Carnival Cruise Ship Triumph Brenda Wells BCOM/275 October 14‚ 2013 Kimberly Boyd Carnival Cruise Ship Triumph Carnival Cruise Ship Triumph caught fire February 10‚ 2013 leaving 4‚200 passengers stranded with poor living conditions. Many people were affected by the ship’s fire including the passengers‚ crew‚ and family members at home. The company faced many future issues such as loss of future passengers‚ employee relations‚ and government scrutiny of the fleet’s future safety. The
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March 4‚ 2011 Case-Revitalizing Dell I. Diagnosis Question 1: The most critical shifts in Dell’s contextual factors‚ including industry dynamics‚ trends‚ technology changes and shift of the competitive landscape are following: The industry has changed significantly over the last 20 years. The traditional business model in the PC industry was inside-out‚ supplying machines based on orders from distribution‚ resell and retail channels‚ thus following the indirect selling concept. Dell’s direct
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Executive Summary The case " Apple Computer ’s Supplier Hubs: A Tale of Three Cities" deals with the imple-mentation of supplier hubs as an instrument to improve the flow of materials along a sup-ply chain based on the experience at Cork‚ Ireland and Fountain‚ Colorado. Since the demand of Apple ’s desktop PC and server PC products has rapidly increased there is a need to built new production lines‚ but at the same time a need to store more material at the manufacturing site.
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Industry Analysis Used car market was a huge market with attractive growth opportunities during 1980s. It was estimated worth $ 375 billion market. Competition was so deeply fragmented that no single dealership could claim more than a few percentage points share of the used car market in any locale. New car dealerships were the largest sellers of used cars. 65 % of late model‚ used vehicles were sold by 21‚800 new car dealers through out United States. However most of these new car dealers considered
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2013 | Cruise Line | Cruise Ship | Date | Number of Passengers Affected | Number of Crew Affected | Celebrity Cruises | Celebrity Infinity | 03/17 - 04/01 | 101 of 2086 (4.84%) | 17 of 927 (2.05%) | Princess Cruises | Ruby Princess | 03/03 - 03/10 | 266 of 3129 (8.50%) | 10 of 1‚189 (0.84%) | Royal Caribbean Cruise Line | Vision of the Seas | 02/25 - 03/08 | 118 of 1991 (5.93%) | 3 of 765 (0.39%) | 2012 | Cruise Line | Cruise Ship | Date | Number of Passengers Affected | Number
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Moroye HTE-4300 11 September 2013 Case Study: Implementation One of the problem plaguing the cruise industry is lack of brand recognition. There are at least 17 different brands in the industry with very little differentiation between them. While there are different categories including contemporary‚ destination‚ premium‚ and luxury‚ there is not much to separate one brand from another in these categories. Many people will decide that they want to go on a cruise and choose one of these categories
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Being that Eskimo Pie is a small operation with fairly thin margins‚ they would not qualify for an A or AA bond rating. Thus‚ I am assuming that any bonds they have issued have a BB rating. The long-term bond yield for BB bonds is 11.44%. The case does not provide any information regarding the required return on equity. However‚ by imputing the data from Exhibit 8c into a spreadsheet we can calculate Beta for comparable companies. I calculate the Beta for Ben & Jerry’s to be 1.5994. I calculate
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The skills necessary for customer service within Beau Street Runners‚ Ltd include communication‚ listening‚ self-control‚ positivity‚ assertiveness‚ conflict resolution‚ empathy‚ depersonalization‚ taking responsibility and related skills. The best learning theory for this organizations will be the cognitive learning theory. This is because the Beau Street Runners‚ Ltd is currently effective in environmental training and they perform better with it. However‚ psychology and human behavior possess
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Department of Hotel‚ Service and Tourism Studies (HoSTS) Sustainable Tourism Management (TOU4006) Tutorial 6 – Group Project Literature Searching Seminar Objective Research of articles and reports related to the topic of study Draw some key points with reference to the articles and reports collected Write a list of references In-class Exercise Task 1: Work with your project group to research at least 3 articles / reports / book chapters related to the topic of study and selected destination. Task 2:
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Josh Boger – R&D Portfolio Management in October 2003 Analysis of Pharmaceutical Industry: As mentioned in the case‚ Pharmaceutical industry was experiencing a significant growth between 1993 and 2003. New technologies and approaches such as Rational Drug Design‚ High Throughput Screening‚ etc. were advancing drug discovery process to a new level. There were many drugs being approved and commercialized during this period and some of them have become blockbusters in the market. As companies have
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