...line of reasoning and applications rather than listing of what is already found in the book or slides. Question 1: Do you think this company is following the differentiation or cost leadership strategy? Why? Which growth strategy (market development, product development, diversification and market penetration) did they follow to improve their product portfolio sales? Reviewing Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Inc. case and assessing the situation to dr. Michael Porter generic strategies of achieving and maintaining competitive advantage, we may see that the company mostly was following the differentiation strategy as it is offering differentiated products from its competitors in many terms including the packing and pricing [pic] As for part two ,and regarding the Ansoff's product/market Expansion Grid [pic] Some may be puzzled and think that the company was applying a Diversification strategy as it was introducing new branded product(Venom ) into a new beverage market to the company (Energy beverage market), but that's flawed as the company did not leave its current product lines(beverages) to new...
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...Snapple Group, Inc.: Energy Beverages Texas A&M Corpus Christi Marketing Management MKTG-5320 Case: Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.: Energy Beverages Introduction Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. decided in September of 2007 to explore the profitability of expanding into the energy beverage market. Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. is a major competitor in the flavored carbonated soft drink (CSD) market, and also has a strong presence in the non-CSD market. The energy beverage market had an estimated $6.2 billion in retail dollar sales in 2006. The market grew at an average annual rate of 42.5 percent between 2001 and 2006, however, market industry experts estimated an average annual growth rate of 10.5 percent between 2007 and 2011. This slowing of growth was due to a number of factors: market maturity, an increase in price and packaging competition, and new entrants to the market in hybrid energy drinks, ready to drink energy teas, and energy colas. Analysis Strengths The strengths of Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. include: * A network of bottling and distribution throughout the United State, Canada, and Mexico * Stable cash flows * Substantial portfolio of diverse and well known CSD and non-CSD brands with a position as the number one CSD company in the United State. * Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. believes is holds a competitive advantage with its integrated business model * Strong customer relationships Opportunities * The energy beverage...
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...Scenario 1 Energy Inc. has a present obligation (IAS 37-17) and probable liability (ASC 450-20-25-2) on December 31, 2011 as a result of a past event, the contamination of the land, because it is virtually certain that a draft law requiring cleaning up will be enacted. It is probable (more likely than not) that Energy Inc. will be required to transfer economic benefits in settlement which is an outflow of resources embodying economic benefits in settlement (IAS 37-23). The amount of the obligation or loss can also be estimated reliably since Energy Inc. has made similar payments for cleanup in other countries, which is the best estimate of the costs of the clean (IAS 37-36/ASC 450-20-25-2). As a result, according to IAS 37-14, Energy Inc. should recognize a provision in reporting to its U.K. parent under IFRSs and based on ASC 450-20-25-2, a provision needs to be recognized in reporting to its U.S.-based lender in accordance with U.S. GAAP as of December 31, 2011. However, in the case that Energy Inc. cannot reasonably estimate the cost of the cleanup, a provision should not be recognized but disclosed provision in reporting to its U.K. parent under IFRSs and U.S.-based lender in accordance with U.S. GAAP (ASC 450-20-50-5). Scenario 2 FuelSource Co. causes contamination and operates in Dirty Country where there is no environmental legislation. However, FuelSource Co. has a widely published environmental policy in which it undertakes to clean up all contamination that...
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...Husky Energy Inc. is an integrated energy company with its headquarters located in Calgary, Alberta. It is a publicly traded company operating mainly in North America and Asia-Pacific, consisting of businesses in upstream and downstream segments (“Husky Energy Inc.”, 2014). Husky Energy Inc. was founded in 1938 by Glenn E. Nielson in Cody, Wyoming, USA. Originally named Husky Refining Company, it operated as a small family-owned business selling road asphalt and bunker railway fuel to railways and farmers (“Husky Energy Inc.”, 2014). In the early years, two refineries were built in Cody and Riverton, Wyoming. After the Second World War, the company moved to Alberta, Canada to meet the market demand in asphalt and heavy oil. During the 1960s, Husky’s business boomed after the asphaltic crude project, the ‘Lloydminster Project’, was introduced because the Canadian government issued a strategy on displacing imported crude oil (“Husky Energy Inc.”, 2014). Nowadays, Husky Energy Inc. has its foundation in Western Canada with a large amount of natural gas and oil assets, production of heavy oil, and the company is also seeking new oil and gas resources around this area. With the success in Western Canada, the company operates in the rest of the world and is greatly profitable in Asia-Pacific (China and Indonesia), the Atlantic region, and the oil sands (“Husky Energy Inc.”, 2014). In the year of 2012, the company has achieved net earnings of $2.0 billion with annual production at 301...
