ANSWERS TO CASE DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. What does the Chevy Volt case tell you about the nature of strategic decision making at a large complex organization like General Motors? Strategic decision making is often met with cognitive biases that are formed around prior victories or defeats. 2. What trends in the external environment favored the pursuit of the Chevy Volt project? Trends included increases in oil prices‚ global warming‚ costs of manufacturing lithium ion batteries was falling
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Chapter 13 – Aggregate Planning Operations Management by R. Dan Reid & Nada R. Sanders 4th Edition © Wiley 2010 © Wiley 2010 1 Learning Objectives Explain business planning Explain sales and operations planning Identify different aggregate planning strategies & options for changing demand and/or capacity in aggregate plans Develop aggregate plans‚ calculate associated costs‚ and evaluate the plan in terms of operations‚ marketing‚ finance‚ and human resources Describe differences
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Chapter 13 KEY TAKEAWAYS * Money serves three basic functions: 1. Medium of exchange: because you can use it to buy the goods and services you want‚ everyone’s willing to trade things for money. 2. Measure of value: it simplifies the exchange process because it’s a means of indicating how much something costs. 3. Store of value: people are willing to hold onto it because they’re confident that it will keep its value over time. * The government uses two measures to track
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damage their credit history. However‚ banks and credit institutions actually see them as the first step towards repaying a loan. It boosts an individual’s credit rating as soon as one files for chapter 13 bankruptcy because it proves their commitment to repaying the loan and securing their property.
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University of Amsterdam | Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences Urban Studies | Bachelor Thesis | 2009- 2010 Opportunities divided Development along the East Coast Road in Tamil Nadu‚ India Kaj Beetstra Opportunities divided Development along the East Coast Road in Tamil Nadu‚ India University of Amsterdam | Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences Urban Studies (In Dutch: ‘Planologie) | Bachelor Thesis Date: 11 May 2010 Student: Kaj Beetstra Student number: 0515337 Address:
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error‚ Class 1 = 55.85% error‚ and Overall = 9.1% error). b. What is a choice of k that balances between overfitting and ignoring the predictor information? A. A choice of k that balances between overfitting and ignoring the predictor would be k = 6. The value is chosen because it minimizes the % validation error. After testing various k levels. According to the validation error log for different k the best k points to 6‚ where %error training is 7.4% and validation % error is 8.75%. c.
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Chapter 13-Minicase 1 (page 598) Intranets: Invest First‚ Analyze Later? 1. Where and under what circumstances is the “invest first‚ analyze later” approach appropriate? Where and when is it inappropriate? Give specific examples of technologies and other circumstances. Invest first is justified if a new technology is the reason for the investment. There may not even be data to base an analysis on. It is inappropriate if the investment is big and could ruin the firm. Also‚ if data is available
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Touro University International Raymond F. Charest Jr. BUS 401 International Business Module 2 Case Assignment Coordinator Professor: Dr. Joseph Thomas Core Professor: Dr. David Hunt The purpose of this paper is to write an essay about Starbucks global expansion strategy with a focus on China. Starbucks first went international in 1996 in Tokyo Japan; today there are over three thousand coffeehouses in thirty-seven different countries. “The number one priority
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LAW 401 Assessment item 3 Exam Overview document Answer the question in topic 1 using a short essay format. This should not be less than 200 words and not exceed 500 words. Mark/ TOPIC 1 Family Law Q 1 Under the Family Law Act a court must take into account’ the best interests of the child”. What does this mean? What are the factors the court is to consider in determining the best interests of the child and how do these operate Mark/10 Family law and children Answer the following
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b) b. had new & improved technologies and ideas‚ e.g.‚ outrigger canoes‚ fish hooks‚ etc (had not adopted agriculture) c) exchanged goods over hundreds of miles and developed sophisticated sculpture and rock painting and northwest coast of North America developed very differently 3. Agricultural Village Societies a) predominated in much of North America‚ in Africa south of the equator‚ in parts of the Amazon River basin and Southeast Asia b) their societies mostly avoided
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