Business
In the Business section, you can find material dedicated to all things business. This section collects data on the activities of the various companies operating in markets all over the world.
17,334 Essays on Business. Documents 6,421 - 6,450
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General Electric Case Study
1. What Managerial roles is Jack Welch most likely to play in creating a culture that values continuous improvement? The role Jack Welch played was allowing the creation of the “Quick Response Program.” Allowing his employees to take over. This is a risky role to take, but at the same time, it has the possibility of being a successful move. 2. When the Louisville facility was turned over to its employees, how might the
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General Electric Case Study
GENERAL ELECTRIC General Electric is a company who strives to put their best foot forward. For more then 120 years, General Electric has been number one in the products they sell. From airplane engines to light bulbs, their attitude has been admired not only in America, but worldwide. GE serves customers in more than 100 countries and employs more than 300,000 people worldwide. After all GE has accomplished, including revenues of 152.4 billion dollars in
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General Electric Case Study
________________ 1. In what ways has Jeff Immelt redirected the strategy of GE? In 2001, after taking over from the predecessor – Mr. Jack Welch – “living legend” and “best manager of the 20th century” - Immelt knew that leading GE would be a significantly difficult challenge. Indeed, shortly after he became the CEO of GE, a series of events unexpectedly took place and strongly affected to the circumstance of corporation. These challenges he met
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General Electric: Imagination at Work
General Electric: Imagination at Work Dee Ann Clark, Michele Harbin-Williams, Sudha Sunkara University of Phoenix ORG/502 Human Relations and Organizational Behavior Jerry Davis October 19, 2005 General Electric When one thinks of General Electric (GE) they envision a well diversified, elite, global corporation. GE employs more than 300,000 people worldwide and serves customers in 160 countries. GE’s culture is well defined by its mission, vision and values. This company has become recognized for its
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General Foods - Project Super
Summary Depending on a company’s specific situation, different methods for evaluating project returns are appropriate. If we were evaluating a choice of (A, B, C, D) and there is unlimited investment resources, then the answer is to simply pick out all of the positive NPV projects. However, if there are limited resources, then the right answer is to optimize based on cashflows. The current situation is similar. General Foods needs to develop a method of
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General Foods Corporation
In 1967 General Foods Corporation was a large, quickly growing corporation and they were actively looking for new projects in which they could invest their capital in. They were looking to increase their share of the dessert market. Currently the company is studying a proposal of whether or not to accept a new project for producing instant dessert (Super project), among many other projects. Some other major products from General Foods included Post, Kool-Aid, Maxwell
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General Merchandise Segment
In the United States there were 30,795 stores that comprised the general merchandise segment of the retail sector in the early 2000s. The miscellaneous general merchandise stores industry also includes discount/closeout merchandisers like Dollar General Corp., with 2004 sales of $6.9 billion and 57,800 employees, and Big Lots Inc. with 2004 sales of $4.2 billion and 47,249 employees. A handful of major players dominate this retail industry segment in the United States. Arkansas-based retail giant
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General Motors Defense - External Environmental Analysis
External Environmental Analysis General Motors Defense faces an external environment that is highly turbulent, complex and global conditions that makes it very competitive. The main competitors of General Motors Defense are General Dynamics and United Defense. General Dynamics (GD) was a leading defense company, which for most of the U.S. Department of Defense programs, had shared the market with United Defense. General Dynamics was established in 1952 and in 1982 it added its combat system
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General Motors Leads the Charge
GENERAL MOTORS LEADS THE CHARGE: The Launch of the GM Card In 1992 at a convention, Visa USA president and CEO Robert Heller belittled the arrival of non-band credit-card issuers. He joked that it wouldn’t be long before pizza parlors joined AT&T and General Motors in offering cards. Within a year he was punted and people were talking about McDonald’s having a credit card. The US Car Industry in the Early 90’s Flat demand and
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General Motors Problems
US automobile industry began at the end of the 1800’s and by the 1890’s one out of seven jobs and one out of six businesses owed their existence to the automobile. Also this industry was the largest single customer for many raw materials but now With analysts debating whether or not the American economy is already in a recession, the big three automakers in the US especially General Motors are sharply scaling back production. The
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General Motors' Strategic Analysis
General Motors' Strategic Analysis Automotive Industry The automobile industry is the industry involved in the design, development, manufacture, marketing, and also of motor vehicles. In 2007, more than million vehicles, including cars and commercial vehicles were produced. In 2007, a total of 71.9 million new automobiles were sold worldwide: 22.9 million in Europe, 21.4 million in Asia-Pacific, 19.4 million in USA and Canada, 4.4 million in Latin America, 2.4 million in the Middle East and
