...Solution to Supplemental Case: Ranger Supply Company This case is simply intended to force students to think about reasons for or against international business. As with most cases, there are no perfect solutions, but there are some general conclusionsthat can be drawn.a.Some of the more obvious factors to consider are:1.Competition. There are similar distributors in Canada, whereas Eastern Europe may not havean organized system for the distribution of office supplies. Yet, some European firms (likethe British competitor) may attempt to pursue the Eastern European market.2.Transportation Costs. The costs of transporting office supplies to Eastern Europe would behigh, placing Ranger at a relative disadvantage compared to other European firms.3.Export Barriers. Either country could impose tariffs or quotas on the exports. Canada is lesslikely than Eastern European countries to impose such restrictions.4.Marketing Characteristics. Ranger would have an easier time adapting to the Canadianmarket. The information about Eastern Europe firms would be more limited. Thus, Ranger would be unable to identify many of the firms that may need office supplies, unless itexpended funds to search for newly opened retail stores. Furthermore, these stores may prefer to deal with a supplier that is not so distant. For example, they may have connections withWestern Europe suppliers. Since Ranger has no experience in Eastern Europe, it may be at adisadvantage in attempting to penetrate that market.5...
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...lacking supplies, stricken with disease and malnourishment were forced to lay down their arms to the Japanese on April 9th, 1942. This was due to the promise of reinforcements after General MacArthur and a few select officers evacuated the island on orders from the president. The Japanese however had only accommodated for 10,000 to 25,000 thousand POWs and the Us and Philippine soldiers were forced to march 60 miles to the Cabanatuan and Bataan prison camps. On October 20th, 1944 General Douglas MacArthur’s forces landed on Leyte, as Americans prepared for the main invasion of Luzon the Japanese captors continued to execute their prisoners. Several plans were submitted for possible rescue attempts of the prisoners but most fell through simply due to logistics or possible traders amongst the ranks of the Philippine guerillas. On January 26th, 1945 major Bob Lapham, the American US Army Forces Far East senior guerrilla chief and another guerilla leader Juan Pojota, traveled from his location near the prison camp to the Sixth Army headquarters. Lapham proposed to Lieutenant General Walter Krueger’s intelligence Chief Colonel Horton White that a rescue attempt needed to be made to liberate the estimated 500 POWs at the Cabanatuan prison camp before the Japanese possibly killed them all. Colonel White gathered Lt.Col. Henry Mucci and his 6th Ranger Battalion along with 3 lieutenants from the Alamo scouts, and the special reconnaissance unit. Mucci and a reinforced company of 121 rangers...
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...HISTORY OF THE 10th MOUNTAIN DIVISION ________________________________________ Birth of the Division In November 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Finland. Finnish soldiers on skis annihilated two tank divisions, humiliating the Russians. Charles Minot (Minnie) Dole, the president of the National Ski Patrol, saw this as a perfect example of why the U.S. Army needed mountain troops. Dole spent months lobbying the War Department to train troops in mountain and winter warfare. In September 1940, Dole was able to present his case to General George C. Marshall, the Army Chief of Staff, who caused the Army take action on Dole’s proposals to create ski units. On December 8, 1941, the Army activated its first mountain unit, the 87th Mountain Infantry Battalion (Later became an entire Regiment) at Fort Lewis, Washington. The unit was dubbed "Minnie’s Ski Troops" in honor of Dole. The 87th trained on Mount Ranier’s 14,408 foot peak. The National Ski Patrol took on the unique role of recruiting for the 87th Infantry Regiment and later the Division. After returning from the Kiska Campaign in the Aleutian Islands near Alaska the 87th formed the core of the new Division. 10th Mountain Division - World War II This unique organization came into being on July 13, 1943, at Camp Hale, Colorado as the 10th Light Division (Alpine). The combat power of the Division was contained in the 85th, 86th, and 87th Infantry Regiments. The Division’s year training at the 9,200 foot high Camp Hale honed...
