussion. The authors do not intend to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation. The authors may have disguised certain names and other identifying information to protect confidentiality. Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation
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The Strategic Human Capital Case Study The Cirque du Soleil and Its Continued growth Chen Chen The Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School The Cirque du Soleil and Its Continued growth The product and strategy of Cirque du Soleil "We are not a product company‚ we are an artistic works company." said Mario D ’ Amico‚ the executive vice president of marketing in Cirque du Soleil. Cirque du Soleil launched a whole new approach of circus‚ called "New American Circus"
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