Sprint Nextel Case Analysis 1. How much goodwill impairment charge did Sprint Nextel report in 2007? During 2007‚ Sprint Nextel recorded a non-cash impairment charge of $29.7 billion in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards‚ or SFAS‚ No. 142 Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets. 2. Why did Sprint Nextel write down their goodwill in 2007? What are some other indicators for goodwill impairment in general? Sprint Nextel wrote down their goodwill in 2007 primarily due
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Sprint Nextel Major Corporate Events In 2004‚ Sprint and Nextel agreed to a merger worth $35.17 billion dollars. This move took place in a time where mergers were prevalent in the field of telecommunications. “Team up or get smashed” was advice given in a 2004 Business Week article. Prior to the merge‚ Cingular acquired AT&T‚ making them the largest cellular provider in the country; leaving Sprint in third place‚ and Nextel in fifth. In 2005‚ the companies finalized their deal‚ and came forward
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Wireless Networks Competitive Alert News on Alcatel-Lucent competitors Headline: Sprint Nextel and Ericsson reach $5 billion network services agreement July 27th‚ 2009 Details On July 9th‚ Sprint and Ericsson announced a plan for Ericsson to take over Sprint’s fixed and mobile network operations. This deal represents the largest Managed Services contract in North America so far‚ both in terms of contract value and the scale of operations to be managed. This wireless and wireline network Managed
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Value Chain Analysis for Verizon Value Chain Analysis for Verizon Introduction The purpose of this essay is to evaluate the reasons for value chain analysis and the different ways Verizon Communications Incorporated can gain a competitive advantage over their competition. “Based in New York and incorporated in Delaware‚ the company was formed on June 30‚ 2000 and was developed from a merger between Bell Atlantic Corporation and GTE Corporation” (Verizon‚ 2012). Description of Theories/Core
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Competition and Analysis The Strategy Analysis of Sprint: Looking Into Its Future A Look at Sprint Sprint is an integrated global communications company that is focused in the US market. In 2003 Sprint earned 26 Billion in revenues with 26 million customers in 100 countries. Sprint is recognized as developing‚ engineering‚ and deploying cutting edge network technologies such as the US’s first all digital‚ fiber optic network. Sprint currently has three main divisions: the long distance
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Project: Stock Analysis Stock Analysis on Sprint By COMPANY BACKGROUND According to information gathered from the Sprint ’s 10K document for 2012‚ Sprint Nextel Corporation was incorporated in 1938 under the laws of Kansas and over the years has become the third largest operator (53 Million subscribers) in the United States behind AT&T and Verizon. Sprint offers wireless services to subscribers in all states‚ including Puerto Rico‚ and the U.S. Virgin Islands under the Sprint corporate brand
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Value Chain Analysis Value chain analysis is a method to review all the activities in an organization that contribute to maximizing competitive advantage and customer delight while identifying non value added waste and costs in the value chain process (Walter & Rainbrid‚ 2007). The purpose of this paper is to analyze Amazon’s value chain. Amazon’s mission statement reads as “our vision is to be earth’s most customer centric company; to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything
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sector is an area of business that is very important in human life. This is related to the readiness of livestock sub sector in providing animal food community‚ essential to growth and development. Nutrient content of livestock and dairy products has a value far better than the nutrients from plants. In order to achieve the development goals to meet the nutritional needs of livestock‚ the livestock development has been directed at the development of more advanced farm through regional approach‚ the use
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Value Chain Analysis The article focuses on the main aspects of Value chain analysis. The activities entailed in the framework are discussed in detail‚ with respect to competitive strategies and value to the customer. The article includes tips for students and analysts on how to write a good Value chain analysis for a firm. Moreover‚ sources of findings information for value chain analysis have been discussed. The limitations of Value Chain analysis as a model have also been discussed. Introduction
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Introduction Value Chain Analysis describes the activities that take place in a business and relates them to an analysis of the competitive strength of the business. Influential work by Michael Porter suggested that the activities of a business could be grouped under two headings: (1) Primary Activities - those that are directly concerned with creating and delivering a product (e.g. component assembly); and (2) Support Activities‚ which whilst they are not directly involved in production
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