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...manufacturer that was formed in 2003. The company currently sells the high tech, high performance, luxury sports car the “Roadster”, which sells for over $100,000. Tesla will be releasing its new “Model S” sedan later this year, which sells at a more attractive $50,000 to $60,000 range. According to an article in Just-Auto, the future success of the company is heavily reliant on the success of the Model S, as the company is currently only receiving revenue from the sale of batteries to two of its investors. The company went public in 2010, and quickly had stock market success. But as of April 2011, the stock fell significantly, proving the public’s grim outlook concerning the electric car industry. The company sells cars online or in select showrooms in major high traffic metropolitan areas like Chicago. There are 18 dealers in North America, and the company has expanded a few dealerships to Europe and Asia. To differentiate their product and provide superior customer service, Tesla does not sell cars to any franchise dealers. As of 2010, the company had sold about 1,200 Roadsters. Because of the small amount of Tesla vehicles being driven around the country, according to an article from Business Insider, Tesla has a traveling team of repair men called “Rangers” to perform maintenance operations to Tesla vehicles. STRENGTHS: Tesla Motors has many positive characteristics that have kept them in business for nearly 10 years. First, the company has formed three beneficial strategic...
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...============================================================================== Company of Heroes Single Player Campaign Walkthrough 09/22/06 Author: LoneEagle013 Copyright 2006 LoneEagle013 All trademarks and copyrights contained in this document are owned by their respective trademark and copyright holders. ============================================================================== ============================================================================== VERSION HISTORY ============================================================================== 09/21/06 - Created basic format. Finished Mission 15 walkthrough. 09/22/06 - Finished Missions 01, 02, 03, 04, 05. 09/23/06 - Finished Missions 06, 07, 08, 09, 10. 09/24/06 - Finished Missions 11, 12, 13, 14. ============================================================================== INTRODUCTION ============================================================================== 01. This is a quick, general guidelines to approach the single player missions. 02. The difficulty setting for this strategy guide is normal mode, so what is covered here may not apply on harder settings. 03. For the most part I will leave the approach to the objectives loosely, mainly because there is more than one way to approach an objective. I like it how I can replay the mission with completely different way of doing things and each time they are equally impressive. 04. I...
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...INTERNATIONAL FINANCE AND CAPITAL MARKETS RANGER SUPPLY COMPANY A) First of all the aim of all companies is profit. To decide which factors are important we always need to think about profit. Cost factor is so important to decide which country is more feasible because cost is directly related with distance. To send all products to Europe is different from to send all of these to Canada. Logistic methods, time and cost all these factors are different and they should think about all these factors to determine the cost. In addition to that, profit margin and the size of market is important. They need to go a big market with big opportunities. To make a decision they need to do market analysis. The case does not mention that but I believe there are different growths and different opportunities. Cost-profit calculation must be calculated carefully and they should figure out their supply chain and inventory management. B) This is not a reasonable strategy and the obvious reason of that is high cost. Establishing a subsidiary, hiring or sending employees, training them and because of the similar points it is a long and high cost project and we do not even sure about that. To start to think about a subsidiary first we should be sure about to continue to make business in this market. At that point, subsidiary gives us a chance to solve problems faster, to know market deeper and to reach the customers directly. MAPLELEAF PAPER COMPANY A) In Canada there is a 20% growth...
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...Background of the company Procter and Gamble was first founded in 1837 by William Procter and James Gamble. P&G carries about more or less than 50 top names products with the headquartered located in Cincinnati. Procter and Gamble is one of Americas largest company that sells multinational consumer goods. The product ranges varies from personal care, pet foods, diapers, cleaning supplies, medications and etc. The hundreds of different brand that P&G carries is available all around the world in more than 180 countries. In what line of business is the company? Procter and Gamble is considered as the personal products industry. However, in the personal products industry there are many different sectors and P&G is consider as the consumer goods sector. P&G is part of the consumer goods sector because of the different varieties of products that are carried. The ranger of product that are carried can go from beauty products to cleaning to supplies for the household. What is the nature of its products? The nature of Procter and Gamble’s products are beauty, home care, health, family care, grooming and baby care. What is the firm's distinctive competence? Procter and Gamble has five main core strengths that are being focused on in order to succeed in the consumer products industry. First core value of P&G is understanding the consumers, each year P&G does market research in more than 100 counties to see what will help them better serve their consumers and innovate their...
