This concept is especially important when a company such as, Riordan Industries ponders an IPO. Currently Riordan Manufacturing and Riordan Industries are each privately held with only their current president and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Michael Riordan to answer to. Once the IPO transpires and shareholders own the company, the shareholders or new board of directors may not like the job Dr. Riordan is doing, and he could be replaced. This same scenario could prove true for the Chief Operating Officer Hugh McCauley, each of the top vice presidents, directors, or operation managers as his or her once secure positions are under public scrutiny. Even more scrutiny for Riordan to consider would be answering to the regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Sarbanes-Oxley (Michael Davis, 2000 Volume 3 Issue
Analyses The biggest question is what should Morgan do with all the takeover bids? Being that Morgan is a retired dean of Boston University business school, he is well versed in the business world. From this, he should consider Odak’s comment about doing what is best for the shareholders of Ben & Jerry’s. If we simply look at the P/E ratio of B&J in Exhibit 6 of the case, which is 19.8, and compare that to the offers being presented by the four bidders here’s what we have: • Dreyer’s Grand - $31 / $1.06 = 29.24 (stock) • Unilever - $36 / $1.06 = 33.96 (cash) • Meadowbrook Lane - $32 / $1.06 = 30.18 (cash) • Chartwell – minority investment of $30 - $50 million The P/E numbers above show that Unilever would bring in a large investment and also be right for shareholders of B&J. Unilever would be paying a $15 premium over the pre-offer announcement share price of $21.
What should Krishna kumar decide? Brief overview of key case facts After the years without formal processes for evaluating, developing, and tracking people, the human resources department adopted a new performance system. However, there are several concerns about the usefulness of it. First of all, even though the tool of performance appraisal was implemented in order to fairly evaluate people, it should be other tools to develop the employees as well. Moreover, many executives worried that the greater transparency introduced into the organization came at great cost considering fiving up the family orientation.
E. opportunities and threats. Answer Key: C Question 2 of 10 10.0/ 10.0 Points Fernando had taken on a turn-around assignment for his business unit. It was in a high-growth market, but not doing well compared to competitors. He knew it would require a lot of resources and a lot of attention. Then he found out that his company had hired consultants to conduct a BCG portfolio analysis.
Investors investing in an IPO are aware that it takes time to see a solid return/profit when a company is expanding into new ventures and that risks are involved. Most importantly, investors know that a risk has to be taken for continued growth and for the health of the company. CanGo needs to offer an IPO so that they have the funding to expand and grow. Issue 4 Hidden costs The team at CanGo hasn’t even considered what the hidden costs to the business might be if they branch out into the new projects they are currently exploring. They are not adding additional staff, equipment, or software so spreading the resources out could cause the quality of the existing products to suffer.
Unit 01, Session 01, Page 11 What do you think are the likely long-term consequences for Business A and Business B? Your note: In my opinion Business A it's seems like a family business so they can't provide more money to the business. On the other side, Business B are more suitable rather than Business A because they recruit experience people and Business B following the all system of the management such a Multinational company. Unit 01, Session 02,
A Global Leader’s Guide to Managing Business Conduct Summary: Throughout the years international business has become more increasingly difficult, which one would think that it has gotten easier right? Well wrong more and more guidelines are laid out each year, which cause multinationals to have to deal with this guideline and have to find ways to keep things at low costs but still work with them. The reading mentions different census’s taken as well as surveys taken that report regular employees feel the same way about their companies as more customers do and think things should change, but ultimately don’t think their employers see things that way. It seems that all companies actually believe they are being ethical on all standards—but very few companies actually have data to back that up. In 2004 that is when they set out to create a business-ethics index that companies could use to benchmark their behavior over time to help create a clear comprehensive guideline for the conduct of global companies.
Name: Artem Cherepanov Student ID number: 6509934 Major: International Business Management Number of Words: 922 Submission Date: 18th April, 2012 Question Title: Maslow’s hierarchy of needs as a way of understanding employee motivation in contemporary Chinese business. Since industrialization, all managers have questioned how they can motivate workers in their business. Usually people think that money is the best motivator, however this evidence is not similar for all companies. As Maslow argued, peoples’ needs were very various so he created the hierarchy of human needs based on deficiency and growth needs in order to help managers in workers’ motivation (Robinson, 2004). However, the Maslow’s theory does not fully explain the motivation of numbers of workers especially in contemporary Chinese business as it has a lot of disadvantages.
Is the proposed deal with Time Inc. reasonable? What changes, if any, should be made to the deal? As for Time, the deal is reasonable. They do not invest a big amount of money, they take a stake in a project that is more developed than what their own employees are working on and they have the possibility to take full control on the magazine. Moreover, as an investor, Time will receive monthly financial information and the accounts will be audited, which could solve the problem of information asymmetry and moral hazard.
These two were hired due to Simpson’s observation that none of the present supervisors have the training and insight to take on company problems. With the hiring of the two the company they started to suggest ideas that would improve on the company’s performance but after a certain period they began to take things fast which did not sit well on the knowledge of the senior supervisors. The ideas would be better if Rider and Green consulted with the supervisors, they were with the company for a longer time and their knowledge and experience should be involved along with the new ideas Rider and Green