Andrew Walters 3/22/12 Biopure Biopure Corporation specializes in blood substitutes for transfusion patients‚ both in the veterinary market and the human market. However‚ in 1998‚ Biopure faced the monumental decision of whether to begin selling Oxyglobin‚ a blood substitute‚ to the veterinary market or to wait until Hemoglobin‚ a blood substitute for the human market‚ became available for sale. The problem is whether or not the company should launch Oxyglobin before Hemoglobin is FDA-approved
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Although Skilling was the one at the forefront when the Enron ship began to sink‚ the presence of many strong players all competing for individual power within the organization attributed to Enron’s downfall. Although Skilling came in fresh out of HBS ready to aggressively hit the ground running‚ it seems as higher management at the time‚ namely Lay‚ did not have the foresight to control
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to maximize profit from what ultimately must be a niche product with a small number of loyal followers. Segmentation of the overall car market The overall market in France‚ in 1995‚ was segmented almost exclusively by primary demographics. The industry served this market with ten different product categories breaking cars down by economy‚ size‚ features‚ and utility. However‚ during the 1980s and early 1990s‚ changes in French tax law raised the price of fuel dramatically‚ making smaller‚ more
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--------------------------------------------------Question 1--------------------------------------------------- Boston Beer‚ in response to consumers’ preference changes to more flavorful and bitter tasting brews‚ was founded in 1894. Boston Beer implements a “quality at any cost” strategy with a strong emphasis on product differentiation and implementing quality ingredients into its products. For instance‚ Boston Beer was the first company to employ a stamped freshness date on its bottles and ingredients
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2010 [Type text] Emerging Company Finance FNCE 480 - Final Frank Kurupacheril [TRENDSETTER’S TWO ROADS] Trendsetter‚ Inc – a warehouse and distribution solution software company for clothing retailers is faced with the usual dilemma. They are running out of seed money that the founders contributed. Now they have received two term sheets from prospective VC’s. The ball is in the founders’ court who have to choose one after weighing pros and the cons. Contents Introduction .
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properties‚ including building at over 1.1 billion and land at close to 449 million‚ the company was also constructing new office buildings at 62 million. Since 2001‚ France represented Europe’s third largest real estate management and development industry‚ generating 19.9% of the European industry’s value. And Paris represented the largest commercial real estate market in Europe. By the end of 2004‚ a cusp of an upswing with sales prices rising on the year by 1.5% appeared in commercial property market
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the video game console industry in 2008? The video game industry can be seen as part of the broader entertainment industry‚ which is a sector that involves most part of the population all over the world‚ especially in the developed countries. The more countries will develop‚ the broader the entertainment industry’s consumer base will become‚ with the consequence of greatly widening video game industry’s potential customers. More specifically‚ video game console industry has been growing during
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1. How would you evaluate the capital budgeting method used historically by AES? What’s good and bad about it? Historically‚ the AES capital budgeting method primarily used the following assumptions: • All nonrecourse debt was regarded as good • Dividend cash flow were considered equally risky • Project was evaluated by the equity discount rate for the dividends from the project • A 12% discount rate was applied to all projects. The historical method is quite simplistic
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Introduction Strategic Capital Management‚ LLC is a hedge fund planning to make financial investments in Creative Computers and Ubid. Creative Computers sold approximately 20% of its Internet auction subsidiary‚ Ubid‚ to the public at $15 per share. Ubid’s stock price closed the first day of trading at $48‚ giving Ubid a $439 million market capitalization. On dec 9‚ Creative Computers had a market capitalization of $ 232 million (22.75 * 10‚238‚703 outstanding shares) whereas Ubid’s market capitalization
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Banc One Case Analysis Case Summary Banc One has a problem with the alignment of two of its important strategies: (1) rapidly acquiring profitable banks and (2) sustaining high returns while mitigating interest rate risk. Banc One has been very successful in acquiring banks‚ and much of this is done through the sale/transfer of Banc One’s stock. This strategy relies heavily on Banc One’s ability to maintain a high stock price. The second
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