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...Introduction Both consumers and producers encounter various challenges in current economic environment. Volatility and changes are common traits in economic condition. Despite of these aspects, both consumers and producers have to make decisions on how to spend their discretionary spending and market their products respectively. The characters, values and needs of the consumers tend to evolve. However, the evolvement correlates the demand and supply in a given geographic region. Studies reveal that climatic change has great influence on supply and demand in various regions (Ranger, 2012). In current world, media and advanced technology plays a critical role in creating awareness to the consumers. The consumers use these sources to seek for information regarding their target products as well as efficient market they acquire the products from. Nevertheless, facilitating interaction of these forces especially in current world has remained a great challenge thus responding to customers’ buying needs and products in the market (Yu Ma, Ailawad, Gauri, & Grewal, 2011). Steps for Optimizing Discretionary Income Before going into the details for the steps that could be adopted by the rational consumers to optimize, discretionary income must be understood. As per the Investopedia, the amount of an individual’s income, which is left for investing, spending or for saving after fulfilling the personal necessities including food, shelter, utilities expenses and taxes have been paid....
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...www.tourismfortomorrow.com GLOBAL TOURISM BUSINESS AWARD FINALIST 2011 Shangri-La is a Hong Kong-based luxury hotel group operating 69 properties in Asia, the Middle East, and North America, with 30,000 rooms and over 41,000 staff members. CASE STUDY Launched in 2007, Shangri-La’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy centres on six primary topics: environment – climate change mitigation; local community support programmes; conservation and biodiversity projects; environmental management systems; employee engagement and well-being; health, safety, food, and supply-chain management systems. Every region and hotel formulates and coordinates all CSR activities and volunteer programmes individually, overseen by a group Director of CSR and Sustainability, who was appointed in 2009 to champion these initiatives. Further testament to the level of integration of CSR within the company’s business model is evidenced by the fact that CSR is placed directly into each individual property’s Integrated Management System (IMS) reporting structure. With the publication and distribution within the group of a Best Practice Digest and the first Sustainability Report in 2011, data are provided across the group on each property’s work, highlighting both high performance and those needing to become more engaged in these efforts. Three main CSR initiatives provide a framework for defining activities across the group: Embrace, focusing on social and community support projects; Sanctuary...
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...Royall, president of the council at San Felipe, who found him to be “very importantly useful,” Smith returned to Austin’s army and took part in the battle of Concepción on October 28, 1835. He was responsible for the discovery of the mexican supply train involved in the Grass Fight. During the siege of Bexar Smith guided colonel francis johnson’s men into the town. On December 8 he was wounded on top of the Veramendi palace at almost the same time Benjamin R. Milam was killed at its door. Smith, whom Governor Henry Smith called “well known to the army for his vigilance and meritorious acts,” remained with the army despite his severe wounds, “as his services as a spy cannot well be dispensed...
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...After McCandless couldn’t get his car to start he buried his license plates and rifle. Also, he took the money he had along with the supplies in his backpack and burned it to avoid answering question from the park rangers. McCandless ended up hitchhiking for two months, and wound up meeting a man named Crazy Ernie. Christopher worked at a ranch for eleven days without pay from Ernie. McCandless eventually ends up in Mexico and travels back to the United States and spends the night in jail for illegally entering the U.S. and considers hitting the road again because he doesn’t fit in society. “Extremely uncomfortable in society now and must return to the road immediately....
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...SEIL EO T PC R P R A T p5F c b o o ae o k C s Su isf m 2 1 a e tde r o 00 Pa cl poe w y t i er e rc a& rvn ason g t t a Fcb o i o o r ak n e ot aeo kn yu m r g ff r t e s Po i dC uts o: rv e o r y f d e Special Report MarketingSherpa’s Top 5 Facebook Case Studies from 2010 Copyright © 2010 by MarketingSherpa LLC All rights reserved. No part of this report may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, faxing, emailing, posting online or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the Publisher. HubSpot = Easy & Integrated Landing Pages Website \ Analytics I Email / 810g Sales Tools \ Social Media SEO Lead Nurturing Try HubSpot Inbound Marketing Software with a Free 30 Day Trial HubSppt http://www.hubspot.com/free-trial TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: MARKETINGSHERPA’S TOP 5 FACEBOOK CASE STUDIES FROM 2010 ............ 4 IMPROVE YOUR FACEBOOK PROFILE TO INCREASE CONSUMER INTERACTION: FOUR TACTICS ................................................................................................................................................................. 5 HOW 'LOCALIZING' A BRAND THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA & IN-PERSON EVENTS CREATED A SUCCESSFUL PRODUCT LAUNCH .........................................................................................
