Robert Hauser Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB) Between March and May 2012 the ESG Integration Working Group interviewed 17 brokers, research providers and investment managers to draw out best practice examples of integrated equity analysis. These case studies form the basis of this review (see Appendix 1 for a list of those interviewed and the research reviewed). Thanks to the PRI ESG Working Group who have written this document in
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Henry: Understanding Strategic Management The General & Competitive Environment (Slides based on Chapters 2 and 3) Key concepts we will cover: • Analysing the General Environment – PEST analysis – Risk & Scenario Planning • Analysing the Competitive Environment – Porter’s 5 Forces model – Porter’s Strategic Group Analysis – Hypercompetition The General Environment • The external environment facing the organization consists of: • General environment • Competitive environment • The
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Assignment 1: Case Study European Airline Industry Strategic Management Contents |Main Body |4-10 | |1 Introduction |4-5 | |2 Summary of macro-environment analysis |5-7 | |3 Summary of industry environment analysis |7-8 | |4 Other critical factors
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this practical case perspective on how e-commerce has affected your favourite orange airline: Intro: Easy jet is an European airline which was launched in 1995 by its founder Greekcy Priot Stelios Haji-Loannou. It was started with two wet leased Boeing like 737-200 aircrafts and today it operates 196 aircrafts with 20 buses all over around the Europe. It carried 45.2 million passengers in the year of 2009 which made it as a second largest low cost European airline behind Ryanair. In 2002, Easy
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Executive summary Air Asia Airline is one of the companies that once facing a critical financial crisis situation within the organisation. However Air Asia has successfully overcome this problem and expand this nearly bankrupt organisation to become million valued company within a short period of time. Air Asia only used 4 years times to change from a heavily debt organisation and become a high profit company that earn a net profit of RM112 million during 2004 (Air Asia 2005). This has illustrate
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF CASE STUDY Commercial Air Services (Pty) Ltd (Comair) operated as South Africa's first private airline since 14 July 1946. On 27 October 1996 a British Airways franchise agreement came into effect and Comair became known as British Airways Comair (BA). Comair remained a South African controlled company and in 1998 was listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE). In 1999 the airline realised that there was a growing need for affordable air travel as the market
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founder of JetBlue Airways, saw opportunity. In 2002, after 2 years of profitable operations and less than a year after the attacks that shook the industry to its core, JetBlue Airways had its Initial Public Offering (IPO) and went public. This case study outlines the IPO underwriting process and uses JetBlue as an example to describe the steps throughout the way. It also asks the analyst to come up with a valuation for this IPO, based on the financial and non-financial data presented. In the
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05341_02_ch02_p021-044.qxd 9/25/07 10:01 AM Page 21 CHAPTER 2 OPERATIONS, STRATEGY AND OPERATIONS STRATEGY INTRODUCTION An organization’s operations function is concerned with getting things done; producing goods and/or services for customers. Chapter 1 pointed out that operations management is important because it is responsible for managing most of the organization’s resources. However, many people think that operations management is only concerned with short-term, day-to-day,
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05341_02_ch02_p021-044.qxd 9/25/07 10:01 AM Page 21 CHAPTER 2 OPERATIONS, STRATEGY AND OPERATIONS STRATEGY INTRODUCTION An organization’s operations function is concerned with getting things done; producing goods and/or services for customers. Chapter 1 pointed out that operations management is important because it is responsible for managing most of the organization’s resources. However, many people think that operations management is only concerned with short-term, day-to-day
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Exploring Corporate Strategy CLASSIC CASE STUDIES Chaos in the skies – the airline industry pre- and post-9/11 Gary J. Stockport The case provides an opportunity to analyse the Airline Industry both pre- and post-9/11. It shows how one major event in the business environment can reshape many aspects in both the macro and competitive environment of an industry. In turn this requires a reshaping of strategies for most of the individual companies in the industry in order to cope with this new
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