MEMORANDUM Date: March 10‚ 2013 Subject: Competitive Advantage‚ Car Sharing and Strategic Approach: Assessment‚ Impact and Recommendations To: Andy Taylor‚ CEO From: Jason Gonzales‚ VP Strategy ______________________________________________________________________ Introduction This memo addresses three key issues: Enterprise Holdings’ current competitive advantage‚ the impact of the car sharing business on the structure and profitability
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BUS 611: Enterprise Rent-A-Car Case Questions 1. Rental car companies provide the use of a car for their customers‚ but what did Enterprise do to create a unique rental experience? How has Enterprise established a competitive advantage over its competitors? All companies provide customers with a car to drive but Enterprise took a unique approach to the car renting experience. Although Enterprise is the largest and possible most well-known rental car company‚ they focused on giving each customer
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ZIPCAR Case 1. Who are Zipcar’s primary stakeholders‚ and what are their particular interests? Zipcar’s primary stakeholders include their internal claimants‚ which are the executives and employees such as Scott Grffith; chairman and CEO‚ Steve Case; board of director‚ Ed Goldfinger; CFO‚ and Mark Norman; President and COO. Their particular interests are to drive Zipcar forward giving it strategic growth. They also aim maintain the business model and operations while maintaining focus on customer
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forming a joint venture in China focused on 3G‚ or more specifically‚ TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronous code division multiple access) and W-CDMA. The joint venture will focus on research and development‚ manufacturing and sales of 3G network systems. The JV will begin offering its first TD-SCDMA and W-CDMA systems next year under China Puritan’s Potevio label. The TD-SCDMA standard is being billed as a Chinese alternative to 3G. In addition to 3G services‚ the venture also will offer
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CHALLENGES AHEAD FOR VENTURE CAPITAL FINANCING IN INDIA Venture Capital is money provided by professionals who invest and manage young rapidly growing companies that have the potential to develop into significant economic contributors. According to SEBI regulations‚ venture capital fund means a fund established in the form of a company or trust‚ which raises money through loans‚ donations‚ issue of securities or units and makes or proposes‚ to make investments in accordance with these regulations
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Yifan Zhang May 1‚ 2006 Venture Capital in China‚ Past‚ Present‚ and Future Introduction China’s stifled economy has experienced an unprecedented period of growth since the introduction of new economic policies at the Third Plenum of the 11th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 1978. The long-suppressed entrepreneurial zeal of the Chinese people was rekindled with the lifting of restriction on private business ownership. Later‚ the advent of Western-style venture capital funds provided budding
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Joint Ventures‚ Strategic Alliances‚ Collaborations and Merger and Acquisitions Questions | Q1. Why is a Joint Venture (JV) preferable to more general collaboration form of the Strategic Alliance? Q2. What are the relative merits and weaknesses of JVs and SAs? Q3. Why would company seek M&A as a market entry strategy? What are the advantages and disadvantages of M&A? why might a merger fail and what might be the outcome? Q4. What are the relative merits/ disadvantages of JVs‚ SAs‚ and
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way people in metropolitan cities around the world commute‚ go shopping‚ take weekend vacations and travel to business meetings. She founded Zipcar in June of 2000‚ a company that utilizes the idea of car sharing‚ where a group of registered members can utilize a community-based pool of vehicles of every size and caliber ( Time’s Most Influential People). Zipcar has become the largest carsharing company in the world. Soon after her first successful company launched‚ she realized the need for more real
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reproduced for the purposes of study only‚ and is in no way a condonement of the damage the tobacco is causing. Overview One of the most closely studied Chinese joint ventures is that involving Celanese Corporation of the United States‚ a producer of value-added industrial chemicals‚ and China National Tobacco Corporation (CNTC). The venture produces tow‚ the fluffy synthetic fiber in cigarette filters. In 1982‚ when CNTC decided to increase its production of filter cigarettes‚ it was on the lookout
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Designing Corporate Ventures (CV) in the Shadow of Private Venture Capital (VC) Henry Chesborough Peter Drucker: Search for innovation needs to be put into seperate organizational components (outside of the ongoing managerial business) in order to stimulate greater innovation and generate additional business growth. But these attemps have only met temporary succes (pattern of cycle: enthusiasm‚ implementation‚ difficulties and termination). Therefore the methods of structuring the corporate
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