OCEAN ACIDIFICATION The world’s oceans have largely been left out of the mainstream discussion of global climate change. Yet‚ as one of the largest natural reservoirs of carbon‚ the surface ocean plays a critical role in the global carbon cycle. Over recent years‚ human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels have increased the amount of carbon dioxide gas emitted to the atmosphere and the amount that dissolves into the ocean. Over the last decade‚ scientists have discovered that this excess
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Case analysis -Atlantic computer: A bundle of pricing options The main products of Atlantic computer are high-tech goods and servers. And in recent stage‚ the company has two segments including the basic market and the new market. Atlantic shows its relative advantages in the basic markets with the product Radia and it is a main product of this company. And it is fortunately that the new marketing grows so fast that could bring large profits for the company. The company has the premier products
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OCEAN CARRIERS CASE 1) Should Ls Linn purchase the $39M capsize? Make two different assumptions. First‚ assume that Ocean Carriers is a U.S. firm subject to a 35% statutory (and effective) marginal tax rate. Second‚ assume that Ocean Carriers is domiciled in Hong Kong for tax purposes‚ where ship owners are not required to pay any tax on profits made overseas and are also exempted from paying any tax on profit made on cargo uplifted from Hong Kong‚ i.e.‚ assume a zero tax rate. The
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Statement of the purpose of the book: “Blue Ocean Strategy” Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS) is the result of a decade-long study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than 30 industries over 100 years (1880-2000) by authors Kim‚ W. C.‚ Mauborgne‚ R. BOS is the simultaneous pursuit of differentiation and low cost. The aim of BOS is not to out-perform the competition in the existing industry‚ but to create new market space or a blue ocean‚ thereby making the competition irrelevant. BOS offers a set of
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Blue Ocean Strategy August 21‚ 2014 University of Phoenix Blue ocean strategy is a concept written to question the standard five forces concept of marketing. The idea is to move out of the quote “red ocean” where there are sharks always competing into the “blue ocean” competition of your own where other competition is nonexistent. A red ocean is easily understood since it “represents all the industries in existence today” (Kim & Mauborgne‚ 2004). Blue ocean focuses on potential
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Expected spot Rate | 118.00 | | 180-days U.S dollar interest rate | 4.80% | | 180-days Japanese Yen Interest Rate | 3.400% | | Calculations Calculating forward Rate (i= interest rate) F180 sf/$ = S sf/$*1+ (isF*180/360)/ (i$*180/360) =118.60*1+ (0.034*180/360)/ 1+ (0.048*180/360) =118.60*1.017/1.024 =117.789 = 117.80 Difference in interest Rate i¥ - i$ =3.400% -4.800% = -1.400% Expected gain (loss) on the Spot Rate
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Executive Summary Virgin Atlantic is one of the leading luxury airline and part of the Virgin Group of companies‚ a highly valued name in United Kingdom and United states. Virgin is one of the leaders in most of the industries it operates in. A major reason for the success of Virgin Air is the CEO of the Virgin group Richard Branson‚ whose vision and dynamic personality has led to one of the most talked about creation and growth of a business group. Richard has been able to use his personality
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unfavourable credit rating which forced him to sell his home. I feel that this situation may have been avoided if Al had developed and enforced “tighter results controls”. In order to produce tighter results controls‚ Al had to consider the following: 1. Definition of desired area: This section is concerned with both goal congruence and completeness. The goals of the organization must be consistent with the individual goals of the employees. It is clear that in AHL‚ both of Al’s temporary “partners”
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deeper understanding of the Blue Ocean Strategy. With the research the student will understand the Blue Ocean Strategy and manage to use it when doing a business. The Blue Ocean Strategy consists of strategy canvas‚ value curve‚ four actions framework‚ six paths‚ buyer experience cycle‚ buyer utility map and blue ocean idea index. This concept is very effective and can make a business person successful. In blue ocean‚ demand is created not to fought over. Blue Ocean is not about technology innovation
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and Effective Execution Workshop: 8 -12 April 2013 By Javaid A. Khan CEO & Lead Trainer www.improversworld .com ©All Rights Reserved 1 Table of Contents What is Strategy? .......................................................................................................................................... 2 What is Blue Ocean Strategy? ................................................................................................................... 3 The Paradox of Strategy
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