Conclusion V. Sources INTRODUCTION “For seven years the Ford Motor Company sold cars in which it knew hundreds of people would needlessly burn to death.” Mark Dowie‚ Author of Pinto Madness (8) One of the biggest automotive news stories in the latter part of the 1970’s dealt with tales of exploding Ford Pintos and the considerable awards civil court juries were presenting to victims of accidents involving the cars. Ford produced the Pinto automobile from 1971 to 1980. Initially the
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Case study: Ford in China Ford motor company one of the biggest auto-making multinationals in the world has made a tremendously successful entry into the Chinese market. In Nov 2006‚ it announced its accelerated plan in China and a strong yearly performance in 2006 at a growth rate of 100.8 per cent. The origin of Ford’s presence in China can be traced to 1913 when Henry Ford sold his famous Model- T ‘s in Shanghai. Today Ford is back in China in a big way. Ford sells two car models
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THE FORD CASE Executive Summary After carefully analyzing Ford’s existing supply chain I immediately became aware of its highly complex nature. This high level of complexity combined with other internal and external factors have pushed Ford to search for solutions in order to overcome the costly supply chain challenges that they are facing and may continue to face in the future. Ford’s major difficulty in their present system is: the inefficient control of
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Ford Pinto Case Ford Pinto Case If we were involved in the Ford Pinto dilemma we would have used Deontological Ethical reasoning to decide whether or not to disclose the danger that the Pinto posed and/or use that reasoning to determine whether or not to install the part(s) that would make the Ford Pinto safer. Our decision would be to do what is morally right and avoid doing what is morally wrong‚ regardless of the consequences. True enough Ford was not obligated by government regulation or
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Retail Location Strategies Learning the New Rules for Site Selection Will Keep You Ahead of the Game. Nationwide‚ the retail sector enjoyed robust growth during the first half of the decade‚ due in great part to the continued expansion of big boxes. The excitement‚ however‚ is dying down‚ as several category-killer retailers experience slowing sales. The once-zealous players are becoming more cautious‚ and once again the rules of the game are changing for developers and commercial brokers.
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1081209020 Li Hongke 1081209050 Lu Linlin 1081209031 Lu Yao 1081209043 March 2009 Abstract Excessive cash and undervalued stock price forced Ford to conceive an unprecedented cash payout system - Value Enhancement Plan in 2000. For a dual-stock-structure company‚ this recapitalization did favor much Ford family which held the dominant voting power by giving it larger flexibility‚ enhanced control with less capital as well as tax benefit and confidence improvement. While
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Principles of Management Henry Ford – A Great Innovator Submitted by: Souvik Chowdhury(05) Sachin Hegde (18) Kaustubh Patankar (34) Shishir Sahu (42) Shailendra Rumade (43) Rachana Vichare (54) Henry Ford In Early Days: Ford was born on July 30‚ 1863. He was the first child of the six children born to a farmer family in Dearborn‚ Michigan. A born tinkerer of mechanical equipments‚ Ford set off at the young age of sixteen to the nearby town of Detroit to work three years as a machinist’s apprentice
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CASE ANALYSIS – A TURNAROUND AT FORD 1 Case Analysis – A Turnaround at Ford Jerald Peet Saint Leo University THE TURNAROUND AT FORD 2 The story of Ford (F) in the last couple of years
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Moral Intensity of Ford Pinto Case Magnitude of the Consequences From the perspective of senior managers who made the decision‚ the magnitude of consequences introducing the Ford Pinto to the market is small. To support this point of view‚ Ford vice President firstly cited several statistical evidences. In 1975‚ only 12 of 848 deaths‚ which associated with passenger-car accidents in which fires also occurred‚ involved occupants of Pintos. And in 1976‚ the number of occupant fatalities in fire-associated
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My Social Location Social location is something sociologists use to attempt to understand human behavior. They do so by examining the surrounding society that an individual or group of people live in‚ as well as the specific time period in which they reside. There are many variables included in this interpretation‚ such as: gender‚ race‚ nationality‚ class‚ generation‚ occupation‚ and education. In this paper‚ I will take a close look at my social location and attempt to describe and understand
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