Berkshire Executive Summary

Decision Making Area 3:Investment Decisions * Table of Articles * Summary of Articles * Observations * Conclusion

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CEO Johnson’s time with JC Penney’s was short lived and only lasted 17 months. The three core processes of business that he ignored was People, Strategy, and Operations. From the people aspect, he missed several key details. Johnson just assumed that people thought JC Penney’s prices were too high, so he lowered them and quit having sells (Tuttle, 2013). He also drove customers that had been shopping there for years away. With too many changes happening at one time, loyal customers did not agree with the changes and started shopping elsewhere.

We should accept the project because of the positive NPV and high IRR. We will gain $532 million in wealth which is a big money on the scale like this. The company has a bond rating of AA that makes the risk relatively low. So we should definitely say yes.

From above statement it is clear that investment is worth it because market potential is much higher then the investment made to develop this product.

On September 15,1983 the world had witness the opening of Costco the first warehouse on Seattle, Washington by James Senegal and Jeffrey H. Brotman. The owners had started in distribution their wholesale by working for Price at both FedMart and Price Club and Brotman, an attorney from an old Seattle retailing family, had also been involved in retail distribution from an early age.

This will be a perfect project to accept due to life span stay between 2 to 3 years. This will be within company’s policy.

Yes, I think that this company should build a new plant that allows them to grow in the industry, even if they are unable to use the Industrial Revenue Bond, they will have other financing alternatives.

The question that transcends the project is whether equity investors be sufficiently rewarded to justify there financing interests. The answer to this question is dependent

If Lars decides to invest around $6 million more in research and development, it is highly risky as the company’s survival depends largely on the success of the launch of Ray’s new product into the market.

The Scotiabank is one of the world’s most popular banks in North America and is located in Canada, Halifax. Founded in 1832, Scotiabank came to be the second largest bank in Canada. A year after its development, Scotiabank paid out its first dividend to shareholders. Having marked the method in history, it was carried out through the golden era to the modern era and is yet continued to this day. Scotiabank provides innovative financial products and services to individual customers, small/medium sized business, corporations and governments across the world.

financial stable company; WB team has financial resources available to invest into growing opportunities, implement needed technology/processes and get the right people and tools

On May 24, 2005, Warren E. Buffett, the chairperson and chief executive officer (CEO) of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., announced that MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, would acquire the electric utility PacifiCorp. In Buffett’s largest deal since 1998, and the second largest of his entire career, MidAmerican would purchase PacifiCorp from its parent, Scottish Power plc, for $5.1 billion in cash and $4.3 billion in liabilities and preferred stock. “The energy sector has long interested us, and this is the right fit,” Buffett said. At the announcement, Berkshire Hathaway’s Class A shares closed up 2.4% for the day, for a gain in market value of $2.55

This project is reasonable and worth to take it. It will add more value to the company since its NPV is positive and has an attractive IRR and MIRR (higher than WACC). Moreover, the breakeven occurs in year two, in the middle of the project lifecycle, which is a good sign as well.

The proposal seems to be an attractive one due to the fact that there seems to be a need in the district for this particular district to have the ability to perform some preproduction processing which is beneficial to local customers. The investment seems to be within company parameters and sounds attractive.