Case 1: Tashas‚ Franchising the Boutique Café Experience 1. Why did Natasha Sideris succeed with her first “Tashas” café and with her initial expansion? I think the main reason behind her success is her passion for this job. She is clearly loving every moment of owning a restaurant. She was also able to communicate this passion to the customers as well as the staff. She was very focused on the service side of the business‚ and saw it as the main driver. The way she insists on customers’ not
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Innovations to ‘Active Enterprise Intelligence’ such that it will be much easier to integrate multiple organizations’ data warehouses and provide cross-organization‚ collaborative data warehousing. Examples of cross-organization applications include data mining and reporting on the efficacy of business processes shared with suppliers‚ distributors‚ customers and government agencies. The global market was facing recession‚ a crucial transition phase where all businesses need strong efforts to overcome
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SWECO‚ Inc. Case Write-Up SWECO is in the precision machinery industry‚ products include Process Equipments‚ such as separator(sold internationally to many industries)‚ replacement parts and screens‚ grinding mills‚ finishing equipments‚ and centrifugal wastewater concentrator. SWECO’s success factors are: technology lead‚ dominating the fine-screen manufacturing market(other suppliers cannot provide with the same high quality); Good reputation‚ with many existing customers worldwide; follow-on
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*Microsoft’s Financial Reporting Strategy 1. What are the factors that likely explain the difference between Microsoft’s market value of equity and its reported book value of equity? The most obvious reason for the difference between the market value of equity and the book value of equity is the inability to record certain intangible assets such as brand value‚ customer loyalty‚ and perhaps most importantly‚ human capital. These intangible assets are likely to provide tremendous earnings
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Google Case Write Up Google has long been seen as a phenomenal company to invest in. Year after year the company continually performs well and gets returns for it investors. This also results in a very high stock price for the company which in recent years has become more volatile. The reason for this was because it periodically missed analyst’s forecasts when it came to items such as EPS. Some believe that because they have a no guidance policy that missing the analyst’s forecasts has the possibility
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Why did Prada IPO in HONG KONG? Prada is joining the parade of foreign companies listing in Hong Kong rather than their home markets. As the only Chinese exchange fully open to foreign investors‚ Hong Kong has benefited as global investors shift more funds toward China and other emerging markets in search of better returns than they can find in the developed world‚ for three main reasons. 1) Listing in Hong Kong provides access to otherwise unreachable Chinese investors and moreover can serve as
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Account Management Case Study AGENDA FOR THE PRESENTATION AM’s Performance Measurement Framework Seller’s Classification Seller Evaluation Framework Challenges Faced – Sellers Prespectives Account Management Initiatives to Increase Sales [SNAPDEAL Actions] Initiatives to Increase Sales [Sellers Actions ] Proposed structure - “AM – Sellers” alignment Account Manager Number of Sellers Handled Rishi 272 Omi 445 Akki 42 Sid 16 Vinod 5 Account Manager High Revenue Account Sid
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themselves. 1. Introduction In 2011‚ David Swensen‚ chief investment officer at Yale University‚ is faced with a recurring challenge: how to properly balance the different assets in Yale’s endowment investment portfolio. At the date of the case‚ its target investment is 33% in private equity‚ 28% in real assets‚ 19% in absolute return‚ 9% in foreign equity‚ 7% in domestic equity‚ and 4% in bonds. With the changing market conditions developing as a result of the global economic crisis which was still unfolding in addition to the
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execution time and cluster throughput. They can be seriously impacted by straggler machines— machines on which tasks take an unusually long time to finish. Speculative execution is a common approach for dealing with the straggler problem by simply backing up those slow running tasks on alternative machines. Multiple speculative execution strategies have been proposed‚ but they have some pitfalls: i) Use average progress rate to identify slow tasks while in reality the progress rate can be unstable and misleading
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Airbnb offers free rentals to the victims of hurricane Matthew The government ordered millions of residents in the southeastern U.S to vacate their places due to the dangerous hurricane have approached the city. The home sharing platform‚ Airbnb has decided to help the people whose houses were affected by the dangerous storm. Hurricane Matthew moved to Florida’ east cost before affecting the regions of Georgia and South California. Though the storm has weekend‚ the impacts it created takes days to
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