...American Well MKT/421 February 8, 2016 American Well Even though medicine and technology have come a long way, I think we have gone back in time. Years ago doctors would make house calls, then came the big hospitals and the long waits to get a simple prescription. Now we have the option of getting a consultation online or via telemedicine. Amwell has been providing direct to consumer telehealth medicine since 2009. Not only is it convenient, online visits are cost effective. Consumers save time, accessibility and have lower fees. Amwell is largest telehealth company in the country that offers a variety of care from Trauma to substance abuse. Overview of AmWell Tired of having to make an appointment to see a doctor or visit your nearest clinic when symptoms of health concerns strike? Well, there's a new breakthrough in technology. A mobile healthcare service that is available on your cell phone or mobile device. Just download the App "AmWell" (American Well) allows you to connect instantly with a doctor by downloading the App from your smartphone or mobile device. Whether you connect with your actual doctor or choose one from the network providers. This technology is sweeping the nation. Blue Cross and Blue Shield has joined the partnership to provide its members with easy access to available healthcare. The joint effort of the two is available in 26 states. That's half of America (American Well, 2015). Founded by Doctors Ido and Ray Schoenberg. It is there...
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...Case Study Analysis Benihana of Tokyo Binus Business School, MM Executive Batch 20 Presented by Group I Alexander Christian Dina Sandri Fani Jenna Widyawati Ridwan Martawidjaja Table of Contents 2 The 70’s Benihana Facing Issues 3 Detailed Analysis 4 Conclusion & Recommendation 5 Key Takeaways 7/28/2014 The Story of Benihana Case Analysis – Benihana of Tokyo 1 2 Table of Contents 2 The 70’s Benihana Facing Issues 3 Detailed Analysis 4 Conclusion & Recommendation 5 Key Takeaways 7/28/2014 The Story of Benihana Case Analysis – Benihana of Tokyo 1 3 Benihana of Tokyo in Years 1st Benihana’s restaurant chain in Japan • 1958 Introduction of Hibachi table arrangement • 1964 Entry in US at West Side, NY • 1966 2nd restaurant chain at East Side, NY • 1967 3rd restaurant in Chicago; Big Blockbuster • 1969 4th & 5th restaurant opened in SF and Las Vegas. Started franchising the unit • 1970 Opened Benihana Palace. Discontinued franchising scheme • 1971 Bill Susha joined Benihana’s management • 1972 15 units in US (9 owned, 5 franchised, & 1 JV). Grossed revenue over $12 mio per year. Considered future expansion 7/28/2014 1935 Case Analysis – Benihana of Tokyo • 4 Americans and Their Eating Behavior Enjoyed eating in exotic surroundings 2 3 Deeply mistrustful of exotic foods Enjoyed...
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...Asian Social Science October, 2008 A Cross-cultural Study of Daily Communication between Chinese and American -- From the Perspective of High Context and Low Context Jianeng Wang Foreign Languages College, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018, China E-mail: jianeng101@163.com Abstract In cross-cultural communication, ignorance of contexts usually leads to misunderstanding and conflicts. Based on Edward. T. Hall’s notion of high-context and low-context, this paper aims to generalize the basic distinctive characteristics of the two contexts by analyzing the actual cases in daily communication between American and Chinese. This paper also tries to conclude some tips for communication crossing the two contexts in accordance with the case analysis. Keywords: High-context, Low-context, Communicatio, Culture 1. About Hall’s high-context and low-context Context is important in all communication, but it is relatively more important in some situations than in others. There are also significant differences across cultures in the ways and the extent to which people communicate through context. One of the main distinctions between cultures has been the notion of high and low context cultures, proposed by the American anthropologies Edward. T. Hall in his 1976 classic, Beyond Culture (Hall, 2000). 1.1 What is high/low-context? Edward T. Hall has described cultural differences in the use of language and context in communication. He calls communication that occurs mostly through...
