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Mystery Books Co.: Measuring Performance through Accounting Policy Choices
Vaughan S. Radcliffe; Mitchell Stein; Elaine WangExercise IVEY-W27858-EAccounting and Control, FinanceIn January 2021, the co-founder of Mystery Books Co. (Mystery Books) was evaluating the company’s 2020 performance under the leadership of his daughter as the new chief executive officer. His daughter had ambitions of securing Walmart Inc. as a key client, so the co-founder had promised her an additional performance bonus of 5 per cent of his 30 per cent ownership of common stock if she grew the company’s net income by 20 per cent over the previo...Starting at €8.20
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Interest rate swaps pricing - Exercises
Martínez Abascal, EduardoExercise FE-32-EFinanceThese problems are intended to give the student an opportunity to practice with the fixed income mathematics and also to give some exposure to international bond markets. The problems are based on the information containned on FN-314, Exhibit 2, Tables 12 to 15, from the Wall Street Journal Europe (WSJE) and the Finacial Times (FT).Starting at €8.20
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Rougir Cosmetics International: Production Optimization
Owen P. Hall; Kenneth KoExercise IVEY-9B17D013-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations ManagementRougir Cosmetics International (RCI), founded in 2010 and with headquarters in California, experienced double-digit growth for several years. At a board meeting in June 2016, RCI’s chief executive officer (CEO) announced a large new order that represented a major opportunity to further expand into the ever-growing home shopping cosmetic business sector. However, the firm did not have the capacity to meet this transaction along with its normal bus...Starting at €8.20
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Analyzing the Success of “Retailers”
Neil Bendle; Xin (Shane) WangExercise IVEY-9B15A045-EMarketingKelsey, a newly minted MBA hired by a firm that provides analysis of companies, has been given a task to present an assessment of six very different firms described by her manager as “retailers.” She has been given the performance details of these companies and is expected to quickly analyze the metrics related to the firms’ performance, such as return on assets, inventory turns and staff productivity. Her manager also wants her to assess and com...Starting at €8.20
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Revenue Maximization: Apartment Rental Units
Karen Shastri; Steven OnaitisExercise IVEY-9B17B003-EAccounting and Control, EntrepreneurshipIn the summer of 2016, a real estate investment company was planning management and budgeting for apartment rental units in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a U.S. city with a large student population. The company needed to determine the various unit agreement terms—by year, by semester (fall, spring, and summer), and by month—using software to find optimal rents. Using Excel’s Solver tool, the optimal rents needed to be determined and incorporated into...Starting at €8.20
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Netflix: del "clicks and bricks" a la distribución digital de películas
Lago, Alejandro; Moscoso, Philip; Sieber, SandraExercise PE-75Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementNetflix es un proveedor estadounidense de servicios de streaming a la carta y de alquiler de DVD por correo y con cuota fija. La compañía ha experimentado un éxito increíble desde sus comienzos en 1997. Durante 2010, sus ingresos aumentaron un 29% hasta los 2.160 millones de dólares y el precio de sus acciones subió un 219% hasta los 175,70 dólares. Eso también supuso una subida de 8 millones de suscriptores, llegando a un total de más de 20 mill...Starting at €8.20
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Netflix: From "Clicks and Bricks" to Digital Movie Delivery (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Lago, Alejandro; Moscoso, Philip; Sieber, SandraExercise PE-75-PBInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementNetflix is a U.S. provider of on-demand Internet streaming media and flat rate DVD-by-mail services. The company experienced incredible success since its beginnings in 1997. During 2010, revenue jumped 29% to $2.16 billion, and stock price increased 219% to $175.70. It also added 8 million subscribers, bringing its total to over 20 million. In the summer of 2011 the company first announced the spin-off of its traditional DVD rental operations fro...Starting at €8.20
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Hidden Figures: Leadership Lessons from the Movie
Gerard Seijts, Ann FrostExercise IVEY-W25262-ELeadership and People ManagementThe exercise directs students to watch specific scenes from the movie Hidden Figures, which is loosely based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly that tells the story of three African American women who were mathematicians working at the Langley Research CStarting at €8.20
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President Clinton's Impeachment Trial and Hyde's "4-Bob Plan" for a Censure Resolution - Exercise
Sánchez-Runde, CarlosExercise DPE-1-ELeadership and People ManagementThis exercise presents Henry Hyde's plan for a censure resolution of President Clinton following the Lewinsky scandal.Starting at €8.20
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Netflix: from DVD-by-mail to streaming
Lago, Alejandro; Moscoso, Philip; Sastre Boquet, IsaacExercise PE-84-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementSince its foundation in 1997 Netflix has been a major success story. For the year 2020 the company expected to achieve revenues of around 25 billion dollars and 200 million customers in 190 countries. This exercise provides information on how Netflix's business models has developed over the years. The objective is to analyze the digital transformation of the streaming model and its sustainability going forward, as it faces competitors like Disney...Starting at €8.20