...Netflix in 2012: Can It Recover from Its Strategy Missteps? Company Overview: Netflix Corporation was established in 1997 by the current CEO, Reed Hastings alongside software executive, Mark Randolph. They are the world’s leading internet television network with over 57 million members in nearly 50 countries enjoying more than two billion hours of TV shows and movies per month, including original series, documentaries and feature films. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on nearly any internet-connected screen. Additionally members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments. The company was originally only a DVD--by--mail service in which the customer paid for a certain level of membership that determined how many DVD’s could be rented at one time. DVD’s were mailed to the customer and then returned by the customer when they were done watching. After a couple years in business, the company began including streaming services along with this. The goal here was to reduce costs by trying to get the subscribers to switch to streaming, which would reduce the costs incurred for postage and shipping with the mailed DVDs. By 2009, Netflix was offering a collection of 100,000 titles on DVD and had surpassed 10 million subscribers. Strategic Challenges and Analysis: Hastings developed a strategy which made Netflix the largest online subscription service for streaming entertainment in the world. Netflix’s strategy includes...
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...The Astro Malaysia Holdings Berhad is estimated to use differentiation strategy. Astro is a leading integrated consumer media entertainment group in Malaysia and Southeast Asia with operations in 4 key areas of business, namely pay-TV, Radio, Publications and Digital Media. Firstly, Astro is the only satellite TV service in Malaysia. Many new firms have high barriers of entry to enter the industry of satellite TV. This is because Astro has made such a big name for themselves. The first thing that comes to Malaysian customer's mind when satellite TV is mentioned would be Astro because Astro has built strong brand recognition and brand loyalty to the point. Without Astro, Malaysian citizens would not be able to watch certain shows and news as Astro provides channels that broadcast shows from around the world, from news to sports to entertainment. /511893 Astro provides 170 TV channels, including 71 Astro-created and branded channels, and over 30 HD channels, delivered via DTH satellite TV, IPTV and OTT platforms with a customer base of over 3.5 million residential customers or approximately52% penetration of Malaysian TV households. Astro provides Astro B.yond and Astro On-The-Go HD with 3D, PVR, VOD and IPTV services. Fulfilling its promise to bridge the digital divide for all of Malaysia, Astro has introduced NJOI as the country’s first non-subscription based satellite TV service, offering 19 TV and 20 radio channels. Next, The industry of Pay TV have quite a few firms but...
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...MPhil/PhD Research, Presentation and Professional Skills Workshops, 2009/10 James Banks and Andrew Chesher These reading and presentation workshops will take place Wednesdays from 11-1 in room 321. The first meeting will be on 7 October 2009. Overview The goal of this set of courses is to teach 2nd year MPhil/PhD students the basic knowledge and skills required for conducting top level research in Economics, writing a PhD thesis, communicating PhD research to others, and interacting with the academic community. We also give an introduction to some of the basic tasks, responsibilities and duties of being a PhD student and then, subsequently, an academic economist. Finally, the courses are intended to support students in the first stages of their written PhD work which leads to the transfer seminar, by providing structured advice and discussion, and by stimulating discussion among students about their work. Courses (dates subject to confirmation) 1: Introduction to PhD research in Economics at UCL Dates: 7, 21 October What is this set of workshops about? Brief introduction of everybody What does UCL Economics department expect from its research students? What does UCL Economics expect from its Teaching Assistants? What does it mean to be an Economist? Professional Etiquette Readings: Don Davis’s guide to choosing a research topic http://tinyurl.com/brsfv8 Richard Hamming, “You and Your Research” http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.pdf Dan Hamermesh’s website:...
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...month. There are no due dates and no late fees – ever. All Netflix plans include both DVDs delivered to subscribers' homes and, for no additional fee, movies and TV series that can be started in as little as 30 seconds on subscribers' PCs. DVDs are delivered free to members by first class mail, with a postage-paid return envelope, from over 100 U.S. shipping points. Nearly 95 percent of Netflix subscribers live in areas that can be reached with generally one business day delivery. Netflix offers personalized movie recommendations and has two billion movie ratings. Although, very successful completion grows which are threats to the company. Netflix needs to create a strategy to be able to Partner with cable companies and networks such as HBO, Cinemax that do not license any of their series. They need to create a team hence forth, spend and analyze critically their hiring decisions. This team will be monitoring, evaluating and disseminating the information from the external and internal environments to key people within the organization. They need to create a pool of highly qualified experienced personnel that would efficiently and effectively generate a strategic plan that will create revenue, increase customers, ensure customer satisfaction, increase partnerships, and provide employees a benefit package that will increase productivity, creativity and partnerships with cable companies, networks, etc. With a set of managerial decisions and actions that determines the long-run performance...
