Accounting for MBAs ------------------------------------------------- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS Q1-1. Organizations undertake planning activities that shape three major activities: financing, investing, and operating. Financing is the means a company uses to pay for resources. Investing refers to the buying and selling of resources necessary to carry out the organization’s plans. Operating activities are the actual carrying out of these plans. Planning is the glue that connects these activities
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Advertising: Advertising is the process through which a company draws attention of the members of public about its products and services by communicating it to them through advertisements which are communicated through various sources of medium like TV, Radio, news paper and leaflets. The main disadvantage of advertising is it involves high costs (Bertrand et al, 2010). Public Relation: Public relation is the process through which a company communicates the positive messages about itself and its
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9-486-083 REV: SEPTEMBER 16, 2011 TODD D. JICK MARY GENTILE Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, Inc. (A) At 7:00 a.m. on Friday, April 19, 1985, Donna Dubinsky placed an urgent phone call to her boss’s boss, Bill Campbell, executive vice president for sales and marketing at Apple Computer, Inc. Dubinsky, director of distribution and sales administration, was attending a management leadership seminar located more than two hours away. Her words were crisp and to the point: “Bill, I really
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are perfectly positioned to take advantage of the new online market having sold direct to customers for the last decade and already establishing ourselves as the leader in internet sales. Michael Dell has presented a strategic objective for our company, to “…do at least 50% of our business over the web…” Despite our initial success selling online, we face significant challenges in this new online era: i) How can we encourage more online purchases? ii) Our competitors are fully aware of
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Executive Summary This case analysis report focuses on the declining market share faced by Dell, Inc. (“Dell”, the “Company”) and recommendations are given as to where the Company needs to alter its strategy at a business level as well as a corporate level. Broad recommendations include foraying into the retail space at a more aggressive pace, laying greater impetus in fast emerging markets such as China and India, and focusing more on R&D efforts in order to ensure that higher levels of innovation
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Hewlett-Packard [Year] CORRUPTION AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION IN NIGERIA: Introduction Nigeria is rich in natural and human resources, with a population of over 150 million people; the most populous country in Africa. At the time of her political Independence, on 1st October 1960, Nigeria excelled in production of agricultural produce such as groundnut, palm oil, cocoa, cotton, beans, timber and hides and skins. Then, during the oil boom period of the seventies Nigeria made headlines
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target market segments, the small business and high-end home office users, in our local market. It also provides the step-by-step plan for improving our sales, gross margin, and profitability. This plan includes this summary, and chapters on the company, products and services, market focus, action plans and forecasts, management team, and financial plan. 1.1 Objectives 1. Sales increasing to more than $10 million by the third year. 2. Bring gross margin back up to above 25%, and maintain that
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slight modifications that place more emphasis on the planning and analysis phases which are thought to be more relevant to the stage of Total Quality Management. Benchmarking is defined as either internal or external, i.e. competitive, generic, or functional, and we can apply the Xerox methodology to both. We found internal benchmarking very useful initially as it enabled familiarization with the benchmarking process throughout the company and encouraged cross functional communication. It also enable
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candidates work on a case that focuses on a Canadian public company called RomaCorral Foods Ltd. (RCFL) that owns and operates two chains of restaurants in Canada. One chain specializes in Italian cuisine (Roma Italian) and the other in mid-level steak house cuisine (Corral Steak House). This assignment provides candidates with an opportunity to use the concepts and tools learned from other assignments to resolve some key issues faced by a Canadian company that has to develop a plan for dealing with a downturn
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not a coincidence to find two friends in such similar straits; few organizations seem to have avoided them. Even in businesses renowned for having heart, bosses have been forced to wield the ax. NetApp, declared number one in Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” for 2009, announced it was cutting loose 6% of its employees hbr.org | June 2009 | Harvard Business Review 131 How to Be a Good Boss in a Bad Economy less than a month after the ranking apThe Toxic Tandem peared
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