Case Study Memo Format Date: 3/4/2013 Subject: Employee Gambling and Productivity Case Summary The ethical decision-maker in this case‚ Dr. Quaid Jefferson‚ Division Director of Vital Statistics‚ is faced with the dilemma of allowing his employees to place bets on horses and hold office pools in the face of decreased productivity. On top of that‚ he participates in an annual football pool‚ which is illegal in his jurisdiction‚ while horse betting is not. The stakeholders in this decision
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Case memo (Google) Background Google is a leader in web searching and advertising. It controls about 84 percent of the Global Search Engine Market Share at 2012[1]. In addition‚ it not only offers information search service for worldwide users‚ but also provides many different innovative products and related services. Potential problems Though Google is a dominating player in internet searching market‚ it still has many potential problems. 1) How to improve accuracy rate of search result to
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not be in compliance with generally accepted auditing standards and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002‚ but we would also be unable to provide the comprehensive and reliable audits that the firm’s clients have come to expect. The purpose of this memo is to discuss the results of the audit team’s assessment of Alchemy Inc.’s internal controls—including identifying missing controls‚ control weaknesses‚ and opportunities for fraud—and to recommend
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Olympic Rent-A-Car U.S.: Customer Loyalty Battles In response to Enterprise Rent-a-Car’s new customer loyalty rewards program‚ Laura Walkins‚ should follow the industry leader by adopting a dollar based reward system and focus on targeting business travellers. But in doing so Olympic needs to be careful not to enter into a price war with Enterprise. To avoid the risk of this happening‚ Olympic should look to diversify and differentiate their rewards program to steal a share of the business traveller
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Business Strategy Case Study-TESLA Team 1: Nitin Majgi Ben Kempenich Nomi Lee David Daar Should Tesla move start to produce gasoline or hybrid powered vehicles? Competitors: Tesla Motors has a focus of differentiation strategy‚ concentrating only on small group of people‚ who are rich and environmental conscious‚ attracted by stylish and beautiful looks of its cars. Because‚ it will be hard to reach out and compete with other auto-manufactured brands
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TO: Richard Sullivan‚ Vice President of HED‚ Wriston From: FT28312 Subject: Wriston Manufacturing Corporation Case Analysis and Summary Date: January‚ 1992 Summary The Heavy Equipment division of the Automotive Supplier group of the Wriston Manufacturing Corporation is a large axle and brake manufacturer having three broad product lines which are being manufactured
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Main issue: European Sales Division of Computron had to decide what price to submit for its Computron 1000X digital computer for the bid of a purchase contract from Konig & Cie.‚ AG. * Four other computer manufacturers‚ including RMAG‚ EDAG and Digitex‚ would bid for the contract. The competitors’ prices will most likely be around the $872‚000 proposed by RMAG. * Computron used cost based pricing (firm’s standard pricing policy): The European Price= U.S. cost + 33.33% x Cost (Markup)
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To: Zara Management From: Subject: Zara ’s US Expansion Date: 2001 Background Following is an analysis of Zara ’s current expansion strategy into the US retail market and recommendations on future tactics to ensure a successful expansion. Zara ’s expansion strategy thus far has been quite successful; however‚ with every new store opened‚ its ability to maintain an efficient centralized production system and a strong‚ unique culture will be diminished. Analysis Let us first consider Zara
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To: Richard Sullivan From: im26412 Subject: Proposal for Detroit Plant Date: May 26th‚ 2012 Background and Issues Detroit Plant‚ serves as the first plant of HED division within Wriston Group‚ which almost all division products could trace their roots from‚ cannot achieve an acceptable level of profitability for years even we raise the prices or cut wages. The morale of Detroit is poor and it has been plagued by problems such as absenteeism and high turnover rate. Additionally there is coming
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Directive & Informative Memos Review Worksheet This is a review of directive & informative memos that you learned about in Module 3. Activity 1 1. What are the 5 parts of the header of an informative memo? __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ 2. The ‘Subject:’ line should be _____________________________________________________
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