Atlanta Home Loan Case study Atlanta Home Loan A)Identify the devices (controls) that Al Fiorini used to control his business both before and after he went back to school. Classify each control as a results‚ control‚ or personnel/cultural type of control. Action control Before he went back to school i. Al monitored the activities of his loan offers by tracking the number of credit inquiries each requested. ii. Al closely monitored the loan application/lead ratio depending on the skill of the
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Home Depot STRENGTHS - Strong market position - Higher returns than competitors - Balanced brand mix - WEAKNESSES Sub optimal capital structure - Product recall OPPORTUNITIES - International presence - Growing popularity of power tools - Increasing online sales THREATS - Intense competition - Slowdown in US housing market - Rising labor wages in the US |The Home Depot Inc. (HD)
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Marshall School of Business University of Southern California Atlanta Home Loan Teaching Note Purpose of Case This case was written as an example of an extreme control failure. It can be used in a class focused on management control‚ entrepreneurship‚ or management of small businesses. Al Fiorini‚ the manager of a small‚ but reasonably successful‚ mortgage lending company in Atlanta hired managers to run his business while he went back to school‚ for his executive MBA‚ in California. He did his
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Daniella Manghisi Paper #2- King Solomon’s Mines The portrayal of science vs. witchcraft and superstition as seen in King Solomon’s Mines is that Science is demonstrated to be superior to superstition in the book. However‚ just like many ancient legends and fairy tales‚ the “feminine” can be used for both good and evil. Gagool is obviously the evil side of femininity. The white men overcome the terror of Gagool and impress the Kukuana people through science in various instances. When the Kukuana
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ATLANTA HOME LOAN I. Devices that Al used to control his business Before he went back to school a. Result control: - Al paid each telemarketer a combination of an hourly wage plus a performance bonus ($10.00) for each lead produced. - Al paid the loan officers 40% of the total loan revenue on loans that AHL originated and 60% on loans they originated. b. Action controls: - Al bought leads from list brokers‚ then telemarketers called people on the lists to assess their interest in refinancing
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Home Depot fix or not Lady? Alan E. Paschal MGMT 302A November 27‚ 2013 Laryssa Ziolkowski Home Depot fix or not Lady? Home Depot is a home improvement retailer that is trying to stay with the other rival home improvement stores like Lowes. Home Depot was founded in 1979 in Atlanta‚ Georgia the first home depot was around 60‚000square feet with about 25‚000 sku’s. The biggest problem was they were still using the same technology in 2010 that they had in 1990’s (Home Depot‚ 2012). They need
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Introduction Home Depot is a nationally and somewhat internationally recognized company. They not only have stores throughout the US but they have broken into Canada‚ District of Columbia‚ Puerto Rico and Mexico. They are the United States’ largest retailer behind Wal-Mart. Home Depot is known for its bright orange logo and its multiple departments available to individuals and businesses. They have primary operations in the home center and hardware store industry. Their strongest competition
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Home Depot EMG 3327 11/13/2013 Introduction The reason for selecting this topic is because I worked in a warehouse‚ so most of the work is similar to Home Depot we handle thousands of items on a daily basis like electrical parts‚ hardware‚ paint‚ janitorial supplies‚ and plumbing. The only difference is that we are funded for the government and provide our service to assisted families at or below 80 percent of area median income. History The Home Depot was founded in 1978 by Bernie Marcus
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trouble changing successfully (in that he is needing to replace a large number of people‚ etc. to accomplish the changes). For each‚ please name the “S” and in 2-3 sentences explain why you say that he has or has not changed the “S” successfully. Home Depot had an enormous growth of achieving $40 billion in revenue in 20 years. However its sales started to stagnate‚ unable to cope up with the fast growth. Mr Nardelli identified some of the problems‚ key being appropriate structure and systems to support
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Case1 Atlanta Home Loan 1. Identify the devices (controls) that Al Fiorini used to control his business‚ both before and after he went back to school. Classify each control as a results‚ action‚ or personnel/cultural type of control. Controls used Pre-MBA enrollment Al received all the leads generated by the telemarketers and then distributed them to each of the four loan officers- this is an action control more specifically an Behavioral constraint that limited their administrative access to the
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