Problems Q.1 Consider a five-year coupon bond with a face value of $1000 paying an annual coupon of 15%. (i) If the current market yield is 8%‚ what is the bond’s price? (ii) If the current market yield increases by 1% what is the bond’s new price? (iii) Using your answers to part (i) and (ii) ‚ what is percentage change in the bond’s price as a result of 1% increase in interest rates. Q.2 Consider the following FI balance sheet: M. Match Ltd Assets | Liabilities | 2 –year Treasury bond
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2007‚ David Barger‚ President and CEO of JetBlue Airways‚ expressed the great need to slow down the airline’s growth in response to increasing fuel costs and the consequences stemmed from the Valentine’s Day crisis. As an LCC‚ JetBlue had to decrease its growth rate by reducing deliveries of E190 and A320 due to its weak financial position and the market’s softening demand. Considering the performance of JetBlue after the addition of E190 to its fleet‚ JetBlue overestimated its capacity of handling
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caused the Jet Blue problem Management made the first mistake by looking at the problem too simply‚ and not thinking about the end result fully. When I say this‚ I am talking about the planes and the weather‚ but it could also apply to the IT solutions that Jet Blue had implemented prior. The planes should have been left in the terminal until the weather cleared‚ instead of loaded with passengers and try to make the flight out on time when the weather was so bad. Management looked so blindly
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JetBlue Managing Growth JetBlue Case JetBlue’s main strategy is to be a low cost carrier (LCC) and use differentiation as a competitive advantage. The main problem that concerns this case is that JetBlue has the need for slower capacity growth but the exact size of the cuts from each of the airlines’ two aircrafts was far from obvious. The contents of this case analysis will show how they managed to get to this point through the use of business strategy tools. Also I will give some recommendations
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Industry Profile: Market Size: Approximately $95 billion Market growth rate: Domestic 2.9%‚ International 5.0% (forecasted to 2017) Stage in life cycle: mature for domestic‚ growth for international Number of companies in industry: 43 mainline carriers and 79 regional airlines Scope of competitive rivalry: primarily major carriers (revenue more than $1 billion). Legacy carriers developing low-cost offshoots Customers: 661 million domestic passengers. Expected growth in business customers
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Executive Summary JetBlue Airways‚ the latest entrant in the airlines industry has gone through the initial stages (entrepreneurial and collectivity) of the organizational life cycle rapidly under the successful leadership of David Neelman. JetBlue Airways is currently in the formalization stage of the life cycle where in it needs to create procedures and control systems to effectively manage its growth. Also as it proceeds to grow further to reach the elaboration stage‚ JetBlue needs to continue
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lead to develop the organization. As Ann Rhoades‚ the director of JetBlue said “JetBlue did not want a mission statement nobody reads. They want words that allow everybody to talk together. Having shared values makes decision-making much easier‚” JetBlue has five core values that differentiate it from its competitors: * Safety‚ which always comes first‚ JetBlue strive to provide a very safe airline. * Integrity‚ JetBlue instills a sense of integrity in everything it does‚ also it believes
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HAMLINE UNIVERSITY Individual Case Study: JetBlue Airways Corp‚ WestJet Airlines Ltd‚ and others: The Difficult Path to Software Upgrades Introduction I would argue that any organization undergoing system upgrades should ensure that the end result of such an upgrade must align with its business
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currently only 4% of commercial pilots are women? So when I was told of two women who not only are airline pilots‚ but sisters who both work for JetBlue and had a dream come true recently‚ I wanted to know more. The women recently operated JetBlue flight 1480 from Ft. Lauderdale to Washington‚ DC making them the first ever sister-sister flight crew at JetBlue! Pia and Anna-Maria Kymalainen grew up in an aviation family in Finland. With their father in aeronautical engineering and an older brother following
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Background of JetBlue Airways JetBlue Airways Corp. is one of the major American low-cost airline and one of the best examples of a succeeding business because of excellent customer service based on low operating cost relative to the superior product offering (offer a product superior to competitors at affordable prices). JetBlue is established in 1999 by David Needleman and commenced operation only February 11‚ 2000 with new Airbus A320 aircraft operating between Buffalo and Ft. Lauderdale (Nasdaq
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