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...PhDbox.in, your guide to professional PhD thesis PhDbox.in is one of its kind research consultancies which provides PhD students superior quality PhD thesis writing and editing services. With our expertise and extensive presence in the field of research, we are assisting PhD students across India. The thesis proposal is one of the utmost important aspects of PhD. However, due to lack of knowledge and experience, many students struggle to deliver a proper PhD thesis paper. On the other hand, a quality research paper needs end-to-end knowledge of the research methodologies and the subject. Not only is that, the presentation and logical flow of the content equally important to achieve a good grade. At PhDbox.in, our services range from helping students preparing their thesis proposal to helping them in all aspects of their PhD, including editing the research papers. We have a team of highly professional academic writers from the best universities across the world, who help us deliver the best in quality research papers. Their proficiency also helps us to offer consulting services in different subjects. However, it is not only the quality, our customised services, 24/7 customer services, on time project delivery and 100% plagiarism free services also make us unique. During the research paper creation process, our team helps the students with prompt service at all the required stages. Nevertheless, our service is affordable to all the PhD students. On top of that, we provide discount...
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...1- How attractive is the merger of Time with Warner? b) Is the proposed exchange ratio of 0.465 per Warner share attractive? Is Time Paying the right price for Warner? c) Does the merger make sense strategically? a) What are the value enhancement opportunities? Una fusión sólo tiene sentido económico, cuando la empresa fusionada vale más que las dos empresas por separado. Generalmente hay tres razones principales que justifican una fusión. En el caso de Time- Warner y estos tres motivos están presentes: 1. fusión horizontal -se definen como "combinación de dos empresas en la misma línea de negocio". Time y Warner estan en la misma línea de negocio, la fusión puede ser considerada como horizontal. La razón principal de las fusiones horizontales es la explotación de economías de escala. "Los ahorros provienen de la consolidación de las operaciones y eliminar costos redundantes, [...] compartir servicios centrales como la gestión de oficina y contabilidad, control financiero, desarrollo directivo, y la gestión de nivel superior" . Time y Warner también están siguiendo estos objetivos. 2. fusión vertical - "Una fusión vertical implica empresas en diferentes etapas de la producción. El comprador se expande de nuevo hacia la fuente de materias primas. La materia prima en nuestro caso es el contenido, es decir, películas y series. Una forma de lograr economías de escala es difundir...
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...The SingTel Group is Asia’s leading communications group, providing a diverse range of communication services and solutions, including fixed, mobile, data, Internet, info-communications technology, satellite and pay TV. We are the largest listed company on the Singapore Exchange by market capitalisation. The SingTel Group is Asia’s leading communications group, providing a diverse range of communication services and solutions, including fixed, mobile, data, Internet, info-communications technology, satellite and pay TV. We are the largest listed company on the Singapore Exchange bThe SingTel Group is Asia’s leading communications group, providing a diverse range of communication services and solutions, including fixed, mobile, data, Internet, info-communications technology, satellite and pay TV. We are the largest listed company on tThe SingTel Group is Asia’s leading communications group, providing a diverse range of communication services and solutions, including fixed, mobile, data, Internet, info-communications technology, satellite and pay TV. We are the largest listed company on the SingapThe SingTel Group is Asia’s leading communications group, providing a diverse range of communication services and solutions, including fixed, mobile, data, Internet, info-communications technology, satellite and pay TV. We are the largest listed company on the Singapore Exchange by market capitalisation. ore Exchange by market capitalisation. he Singapore Exchange by market capitalisation...
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...Miami (then a CBS affiliate on channel 4, now an NBC owned-and-operated station on channel 6). The signals were broadcast beginning in August 1977 on WWHT-TV (channel 68) and later on WSNL-TV (channel 67) out of Smithtown, New York. The service had ended by 1986. Contents [hide] 1 Overview 2 List of Wometco Home Theater affiliates 3 References 4 See also Overview[edit] Wometco Home Theater descrambling box. Initially subscribers paid $15 for a set-top descrambling box that allowed subscribers to view channel 68's scrambled television signals (a later addressable, 2-channel version of this descrambler was developed under vice president of engineering, Alex MacDonald). The service was similar to Home Box Office (HBO), but a Wometco executive told The New York Times that WHT was more likely to select films with a particular interest to the New York City area. Wometco also targeted areas that were not yet served by cable television (although parts of Manhattan had cable television service as early as 1971, the vast majority of the five...