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...Executive summary Talisman Energy Inc. is a company that has been through a lot in the past, due to their negative experience in Sudan. They were accused of aiding the Government of Sudan in the commission of human rights violations and indirectly providing funds to purchase weaponry, which eventually led to selling their Sudan asset. Now, they’re debating whether or not they should enter into the Kurdistan region of Iraq, potentially knowing that the same thing could happen. KRG is asking for $220 million in exchange for allowing Talisman to search for oil reserves. The main question here is; will the KRG use the money on economic development or on weapons in order to force their independence from Iraq? With the experience on the board of directors, proper due diligence, and constant re-evaluation of the situation, Talisman should find it easier in discovering potential risks in Iraq, hence being pro-active in finding and solving issues before they arise. With this said, I feel that Talisman should enter Iraq. Problem statement Talisman Energy Inc. has had problems in the past when entering into politically unstable markets. They are now faced with a dilemma on whether they should or shouldn’t enter into the oil-rich Kurdistan region of Iraq. If they do decide to enter into this market, can they do it without facing the same problems they faced when they entered into Sudan? Analysis Talisman Energy Inc. is a company that has gone through a lot of scrutiny and...
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...Talisman Energy Inc. is facing are the risks that they will face coming into Iraq, and dealing with the Kurdistan Regional Government. Talisman Energy Inc. will have to deal with KRG not knowing how they will act with the money that Talisman Energy Inc. will give them. Analysis The first thing that worries Talisman Energy Inc. is that they don’t know if KRG will use the money on economic development or to buy weapons. If KRG uses the money to build the economy then this will make Talisman Energy Inc. look like they helping a good cause which will help bring up the value of their stocks and make them grow. But if KRG uses the money for illegal purposes such as buy weapons. This news will make Talisman Energy Inc. look like if they support violence in the Middle East, which will bring uproar in the region. This will also make Talisman Energy Inc. look like they support Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction. If it actually came to pass that KRG was found actually spending money on weapons of mass destruction. Talisman Energy Inc. stocks would drop significantly and ruin the reputation of Talisman Energy Inc. Although Baghdad gave complete autonomy to KRG, they might still need to overrule these purchases of weapons. For other international NGO communities they will need to come in to stop KRG from continuing to purchase weapons and will ask KRG to safely destroy these weapons. This scandal would really damage the reputation of Talisman Energy Inc. Krg charges...
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...In today’s society, we don’t hear cases about monsters scaring children and transforming into heroes. Monsters that turn into heroes come off as rare in the fiction world where most people only see one side of a monster. Two works that suggest monsters becoming heroes are The Cat in the Hat and Monsters Inc. At first, these monsters come about as scary looking but that’s not how these selctions end up; finishing with a twist in the end with monsters showing a care for human children. While written 40 years apart, Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat and Pete Docter’s film Monsters Inc. demonstrate responsible behavior in interactions with children and show the flawed characters who though their journey have monster heroes who interact with human children and then accept responsibility for the messes they have created. The Cat in the Hat and Monsters Inc. portray a child’s adventure as a result of showing up unexpectedly. The Cat enters out of the blue introducing himself to the two children and begins creating chaos around the house because he’s being a careless cat. The Cat unlocks a crate and frees the two identical creatures with blue hair who rally round the Cat...
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...Introduction Midland Energy Resources have a senior vice president, Janet Mortension, of project finance. She was preparing her annual cost of capital for midland as well as for each of its following three divisions: * Exploration & production (E&P) * Refining & Marketing (R&M) * Petrochemicals Midland was a global company with operations in oil and gas. Midland corporate treasury had began analysis and preparation of annual cost of capital for the corporation as a whole and for each divisions as part of annual capital budgeting process but this estimates were often criticized, and Midland division presidents and controllers sometimes challenged specific assumptions and inputs. The case uses comparable companies to estimate asset and beta for each individual division, and must comply the capital asset pricing model for calculating the cost of capital. Midland was conservative compared to some of its large competitors, but it has a group of trader in- house who actively managed currency. Interest rate and commodity risks within a set of guideline approved by the Board. Midland Energy Resources ha d been incorporated more than 120 years previously and in 2007 had more than 80,000 employees. Midland’s financial strategy in 2007 was founded on the following four pillars: * Oversees Growth * Value- Creating Investment * Optimal capital structure * Stock Repurchases Oversees Growth: Oversees investment were the main engine of growth...
