...Running head: DYSON VACUUM CLEANER CASE ANALYSIS Dyson Vacuum Cleaner: Shifting from domestic to international marketing with the famous bagless vacuum cleaner International Marketing – Assignment 2 Candidate: Emad AbouElgheit ISM - International School of Management Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Presented to: Professor Peter Horn 2 February 2012 Word Count: 4,326 1 CASE ANALYSIS - DYSON VACUUM CLEANER 2 Abstract After dominating the local UK market and successfully developing a new market in the US, Dyson, the ambitious vacuum cleaners manufacturer still competes in the mature global market of vacuum cleaners. Adopting a differentiation strategy since its inception, the company aims to take its brand to the next level and to expand into new grounds. This comes in a critical time after a declining market share in its high end vacuum cleaners segment, and withdrawing its innovative and very expensive washing machine from markets. The paper attempts to select the most potential global markets for Dyson to put more marketing investments. The paper suggests those markets to be mostly Scandinavian. The paper also aims to shed the light on the mass distribution strategy adopted in the US market by Dyson. Finally the paper studies the opportunity for Dyson to repeat the huge success of its vacuum cleaner to enter new product category of washing machines. Keywords: Vacuum Cleaners, Dyson, International Marketing, Upright Vacuum, Household Vacuums...
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...Running head: DYSON VACUUM CLEANER CASE ANALYSIS Dyson Vacuum Cleaner: Shifting from domestic to international marketing with the famous bagless vacuum cleaner International Marketing – Assignment 2 Candidate: Emad AbouElgheit ISM - International School of Management Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Presented to: Professor Peter Horn 2 February 2012 Word Count: 4,326 1 CASE ANALYSIS - DYSON VACUUM CLEANER 2 Abstract After dominating the local UK market and successfully developing a new market in the US, Dyson, the ambitious vacuum cleaners manufacturer still competes in the mature global market of vacuum cleaners. Adopting a differentiation strategy since its inception, the company aims to take its brand to the next level and to expand into new grounds. This comes in a critical time after a declining market share in its high end vacuum cleaners segment, and withdrawing its innovative and very expensive washing machine from markets. The paper attempts to select the most potential global markets for Dyson to put more marketing investments. The paper suggests those markets to be mostly Scandinavian. The paper also aims to shed the light on the mass distribution strategy adopted in the US market by Dyson. Finally the paper studies the opportunity for Dyson to repeat the huge success of its vacuum cleaner to enter new product category of washing machines. Keywords: Vacuum Cleaners, Dyson, International Marketing, Upright Vacuum, Household Vacuums...
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...From the rich walnut paneling and carved arches to the molded Italian Renaissance patterns on the ceiling, the circa 1925 council chamber room of Akron's municipal hall evokes a time when the America's manufacturing heartland was at the peak of its power. But when the U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission, a congressionally appointed panel, convened there on Sept. 23, it was not to discuss power but decline. One after another, economists, union officials, and small manufacturers took the microphone to describe the devastation Chinese competitors are inflicting on U.S. industries, from kitchenware and car tires to electronic circuit boards. These aren't stories of mundane sunset industries equipped with antiquated technology. David W. Johnson, CEO of 92-year-old Summitville Tiles Inc. in Summitville, Ohio, described how imports forced him to shut a state-of-the-art, $120 million tilemaking plant four football fields long, sending Summitville into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Now, a tenfold surge in high-quality Chinese imports at "below our manufacturing costs" threatens to polish Summitville off. Makers of precision machine tools and plastic molds -- essential supports of America's industrial architecture -- told how their business has shrunk as home-appliance makers have shifted manufacturing from Ohio to China. Despite buying the best computer-controlled gear, Douglas S. Bartlett reported that at his Cary (Ill.)-based Bartlett Manufacturing Co., a maker of...
