CASE STUDIES IN PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT A Guide from the Experts TONY ADKINS John Wiley & Sons, Inc. CASE STUDIES IN PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT CASE STUDIES IN PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT A Guide from the Experts TONY ADKINS John Wiley & Sons, Inc. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Copyright © 2006 by SAS Institute. All rights reserved. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other
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improvement from 2009. A 9.8% increase in passenger traffic over the previous year drove the revenue increase (Alaska Air Group, Inc., 2011). Alaska also led the ten largest carriers in on-time performance for the year. For the third year in a row, it ranked highest in customer satisfaction among traditional network carriers, as listed by J.D. Power and Associates (Alaska Air Group, Inc., 2011). Challenges * The safety and financial results could be harmed in the event of an accident or incident
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accomplish this integration. We present a framework for supply chain management as well as questions for how it might be implemented and questions for future research. Case studies conducted at several companies and involving multiple members of supply chains are used to illustrate the concepts described. © 2000 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved. INTRODUCTION One of the most significant paradigm shifts of modern business management is that individual businesses no longer compete as solely
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CASE: A-197 DATE: 02/05/09 BAIDU.COM, INC.: VALUATION AT IPO Since its official launch in January 2000, Baidu.com, Inc. (Baidu) quickly grew to become the leading Internet search engine in China. After three rounds of private funding, Baidu registered to go public on the NASDAQ Stock Market (Ticker Symbol: BIDU) on August 5, 2005. (See Exhibits 1 and 2 for a listing of Baidu’s private funding sources and pre-IPO share allocations.) The initial public offering (IPO) turned out to be one of the
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Development 8.3 CREATING A BUDGET Top-Down Budgeting Bottom-Up Budgeting Activity-Based Costing 8.4 DEVELOPING BUDGET CONTINGENCIES Summary Key Terms Solved Problems Discussion Questions Problems Case Study 8.1: The Dulhasti Power Plant Case Study 8.2: London’s Millennium Dome Internet Exercises PMP Certification Sample Questions Integrated Project: Developing the Cost Estimates and Budget Bibliography TRANSPARENCIES 8.1 SOURCES OF PROJECT COSTS
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For the exclusive use of Y. Likaku, 2015. 9-704-427 REV: NOVEMBER 29, 2005 PANKAJ GHEMAWAT MICHAEL G. RUKSTAD JENNIFER L. ILLES Arcor: Global Strategy and Local Turbulence These last few years have been spent constructing a Latin American Arcor. In the next five years, we are going to have a global Arcor. — Luis Pagani, President, Arcor Group In May 2003, Argentina was slowly beginning to emerge from the country’s most devastating financial crisis. Half a year earlier, the crisis
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Islamic Shariah PRINCIPLES: A Case Study on Export Import Bank of Bangladesh Ltd By Md. Mostak Ali ID: 3-03-03-025 A Project Report Submitted To Professor Md. Ali Akkas Department of Management Studies In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of MASTER OF BUSSINESS ADMINISTRATION UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA Dhaka 1000 September, 2011 September 29, 2011 Md. Ali Akkas Professor Department of Management Studies EMBA Program University of
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purchase occasion. For example, a customer may tend to purchase Brand A 70 percent of the time, Brand B 20 percent, and Brand C 10 percent of the time” . The point here is that, in the real world, 100% loyal customers are rare. In the majority of cases, attempting to make customers completely loyal is unrealistic. A more realistic goal for businesses is to make customers as loyal as possible – to maximize customer share of wallet,
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Student Name: Student ID Number: THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES FINS1613 BUSINESS FINANCE FINAL EXAM OCTOBER / NOVEMBER 2009 (1) (2) (3) (4) TIME ALLOWED - 2 HOURS TOTAL NUMBER OF QUESTIONS – 50. ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS. ALL QUESTIONS ARE OF EQUAL VALUE. THERE IS NO NEGATIVE MARKING. THIS PAPER MUST NOT BE RETAINED BY THE CANDIDATE. CANDIDATES NEED TO BRING A PENCIL AND ERASER TO THE EXAMINATION. CANDIDATES NEED TO BRING A UNIVERSITY APPROVED CALCULATOR TO THE EXAM. MATHEMATICAL TABLES
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Strategic Management Case Study Unilever Focusing on East for Growth Word Count: 3984 Question 1 Unilever is an Anglo Dutch company that has been established in 1929 as a result of a merger between 2 companies: Lever Brothers and Margarine Unie. UNILEVER owns consumer products in; Food and Beverages, Cleaning agents and Personal care. It is now ranked as the second world largest consumer product company. Strategic Purpose: Unilever’s 2nd rank in FMCG has been gained by serving the company’s
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