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...MBA: 638 Caselette: Village Volvo 1) Village Volvo has several unique service packages. First of all we can talk about their supporting facility. Village Volvo is located in a suburban location. This might discourage some clients. They should increase the shuttle services for the convenience of their customers. To establish the proper mood Village Volvo has an office, waiting area, storage, and four bays. The facilitating goods provided by the Village Volvo are the replacement auto parts. The owners also had developed a network with other service providers. They refer their clients to other service provider if there is some thing which they can not do. Village Volvo also uses another source of information which that calls Custom Care Vehicle Dossier (CCVD). They maintain a file on every car they inspect. This helps the mechanic to keep a record on the car and also it helps remind the customer that there is a maintenance procedure due on their car. The explicit services are something which is readily observable. The customers know before hand that they are going Village Volvo to get their car repaired. The owners combined experience is 22 years at a local Volvo dealership. Thus, the customers would not be worried that the person working on their car has no experience working on Volvo’s. There are some procedures which they don not perform. For that Village Volvo recommend different places where they can get their cat fixed. Lastly, implicit services which is a psychological...
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...types of energy: thermal energy from the sun's heat, andmechanical energy from the tides and waves. Oceans cover more than 70% of Earth's surface, making them the world's largest solar collectors. The sun's heat warms the surface water a lot more than the deep ocean water, and this temperature difference creates thermal energy. Just a small portion of the heat trapped in the ocean could power the world. Workers install equipment for an ocean thermal energy conversion experiment in 1994 at Hawaii's Natural Energy Laboratory. Credit: A. Resnick, Makai Ocean Engineering, Inc. Ocean thermal energy is used for many applications, including electricity generation. There are three types of electricity conversion systems: closed-cycle, open-cycle, and hybrid. Closed-cycle systems use the ocean's warm surface water to vaporize a working fluid, which has a low-boiling point, such as ammonia. The vapor expands and turns a turbine. The turbine then activates a generator to produce electricity. Open-cycle systems actually boil the seawater by operating at low pressures. This produces steam that passes through a turbine/generator. And hybrid systems combine both closed-cycle and open-cycle systems. Ocean mechanical energy is quite different from ocean thermal energy. Even though the sun affects all ocean activity, tides are driven primarily by the gravitational pull of the moon, and waves are driven primarily by the winds. As a result, tides and waves are intermittent sources of energy, while...
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...conduction ������ = ������ Σ (������ /������ ) when there are several layers. ������ ������ ������ Δ������ H Ae T 4 heat current in radiation (17.25) H net Ae T 4 Ae Ts 4 Ae T 4 Ts 4 (17.26) Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Page 1 of 7 Chapter 18 mtotal nM total mass, number of moles, and molar mass pV nRT (18.2) (18.3) (18.8) ideal-gas equation M NAm molar mass, Avogadro’s number, and mass of a molecule K tr 3 nRT 2 average translational kinetic energy of n moles of ideal gas 3 kT 2 (18.14) 1 m 2 2 av average translational kinetic energy of a gas molecule root-mean-square speed of a gas molecule (18.16) rms 2 av 3kT 3RT m M (18.19) tmean V 4 2r 2 N mean free path of a gas molecule (18.21) CV 3 R 2 ideal gas of point particles (18.25) CV 5 R 2 diatomic gas, including rotation ideal monatomic solid 3/ 2 (18.26) CV 3R (18.28) m f 4 2 kT 2e m 2 / 2 kT Maxwell Boltzmann distribution Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Page 2 of 7 Chapter 19 W p dV...