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General Motors, Poletown, Mi and the Executive Compass
In 1980, General Motors’ executives were faced with a dilemma regarding new plant construction in Detroit, Michigan. GM intended to close two of its aging facilities and rebuild new assembly plants at a different site location although still in the Detroit metro area. The only land site matching the construction specifications was a settlement called Poletown, Michigan. This township was home to more than 3,500 residents, all of whom would have to be relocated if
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General Motors: Planning for the Future
General Motors: Planning for the Future With the price of gas skyrocketing throughout the country, every car company has to rethink their planning strategy to stay competitive. Each company has come up with clever ways to keep customers coming back. General Motors introduced the employee discount for the general public. This seemed to help them stay competitive in the market. With this and other economical troubles, General Motors is developing new strategic planning to help
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General Systems
A) The Main Problem: During the management of Jack Welch followed by Jeff Immelt, General Electric Medical System (GEMS) had grown to be the lead player in medical diagnostic equipment supplies and maintenance services. In 2002 when Joe Hogan took up the position he faced a difficult situation of having to decide whether GEMS should continue its policy of being a Global Products Company (GPC) or modify the concept to �In China for China’ in
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Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
Part I. A. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. GAAP is not a fixed set of rules. It is a guideline or more precisely a group of objectives and concepts that have evolved over 500 years from the basic concepts of Luca Pacioli set forth in the 1400s. It governs how financial statements are prepared and presented in the United States. The Financial Accounting Standards Boards (FASB), the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Securities
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Generally Accepted Auditing Standards
There have been many scandals in the past years that have lead up to the need for public organizations to be audited. The Sabarnes-Oxley Act of 2002 was enacted to keep the public safe from these scandals and to ensure the public has a positive opinion of accounting professionals. Auditors are to follow a set of systematic guidelines when conducting audits on companies' finances, ensuring the accuracy, consistency and verifiability of their actions and reports.
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Generational Attitudes Toward Behavior
A generation is defined by demographics and key life events that shape, at least to some degree, distinctive generational characteristics. Although sources disagree on the exact birthdates that define each generation, that is a consensus that employees over 60 in 2006 belong to the Traditionalist generation. Those in their mid-40s to 60 are Baby Boomers. Employees in their late 20s to early 40s are Generation X. The new generation entering the workplace, in their
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Generational Gap and the Workplace Overview.
Article Citation Macky, K., Gardner, D., & Forsyth, S. Generational differences at work: introduction and overview. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 23, 857-861. Research Questions The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the vast opinions and information on the generation gap in the workplace. It is an introduction to the larger works of this guest editorial however it does a good job of explaining the background in the subject. This paper is claiming that there
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Generic Benchmarking
Running head: GENERIC BENCHMARKING Generic Benchmarking: Outsourcing Freescale Semiconductor and General Motors Corporation University of Phoenix Freescale Semiconductor One of the concepts facing Global Communications is to communicate effectively to the union and employees, the decision to close some of their technical call centers by outsourcing to India and Ireland. By looking at how Freescale Semiconductor handled similar situations, we can get an idea of the process and its effect a decision of this type
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Generic Benchmarking
Generic Benchmarking: For Solving Problems… and for Life Introduction Your organization—and you as a leader—need to be creative and adaptive in order to be competitive. If you have a problem to solve, you need to come up with a solution that best meets your goals and objectives. To avoid having to reinvent the wheel, you can look for ideas or best practices in many different venues. Approaches to Benchmarking A possible first step in identifying
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Generic Benchmarking
Running head: GENERIC BENCHMARKING Generic Benchmarking University of Phoenix Human Capital Development MBA/520 Riordan Manufacturing Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics producer that employs 550 people divided among three geographically separate plant locations. Over the past two years, sales have declined and profits have been uneven. Senior level management has developed a strategy to both improve growth of the company and profitability. By adopting a customer-relationship management (CRM) approach, the company has changed their way
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Generic Benchmarking
The companies, IBM and Toyota Motors, have had to address similar issues that Global Communications is experiencing in becoming more profitable while competing globally in their respective industry. IBM’s challenge is to retain key talent while downsizing staff and outsourcing jobs to India so they can increase market share to the approval of the shareholders. However, an IBM employee has shared that his creative approach to remain with the company by offering to pay his
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Generic Benchmarking - Lester Electronics, Inc.
