APPLE INC. SWOT Analysis is a strategic planning method used to evaluate the Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities and Threats in a business. It involves identifying the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieve an objective. Strengths: Attributes of a company that are helpful to achieve the objective. 1: Apple is a very successful company. Sales of its iPod music player had increased its profits. So iPod gives the company access to a whole new series
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SITUATION ANALYSIS REPORT Uber Technologies Inc. Group 3: Student 1 Student 2 Student 3 Student 4 Student 5 Student 6 Situation analysis Company description Uber Technologies Incorporated‚ commonly known as Uber‚ is a privately held multi-national company providing transportation network. Transportation network company (TNC) serves to connect paying passengers and drivers using non-commercial vehicles through the use of apps or websites. In Uber’s instance‚ services are exclusively provided on the
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Case Analysis # 19 Harley- Davidson Inc. 2008 I. Current Situation A. Current Performance * First decline in 20 years * Leads industry in domestic sales * Increased share of foreign markets * Strong‚ highly recognizable brand name and trademarks B. Strategic Posture 1. Mission * We fulfill dreams through the experience of motorcycling by providing to motorcyclists and to the general public an expanding line of motorcycles‚ branded products and services
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Corning Incorporated: A Network of Alliances Background Corning Incorporated has established a strong reputation in the specialty glass market. Corning Incorporated helped pioneer the initiative for businesses to incorporated research laboratories in their business operations; and has been a leader in technology-based research for some year. Corning’s initial focus was on the U.S. market but it consistently makes strides to becoming a more international company. One of the major strides Corning
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PFIZER INC. BUSINESS ANALYSIS AND STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY Pfizer Inc. is a global pharmaceutical company that creates and manufactures products for both humans and animals. Pfizer is headquartered in New York City and employs about 115‚000 people. PRINCIPAL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES Pfizer currently has ten different divisions and promotes thirty-one different major products. The divisions and largest major products within each group are: Cardiovascular and Metabolic
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Bergman in 1993. Hansen and Bergman planned to combine microelectronics and molecular biology to develop products that would have broad commercial applications in genomics and other fields. Anagene’s mission was to facilitate breakthrough genetic analysis. The company went public in the year 1998 and raised $42.9 million. The company’s core product was a cartridge which had to be analyzed with a Anagene-designed workstation. Management anticipated a long string of cartridge sales following the sale
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I. CASE FACTS Purinex was a drug-discovery and -development company based in Syracuse‚ New York‚ that sought to commercialize therapeutic compounds based on its purine drug-development platform. Purine was a naturally occurring molecule that played an important role in numerous biochemical processes. Purinex had developed a process for creating small molecules that acted as selected agonists (activators) or antagonists (blockers) for specific purine receptors in the cell membrane. Purinex’s goal
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Goodwill for Impairment CLAUDIA Inc. has an internally generated goodwill and did not amortize or tested for impairment. They cannot amortize because measuring the components are complex and associating the costs incurred with future benefits are too difficult. Goodwill cannot generate cash flows independently and is made as a combination with other assets making up a business; it needs to be assigned to a reporting unit or cash-generating unit in order to test for impairment. Under ASPE‚ the impairment
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Paul Duncan‚ the financial manager of EduSoft Inc‚. is contemplating the need to raise new capital‚ to grab a larger market share before an imminent shakeout of the education software industry. In this case study‚ the concepts of a preferred stock‚ warrants‚ and convertible bonds are discussed. Also‚ the cost of capital of a bond with warrants package and that for a convertible bond are explored‚ and the call option features of both financing options are discussed. In addition‚ the case study includes
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Product Bundle Pricing The textbook defines product bundle pricing as “combining several products and offering the bundle at a reduced price” (274). This strategy can be effective at selling product accessories that customers would not buy outside the bundle. This can increase the total profit gained from each customer even if the profit margin on each item sold in the bundle is lower than if they had been sold separately. Walmart provides an excellent example of product bundle pricing with
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