Description: Medtronic CEO Omar Ishrak says emerging markets are the ‘most important’ to his medical technology company. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Nov 02, 2012 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/magazines/fortune/2012/11/02/ldrshp-medtronic-2.fortune/ Questions for Discussions: Summarize the thinking about emerging markets as discusses by Medtronics CEO Omar Ishrak. Why does “cost†play such an important point of consideration regardless… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Part 6 Managing Financial Resources
Is Apple starting to unravel without Jobs?
Description: Apple Inc.’s shares are now down nearly 15% since they briefly passed the $700 mark in mid-September. Source: Marketwatch.com Date: Nov 01, 2012 Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/is-apple-starting-to-unravel-without-jobs-2012-11-01?siteid=nwtwk Questions for Discussions: What does this report suggest is the reason for Apple’s stock performance? Do you agree with this assessment? Do you see a managerial solution or is… Read more »
Game over for Netflix?
Description: While the return of cult comedy series Arrested Development is coming to Netflix, a disastrous earnings report has investors fleeing. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Oct 24, 2012 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/investing/2012/10/24/investing-netflix-arrested-development.cnnmoney/ Questions for Discussions: Why is Neflix disappointing investors? How can managers differentiate Netflix from the competitors mentioned in the report? Do you think… Read more »
‘Gangnam Style’ Triggers 500% Stock Rally
Description: A father-son connection to the “Gangnam Style†music video has triggered an almost 500 percent rally in shares of DI Corp. since mid-July in Seoul. Source: Bloomberg.com – video report Date: Oct 17, 2012 Link: http://bloom.bg/Raq9XR#ooid=QzMXM4NjoT1LDBTKtodI_xi0ejyLWL73 Questions for Discussions: How has the popularity of Gangnam influenced stock market values of some companies? Explain this… Read more »
The Plot to Destroy America’s Beer
Description: Brian Rinfret likes imported beer from Germany. He sometimes buys Spaten. He enjoys an occasional Bitburger. When he was 25 years old, he discovered Beck’s, a pilsner brewed in the city of Bremen in accordance with the Reinheitsgebot, the German Purity Law of 1516. It said so right on the label. After that, Rinfret… Read more »
Southwest CEO: Higher oil prices ahead
Description: Southwest Airlines’ Gary Kelly says the outlook for fuel prices in the fourth quarter is getting worse. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Oct 18, 2012 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2012/10/18/n-southwest-gary-kelly.cnnmoney/ Questions for Discussions: Summarize the state of business affairs at Southwest. How is Gary Kelly planning to deal with rising fuel costs over the next few… Read more »
Iowa Farms Minting Millionaires as Rich-Poor Gap Widens
Description: Pickup trucks lined a stretch of gravel road where 150 farmers mingled between 7-foot tall cornstalks and shimmering soybeans to see which of their wealthy brethren would bid on a swath of Iowa’s richest cropland. This was a farm — table-flat and 314 acres — so coveted that it drew three times the usual… Read more »
3D printing buttons, jewelry and shoes
Description: 3D printers are becoming more powerful and more mainstream, with a retail store opening up to sell them. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Oct 03, 2012 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/innovation/2012/10/03/3d-printing-buttons-jewelry-shoes.cnnmoney/ Questions for Discussions: Why do you think this technology would be appealing to customers? What consumer and small business applications do you think this technology… Read more »
Glut of Solar Panels Poses a New Threat to China
Description: China in recent years established global dominance in renewable energy, its solar panel and wind turbine factories forcing many foreign rivals out of business and its policy makers hailed by environmentalists around the world as visionaries. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Oct 04, 2012 Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/05/business/global/glut-of-solar-panels-is-a-new-test-for-china.html?_r=2&ref=business& Questions for Discussions: What happened to China’s solar panel industry?… Read more »
A High-End Brand Tries a Different Sales Channel
Description: Last week, we published a case study about Eve Pearl, an Emmy-winning TV makeup artist who founded a cosmetics company by the same name. In June 2011, with online sales and traffic at her three-year-old Manhattan boutique slower than desired, Ms. Pearl, 46, listened hard when ShopNBC, the nation’s third-largest 24-hour home shopping network,… Read more »