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...Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur PGDM 20010-12 International Financial Management Session 4& 5 / Class discussion / 6th & 10thJuly ‘11 All IFM students of PGDM are required to come prepared for a class discussion and participation exercise planned for the week as below: 6th Jul ’11 - Session 4 We conclude the previous topic Globalization & Multinational Business Finance including the Discussion Note: Managing for Value - Yahoo’s Decision to Expand internationally / Finance function in a global corporation; Case study: Ranger Supply Company; and start with, Topic 2 International Financial System, BoP and Foreign Exchange Markets- Government Policies Managing for Value: Impact of Trade Policies on Firm; and How Yahoo!is exposed to Exchange Rate Systems and Intervention. Case study: MapleLeaf Paper Co., Self-evaluation Exercises: Applications: Point Counter-point; Blades Inc. Case; and Small Business Dilemma Readings: Topic 2 & 6 from Jeff Madura; & Topic 2 from Readings in IFM Handout) 10th Jul ‘11 – Session 5 We conclude Topic 2A International Financial System & Government policies; and introduce: Topic 3 International Financial Markets: Foreign Exchange Markets. Discussion Note 1: Managing for value – Intel’s currency trading; 2. Foreign Exchange Markets - Don’t Blame Speculators for Falling Currencies!? Self-assessment: Blades Inc.& Small Business Dilemma. Readings: Topic 3 from Jeff Madura; & Topic 3 from Readings in IFM Handout) ...
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..."CHII"IURENGA II 1896 - 1897: A REVISIONIST STUDY THESIS Submitted in Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS of Rhodes University I by MARK PHILLIP MALCOLM HORN January 1986 The following typog~aphical co~~ections attention since submission of this thesis. have come to my p.i line 8, "Phillip" should ~ead Philip. p.vi, li.ne 11, "Risings" should ~ead Rising. p.Vll, line 12, "~esponce" should ~ead ~esponse. p.3, line 17, "wa~f-io~" should read warriors. p.5, line 4, "96" should read 1896. p .. 8, line 3, IILomangLlndi should read LomagLlndi. p.9, line 2, " (inve~ted comma) missing after "role". p.19, line 9, "triatises" should read treatises. p.28, line 18, "analysis" should ~ead analyses. p.30, line 10, "the and" should ~ead "and the". p.42, line 28, "Histo~ians" should ~ead Histo~ian's. p.47, line 13, "Lomangundi" should ~ead Lomagundi. p.48, line 12, ~ sign missing befo~e the figu~e of 121 000. p.52, line 5, 1. ~5ign missing before the figure of 3. p.55, line 1, ~ sign missing befo~e the figu~es 10 to 60. p.55, line 3, -£ sign missing befo~e the figu~e of 100. p.56, lines 7 - 10, quote to be indented. p.b2, li.ne 1tJ, "dela" should be separated out to read "de la". p.tI4, line 4, "assisthim" should be sepa~ated out to ~ead "assist him"~· p.b"?, line 11, "inte~nicine" should t-ead intet-necine. p.83, line 17, "Ma~ch 1895" should ~ead Ma~ch 1894. p.89, line 5, "faction" should ~ead fl~action. p.95, line 29, fn. 12, "lNA" should ~ead NAZ...
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... He knew their faces so well they were like brothers. The older guys on this crew, like Eversmann, a staff sergeant with five years in at age twenty-six, had lived and trained together for years. Some had come up together through basic training, jump school, and Ranger school. They had traveled the world, to Korea, Thailand, Central America... they knew each other better than most brothers did. They'd been drunk together, gotten into fights, slept on forest floors, jumped out of airplanes, climbed mountains, shot down foaming rivers with their hearts in their throats, baked and frozen and starved together, passed countless bored hours, teased one another endlessly about girlfriends or lack of same, driven in the middle of the night from Fort Benning to retrieve each other from some diner or strip club on Victory Drive after getting drunk and falling asleep or pissing off some barkeep. Through all those things, they had been training for a moment like this. It was the first time the lanky sergeant had been put in charge, and he was nervous about it. Pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of our death, Amen. It was midafternoon, October 3, 1993. Eversmann's Chalk Four was part of a force of U.S. Army Rangers and Delta Force operators who were about to drop in uninvited on a gathering of Habr Gidr clan leaders in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. This ragged clan, led by warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, had picked a fight with the United States of America, and it was, without...
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