Case #33 California Pizza Kitchen Synopsis and Objectives This case examines the question of financial leverage at California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) in July 2007. With a highly profitable business and an aversion to debt‚ CPK management is considering a debt-financed stock buyback program. The case is intended to provide an introduction to the Modigliani-Miller capital structure irrelevance propositions and the concept of debt tax shields. With the background of a pizza company‚ the case provides
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California DMV In 1987‚ the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) embarked on a major project to revitalize their driver’s license and registration application process. DMV’s project was supposed to deliver everything that the department was looking for: ability to track of the state’s 31 million drivers’ licenses and 38 million vehicle registrations. By 1993‚ after $45 million dollars had already been spent‚ the project was canceled. The San Francisco Chronicle described the situation as
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Have you ever been so nervous you were sweating uncontrollably? The methodical and repetitive whizzing of spherical objects speeding over your head at unimaginable speeds. Then you stand up‚ not knowing what awaits you. All of a sudden‚ you look like an eccentric christmas tree on steroids. Or have you ever been so fascinated by the culture around you that you end up walking into a palm tree? If not‚ Hawaii is the place for you. I had never experienced either of those feelings until I went to Hawaii
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Los Angeles Field Trip Report On October 11‚ 2014 along with 23 other classmates‚ we took a field trip to downtown Los Angeles. The purpose of this field trip was to observe and learn about the physical and the built environment‚ its interrelationship to each other‚ and to draw our own conclusions from everything that we saw and learned. Students provided information on a subject that they chose and provided handouts for everyone. We learned about different architectural styles‚ ages of buildings
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BUYING CENTRE 5 3.4 FACTORS AFFECTING DECISIONS IN BUYING CENTER 5 a Characteristics of the buying situation 6 b. Personal characteristics of the individuals 7 3.5 BUYING CENTRE MEMBERS ROLES 8 3.6 FACTORS INFLUENCING THE BUYING CENTRE. 9 Environment. 9 Organizational: 10 3.7 BUYING CENTRE DYNAMICS 11 4.0 MODELS OF ORGANIZATIONAL BUYING BEHAVIOR 12 a) The Webster and Wind Model 12 b) The Sheth Model 13 5.0 IMPROVING BUYING CENTER EFFECTIVENESS 16 6.0 MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS TO THE
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Recently‚ in the United States‚ there has been a major water shortage due to the lack of rainfall. It is mainly in California and other Western states. According to the U.S. Geological Survey‚ “In 119 years of recorded history‚ 2013 was the dries calendar year for the state of California.” California’s snowpack usually provides about one-third of the water used in Californian farms and cities. In January 2014‚ it measured in at 12%. The water shortage has had many effects of people‚ farming‚ and
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California Milk Advisory Board Real California Cheese The “Happy Cows” campaign has been so successful because it gives people the reassurance of where there cheese is coming from. By labeling products that use California Cheese‚ it gives the people of the images in their commercials of happy cows on rolling plains enjoying their life. Today many animals are caged‚ mistreated‚ and hormone injected‚ so the commercials used in the campaign help give people the image that these California cows
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The mushrooming of coaching centers all over the cities big or small‚ metros or districts highlight the growing trend of students opting for coaching classes apart from the regular curriculum. Once upon a time coaching was a rare phenomenon‚ generally unheard of and only taken by those who were weak in their studies. But now it is a way of life for students‚ aggressively promoted by the teachers and too some extent by the parents also. The craze for coaching has led to opening of coaching centre
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Science Form 2 note CHAPTER 1: THE WORLD THROUGH OUR SENSES 1.1 Sensory Organs and Their Functions Sensory Organs and Their Stimuli 1. Humans being have five main sensory organ‚ which are skin‚ nose‚ tongue‚ ears and eyes. 2. Sense detects stimuli‚ that is changes in surroundings (around us). 3. Five senses: i. sight ii. hearing iii. touch iv. taste v . smell 4. Senses are part of the body called sensory organs. 5. Changes or object
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conduct and interpret statistical tests [i.e.‚ cross tabs with chi-square‚ difference of means tests (t-tests)]. 7. how to write a quantitative research report. A note on statistical software & datasets: SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a software package that allows us to conduct statistical tests on data. Most of you will not have SPSS on your home computer because you will find‚ with a little investigation‚ that it costs more money than you will want to spend for a single
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