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...ADDITIONAL TV PLANS ADDITIONAL PACKAGES WHICH REQUIRE SUBSCRIPTIONS CHANNEL NAME CHANNEL NAME CHANNEL NAME CHANNEL NAME VARIETY PASS Reelz Revolt RLTV Science Smithsonian Sprout Sundance West TBN Teennick The Sportsman Channel Tr3s TWC SportsChannel Univision Deportes VH1 Classic TWC MOVIE PASS Encore Encore Action Encore Action West Encore Black Encore Black West Encore Classic Encore Classic West Encore Family Encore On Demand Encore Suspense Encore Suspense West Encore West Encore Westerns Encore Westerns West FX Movie Channel IFC Sundance Channel Sundance West TWC Movie Pass On Demand TV EN ESPAÑOL MAS AYM Sports CBTV Cine Mexicano GolTV Mexico 22 TBN Enlace Teleformula Viendo Movies Al Jazeera America American Heroes Aspire BabyFirst BBC World News BBCA beIN SPORTS beIN SPORTS Espanel Bloomberg Boomerang C-SPAN 3 Canal de Tejas CBS Sports Network CCTV News Centric Chiller Cloo CNBC World Cooking Channel Daystar Destination America Discovery Family Discovery Life Disney Jr Disney West Disney XD DIY Network El Rey English Premier League ESPN Deportes ESPNews ESPNU Esquire Family Net Flix Flix West FM Fox Deportes FOX Sports 2 Fuse FXX FYI GSN H2 Hallmark Channel Hallmark Movies & Mysteries IFC Lifetime Real Women Logo MLB Network MTV Hits MTV2 Multimedios Nat Geo Wild NBA TV NBC Sports Network NBC Universo NFL Network Nick Jr Nicktoons Outdoor Channel Ovation QVC Plus El Paso HD PASS beIN SPORTS MAV TV MGM HD Smithsonian Universal HD TWC SPORTS PASS beIN SPORTS...
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...Cable and Satellite Television Aren’t Worth Their Cost From the introduction of the television set until the 1980s, free, antenna-based television dominated American households. But beginning in that decade, a fierce trend toward paid, premium television erupted. By the 2000s, more than 80% of all households subscribed to either cable or satellite television (“Television”). But as the demand for such services soared, so did the cost. In 2007, my cable bill averaged $70; less than three years later, it had swelled to $100. And beyond introductory teaser rates, the competition didn’t yield any significant savings. But my search did yield that there’s too many free and low-cost services that provide an alternate to cable and satellite television, thus rendering the cost outrageous. The Internet provides a wealth of complimentary entertainment. Most major networks, including many premium channels, offer their programming available online within a timely fashion after its original broadcast. Several television and movie producers make available a large library of content online; the most famous is probably Sony, which does so through Crackle. Websites such as Hulu and Youtube offer further collections of content available online. Additionally, there’s a wealth of websites providing independent and original programming. The transition to digital television has opened a wealth of new channels available as sub channels. Thus, the amount of antenna-based programming can...
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...FINANCIAL MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS The core purpose of the following report is to analysis 5 of the top British Banks based on their total assets and by looking at their key balance sheet items, income statement items and financial ratios.. Most of the banks in the UK are MNCs. The top 5 banks in the United Kingdom have 90 percent market share. Here is the list of the top 5 banks in the UK: 1. HSBC 2. Lloyds Banking Group PLC 3. Standard Chartered Bank 4. Barclays 5. Royal Bank of Scotland Group Analysis of the key balance sheet and income items is as follows: Loans is one of the most important balance sheet items, as the ability to pool deposits from many sources that can be lent to many different borrowers creates the flow of funds inherent in the banking system. Gross loan is the total amount of issued credits given to banks during the accounting period. We can see from the graph below that HSBC maintained the most steady gross loan figures between 2008 -2012. This was despite the economic depression of 2008 by which RBS was evidently affected by the most with their gross loan figure being the lowest in 2011 of only £24979 million. One of the reasons for this is that UK taxpayers bailed out RBS in with the government owning over 80% of the business while HSBC avoided government assistance. Net Income is the amount of profit money a business has after determining total gross business income and deducting all expenses, taxes, depreciation, and interest. We...
