Archive for June, 2014

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Sustainable development, strategy and costs at Tesla

by João on June 23, 2014 at 8:00 am
Posted In: Ch 13 - Relevant Costs & Revenues, Ch 19 - Cost Management, Value Creation and Sustainable Development

Buy our book here. Tesla has recently surprised half the world (probably more than a half…) by making the company’s patents available to competitors – to “anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology”, as Tesla put it. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Cost-benefit analysis – taken to a whole different level

by João on June 16, 2014 at 8:00 am
Posted In: Ch 13 - Relevant Costs & Revenues, Ch 19 - Cost Management, Value Creation and Sustainable Development

Buy our book here. Tired of those simple “cost-benefit analysis” exercises? Feels like they are about too simplistic settings? Of course, they are about simplified settings, in order to allow feasible modelling in a few minutes, either during class or […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Surprise in TV – “Shark Tank”

by João on June 9, 2014 at 8:00 am
Posted In: Ch 11 - Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis, Ch 12 - Cost Behaviour & Estimation, Ch 13 - Relevant Costs & Revenues

Buy our book here. The rather popular ABC series “Shark Tank” (http://abc.go.com/shows/shark-tank/index) is now in its 5th season, but I only recently heard about it (perhaps because in Portugal, it is being broadcast in a channel mostly targeted at teenagers […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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