debtors had the chance to receive recoveries according to their level of seniorities. A deeper examination of this case also revealed a significant amount of inequitable wealth transfer among creditors‚ which brought to our speculations about the valuation of Kmart during the D-I-P. It’s a game played among the company‚ the claimers‚ the investors‚ the market and the Court. In this Kmart case‚ the management team and the hedge fund investors were the ultimate winners. By 2000‚ Kmart’s margin had been
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Coursework Header Sheet 209896-18 Course OPER1027: Operations Mngt: Proc/Value Ch Course School/Level BU/UG Coursework Case Study 1 Assessment Weight 25.00% Tutor J Whiteley Submission Deadline 25/11/2013 Coursework is receipted on the understanding that it is the student’s own work and that it has not‚ in whole or part‚ been presented elsewhere for assessment. Where material has been used from other sources it has been properly acknowledged in accordance with the University’s
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An Introduction to Use-Case Modeling One of the primary challenges is the ability to elicit the correct and necessary system requirements from the stakeholders and specify them in a manner understandable to them so those requirements can be verified and validated. The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build. No other part of the conceptual work is a difficult as establishing the detailed technical requirements‚ including all the interfaces to people
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Bauhinia © Martinsons & Associates 2009 Licensed exclusively for use at the City University of Hong Kong. Unauthorized use or reproduction of this case is strictly prohibited. This is a composite case that integrates the experiences of several companies. In the early 1970s‚ the Chan family pooled together $30‚000 and set up a small dairy processing plant in Hong Kong. Bauhinia Dairy initially produced only fresh milk and sold it through limited distribution channels. It has subsequently modestly
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Case Salience. “Certain cases will attract a greater number of amicus brief filings if it poses an extensive economic‚ legal and or political impact” (Salzman; Williams; Calvin‚ 2011). As presumed‚ “interest groups whom participate as amici‚ desire to achieve long-lasting‚ far-reaching policy‚ despite the venue of which the group is in favor of;” (Bentley‚ 1908; Gerber‚ 1999; Walker‚ 1991) case salience particularly signals to interests of policy implications which may be considered
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Case Study Case study methods involve Systematically gathering enough information about a particular person‚ social setting‚ event‚ or group to permit the researcher to effectively understand how it operates or functions. Case studies may focus on an individual‚ a group‚ or an entire community and may utilize a number of data technologies such as life stories‚ documents‚ oral histories‚ in-depth interviews‚ and participant observation. Types of case studies Stake (1995) suggests that researchers
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Then‚ the fingerprints were entered in to the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) data base provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). It came back that there were several suspects that matched the visible prints. The Examiners went to work reviewing each initial match. Only one single fingerprint could give new clues. It was acquired from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office in Florida that it had been linked to a suspect in another similar homicide that
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Introduction to Case Study by Winston Tellis+ The Qualitative Report‚ Volume 3‚ Number 2‚ July‚ 1997 (http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR3-2/tellis1.html) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract This paper is the first of a series of three articles relating to a case study conducted at Fairfield University to assess aspects of the rapid introduction of Information Technology at the institution. This article deals with the nature of the problem
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CASE CITATION: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_citation United Kingdom Neutral citation Since 2001‚ judgments in the House of Lords‚ Privy Council‚ Court of Appeal and Administrative Court have been issued with neutral citations. This system was extended to other parts of the High Court in 2002. Judgments with neutral citations are freely available on the British and Irish Legal Information Institute website (www.bailii.org). Neutral citations identify judgments independently of any series
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company garnered rave reviews from respected Wall Street Analysts‚ Bezos clearly understood that this was not the moment to dwell on the past. In the fast moving world of the Internet‚ he and his firm continued to face many formidable challenges. This case describes how Bezos has managed to build a rapidly growing retail business on the Internet and the challenges he and his top management currently face as other industry giants such as Barnes & Noble‚ and Bertelsman‚ the German Publishing Conglomerate
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