International Business Assignment nr. 1 K. Toufarova Globalization at General Electric 1. Why do you think GE invested so aggressively in foreign expansion? Because GE tries to achieve its main goal: To be number 1 or 2 globally in every business in which it participates. Nowadays GE is not just an American company doing business abroad‚ but it had become a true global company. The revenues from international sales are growing significantly. This expansion is being powered by growing economies of
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30‚ 2013 Think about bullying and young children. Do you think that bullying is more apt to happen in a public school setting or a private school setting? Do you think the setting has any effect on bullying‚ or is it primarily the child ’s age? Reflect on a bullying incident that you are aware of. The incident can include you as the victim‚ the bully‚ or a bystander. This may even be an incident that was reported in the news of which you are aware. Alternatively‚ you may share an incident
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Kuznetsova Ksenia What do you think makes a good manager? What are the main functions of a manager according to Peter Drucker? Manager is the person who organizes and coordinates the activities of the rest of the staff. The importance of a good manager can’t be overestimated. First of all‚ a good manager is a leader‚ a respected‚ professional and strong-willed person who can motivate inspire and lead people. Great managers accept blame that means that they are fully responsible for their team
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Do you agree watching television is waste of time? Most people agree that television is one of the most important inventions of the past century. Opinions vary as to its value‚ but no one can deny the great effect that television has on society. Many people in the world cannot live a day without the television. I think watching television can be beneficial if we do not abuse using it. Firstly‚ television is one of the greatest educational tools of all time. Documentary programmes about foreign
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won’t happen. So appeasement started. Nowadays‚ in general‚ people think Chamberlain was wrong and he shouldn’t do appeasement. But it isn’t true. Even if appeasement failed and war started‚ I think appeasement was good. It’s true that appeasement doesn’t look like good. In fact‚ it had lots of disadvantages which looked very huge. At first‚ it made Hitler stronger. Through appeasement‚ Hitler had lots of lands and confidence he can do anything. For example‚ when Germany invaded the Rhineland and Austria
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firm compose the value chain which are the series of value creating activities that occur to create value. These actions include sales‚ production‚ IT‚ accounting etc. These activities are divided into support and primary activities. Primary Activities – Design‚ creation and delivery of the product. They are: 1. R&D 2. Production 3. Marketing 4. Sales Support Activities – Inputs that allow the primary activities to occur 1. Information Systems 2. Logistics
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Do you believe in God and why? With over 20 major religions in today’s world‚ God is the most recognized superior power. We are told to believe that this God is a supernatural being: one of a group of supernatural male beings in some religions‚ each of which is worshiped as the personification or controller of some aspect of the universe. God is the English name given to a singular being in theistic and deistic religions who is either the sole deity in monotheism‚ or a single deity in polytheism
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describe a young man when it comes to maturity. Joseph was a 17-year-old young man that loved to talk about his dreams and we might think what is wrong with that? Well‚ in this case Joseph had brothers who hated him and were jealous of him‚ because of his father love for him. The Bible describes the reason why Joseph was loved more than the others and also the reason why his brother hated him “Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons‚ because he had been born to him in his old age; and
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though I doubt you begin to notice until much later. In fact the very second you were born it had already begun. Mom and Dad did as much as they could to help you adjust‚ but the warm world you had lived in would never be the same. You messed your diaper‚ you rolled off the bed‚ and you collapsed in earsplitting tomato faced hysterics for no reason. You couldn’t even get food from the table to your cute little mouth for quite some time. Then something spectacular happened. You wanted to pick up
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ANALYSIS AND PLANNING Exercise 3-3 a. Sales $800‚000 Variable costs (380‚000) Contribution margin $420‚000 Contribution margin ratio = $420‚000/$800‚000 = 0.525 Annual break-even dollar sales volume = $210‚000/0.525 = $400‚000 b. Annual margin of safety in dollars: Sales $800‚000 Break-even sales dollars (400‚000) Margin of safety $400‚000
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