Harvard Business School 9-399-011 Rev. April 9, 2001 Acer America: Development of the Aspire In early 1998, Stan Shih, CEO of Taiwan-based personal computer (PC) manufacturer Acer, Inc., was reviewing the first estimates of 1997 year-end results. With revenue of $6.5 billion from own brand and sales to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) such as IBM, the company was now acknowledged to be the third largest PC manufacturer in the world. Although the performance was respectable in the wake
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IMPORTANT Flour, eggs, sugar, baking powder, chocolate, and shortening don’t create much excitement when they are in the kitchen cupboard. They create a lot more excitement when someone transforms them into a cake. Whether it’s a cake, a computer, or a legal docu- ment, operations and materials management processes create value in a household or a company. A company’s operations require inputs such as raw materials or parts and the skilled people and equip- ment to transform them
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cost-allocation rates are used, user-division managers face uncertainty about the allocation rates for that budget period. Difficulty: 2 Objective: 2 Terms to Learn: single-rate cost-allocation method, dual-rate cost-allocation method When budgeted cost-allocation rates are used, user-division managers face no uncertainty about the allocation rates for that budget period. 6. When budgeted cost-allocation rates are used, managers of the supplier division are motivated to improve efficiency
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The Story of AMP 1 Abstract This case study provides an excellent example of the importance of business strategy. It demonstrates how the correct corporate strategy can provide prosperity for a company while a poor strategy can result in dire consequences. The study also highlights how factors such as company size, economic conditions, competition, and corporate culture influence the development and the ultimate success of the business strategy. AMP Incorporated was used as the basis for this
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Change: * Constantly adapting (Obama Care) * Healthcare changes constantly (vascular lab yrs ago never had duplex. Nvr MRI…) * Cost change is the MOST CHANGE (motivated by cost) COST: * Medicare * Senor Citizens (over age of 65) * Dylysis * Medicaid * State funded * Pays 30 cents on the dollar to hospitals. (So hospital practically giving free help) * Insurance has change * Increase in specialties * Changes in doctor fees *
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ASP.Net What is view state and use of it? The current property settings of an ASP.NET page and those of any ASP.NET server controls contained within the page. ASP.NET can detect when a form is requested for the first time versus when the form is posted (sent to the server), which allows you to program accordingly. What are user controls and custom controls? Custom controls: A control authored by a user or a third-party software vendor that does not belong to the .NET Framework class library
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Random numbers and Monte Carlo simulations 11. Simple input and output 12. Format statements 13. File I/O 14. Common blocks 15. data and block data 16. Debugging 17. Running Fortran on the Physics Department’s VAX (OHSTPY) computer 18. A sample Fortran program for Lab 1 1. WHAT IS FORTRAN? Fortran is a general purpose programming language, mainly intended for mathematical computations in science applications (e.g. physics). Fortran is an acronym for FORmula TRANslation
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Metrology Laboratory MECN3003 - Aeronautical Laboratory Deepa Daya Student number: 473706 Supervisor: Mr. R. Paton A project report submitted to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering. Johannesburg, March 2014 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg School of Mechanical, Industrial & Aeronautical Engineering INDIVIDUAL
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case, as factors in the overall environment have changed. To update this idea, refer to the major changes taking place now in how businesses are reporting their financial activities and how Boards of Directors have had to change as a result of the problems that were highlighted by companies such as Enron,
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The first computers were people! That is, electronic computers (and the earlier mechanical computers) were given this name because they performed the work that had previously been assigned to people. "Computer" was originally a job title: it was used to describe those human beings (predominantly women) whose job it was to perform the repetitive calculations required to compute such things as navigational tables, tide charts, and planetary positions for astronomical almanacs. Imagine you had a job
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