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...Raju Sharma COMPARING AND ANALYZING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS TO MAKE AN INVESTMENT DECISION Case Study of Automotive Industry Business Economics and Tourism 2012 1 VAASAN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES Bachelor of Business Administration ABSTRACT Author Title Raju Sharma Comparing and Analyzing Financial Statements to Make an Investment Decision: Case Study of Automotive Industry. Year 2012 Language English Pages 72 + 5 Appendices Name of Supervisor Jukka Paldanius The purpose of the thesis was to evaluate and compare the financial statements of different companies to rate their performances. The emphasis was to be able to choose among several companies the best one to invest in. The aim of the study was met by comparing the risk of different companies, their rate of return, future trends and their strengths and weaknesses. In the theoretical section of the thesis different factors affecting the capital market were discussed, with the focus being on the risks of an investment. Basic financial statements and ratios were discussed briefly. Next cross sectional and time series techniques to compare the financial statements and ratios were revealed. Most of the information from the theories was later on used in the empirical part of the thesis. In the empirical study, initially the financial statements of different companies were taken to compute the ratios, risk, average return, to make trends and common size statements. Then a quantitative interpretation...
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...Classroom Case Demonstration “Something’s Fishy at Jones Company – from Investigation to Confession.” Designed for the classroom or a seminar, an intrepid seasoned internal audit manager and an inexperienced but willing staff auditor investigate suspicious financial activity at Jones Company. Their discoveries reveal their hunch was right, and they are able to stop the fraud. This case can be used in a classroom or seminar setting to: ● Discuss the Fraud Triangle and the importance of symptoms ● Discuss accounting symptoms of fraud ● Perform financial statement analyses to determine if fraud is suspected ● Identify and test a fraud hypothesis ● Analyze an interview ● Analyze an interrogation ● Draw conclusions and prepare fraud reports The case requirements include: 1. Perform horizontal and vertical analyses of the financial statements. 2. Describe other financial statement analyses that the auditor could have performed. 3. Describe a public records search. 4. Analyze this case using the fraud triangle. 5. What is the fraud hypothesis in this case? Session Topics This case includes teaching notes (provided on the conference website) and a video (30 minutes) depicting a suspect interview and a separate interrogation. The video highlights verbal and non-verbal cues to look for when interviewing and a non-confrontational approach to interrogation. During this session we will view the video and discuss how the case might be used in the classroom or seminar. Copies of the video will...
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...Managing Human Resources What Do I Need to Know? Introduction After reading this chapter, you should be able to: Imagine trying to run a business where you have to replace every employee two or three times a year. If that sounds chaotic, you can sympathize with the challenge facing Rob Cecere when he took the job of regional manager for a group of eight Domino’s Pizza stores in New Jersey. In Cecere’s region, store managers were quitting after a few months on the job. The lack of consistent leadership at the store level contributed to employee turnover rates of up to 300 percent a year (one position being filled three times in a year). In other words, new managers constantly had to find, hire, and train new workers—and rely on inexperienced people to keep customers happy. Not surprisingly, the stores in Cecere’s new territory were failing to meet sales goals. Cecere made it his top goal to build a stable team of store managers who in turn could retain employees at their stores. He held a meeting with the managers and talked about improving sales, explaining, “It’s got to start with people”: hiring good people and keeping them on board. He continues to coach his managers, helping them build sales and motivate their workers through training and patience. In doing so, he has the backing of Domino’s headquarters. When the company’s current chief executive, David Brandon, took charge, he was shocked by the high employee turnover (then 158 percent...
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...from cognitive psychology, marketing, and e-commerce, this study identifies key contextual factors that are conducive for creating brand positioning online via SERPs. In two experiments, the authors establish that when Internet users’ implicit beliefs (i.e., schema) about the meaning of the display order of search engine results are activated or heightened through feature priming, they will have better recall of an unknown brand that is displayed before the well-known brands in SERPs. Further, those with low Internet search skills tend to evaluate the unknown brand more favorably along the particular brand attribute that activates the search engine ranking schema. This research has both theoretical and practical implications for under- 1 Allen Dennis was the accepting senior editor for this paper. Paul Pavlou served as the associate editor. The appendices for this paper are located in the “Online Supplements” section of...