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... Copyright © by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database retrieval system, without prior written permission of the publisher. Send all inquiries to: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill 8787 Orion Place Columbus, OH 43240 ISBN 0-07-867338-0 Printed in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 045 09 08 07 06 05 04 Table of Contents Chapter 1: The Nature of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Chapter 2: Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Chapter 3: Atoms, Elements, and the Periodic Table . . . . . . . . . .9 Chapter 4: States of Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Chapter 5: Matter—Properties and Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Chapter 6: Atomic Structure and Chemical Bonds. . . . . . . . . . .21 Chapter 7: Chemical Reactions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 Chapter 8: Substances, Mixtures, and Solubility . . . . . . . . . . . .25 Chapter 9: Carbon Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 Chapter 10: Motion and Momentum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 Chapter 11: Force and Newton’s Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 Chapter 12: Forces and Fluids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41 Chapter 13: Energy and Energy Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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...ENERGY STAR Compliance ® English: As an ENERGY STAR® partner, Apple has determined that standard configurations of this product meet the ENERGY STAR® guidelines for energy efficiency. The ENERGY STAR® program is a partnership with electronic equipment manufacturers to promote energy-efficient products. Reducing energy consumption of products saves money and helps conserve valuable resources. This computer is shipped with power management enabled with the computer set to sleep after 10 minutes of user inactivity. To wake your computer, click the mouse or press any key on the keyboard. For more information about ENERGY STAR®, visit: www.energystar.gov Apple and the Environment Apple Inc. recognizes its responsibility to minimize the environmental impact of its operations and products. More information is available on the web: www.apple.com/ environment Français : en tant que partenaire d’ENERGY STAR®, Apple a déterminé que les configurations standard de ce produit répondent aux normes d’efficacité énergétique ENERGY STAR®. Le programme ENERGY STAR® est un partenariat avec les fabricants de matériel électronique afin de promouvoir les produits à faible consommation d’énergie. La réduction de la consommation d’énergie des produits constitue une économie financière et contribue à préserver des resources naturelles. La gestion de l’alimentation est déjà activée sur l’ordinateur, celui-ci étant configuré de sorte à ce que son activité se suspende lorsque l’utilisateur...
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...ENERGY STAR Compliance ® English: As an ENERGY STAR® partner, Apple has determined that standard configurations of this product meet the ENERGY STAR® guidelines for energy efficiency. The ENERGY STAR® program is a partnership with electronic equipment manufacturers to promote energy-efficient products. Reducing energy consumption of products saves money and helps conserve valuable resources. This computer is shipped with power management enabled with the computer set to sleep after 10 minutes of user inactivity. To wake your computer, click the mouse or press any key on the keyboard. For more information about ENERGY STAR®, visit: www.energystar.gov Apple and the Environment Apple Inc. recognizes its responsibility to minimize the environmental impact of its operations and products. More information is available on the web: www.apple.com/ environment Français : en tant que partenaire d’ENERGY STAR®, Apple a déterminé que les configurations standard de ce produit répondent aux normes d’efficacité énergétique ENERGY STAR®. Le programme ENERGY STAR® est un partenariat avec les fabricants de matériel électronique afin de promouvoir les produits à faible consommation d’énergie. La réduction de la consommation d’énergie des produits constitue une économie financière et contribue à préserver des resources naturelles. La gestion de l’alimentation est déjà activée sur l’ordinateur, celui-ci étant configuré de sorte à ce que son activité se suspende lorsque l’utilisateur...
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... • Metabolism and comfort • Bodily mechanisms of heat transfer and thermostatic control • Metabolic rates • Clothing • Environmental influences on comfort • Fanger's comfort equation • Measuring Instruments • The choice of inside design conditions 1. metabolism and comfort [pic] Metabolism is the mechanism whereby the body converts food into different forms of energy by digesting food in the presence of oxygen. This energy takes the following forms: 1. Work 2. Thermal Energy 3. Waste products Work The amount of bodily energy converted into work is not very great - 0% for a body at rest, 20% when walking up a one in four gradient at 10km/h. Thermal Energy Most of the energy produced by the bodily metabolism is dissipated as heat to the environment. The mechanism for this is seen in the next overhead. Waste Products The remainder of the energy produced is dissipated in waste products. thermal energy Thermal energy is released through an interaction of chemical changes occurring within the body and muscular contractions. [pic] The purpose of the body's thermo-regulatory system is to keep the temperature of the body's deep tissue at 37.2ºC by maintaining a thermal balance with the external environment through heat dissipation. comfort ASHRAE (American Society for Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers) Standard 55-74...
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