Overview of Groupon: Groupon is a marketing services company that promoted local business by selling deeply discounted vouchers for their products and services. It was launched in 2008 in Chicago‚ Groupon is already present in 47 countries‚ 5 continents and more than 750 cities all over the world with more than 10‚000 employees‚ 200 million subscribers‚ and an enviable position as the daily deals leader of the world. The company works as an intermediary between consumers and local merchants by
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Agm.com Case Analysis 1. What were the factors that caused actual quarterly income to be less than budgeted? What was the quantitative effect of each of these factors? - In order to find out the factors that caused the less actual quarterly income‚ we did analysis on variances. Sales variance‚ production cost variances and overhead variances are calculated as follows: - Sales Variance Actual Price($) Budgeted Price($) Actual Quantity Sold(Unit) Budgeted Quantity Sold(Unit) Price Variance
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Merck case analysis Follow this format‚ provide *brief* answers. 1. External (use PESTEL framework) - What are Merck’s opportunities and threats? 2. Internal (use VRIO framework)- what are Merck’s strengths & weaknesses? 3. What is Merck’s performance trend? 4. What strategic actions can Merck take to gain and sustain a competitive advantage in the pharmaceutical industry and why? 1. Merck’s opportunities and threats PESTEL FRAMEWORK - Threats A lot of competition from piers Expiring patents
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TerraCog Case Analysis Part 1 Analysis The situation of dysfunction during meetings in TerraCog is obvious. Both the participants and the facilitator don’t play professional in the meetings and they don’t have necessary communication with others before the meeting. All these poor performances make all meetings which are described in the case study has very low efficiency and cause so much negative emotion amount team members. Primary and secondary tensions Primary tension comes from the unfamiliarity
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‚ Case #1: the turbine generator industry The default prediction that we’d make using economic theory (or common sense) in the absence of game theory is that‚ in the turbine generator case‚ General Electric should have undercut Westinghouse because the former has lower costs. But we start to see why it didn ’t when we introduce capacity constraints into the Bertrand model. Capacity constraints can stem from two things: decreasing returns to scale‚ or demand-uncertainties that create expected
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McDonalds Case Analysis The most important general environmental factors to be considered for the industry and McDonalds include its demographic‚ sociocultural‚ global‚ and physical environment segmentations. The demographic segment is important in terms of this industry because of the consumers that make up the fast-food industry. The demographic segment associated with McDonalds consists of a wide range of consumers with their new and improved menu that offers the success of the new dollar menu
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Netflix Case Analysis 1. INTRODUCTION Netflix has been successful introducing a new business model for the DVD rent industry. The new model is base completely online‚ changing the way that price of the service has been settled before. The new business model is bases new pricing system in which customer neither pay late return fees‚ nor shipping fees. This business model have been so successful that other big player such as Blockbuster‚ and Wal-Mart start to copy the business model‚ which is a real
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Case Analysis and Report Dessey Holm U06a1 Due: June 29‚ 2014 Email: des69sey@hotmail.com Professor: John Kwagyan 1. The data bellows shows that those who plan to marry anticipate using bridal magazines and travel magazines the most to research for their dream honeymoon destination. Video rental stores and jewelry stores are less likely to be researched according to the survey data results. Since by the descriptive statistics data states that the median is $64
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Fiat Case Analysis 1. What are the basic attributes of the auto industry in the era of globalization; which dynamic changes in the industry influence companies’ strategies? During the era of globalization‚ the auto industry‚ like many industries‚ saw an increase in marketplace growth. The case throws out a perplexing statistics that one in seven people own an automobile on a global basis‚ equating to roughly 900 million cars and light vehicles. The Exhibit 1 of the case points out that the
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Barco Case Group members: Siyu Liu ‚ Yating Li Che Zheng ‚ Liang Dong‚ Xiaoxuan Gu I. SUMMARY In order to maintain BPS high-end projector market and keep high market share in the marketplace on the existing of the competitive of Sony’s production‚ we had a drastic discussion about BPS’s situation. Through discussion‚ we define the problems that BPS is facing. Then‚ we analysis its three possible strategies which include pricing option‚ production development option and stability of supply
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