Apple‚ Inc. in 2010 Assignment Questions 1. What are the chief elements of Apple’s overall competitive strategy? How well do the pieces fit together? Is the strategy evolving? 2. What are the key elements of Apple’s strategy in computers‚ personal media players‚ and smartphones? Have its strategies in its core businesses yielded success? Explain. 3. What does a competitive strength assessment reveal about Apple’s computer business‚ as compared to the leaders in the personal computer industry
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` an information system consulting firm BUSINESS CASE Module 1: Final assignment ICS‚ Inc. Ivana is the owner of ICS‚ Inc.‚ an information systems consulting firm of 20 employees. The company mostly designs and implements information technology projects for small and medium-size businesses in the metropolitan area. Although ICS has a sufficient level of business‚ the environment is becoming more competitive as more entrepreneurs are starting their own information technology
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------------------------------------------------- G R O U P C A S E 3: H O S P I T A L S U P P L Y‚ I N C Given Information: Hospital Supply‚ Inc.’s Normal Volume (in units per month) | 3‚000 | Regular Selling Price (per unit) | 4‚350 | Costs per Unit for Hydraulic Hoists | | | Unit Manufacturing Costs: | | | Variable Materials | 550 | | Variable Labor | 825 | | Variable Overhead | 420 | | Fixed Overhead
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NORTHERN DRILLING INC. Executive Summary Peter Bremner‚ the general manager of Northern Drilling Inc. has received a request for proposal from Mond Nickel to bid for an upcoming project that will be Northern’s largest contract to date. The project involves an intermediate job‚ as well as a deep drilling job‚ and will require that Northern prioritize this contract over other existing contracts in terms of manpower and equipment. Northern has to assess the technical feasibility of this project
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Palm Computing Inc. Introduction: In the early 1990 the technological boom started‚ and one of the startups was Palm. They had focused on the handheld devices which where in their baby steps. One of their top executives was a former GRiD employee‚ which has left the company after his PhD in the medical field. With his knowledge he developed a coding system that enabled the recognition of handwriting. The CEO of Palm was also an insider in the industry‚ which was seeking for new challenges. Problem:
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aggregate wealth-creating capacity may be greater. [Because EVA‚ like ROCE‚ is also usually based on a "snapshot" or short time series of data.]•Is it valid to mix accounting and market measures as EVA does?Q3. Calculate EVA and MVA from Outsource Inc and whether it could be used as an incentive system for its employees. Ans: Operating Current Assets (OCA)= Current Assets - Short term investments= 438‚685 - 61‚047= $ 377‚638Operating Current Liabilities(OCL) = Current liabilities- Notes payable=
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Nike Inc. Case 1. What is the WACC and why is it important to estimate a firm’s cost of capital? WACC is weighted average cost of capital‚ which is the expected rate of return on average from all the company’s existing debts and securities. It takes into account all different types of financing in the company’s capital structure. The reason it is important to estimate WACC is because it measures what it costs the firm to take on a project based on its current Debt and Equity mix. When the
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STRATEGIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Facebook Inc. Report Facebook was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg‚ Dustin Moskovitz‚ Eduardo Saverin and Chris Hughes as a college networking website while they were University Students. On 4th October 2012 Mark Zuckerberg (CEO-Chairman) announced that Facebook have reached 1 Billion users worldwide‚ which makes it the largest social network on the planet. On May 2012 Facebook was listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange raising $16 billion. Giuseppe
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(1) Carrington Furniture‚ Inc. (CFI) is employing a “push” strategy. CFI uses its sales force to persuade intermediaries to carry‚ endorse and sell its products to consumers. Most decisions to buy furniture is made spontaneously‚ in the store‚ and brand loyalty is hardly ever present in the decision making process. Furniture is a product that is well understood by all‚ therefore‚ there is less need for the sales force to explain or describe the benefits of using a particular piece of furniture.
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The Company: Cadbury Beverages Inc. a division of Cadbury Schweppes PLC Company Status: 3rd largest Worldwide and 4th largest in US; achieved positioning through consistent marketing investment in the brand and its diverse products. The Acquisition: In addition‚ the company acquired other brands worldwide that already had a solid customer following. • 1986 acquired Canada Dry and certain rights to Sunkist soft drinks • 1989 acquired Crush brand worldwide along with soft drink companies
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