NETFLIX Company Analysis Michael M. Akers521 June 3‚ 2011 Academic Crib Sheet Continue your business analysis using the company you selected in Week Four. Write a paper no more than 2‚400 words in which you research the company’s business environment. Review the company’s income statement‚ balance sheet‚ and cash flow to determine the financial health of the company. Be sure to compare your company to at least two other companies in the industry. Be sure to answer the following:
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CASE STUDY: NETFLIX ADJUSTMENTS TO THE BUSINESS MODEL 1st : no penalty fee for late return. At first‚ they allowed the client to rent a certain number of movies per month. They changed later to an unlimited number and 3 movies at the same time. 2nd: implementation of the recommendation system (the subscribers could rate each movie and leave comments). Negotiation with big studios in order to reduce the unitary price per movie in exchange for a fee based on the number of rentals. 3rd: Improvements
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Netflix Case Study Analysis “Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.” — Theodore Levitt The importance of this quote comes alive after reading the first three sentences within this case study. A statement by Reed Hastings‚ the founder and CEO of Netflix. “Well let’s separate the market into two phases. One is the phase of DVD‚ which peaks in five to 10 years and last for 20 to 30 years. Then there is the phase of Internet delivery‚ which peaks 20 or 30 years from
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CASE ANALYSIS: NETFLIX IDENTIFICATION Overview Netflix‚ Inc. is the world’s largest online subscription service for distributing the rental of movies and TV episodes by streaming the content through the Internet‚ and which customers also have the availability of receiving their rentals directly via mail. Subscribers given the option of eight different subscription plans‚ each pertaining unlimited streaming per month with a varying amount of titles allowed out at a time. Each subscriber has the
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Theory Strategic planning involves taking information from the environment and deciding upon an organizational mission‚ and upon objectives‚ strategies‚ and a strategic architecture. There are many different ways to go about deciding on your mission. Michael Porter‚ a researcher from Harvard‚ had a few ways for developing frameworks for developing an organization’s strategy. One of Porter’s main contributions was Porter’s value chain. The value chain is all the activities an organization undertakes
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competitive and will continue to be in the future. The rivalry between the competitors is to strategize to set them apart from one another. Some marketing maneuvers are prices for rentals‚ instant DVD’s‚ promotional products‚ and its reputation. Netflix‚ blockbuster‚ iTunes‚ Hulu‚ and many more are among the competitors. They send Blockbuster‚ Movie gallery and its associated stores to bankruptcy and it even ended with companies closing doors for good. Google announced their abilities of Google
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DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTANCY MEMORANDUM SUBJECT: Blockbuster/Netflix Case Analysis Introduction In this memorandum‚ I will analyze the competitive environment that Blockbuster and Netflix faced‚ state the key income statement and balance sheet accounts for each firm and use ratios (including DuPont model) to draw comparisons between the two firms in 2008. Competitive Environment Blockbuster is an American-based chain of VHS‚ DVD‚ Blu-Ray‚ and video game
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REACTION PAPER ON CASE 2: NETFLIX: RESPONDING TO BLOCKBUSTER‚ AGAIN Netflix has been in the forefront of innovation in the video rental industry despite the fact that it came about 20 years after the opening of the first brick and mortar video rental store (The Video Station) and 12 years after the opening of Blockbuster (its most prominent competitor). Netflix’ mail service came in at the right time when the DVD-format was still new making the company’s business model even more relevant. The change
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impact directly on the share price of Netflix. Increasing interest rates mean that the money used in the economy is decreasing and this may affect the way the existing and potential Netflix customers would want to spend their money for entertainment. Since interest rates would directly affect inflation‚ if inflation increases‚ the base-price offering for Netflix customers will change and it may also impact the rate at which new customers sign-up for Netflix
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Netflix‚ Inc.‚ (NASDAQ: NFLX) is an American provider of on-demand internet streaming media in the United States‚ Canada[5]‚ and Latin America and flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States. The company was established in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Gatos‚ California. It started its subscription-based digital distributionservice in 1999[6] and by 2009 it was offering a collection of 100‚000 titles on DVD and had surpassed 10 million subscribers. On February 25‚ 2007‚ Netflix announced the billionth
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