Harvard Business School 9-292-140 op y June 12, 1992 Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project tC In April 1992 Mr. David A. Davis, a movie industry analyst at Paul Kagan Associates, Inc. in Los Angeles, was asked to look at and comment on an unusual business idea. The idea was to create an investment group, Arundel Partners, which would purchase the sequel rights associated with films produced by one or more major U.S. movie studios. As owner of the rights, Arundel would wait to
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but reports still need to be adjusted in Excel, as before. The quality and timeliness of data is a major issue for processing the information in most areas.” Salman Rehmatallah, the chief information officer (CIO) had earlier told Hassan that: tC With the wide range of legacy applications still being used, most of the users were not ensuring the accuracy of the data being entered in the Oracle EBS system, resulting in the need for reconciliation and corrections. Focus was also required
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FORMULAS AND ABBREVIATIONS Before starting our calculation of the current situation and the proposed models, we will present the used formulas and abbreviations: EOQ= √((2*D* C_P)/C_H ) TBO= EOQ/d TARGET=d [∑_(t=1)^(Z-1)▒〖t+(TBO-Z)*Z 〗] TC = (C_P*q)+( ( I ) ̅* C_H) ROP = Averager DDLT + SS SS=Z √L* σ_d EOQ = Economic Order Quantity D = Annual Demand C_P= Order Cost
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Operations Management Group Homework 1. 5S intervention [5 points] (a) Work as a team to complete the 5S Intervention case (CBP TC 59-01) in a home or office work area. This will be graded on the professor’s and TA’s assessment of the probability that the 5S discipline will be sustainable for this process for more than a year. (b) Use the 5S Scorecard to score the area both before and after the intervention. Please do not spend more than an hour or two on this exercise. 2. Mercury
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University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7; phone (519) 6613208; fax (519) 661-3882; e-mail cases@ivey.uwo.ca. Copyright © 2010, Tsinghua School of Economics and Management and Ivey Management Services Version: (A) 2010-04-27 tC In late April 2005, Jack Perkowski, chairman of ASIMCO Technologies, a company headquartered in China and supplying auto components for both Chinese and global customers, was in his office located in the bustling Chaoyang District of Beijing, pondering
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TranscUlturAl, vol.1, 1(2008), 14-24 http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/TC 14 Literary Translation and (or as?) Conflict between the Arab World and the West Mustapha Ettobi McGill University Introduction In 1990, Edward Said wrote an article entitled “Embargoed Literature” which was published in The Nation. In it, he argues that Arabic literature is “embargoed” in the West even if one of its most prominent figures, the Egyptian novelist and short story writer Naguib Mahfouz, was
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ADM 3350N, Winter 2013 Prof. Yuri Khoroshilov Midterm exam IMPORTANT: • Please, show your work for all questions (excluding multiple-choice questions) • Please, keep at least 4 decimal points while performing your calculations. Marks will be deducted for rough rounding!!! • The exam consists of two parts and one bonus question and is counted out of 40 points. In case your total mark (including the bonus question) exceeds 40 points, you will be awarded only 40 points for this exam and no
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Harvard Business School 9-799-131 May 4, 2001 European Monetary Union In the spring of 1999, Romano Prodi, newly designated chairman of the European Commission, prepared to help create an economically integrated Europe. Since the introduction of the euro on January 1, Europe had been operating with a single currency—at least for business-tobusiness transactions. Despite some technical problems with the changeover and an 8% depreciation of the euro against the dollar, this extraordinary
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Ivey Publishing, Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7; phone (519) 661-3208; fax (519) 661-3882; e-mail cases@ivey.uwo.ca. Copyright © 2012, CEIBS Version: 2012-06-19 tC It was April 10, 2011, when Gianluca Castelletti, head of Whirlpool’s Asia International Procurement Office in Shanghai, was informed by his colleagues that the company was about to launch a new refrigerator model in just six months. With the current
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MICHAEL E. PORTER The State of Connecticut: Strategy for Economic Development Introduction Connecticut had long been one of the most prosperous U.S. states. With a per capita income of $39,300 in 19991 compared with the U.S. average of $28,542,2 it had the highest standard of living of any state. However, Connecticut had been hit especially hard by the recession of the early 1990s, the worst since the 1930s. During the recession, Connecticut lost one out of every 10 jobs.3 Although the recession
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