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...reproduction. The two major parts of our nervous system are the central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS). The CNS is made of the brain and spinal cord. The cranial nerves, spinal nerves and ganglia make up the PNS. The cranial nerves connect to the brain. The cranial and spinal nerves contain the axons (fibres) of sensory and motor nerve cells. Nerve cells areas are also known as neurons. Neurons are the basic unit of the nervous system. They carry information or impulses as electrical signals from one place to another in the body. There are 3 types of neurons: Sensory Neurons- Sensory neurons carry electrical signals (impulses) from receptors or sense organs to the CNS. Sensory neurons are also called afferent neurons. The cell body of sensory neurons is outside the CNS in ganglia. Motor Neurons- Motor Neurons Carry Impulses From The CNS To Effector Organs Motor Neurons Are Also Called Efferent Neurons. The Cell Bodies Of Motor Neurons Are Inside The CNS. Interneurons- These are also called intermediate, relay, or associative neurons. They carry information between sensory and motor neurons. They are found in the CNS. TOP The Structure of Neurons A Neuron consists of THREE MAIN PARTS: A. CELL BODY - The largest part, contains the nucleus and much of the cytoplasm (area between the nucleus and the cell membrane), most of the metabolic activity of the cell, including the generation of ATP (Adenine Triphosphate Compound that...
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...Laurier West, Suite 702, Ottawa, ON K1P 5J3 © Marvin L. Simner, 2009. All rights reserved/tous droits réservés Published by the Canadian Psychological Association, Ottawa, Ontario Copies may be ordered from Canadian Psychological Association 141, Ave Laurier West, Suite 702 Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5J3 Phone: (613) 237-2144 Fax: (613) 237-1674 ISBN N°. 978-1-926793-01-6 Planning a Career in Psychology: A Canadian Perspective for University Bound and Beginning University Students Marvin L. Simner CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Subfields of Psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Is Psychology the Right Choice for Me? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 How to Become a Professional Psychologist . . . . . . . . . . 8 Occupational Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 How to Succeed in University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Recommended Readings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 A Canadian Perspective for University Bound and Beginning University Students INTRODUCTION If you are a high school student contemplating university, or a beginning university student with a desire to major in psychology, you are not alone. Psychology is one of the most popular undergraduate majors among Canadian university students. Of the...
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...CHAPTER 17 Investments ASSIGNMENT CLASSIFICATION TABLE (BY TOPIC) Topics | Questions | Brief Exercises | Exercises | Problems | Concepts for Analysis | 1. Debt securities. | 1, 2, 3, 13 | | 1 | | 6 | (a) Held-to-maturity. | 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 13, 21 | 1, 3 | 2, 3, 5 | 1, 7 | | (b) Trading. | 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 21 | 4 | | | 1 | (c) Available-for-sale. | 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 21 | 2, 10 | 4 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 | 1 | 2. Bond amortization. | 8, 9 | 1, 2, 3 | 3, 4, 5 | 1, 2, 3 | | 3. Equity securities. | 1, 12, 16 | | 1 | | 6 | (a) Available-for-sale. | 7, 10, 11, 15, 21 | 5, 8 | 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 16, 19, 20 | 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 | 1, 2, 3 | (b) Trading. | 6, 7, 8, 10, 14, 15, 21 | 6 | 6, 7, 14, 15, 19, 20 | 6, 8 | 1, 3 | (c) Equity method. | 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 | 7 | 12, 13, 16, 17 | 8 | 4, 5 | 4. Comprehensive income. | 22 | 9 | 10 | 9, 10, 12 | | 5. Disclosures of investments. | 18 | | 10 | 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 | | 6. Fair value option. | 25, 26, 27 | | 19, 20, 21 | | | 7. Impairments. | 24 | 10 | 18 | | 3 | 8. Transfers between categories. | 23 | | | 8 | 1, 3, 6 | *9. Derivatives. | 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 | | 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 | 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 | | *10. Variable Interest Entities. | 36, 37 | | | | | *This material is...
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...Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology Many students are being left behind by an educational system that some people believe is in crisis. Improving educational outcomes will require efforts on many fronts, but a central premise of this monograph is that one part of a solution involves helping students to better regulate their learning through the use of effective learning techniques. Fortunately, cognitive and educational psychologists have been developing and evaluating easy-to-use learning techniques that could help students achieve their learning goals. In this monograph, we discuss 10 learning techniques in detail and offer recommendations about their relative utility. We selected techniques that were expected to be relatively easy to use and hence could be adopted by many students. Also, some techniques (e.g., highlighting and rereading) were selected because students report relying heavily on them, which makes it especially important to examine how well they work. The techniques include elaborative interrogation, self-explanation, summarization, highlighting (or underlining), the keyword mnemonic, imagery use for text learning, rereading, practice testing, distributed practice, and interleaved practice. To offer recommendations about the relative utility of these techniques, we evaluated whether their benefits generalize across four categories of variables: learning...
