Harvard Business School 9-298-101 Rev. March 18‚ 1998 Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital In April 1988‚ Dan Cohrs‚ vice president of project finance at the Marriott Corporation‚ was preparing his annual recommendations for the hurdle rates at each of the firm ’s three divisions. Investment projects at Marriott were selected by discounting the appropriate cash flows by the appropriate hurdle rate for each division. In 1987‚ Marriott ’s sales grew by 24% and its return on equity stood
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| Target Corporation | Memo To: Dr. Brian Boscaljon From: Adam Leone and Jean Costa CC: Doug Scovanner‚ CFO Date: [ 2/14/2011 ] Re: November Meeting Capital Budgeting Decisions The Objective As the November Meeting approaches‚ CFO Doug Scovanner is faced with the problem of choosing which of the five controversial projects available to accept. Our task is to assume this role and evaluate each of the projects based upon two major criteria. The first is determining the firm’s financial motives
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Introduction In this paper I have researched in to Southwest Airline‚ I have focused to write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which I will‚ determine how Southwest Airlines’ corporate culture differs from other airlines. I will then analyze three (3) ways that Southwest’s unique culture has benefited the airline and its employees and eventually I will speculate how Southwest Airlines would continue to thrive as a company if its current corporate culture would need to change in the near
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Doing Business in Europe Preliminary day‐to‐day programme 02.07.2012 ‐ 10.08.2012 Course Director: Elske Barens E‐mail address: summerschool.business@hu.nl Special Track consists of: European Politics and Economy 02.07.2012 – 13.07.2012 European Business Skills 16.07.2012 – 03.08.2012 Management Simulation: 06.08.2012 – 10.08.2012 Choose Your Way: Business Logistics from A‐Z or It’s All about Money: Management Simulation Finance or The Right Target; Management Simulation Marketing
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Biopure Corporation Written Case Study I. Current Situation Audit A. Issue Oxyglobin and Hemopure are two blood substitutes that Biopure Corporation was developing. Oxyglobin was recently approved by the FDA for veterinary use while Hemapure is estimated to be approved in two years for human use. If Oxyglobin is launched it will be the first blood substitute for the veterinary market a small and price sensitive market. There is a perceived risk by Ted Jacobs‚ the VP of Human Clinical Trials
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Keysor-Roth Corp. Senior Debenture 1. List all the restrictions imposed on this debenture. The restrictions include dividend restrictions‚ additional debt restriction‚ and indenture modification. 2. Identify all restrictions that are a function of accounting numbers. The dividend restriction will influence the dividend‚ retained earning and equity. Which means the company cannot pay dividend and issue new stock under some certain situation. The additional debt restriction will effect
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Research: McDonald’s Corporation C. Michael Larpenter‚ Justin Dowdy‚ Whitney White‚ Varonika Allen Business Research 351 University of Phoenix Debra Bacon October 29‚ 2012
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ALZA and Bio-Electro Systems 1. ALZA‚ a pharmaceutical company that has led the industry for over a decade‚ has been largely successful due to their unique technical innovation. Rather than specializing in discovering new drugs and treatments for medical conditions‚ ALZA instead focuses their pharmaceutical talents on developing new methods to deliver drugs to patients. From skin patches to time released capsules‚ ALZA captures their market by providing their technologies to all major pharmaceutical
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MINICASE a. Effects of expansion on sales & net income are: * The Sales increased more than $ 2 Million * Cost also increased as the sales increase * Incurred net loss (negative net income) * Caused a negative tax expense (tax refund) since it paid taxes of more than $63‚424 for the past 2 years Effects of expansion on Asset side of the balance sheet: * The total asset approximately doubled from the previous year because the net asset soared and the account receivables
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Page |1 First Class Trading Corporation Christopher A. Ross‚ Professor‚ John Molson School of Business‚ wrote this case. It is partly based on a student group report that was submitted in the fall of 2006. The members of the group were Jenviev Azzolin‚ Monique Chalifour‚ Colin Kim‚ Elissa Morrissette and Tanya Saba. This case is to be used for discussion purposes only. It is not designed to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of an administrative or commercial situation. Some
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