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...Justice and Ray Justice Date of the Submission: April 10, 2013 Title of Assignment: Case Decision Making Paper- Red Cross CERTIFICATION OF AUTHORSHIP: We certify that we are the authors of this assignment and that any assistance we received in its preparation is fully acknowledged and disclosed herein. We have also cited any sources from which we used data, ideas or words, either quoted directly or paraphrased. We also certify that this assignment was prepared by us specifically for this course. Student’s Signatures ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Table of Contents Definition of Problems 3 The Lack of Ethical Culture and Stakeholder Orientation 4 Low Board’s Professionalism 5 Poor Trust and Excessive Emphasis on Marketing 5 Identification of Possible Action Alternatives 6 Analysis of Each Alternative 7 Doing Nothing 7 Hiring a New Board of Directors 7 Developing a New Code of Conduct 8 Developing a New Organizational Strategy to Reconstruct the Ethical Climate 10 Decision 10 Implementation 11 Evaluation 13 Conclusion 14 References 15 Case Decision Making Paper- Red Cross In a world of intensive competition and numerous...
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...IT Case Analysis of American Well Shiqi Zhang American Well is a tele-health company whose ultimate goal is to substantially increase the value proposition of the patients and reduce the medical process cost. Before 2009, one of the major service for American Well was to build a platform that can connect people and doctors instantly via secure video. Up to 2009, due to the incentive of increasing internet use, the founder of American Well, Ido and Roy Schoenberg were planning to launch an initiative for new service, Team Edition, which involves the PCP (primary care physician) and specialist into the existing online medical service system. American Well believed that interaction between patients and PCP or specialist would be significantly improved and also the patients’ waiting time would reduce from weeks to minutes because of the introduction of Team Edition. During this business expansion, American Well was facing with a strategic decision of when is a more appropriate time to launch the new undertaking. Launching it early may meet the concern of how to adopt the limited resources between its major core service and the new Team Edition service. On the other hand, if American Well waits too long, the other companies may seize this opportunity and gain the lead on the online medical service market. Moreover, American Well was also facing several options in market, such as hospital, retail clinics, online care, and international expansion. Therefore, a detailed analysis should...
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...Nike Case Analysis 1 Nike Case Analysis Contents I. Introduction............................................................................................................................................................3 II. Conclusions of Nike Core Marketing Strategy .......................................................................................................3 2.1. Pros: ............................................................................................................................................................3 2.2. Cons: ...........................................................................................................................................................3 2.3. Risks: ...........................................................................................................................................................3 III. Nike Core Marketing Strategy ...........................................................................................................................4 3.1. IV. Core marketing strategies .........................................................................................................................4 SWOT analysis .................................................................................................................................................6 4.1. 4.2. Weakness ..................................................................
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...investors’ as a way of establishing the expected return for their portfolios. In that respect, the analysis has used the Darden Case on American Greetings and the analysis on the Company as an investment has been done with use of DCF model that uses the present value of the expected future cash-flows. In addition, the analysis has been done using the future cash-flows for the years 2012 to 2015. The company’s WACC has been established to be 0.11% given the risk-free rate of 0.05% and the Market rate of 11%. With that consideration, the enterprise values for the two scenarios including a bullish and bearish scenario have been calculated as $659.41 and $546.43 respectively, but which are identified as lower than the 2011 value of $714. However, the values still reflect a higher value for the company’s stock compared to the 2011 market price of $12.51. Thus, the company is undervalued by the market at the 2011 and has potential for a rise towards its fair price. In addition, the company has a relatively better credit rating by the credit rating agencies being an indication of its relative low risk. In conclusion, the company’s stock has been identified as a buy, and its fair price for the year 2011 has been estimated to be $18.64. American Greetings Analysis Company value depends on a number of factors. Those factors include the capital structure that determines its cost of resources as well as the market situation that defines its risk and future cash-flow prospects. On the other...
