CASE STUDY THE FORD PINTO Q1.What moral issues does the pinto case raise? The moral issues raised in Pinto case are that business should not put a value on human life and avoid known dangers. As ford thought they could get away with a dangerous automobile by paying off those lawsuits from people who were injured and the families of the dead. Ford thought it was more cost effective not to fix the dangerous condition than to spend the money to save people. Q2. Suppose ford officials were asked
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Tesla Motors‚ Inc. Tesla Motors‚ Inc. (Tesla)‚ incorporated on July 1‚ 2003‚ designs‚ develops‚ manufactures and sells electric vehicles and advanced electric vehicle powertrain components. The company was founded by a group of Silicon Valley Engineers who saw an opportunity to mass-produce electric vehicles as substitutes for the ordinary gasoline powered vehicles. Tesla‚ which issued its IPO in 2010‚ became the second listed American motor company after Ford‚ which went public in 1956.Tesla owns
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1.7 Outcome Oriented Outcome oriented is one of the entrepreneurial traits that highly needed and applied to run the business by the entrepreneurs. Outcome Oriented also known as result oriented. The meaning of outcome oriented is emphasizing on the results and outcomes rather than the process to meet the outcomes (Management Transitions‚ 2012). The entrepreneurs who have this trait will concentrate on outcome‚ achievement‚ result and action as an important value. A good example entrepreneur who
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Unit Title PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES How you will be assessed | * You need to acquire core knowledge of how businesses combine promotional activities‚ such as advertising and personal selling‚ into a promotional mix and of how these choices are vital to the success of a promotional campaign. * You will need to consider how promotional activities are designed to alter customer attitudes‚ and investigate how the cost of promotional activities affects the final choice of promotional activities
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The Importance of Results Oriented Workplaces in the 21st Century Subject: The Importance of a Results Oriented Workplace in the 21st Century Over the last 40 years‚ technology to improve productivity in the workplace has improved so much that an employee can be reached almost anywhere at anytime to answer or solve any problem. However‚ rather than allowing employees to work less and be truly productive‚ most workplaces place their value on the 40 hour week rather than generating results
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Tata Motors 1. Describe the economic characteristics of the global motor vehicle industry. The characteristics of the global motor vehicle industry are a boom in certain places and a bust in others all due to economic conditions in different nations. Four years after tow of Detroit Michigan’s big three went into bankruptcy American car makers are going “full throttle” with sales in August hitting an annual rate that if substantiated can take them back over 16 million and that is a rate that was
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necessary to be efficiently and effectively to sell a product. The combination of the four controllable variables of Product‚ Price‚ Place‚ and Promotion those are essential to define and fulfill a target market. One of the elements in the marketing mix is the product. A product can be a combination of goods and services offered to satisfy the needs and wants of consumers. These products are ether tangible or intangible that can be offered for purchase or use by consumers. A tangible product is one
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of the Samsung market that are: GEOGRAPHICAL PRESENCE: It has Samsung Guru Segment for rural areas as well as Galaxy segment for urban areas. Samsung is one of the largest manufacturers of mobile phones and it shares the highest cell phone customers with Nokia in India. It has something for everyone. There are some analyses of geographical segmentation: 1. Urban Market: Targeting urban youth with many handsets. There are in built features for the busy urban populations such as 3G‚ Wi-Fi
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Tesla Motors Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 1. Introduction Chapter 4 2. Motivation 4 3. Research question and Sub questions 4 4. Interpretation 4 5. Scope/Delimitation 5 6. Methodology 6 6.1 Project type 6 6.2 Method 7 6.3 Theories and models used 7 6.4 Data collection 10 6.5 Structure 11 6.6 Critisium sources 11 7. Analysis 12 Part 1 12 7.1 Sub question 1 12 7.2 Sub question
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Memorandum To: Alan Mulally‚ President & CEO Date: 07/04/2013 Subject: Internal Communications Platform When searching for a social networking platform to use for Ford Motor Company’s internal communications‚ our team has gone through several analyses of each potential platform. The top five choices were Facebook‚ Linkedin‚ Gotomeeting‚ Google+‚ and Skype. All of these programs were rated on the scale of 1 to 4 in six categories: compatibility and speed‚ accuracy of content‚ cost‚ design‚ navigation
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