Henry Hudson (1565-1611) was an English explorer and navigator who explored parts of the Arctic Ocean and northeastern North America. The Hudson River‚ Hudson Strait‚ and Hudson Bay are all named after Hudson. Little is known about Hudson’s early life. Hudson was hired by the Muscovy Company in 1607‚ to find a waterway from Europe to Asia. Hudson made two trips (in 1607 and 1608)‚ but failed to find a route to China. In 1607‚ he sailed to Spitzbergen (an island north of Scandinavia in the Arctic
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responsibility is defined in Chapter 5 as the corporate duty to create wealth by using means that avoid harm to‚ protect‚ or enhance societal assets. Did GE in the Welch era fulfill this duty? Could it have done better? What should it have done? I believe that Welch only fulfilled one portion of his corporate social responsibility duty. Financial results for GE show that Welch was very effective in directing a highly profitable company‚ but he did so at the expense of many of the employees of the business
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Who Is Responsible For Cleanup Under CERCLA? What is CERCLA? The Comprehensive Environmental Response‚ Compensation‚ and Liability Act ( CERCLA ) 1) The purpose of CERCLA is to make owners and operators of hazardous waste dump sites and contaminated areas‚ as well as their customers‚ responsible for cleanup costs and property damage. 2) CERCLA is also referred to as THE SUPERFUND. It is authorized to a level of 8.5 billion dollars. The funding for CERCLA comes 87% from taxes on the chemical
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Australian National University July 2009 Corporate Strategy Analysis: General Electric Co. (1981–present) Stanislav Bucifal Introduction The General Electric Company (GE) is widely regarded as one of the world’s most successful corporations of the 20th century. This paper aims to critically analyse the corporate strategy of GE during the period from 1981 to present under the leadership of two very different but equally influential CEOs—Jack Welch and Jeff Immelt. The essay is organised in four
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1. GE doesn’t come up with innovations in poor countries and take them global 2. GE sell high-end medical imaging and diagnostic products globally 3. GE has following sites for RD efforts: US(Niskayuna)‚ India (Bangalore)‚ China (Shanghai)‚ Europe(Munich)+Brazil(Sao Paulo)‚ US(Detroit). They place RD centers in those countries to be closer to important markets + availability of talent. India: 1. India was an attractive base for the cost reasons and ample supply of talent 2. India
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0 Lambin ’s Strategic Concept of Marketing. 03-04 3.0 Critical Analysis of GE (General Electric) Marketing Strategy. 04-16 3.1 Company Overview. 04-05 3.2 Marketing Philosophies of GE. 05-06 3.3 GE ’s marketing Strategy. 06-07 3.4 Analysis of GE ’s Market Driven Management. 07-09 3.5 GE ’s Competitor Analysis and Competitive Strategy. 10-12 3.6 SWOT Analysis of GE. 12-13 3.7 GE Brand Analysis. 13-15 3.8 GE ’s promotion and Selling Strategy. 15-16 4.0 Conclusion. 16-16 5.0 Appendices
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As is known to all‚ most successful medical equipment manufacturing companies like GE Healthcare satisfy customers ’ need as possible as they can and they are still on the way to improve their supply chains to attract more customers and make themselves more competitive. From this‚ we can see that customer value which can be defined as "the customer ’s overall assessment of the utility of a product based on perceptions of what is received and what is given" (Zeithaml‚ 1988‚ p. 14) plays a very important
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GE / Honeywell’s Failed Merger GE‚ while only encompassing a limited stake in the aerospace industry‚ nevertheless faced challenges in its merger with Honeywell due to its market share in the Large Regional and Large Commercial aircraft segments. Additionally‚ the “portfolio effect” of the merger and GE’s potential to reach “end to end” monopolization of the value chain through the bundling of its financing arm (GE Capital)‚ its leasing subsidiary (GECAS)‚ and Honeywell’s avionics manufacturing
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CASE 11: General Electric Healthcare‚ 2006 1. Was buying Amersham a good idea? Why or why not? We support the idea that GE Healthcare‚ which is one of the biggest conglomerates globally‚ took the right step in acquiring the business Amersham in order to expand the business and restructure its core business into becoming a global standardized business aiming to provide products that answers the needs of consumers in the market today. The following
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Name – Mamta Timane Subject – Organization Development Assignment – GE Workout Three activities are generally mentioned as being keys to General Electric’s success: process mapping‚ “best practices” benchmarking‚ and “workout” (Stewart‚ 1991). Workout is GE’s approach to intensive team problem solving. An organization contacted us with a desire to adapt a GE workout-type process for use in their organization. We believe our efforts to respond to our client’s questions and concerns about the
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