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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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This paper will explain GM’s most pressing challenges. Overcapacity is negatively impacted their financial results‚ brutal international competition is causing GM to react with target costing strategies‚ rising fuel prices directly impacts their cash flows and complicates capital budgeting strategies and tactics and their ongoing health care and pension costs continue to color their future earning potential. These challenges will be addressed by using performance assessment
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SHANGHAI GENERAL MOTORS: THE RISE OF A LATE-COMER In February 1998‚ the Asian Wall Street Journal‚ sceptical at General Motor’s (GM) investment in China‚ ran a front-page story with the headline‚ “GM bets big on a market littered with casualties.”1 Seven years later‚ in January 2005‚ GM featured once again in the same paper‚ only this time‚ the headline was more positive “GM vehicle sales in China rose 27% in 2004”.2 While Shanghai Volkswagen (SVW) maintained its leadership position with about 25%
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{Gavin} {Ryan} The issue here may lie with the 50% to 75% hedge as it is doubtful as to why GM does not hedge its receivables / payables by 100%. Perhaps the issue is related to high costs of using options and their receivables / payables run into huge amounts. Additionally‚ GM is not keen on committing to a forward because they have positive expectations about the future exchange rate and the forward would only serve to limit their
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collapsed in 2008‚ GM‚ which had already lost money in 2007‚ plunged deeply into the red. With losses estimated at $14 billion‚ the company was forced to go cap in hand to the government to beg for public finds to help it stave off bankruptcy. Fearing the economic consequences of a collapse of GM‚ the government agreed to loan funds to GM‚ but it insisted that the company have a clear plan charting its way back to profitability. Ironically‚ such a plan was already in place at GM. At the heart of
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Denham This case starts in Sept. 2000 which was when Taco Bell was accused of using GM corn in their taco shells because it was not approved for human consumption‚ just animal consumption. According to David Roy‚ the debates are more emotional than logical. That probably has to do with the fear of human nature consuming something genetically modified. Some of the current arguments for the people for GM foods are that people shouldn’t be worried until their research finds danger and we should
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1. The Chevy Volt case tells me the nature of the strategic decision making at a large complex organization like GM can be difficult and challenging due to having to convince other managers to agree with the ideas for new strategies. In the case it states that the two persons‚ GM’s vice chairman and the head of RD&D had already proposed to make the Volt in 2003 but were turned down by the other managers. However‚ in 2007 with the changes in the external environment the other managers agreed
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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 executives‚ with managerial and technical advice being provided by a limited number of GM executives. At the time‚ many hailed the alliance as a smart move for both companies. GM doubted that a small car could be built profitably in the United States because of high labor costs‚ and it saw enormous
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executive success and tribulations among GM and Ford‚ known for his charismatic‚ competitive‚ innovative and controversial manufacturing practices and sourcing strategies. Lopez was responsible for the emergency of GM as one of the most cost competitive operations in Europe‚ by working with suppliers to cut component costs. Companies selected to do business with GM would have to bid among each other‚ being the lower bid the winner. This tactic enabled GM to build a large network of suppliers from
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GMO Speech Thesis - GMOs are ethically immoral and cause a threat to human growth in a variety of different ways. Genetic modification (GM) is the process by which DNA make up is perfected and altered. This procedure is completed by combining genes from other organisms. It may even involve the combining of plant genes with animal genes. The results of this process are also known as GMOs‚ genetically modified organisms. In recent discovery‚ geneticists have learned to genetically modify many
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