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...volume by the editor/s as well as the compilation itself. It does not cover the individual selections herein that first appeared elsewhere. ii Permission to reprint these has been obtained by Pearson Custom Publishing for this edition only. Further reproduction by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, must be arranged with the individual copyright holders noted. This special edition published in cooperation with Pearson Custom Publishing. Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Please visit our web site at www.pearsoncustom.com ISBN 0–536–72690–6 BA 996748 PEARSON CUSTOM PUBLISHING 75 Arlington Street, Suite 300 Boston, MA 02116 A Pearson Education Company iii iv Table of Contents SECTION ONE ................................................................. 1 An Investment Perspective and Human Resources .... 2 HUMAN RESOURCE INVESTMENT CONSIDERATIONS ...6 INVESTMENTS IN TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT ..... 14 INVESTMENT PRACTICES FOR IMPROVED RETENTION ............................................................ 32 INVESTMENTS IN JOB-SECURE WORKFORCES .......... 42 ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES ............................................................. 56 NONTRADITIONAL INVESTMENT APPROACHES ......... 58 SUMMARY............................................................... 67...
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...LOJACK CORP (Form: 10-K, Received: 03/15/2013 14:17:34) Page 1 of 179 Table of Contents UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, DC 20549 FORM 10-K Annual Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012 or Transition Report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 Commission File No. 001-08439 LOJACK CORPORATION (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter) Massachusetts (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization) 04-2664794 (IRS Employer Identification No.) 40 Pequot Way Canton, Massachusetts (Address of Principal Executive Offices) 02021 (Zip Code) (781) 302-4200 (Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code) Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: Title of Each Class Name of Exchange on Which Registered Common Stock, $.01 par value Preferred Share Purchase Rights NASDAQ Global Select Market Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. No Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Act. Yes Yes No Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange...
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...*IS1347* //integrafs1/cengage/3-Pagination/Cengage_US/Business_and_Economics/FFM13e/3B2/brigham_endpaper.3d, 11/16/11, 17:35, page: 1 FREQUENTLY USED SYMBOLS/ABBREVIATIONS ACP Average collection period ADR American depository receipt AFN Additional funds needed AMT Alternative minimum tax APR b Annual percentage rate Beta coefficient, a measure of an asset’s riskiness bL Levered beta bU Unlevered beta BEP BVPS CAPEX CAPM CCC Basic earning power Book value per share Capital expenditures Capital Asset Pricing Model Cash conversion cycle CF Cash flow; CFt is the cash flow in Period t CR Conversion ratio CV Coefficient of variation Dp Dividend of preferred stock Dt Dividend in Period t DCF Discounted cash flow D/E Debt-to-equity ratio DEP Depreciation D1/P0 DPS DRIP Expected dividend yield Dividends per share Dividend reinvestment plan DRP Default risk premium DSO Days sales outstanding e Approximately equal to 2.7183 EAA Equivalent annual annuity EAR Effective annual rate, EFF% EBIT EBITDA EPS EVA F Earnings before interest and taxes; operating income Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization Earnings per share Economic value added (1) Fixed operating costs (2) Flotation cost FCF Free cash flow FVN Future value for Year N FVAN g GAAP HVN I IFRS IPER I/YR INT IP IPO IRR LIBOR ...
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...Internal Designer: Chris Miller/cmiller design Cover Designer: Chris Miller/cmiller design Cover Image: Getty Images/The Image Bank Permission Aquistion Manager/Photo: Deanna Ettinger Permission Aquistion Manager/Text: Mardell Glinski Schultz © 2010, 2007 South-Western, Cengage Learning ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means—graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, Web distribution, information storage and retrieval systems, or in any other manner—except as may be permitted by the license terms herein. For product information and technology assistance, contact us at Cengage Learning Customer & Sales Support, 1-800-354-9706 For permission to use material from this text or product, submit all requests online at www.cengage.com/permissions Further permissions questions can be emailed to permissionrequest@cengage.com Library of Congress Control Number: 2008939395 ISBN 13: 978-0-324-59360-0 ISBN 10: 0-324-59360-0 South-Western Cengage Learning 5191 Natorp Boulevard Mason, OH 45040...
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