HAMPTON MACHINE TOOL COMPANY On September 14, 2007, Jerry Eckwood, vice president of the Wellington National Bank was considering a loan request from a customer also located in Wellington, New Zealand. The company, Hampton Machine Tool Company, had requested renewal of an existing $1 million loan originally to be repaid September 30, 2007. In addition to the renewal of the existing loan, Hampton was asking for an additional load of $350,000 for planned equipment purchases in October. Under
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On September 12, 1979, Hampton Machine Tool Company (HMTC) requested from St. Louis National Bank a renewal to their loan of $1,000,000 due to be repaid on September 30, 1979 and also to be given an additional loan of $350,000 for new equipment purchases in October 1979. Both loans were to be repaid on December 31, 1979. Hampton M.T. Company wrote a letter to the St. Louis National Bank stating the reasons for the extension of the loan and the need of the additional loan, and giving the current and
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Hampton Case Study Study Case: Hampton Machine Tool Background. Hampton Machine Tool Company, a machine tool manufacturer, was founded in 1915. Hampton's customers are military aircraft and automobile manufacturers in the St. Louis area. Machine Tool Company felt the boom in the 1960`s with record setting profits in the mid- to late- 1960`s. The company slowed down in the 1970`s economic recession caused by Vietnam War and the oil embargo. Hampton stabilized by the late 1970`s and now has
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Study Case: Hampton Machine Tool Background. Hampton Machine Tool Company, a machine tool manufacturer, was founded in 1915. Hampton's customers are military aircraft and automobile manufacturers in the St. Louis area. Machine Tool Company felt the boom in the 1960`s with record setting profits in the mid- to late- 1960`s. The company slowed down in the 1970`s economic recession caused by Vietnam War and the oil embargo. Hampton stabilized by the late 1970`s
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learning time, * separates execution of work from work-planning, * separates direct labor from indirect labor * replaces rule of thumb productivity estimates with precise measurements, * introduces time and motion study for optimum job performance, cost accounting, tool and work station design, and * makes possible payment-by-result method of wage determination Named after the US industrial engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915), Taylor believed that the industrial management
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corresponding han-ping.fung@hp.com) Abstract As more and more ICT tools being developed and used in social science research, it is a good idea to reflect how ICT had effects on social science research as a whole as there is a lacking of such study. This study is underpinned on and concurred with DeLone & McLean’s (1992, 2003) Information Systems (IS) Success Model in which ICT had effects on productivity of social science researchers. This study is based on participative observation approach in which ICT
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contradictions of his life make his autobiography intellectually intriguing for advanced readers. To some he was known as the Sage of Tuskegee or the Black Moses. One of his prominent biographers, Louis R. Harlan, called him the “Wizard of the Tuskegee Machine.” Others acknowledged him to be a complicated person and public figure. Students of American social and political history have come to see that Washington lived a double life. Publicly he appeased the white establishment by remaining cautious in his
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of recurring problems, such as inaccurate statements and broken automatic teller machines (ATMs). Account retention improved after the bank began to pay customers $5 for reporting each such service failure. What is surprising, however, is that the service guarantee also had a motivating effect on the employees. When an ATM failed at a branch, the employees, out of pride, decided to keep the branch open until the machine was repaired at 8:30 pm.Another hidden benefit of a guarantee is
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cost-leadership can create competitive advantage for a firm, which then has a better chance of outperforming other firms in a homogeneous industry. However, this notion has not been tested in the Chinese hotel industry. In response to this gap, this study empirically examines the relationships between the generic strategies of differentiation and cost leadership and hotels’ organizational performance. The results suggest that differentiation is the only significant generic strategy that influences
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