Midland Resources 1. How are Mortensen’s estimates of Midland’s costs of capital used? How‚ if at all‚ should these anticipated uses affect the calculations? The cost of capital is the minimum acceptable rate of return for new investments in the corporation. Estimates of Midland’s cost of capital are used in many analysis within Midland‚ including asset appraisal for both capital budgeting and financial accounting‚ performance assessments‚ M&A proposals‚ and stock repurchase decisions. These
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-MFS- 1. Does the MFS system have weak or strong pay-to-performance? What type of behavior does the MFS system motivate? Basically‚ culture of MFS is focused on teamwork and community so that MFS manages their employees very fair and its compensation system also reflects this characteristic. For sustaining this team –based culture of MFS‚ which don’t prefer star(anti star culture)‚ MFS assesses their employees to the ways that not only fund-performance(performance factor) but also contribution
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1.i. Test Marketing Expense: These can be identified as sunk costs‚ using the with-or-without test. These costs were undertaken to determine whether the Super project was feasible‚ and would exist even if the project were deemed unfeasible. 1.ii. Overhead Expenses: Mr. Sanberg proposed to include these in the fully allocated method used in Alternative III. However‚ we believe that these expenses have already been attributed to the Jell-O line of products‚ and the data does not explicitly provide
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Chad Ogle MGMT 620 HBS Case 9 Starbucks: Delivering Customer Service History In 1971‚ Starbucks started as a small coffee shop which targeted a specialized market of coffee purists. Howard Schultz‚ who later owned the company and initiated the high growth period‚ joined Starbucks’ marketing team in 1982. Main concept of Schultz marketing strategy was too make Starbucks “America’s third place” considering home and work the two other places where Americans spend
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Interview Guide Cases contributed by Management Consulting Club and consulting companies. Note: Case guide is strictly for the use of current HBS Management Consulting Club members. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic‚ mechanical‚ photocopying‚ recording‚ or otherwise—without the permission of HBS Management Consulting Club. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: OVERVIEW OF THE CASE........................................................
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targeted to such specific spheres as materials-testing automation and chromatography automation. According to the sales statistic the Corporation should in short time make urgent changes in its course of running business taking in account the consultant`s opinion. And as we can see from the internal correspondence between the president and the vice-president‚ the Compec is on a threshold of changes. II. The Problem. The difficult financial situation compels to revise the strategic development plans
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Diapers One morning‚ a Costco store in Los Angeles began running a little low on size-one and size-two Huggies. Crisis loomed. So what did Costco managers do? Nothing; They didn’t have to‚ thanks to a special arrangement with Kimberly-Clark Corp.‚ the company that makes the diapers. Under this deal‚ responsibility for replenishing stock falls on the manufacturer‚ not Costco. In return‚ the big retailer shares detailed information about individual stores’ sales. So‚ long before babies
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In France small cars accounted for 43.7% of the 1.9 million new cars sold in 1995. This specific market is more developed in France than any other country on Europe due to taxation policy. (A car owner will pay less tax if he buys a small car)In 1990´s the small market became increasingly competitive with the launch of new models and upgrading of others.Many cars companies started to manufacture small cars although they haven’t done it in the past years (BMW and Mercedes Benz).The problem of increased
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Polluter Corp. (the “Company”)‚ an SEC registrant‚ operates three manufacturing facilities in the United States. The Company manufactures various household cleaning products at each facility‚ which are sold to retail customers. The U.S. government granted the Company emission allowances (“EAs”) of varying vintage years (i.e.‚ the years in which the allowance may be used) to be used between 2010 and 2030. Upon receipt of the EAs‚ the Company recorded the EAs as intangible assets with a cost basis
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28‚ 2000 and should have been reported in full during this fiscal year [2000]. Dollar General handled (SEC stated) freight charges as follows: (1) Expense $4M in the next fiscal year [2001] on a monthly basis (2) $1.3M moved to Dollar General ’s Misc. Accrued Liabilities Account (3) $2.7M to bank clearing account Total Reduction in COGS (from 1-3 above): The result of the above handling of freight charges would have reduced the COGS and increased Net Income. The effects of this are as
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