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...IMPLANT DENTISTRY / VOLUME 20, NUMBER 5 2011 331 Identification and Treatment of Bisphosphonate-Associated Actinomycotic Osteonecrosis of the Jaws Cameron Y. S. Lee, DMD, MD, PHD,* Francis D. Pien, MD, MPH,† and Jon B. Suzuki, DDS, PHD, MBA‡ isphosphonates (BPs) are a pharmacologic class of synthetic analogs of inorganic pyrophosphate that has an affinity for calcium.1 They are used in the treatment of various malignant and benign metabolic conditions, such as hypercalcemia of malignancy; Paget’s disease of bone; multiple myeloma; and metastases from distant sites such as breast, thyroid, prostate glands, and lung. The oral form of BPs is indicated in the management of osteoporosis, fibrous dysplasia, and most recently, osteogenesis imperfecta in the pediatric population.2,3 Currently, there are 5 bisphosphonates in clinical use: alendronate (Fosamax; Merck, Whitehouse Station, NJ), risedronate (Actonel; Proctor & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Cincinnati, OH), ibandronate (Boniva; Roche Pharmaceuticals, Nutley, NY), zoledronate (Zometa; Novartis Pharmaceuticals, East Hanover, NJ), and pamidronate (Aredia; Novartis Pharmaceuticals). All 5 medications differ in their binding affinity to bone, potency, and duration.2–5 B Osteonecrosis of the jaws (ONJ) is a condition characterized by necrotic exposed bone in the jaws of patients receiving intravenous or oral bisphosphonate therapy. A review of the medical and dental literature reveals that the pathoetiology of ONJ remains...
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...-1- Anatomy of a Credit Crisis 2009-07-24 This timeline has grown and been amended since it first appeared in the December, 2008, issue of The Australian Journal of Management, as the editorial, under the title of “The Dominoes Fall: a timeline of the squeeze and crunch”. I include below the December preamble. The version of mid-May, 2009, will appear as the editorial of the June 2009 issue of the AJM, under the title “Anatomy of a Credit Crisis.” I include below the June preamble, in which I assay a framework for understanding the genesis of the crisis. December, 2008: IN ITS LEADER of October 13, 2008, the Financial Times characterized the western world’s banking system as suffering “the equivalent of a cardiac arrest.” The collapse of confidence in the system means that “it is now virtually impossible for any institution to finance itself in the markets longer than overnight.” This occurred less than a month after Lehman Brothers (LB) collapsed, without bailout. Six months earlier Bear Stearns (BS) had been bailed out after JP Morgan Chase (JPM Chase) had bought it for $10 a share, at the regulator’s urging. After LB fell, who would be next? And if LB, who was not at risk? Despite the earlier U.S. government bailouts of the erstwhile government mortgage originators (and still seen as government-sponsored enterprises, or GSEs), the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), and the later bailout of the...
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...Erasmus University of Rotterdam Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship The Impact of entrepreneurship education programs on entrepreneurial intentions: An application of the theory of planned behavior Master Thesis Sofia Karali 357726 Supervisor: Pr. Dr. Roy Thurik Erasmus School of Economics Co-reader: Hendrik Halbe MSc Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship Erasmus School of Economics Rotterdam 2013 Abstract Though many researchers have focused on entrepreneurship education, little research has been conducted on the precise effects and overall effectiveness of the entrepreneurship education programs. Drawing on the theory of planned behavior, this study investigates the impact of entrepreneurship programs on the entrepreneurial intention of students in higher education in the Netherlands. Data for this study is drawn from GUESSS (an international project investigating the entrepreneurial spirit of students worldwide). The results show that participants of entrepreneurship education programs are more likely to have higher intention (right or five years after their studies have been completed) to found their own businesses compared to nonparticipants. Furthermore, attitude toward entrepreneurship, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control mediate the aforementioned relationship. The findings of this report contribute both to the Theory of Planned Behavior and to the field of entrepreneurship education. 1 Contents Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Literature...
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...MARKETING MANAGEMENT TERM PAPER COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SUBMITTED TO SUBMITTED BY Ms. SHALINI GAUTAM Jonnalagadda Vijay Kumar Vaibhav Chakravarti Shubhankar Rudra Bhavya Nijhawan Jatin Arneja EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Amid the previous four decades Pizza Hut and Dominos has constructed a notoriety for perfection that has earned the admiration of shoppers and industry specialists alike. Building a main pizza organization has required persistent advancement, responsibility to quality and commitment to client administration and worth. The characteristics of enterprise, development and initiative have portrayed Pizza Hut and Dominos business through over four many years of achievement. Through the quality of its legacy, its way of life and its kin and franchisees, Pizza Hut anticipates more achievement in future. There are distinctive destinations of each association. Keeping in mind the end goal to accomplish these destinations distinctive targets are set. Targets go down the chain of command contingent upon the way of the business. Along these lines, with a specific end goal to accomplish the destinations, administration settles on distinctive procedures. These procedures are isolated into numerous sub-parts and are helpful for the running of the business. The workers and the administration recognize what they need to accomplish through the objectives which have been set to them and the techniques they have embraced...
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