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...Detecting Media Bias Do you believe everything you read? While we may like to believe all articles are fairminded and presented in a manner where all viewpoints are relevant, unbiased and unprejudiced, this may not always be the case (Paul & Elder, 2012). Inaccurate articles may also be the result of the elements of irrationality which may find their foundation in human egocentrism and sociocentrism. In cases of human egocentrism, people view everything in relation to themselves. In regards to human sociocentrism (or group egocentricity) situations are viewed with the perspective of one’s group (Paul & Elder, 2012). Both of these elements are huge roadblocks to reasonable thinking. Examples of the impact of these factors can be found...
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...BUSINESS MGMT5380 - STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Brad Mayer: Galloway 204 (880-2383); bradley.mayer@lamar.edu Office Hrs: MWF 9:20-10:20 AM (and by appointment) The mission of the College of Business at Lamar University is to provide a quality education to a diverse student population from Southeast Texas and beyond, resulting in well-rounded business professionals who are prepared to meet the challenges of a dynamic global environment while upholding ethical values and encouraging civic and social responsibility. The faculty promotes an environment supportive of applications-oriented learning by engaging in a balance of discipline-based, business pedagogy, and practice-based intellectual contributions. I. Catalog Description: The capstone course for the MBA. The course assumes that the company success depends upon formulation of an astute “game” plan and the ability to implement and execute that game plan proficiently. The purpose of the class is to enable students to “think strategically,” consider the total enterprise, and to make long-term decisions in a global market environment. A prerequisite for the Integrative Case Study. II. Prerequisites: - Student must be in last semester of course work and have approval of advisor. - Justification: This is a capstone course that draws upon all of the MBA core courses and stresses complex and interdisciplinary applications of the combined theories and experiences of these core courses. III. Course Learning...
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...management mirrors this horizontal view. The focus of ABC is to provide accurate information about true costs of products, services, processes, activities etc. Activity based management makes this cost and operating information useful by providing value analysis ,cost drivers and performance measures to initiate, drive and support improvement efforts and to improve decision making abilities. This report deals with the application of ABM in American Seating company. Company was faced with increasing competition and it wanted to become a cost leader. The company lacked the information about true product and services cost to decide on which business areas to pursue. Company implemented ABM to conduct a detailed analysis of its activities and more accurately mirror resource consumption by process, product and customer. Company successfully identified customer profitability differences and achieved 40 % reduction in order processing costs. ABM was later incorporated into continuous improvement efforts, planning sessions and budgeting process. Table of contents Sr no | Topic | Page no | 1 | Introduction | 3 | 2 | Literature review | 4 | 3 | Basics of ABC | 5 | 4 | ABM implementation steps | 6 | 5 | Understanding ABM through a case study | 6 | | 5.1 | Company overview | 6 | | 5.2 | Business Issue | 7 |...
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...The author’s purpose is to present a case from Los Angeles’ history that many are unaware of: the struggle from fighting a war over seas to fighting one at home. It is this desire to not only portray the history of the time but also go inside the minds of these young men and understand the reasoning. The author puts forth the argument that the Zoot-Suit riots are not only historically relevant but the relevant to the racial tensions and more towards a psychological path. According the author, we have only looked at this event in the eyes of its historical significance and what the riots meant in that time period. However, there has never truly been a psychological analysis to the thoughts of these young men at the time and their thoughts...
