Group (BCG) Modal Hello students! After having an understanding of what an SBU is you also need to now how do the companies select a particular strategy for which they need to analyze their SBUs? There is a matrix given by the Boston Consultancy Group‚ which can be used by the companies for the purpose of analysis‚ which will be discussed in this lesson‚ and also how useful it is. BCG Model The BCG Matrix‚ named after the Boston Consulting Group (BCG)‚ is perhaps the most famous 2x2 matrix. The
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What was the stated objective of General Motors Risk Management policy? Three primary objectives: 1) Reduce cash flow and earnings volatility – this means management hedges the company’s transaction exposures and deliberately pays no attention to any balance sheet exposures or translation exposures. 2) Minimize the management time and costs dedicated to global FX management – this is as a result of an internal study that determined that the investment of resources in active FX management
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increasingly complex. No longer simply the domain of the warehouse manager or logistics director‚ supply chain management is viewed by most companies as a mission-critical element. In this special report‚ experts from Wharton and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) discuss strategies for maximizing the value of supply chains‚ avoiding inefficiencies‚ managing the omnipresent risk of disruption‚ and evaluating the pros and cons of supply chain enterprise systems. ‘You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure’: Maximizing
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on American feet‚ brought into the U.S. by some nobody company n Prefontaine‚ the first major track athlete to wear Nike product had significant influence on the design of Nike’s running shoes. Two more key players helped propel the company’s early growth: Jeff Johnson‚ a former track rival of Knight’s at the University of Oregon‚ and Steve Prefontaine‚ also a University of Oregon runner and middle-distance running prodigy. This scenario was bound to pass by the wayside. Bauer also offers a full selection
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1.0 Executive Summary This strategic marketing report prepared for the General Motors (GM) detailed a thorough analysis the motor vehicle market in China. GM was a US automaker company‚ and entered the market of China by joint ventures. SAIC is GM’s major joint venture partner‚ and it had become the largest plant in China. GM was earning high profits from China by 2004. However‚ GM faced the challenges from both foreign and local competitors‚ overcapacity and intervention from Chinese Government
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Vertical Integration as Organizational Ownership: The Fisher Body-General Motors Relationship Revisited BENJAMIN KLEIN University qfCalijbrnia‚ Los Angeles I have always considered my work with Armen Alchian and Robert Crawford (1978) on vertical integration to represent an extension of Coase ’s classic article on "The Nature of the Firm." By focusing on the "hold-up" potential that is created when firm-specific investments are made by transactors‚ or what we called the appropriation
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General Motors Company has a very detailed and organized balance sheet and income statement in which all of the company ’s information is listed in the proper order. The balance sheet can be viewed annually or quarterly and all amounts are in US dollars by millions except for per share amounts. The balance sheet first begins to lists the company ’s assets. The assets section is broken down by current assets‚ cash‚ net receivables‚ inventories‚ and other current assets. The balance sheet then lists
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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 construction were approved. The
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Foreign Exchange Hedging Strategies at General Motors: Transactional and Translational Exposures Prepared By: Danial Wahaj Khan EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This report is based on a practical scenario solution of General motors. The report addresses the problem given in scenario which is the change in policy of hedging with detailed reasoning. The report then looks at the different available hedging instruments to the firm. Profitability of both instruments has been compared and lowest cost option was
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ANATOMY OF A FAILED ALLIANCE—GENERAL MOTORS AND DAEWOO In June 1984‚ General Motors and the Daewoo Group of Korea signed an agreement that called for each to invest $100 million in a South Korean-based 50/50 joint venture‚ Daewoo Motor Company‚ that would manufacture a subcompact car‚ the Pontiac LeMans‚ based on GM’s popular German-designed Opel-Kadett (Opel is a wholly owned German subsidiary of GM). Much of the day-to-day management of the alliance was to be placed in the hands of Daewoo
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