W O R K I N G K N OW L E D G E R E S E A R C H R E P O RT Competing on Analytics THOMAS H. DAVENPORT‚ DON COHEN‚ AND AL JACOBSON MAY 2005 Executive Summary This report describes the emergence of a new form of competition based on the extensive use of analytics‚ data‚ and fact-based decision making. The analytics— quantitative or statistical models to analyze business problems—may be applied to a variety of business problems‚ including customer management‚ supply chains‚ and financial performance
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23: Mergers and Other Forms of Corporate Restructuring After studying Chapter 23‚ you should be able to: Chapter 23 Explain why a company might decide to engage in corporate restructuring. Understand and calculate the impact on earnings and on market value of companies involved in mergers. Describe what benefits‚ if any‚ accrue to acquiring company shareholders and to selling company shareholders. Analyze a proposed merger as a capital budgeting problem. Describe the merger process
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The following is a highlighted summary of the book‚ Competing for the Future‚ published by Harvard Business School Publishing. The statements below are key points of the book as determined by James Altfeld and have been made available at no charge to the user. Competing for the Future By Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad Look around your company. Look at the high profile initiatives that have been launched recently. Look at the issues that are preoccupying senior management. Look at the criteria
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MERGER AND RECONFIGURING OF HYUNDAI-KIA Byoung-Hoon LEE‚ Sung-Jae CHO The Korean auto industry continued to grow without a slump from the early 1980s to the mid of 1990s. As illustrated in <Figure 1>‚ the auto industry in Korea had shown a sustained growth in sales of domestic and overseas markets until 1996. Between 1981 and 1996‚ it recorded a notably high rate of averaged annual growth in production (22.7%)‚ domestic sales (19.5%)‚ and export (36.2%). However‚ it experienced an unprecedented
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voluntary merger. There was significant value addition of HDFC in terms of increase branch network‚ geographic reach‚ customer base and a bigger pool of skilled manpower. For HDFC Bank‚ this merger provided an
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Experiment 5- Competing Nucleophiles Table of results: Area (mm²) Percent composition 1-bromobutane 511 85.02% 1-chlorobutane 90 14.98% 2-bromobutane 432.25 78.63% 2-chlorobutane 117.5 21.37% 2-bromo-2-methylpropane 280 37.58% 2-chloro-2-methylpropane 465 62.42% Discussion: 1. In 1-butanol Base on the data table‚ 1-bromobutane dominated the composition of 85.02%‚ which indicates the conclusion that the mechanism for 1-butanol is SN2‚ and bromide is a better nucleophile
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June 2010 Perspectives on merger integration Table of contents 5 A new generation of M&A: A McKinsey perspective on the opportunities and challenges Despite continued uncertainty‚ signs point to a surge in M&A activity that will be ambitious in both scope and profile. 11 Beyond risk avoidance: A McKinsey perspective on creating transformational value from mergers Most mergers are doomed from the beginning. Anyone who has researched merger success rates knows that roughly
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Motives and Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions by JUANJUAN WANG September 2007 A dissertation presented in part consideration for the degree of MA in Finance and Investment Acknowledgements I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere appreciation to all those people who helped me complete this dissertation. Firstly‚ I do appreciate my supervisor Ms. Lynda Taylor’s assistance. She gave me valuable feedback and guidance throughout this dissertation. In addition‚ I
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I. OBJECTIVES To select the best managers for the available positions To finalize the members on the management levels of the merger To determine on how the co-CEOs will agree with the process of selecting the best managers for the merger II. PROBLEM STATEMENT According to the story‚ the merger had left the Arlington with two managers for almost every available position at upper and middle management levels. The co-CEOs had already selected the executives on board prior to the merging
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Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and corporate restructuring are a big part of the corporate finance world. Every day‚ Wall Street investment bankers arrange M&A transactions‚ which bring separate companies together to form larger ones. When they’re not creating big companies from smaller ones‚ corporate finance deals do the reverse and break up companies through spinoffs‚ carve-outs or tracking stocks. Not surprisingly‚ these actions often make the news. Deals can be worth hundreds of millions
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