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...(http://www.thecasesolutions.com/) (http://www.thecasesolutions.com) Posted on Home (http://www.thecasesolutions.com) >> Business Case Studies (http://www.thecasesolutions.com/business-case-solutions) >> American Greetings ← Previous Post (http://www.thecasesolutions.com/simons-hostile-tender-for-taubman-22197) Next Post→ (http://www.thecasesolutions.com/yokohama-corp-ltd-a-22201) American Greetings Harvard Case Solution & Analysis AN INDUSTRY IN DECLINE Greeting card industry was faced massive changes as it had attained maturity and was now in decline. Overall greeting card sales had been contracting in the U.S. for some years and negative growth was expected in the next five years to 2015 (Exhibit 4). Hallmark was the largest card company in the U.S. that was privately owned by the Hall family with $4 billion of revenues. The organization had expanded its operations in more than hundred nations and thus it was well-diversified geographically. Overall, the U.S. card industry was contracting with 9% reduction in last six years and the trend was expected to continue with a minimum of 4% decline over next 4 years and 16% in a worst case scenario. Major cause and diver of this decline in demand was changing social interaction norms and advent of alternative forms of communications through social networking and digital imaging. Increase in use of these alternatives by the populace to express their love and keep in touch with their close ones was reducing the need to send paper based...
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...Running he WHIRL ead: LPOOL’s GL LOBAL STR RATEGY CA ANAL ASE LYSIS Whirlpool Co W orporation’s Global Str s rategy Case Analysis International Man nagement – Assignmen 2 nt Candidate: Emad Abou uElgheit ISM - International School of Manageme f ent Doctor of Philosophy ( P (Ph.D.) Presented to: Professor Peter Horn t P 26 July 201119 July 2011 1 Word Coun 3,706 nt: 1 WHIRLPOOL’s GLOBAL STRATEGY CASE ANALYSIS 2 Abstract The paper analyses Whirlpool Corporation’s Global Strategy case study conducted in the year 2001. The paper aims to spot key reasons behind the declining performance the company experienced in the late 1990s a few years after the start of its globalization plan in the year 1987. The plan initiated under the new leadership of David Whitwam encountered many problems in its early stages illustrated in a declining profitability in its home market, losses in the European market and failure in some of its joint ventures in the Asian market.1 With such poor performance and failure in achieving competitive edges in global markets, Whirlpool was at a great risk of losing huge investments made in foreign markets, and losing highly-potential market shares in emerging international markets to aggressive competitors. The paper illustrates core strategic mistakes around three main strategies; sourcing and operations, entry, and marketing strategies adopted. The goal is to address lessons learned from Whirlpool’s experience ...
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...feet in United States. So the superior is considered small because the areas of the superior supermarket just cover about 20,730 square feet. Even though the size is small, the superior was the number 1 or number 2 in ranking of supermarket chain in each of its trade measured by market share. The figure 1.1 below had shown the front view of superior supermarket. Figure 1.1: The view in front of Superior Supermarket. 2. OBJECTIVES 1) To decide whether to change the pricing strategy to be lower price or to continue the current pricing strategy. 3. CONSTRAINTS 1) Competitors ( 3 major establish supermarket) The three major competitor operates in Centralia were Harrison’s, Grand American, and Missouri Mart. These major competitors have their own strength...
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...statement Urban planning is the political and technical process focused on utilization of urban land and designing of urban environment in ensuring and guiding the orderly development of communities and settlements (Levy, 2011). The entire urban planning process entails analysis and research, architecture, public consultation strategic thinking, urban design, policy recommendation, management and plans/policy implementation. One of the most notable aspect urban planning covers the housing planning and transportation planning. With increasing need for sustainable development in the urban, diverse policies are adopted by region, community, or State in ensuring effective urban planning. Thus, this proposal will offer a comparative analysis of policies and political aspects of transportation planning and housing planning with particular interest in the imperative role the urban planning has played in ensuring sustainable development. 2.0- Annotated Bibliography Ankner, W. (2005). Revisiting Transportation Planning. Public Works Management & Policy, 9(4), 270-277. The author revisits the contextual reality surrounding the U.S. transportation planning. Ankner (2005) examines the existing transportation planning models as well as decision-making tools, in supporting the view that the U.S. urban planning framework is either too divided or too limited in scope, thus, incapable of attaining the intended transportation goals. The source will inform the study by availing analytical context of...
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