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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I. Cutting jobs at General Motors is a case that explains the issues taking place‚ and have been taking place with General Motors (GM). GM is at a place where the only money being dealt with is the money they have to pay their workers. This includes hourly pay‚ benefits‚ and pay to their retirees. Since the 1970s‚ GM sales has been declining. To better the company‚ and get them back on track‚ the CEO of GM‚ Rick Wagoner‚ announced a restructuring of the company. He explained how he wanted to
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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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FX Hedging:10 Common Pitfalls A Structured Approach to Financial Risk Management Executive Summary 1 Unclear Risk Management Objectives 3 Absence of Appropriate Performance Benchmarks The design and implementation of an effective FX risk management In order to design an effective FX hedging strategy‚ it is With almost any business activity‚ performance necessary to know exactly what the strategy is intended measurement is essential to determine the effectiveness to
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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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Transaction exposure The transaction exposure component of the foreign exchange rates is also referred to as a short-term economic exposure. This relates to the risk attached to specific contracts in which the company has already entered that result in foreign exchange exposures. A company may have a transaction exposure if it is either on the buy side or sell side of a business transaction. Any transaction that leads to an inflow or outflow of a foreign currency results in a transaction exposure. For
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Research Title “A research on failed marketing strategy of General Motors in India; and recommendation for successful strategy implementation”. Research Aim and objectives This research aims to find out the failure reason of General Motors Marketing strategy in India and recommend suitable strategy for successful implementation. Objectives To review the extant theoretical frame works and conceptual models related to Marketing strategies in developing countries. To investigate the failure
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WHITE PAPER READING ASSIGNMENT 4 Internet of Things at General Motors (GE): The term internet of things has been trending in the future technology prospects. There is an ocean of applications to this concept and also benefits the industries‚ by optimizing the processes‚ and saves a lot of money. One of the extensions to IoT(internet of things) is Industrial Internet (II). So the main feature of industrial internet is that machines are made intelligent enabling optimization‚ coordination and
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Yuan Ye (Carol) IBT07148 Transactional and Transformational Leadership [pic][pic] To: Nour Akalay Management June ‚ 2008 Transactional and Transformational Leadership Leadership has been an important topic in the social sciences for many years. Recently‚ renewed interest in the concept of leadership has been aroused. “The resurgence of interest in studying the topic of leadership appears to be accompanied by an acceptance of the distinction
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A SUMMARY OF TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS CONCEPTS I USE By Fanita English (From “How Did You Become a Transactional Analyst?“ Transactional Analysis Journal‚ Vol. 35 ‚ #1 Jan 2005) “How did you become a transactional analyst?” I am often asked that question when I tell people what I do. I answer that originally my training as a therapist was in Freudian psychoanalysis and included eight years of personal psychoanalysis. I practiced as such for l4 years‚ treating both children and adults. Increasingly
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