Running head: GENERIC BENCHMARKING: LESTER ELECTRONICS, INC. Generic Benchmarking: Lester Electronics, Inc. Anne Groce, Olanike Oyedare, Oluremi Oyedare, Jun Michael Calma , Brian Barnhart University of Phoenix Generic Benchmarking: Lester Electronics, Inc. Introduction Most corporate growth occurs by internal expansion, which takes place when organizations existing departments grow through normal capital budgeting activities. However, the most dramatic examples of growth and often the largest increases in stock prices, result from mergers. Many reasons have been
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Generic Benchmarking - Riordan Manufacturing
Generic Benchmarking: Riordan Manufacturing Generic Benchmarking Riordan Manufacturing This generic benchmark intends to discover the best practices of companies that have solved issues comparable to Riordan Manufacturing’s concerns. Normally, it is best to find solutions involving companies in the same industry, however if this is not viable, then finding illustrations of similar issues faced by companies in other industries is acceptable. Framing the right problem is an important step in benchmarking. The problem description
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Generic Benchmarking: Global Communications
Generic Benchmarking: Global Communications Global Communications has several problems facing it due to their need to cut cost and partnership with the introduction of new services. I choose to focus on two issues facing Global Communications and used generic benchmarking to find possible solutions. The issues faced were not unique to Global Communications and in fact are common in the business world. The issues were cutting cost and introduction of new services. Microsoft and Compaq
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Genetic Screening in the Work Place
Genetic Screening in the Workplace (thesis paper) Workplace gene screening can be used to ferret out the weakest candidates for employment and minimize the related costs of decreased productivity, health insurance, retraining, relocation, and improvement of working conditions. The issue of genetic discrimination involves a severe conflict of interests. On one hand, the defenders of human rights proclaim that excluding workers from jobs on the basis of their genetic make up is immoral and threatens
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Genetically Enginered Crops
“Genetically Engineered Crops: Their Potential Use for Improvement of Human Nutrition” was written by Dr. Lin Yan and Dr. Philip S. Kerr. The focus of the article was to discuss research being done to help feed the increasing world population with new scientific discoveries that have been made since World War Two. The most monumental discoveries have been the discovery of “chemical processes to reduce nitrogen and ammonia” as well as fertilizers with nitrogen
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Genetically Modified Food
Genetically Modified Food Genetically modified foods are the plants that are modified in the laboratory through procedures of improving their nutritious picture and developing the new and improved species of food that people will later consume. People have been doing this for ages by natural ways of plant selection and natural matching of different kinds of plants, for example creating new kind of wine grapes by matching two kinds to get a new one. This
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Genric Benchmarking
Introduction Your organization—and you as a leader—need to be creative and adaptive in order to be competitive. If you have a problem to solve, you need to come up with a solution that best meets your goals and objectives. To avoid having to reinvent the wheel, you can look for ideas or best practices in many different venues. Approaches to Benchmarking A possible first step in identifying potential solutions is to find the best practices
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Genting Group
Missions 1. Be responsive to the changing demands of our customers and excel in providing quality products and services. 2. Be committed to innovation and the adoption of new technology to achieve competitive advantage. 3. Generate a fair return to our shareholders. 4. Pursue personnel policies, which recognize and reward performance and contributions of employees and provide proper training, development and opportunities for career advancement. 5. Be a responsible corporate citizen, committed to enhancing corporate
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