ANSWERS TO CASE DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. What does the Chevy Volt case tell you about the nature of strategic decision making at a large complex organization like General Motors? Strategic decision making is often met with cognitive biases that are formed around prior victories or defeats. 2. What trends in the external environment favored the pursuit of the Chevy Volt project? Trends included increases in oil prices‚ global warming‚ costs of manufacturing lithium ion batteries was falling
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Running Head: Blockbuster case study The Closing of Blockbuster: A case study project Winston Carroll Southern New Hampshire University Organizational Behavior Dr. Miller March 3‚ 2013 THE CLOSING OF BLOCKBUSTER I. The Shutdown of Blockbuster Stores a. Blockbuster is closing many of its stores. b. Blockbuster failed the challenge
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Google’s Closing Case Questions 1. How does Google’s mission drive strategy at the company? Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally acceptable and useful helped it develop a very useful search engine that we all use or have used on a regular basis. They run on the mantra “don’t be evil!” They came up with the saying in the hopes to always run the business with integrity. One aspect of this was the decision to not let outside companies’ interests bias where
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Closing Case: CH 9 When should Bunyan Lumber‚ harvest the forest? The cash flow will grow at the inflation rate of 3.7%. Utilizing the real cash flow formula (1+R) =v (1+R)(1+H) 1.10 = (1+R)(1.037) R= 6.08% The conservation funds are anticipated to grow slower than the inflation rate. The return for the conservation fund will be‚ (1+R) = (1+R) (1+H) 1.10 = (1+R) (1.032) R= 6.5% The cash flow from the thinning process is as follow‚ Cash flow from thinning = Acres thinned x cash
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often do a mediocre job‚ while still managing to reap the benefits of being an executive. While these are viable arguments against this issue‚ the other side of the spectrum shows that this is not so. There is an equal amount of evidence‚ if not more‚ that suggests that executives earn every penny of their paychecks. The CEOs of companies are under an extraordinary amount of pressure. They face the task of making sure that a company pulls in a profit‚ or possibly losing their job. There are few‚ if
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1998 is when Daimler-Benz acquired Chrysler. Many people thought that Chrysler would break away from Ford and GM and join Japanese automobile makers. The planned strategy at Daimler-Benz for Chrysler in 1998 was to emphasize bold design‚ better product quality‚ and higher productivity by sharing designs and parts between the two companies. This strategic plan however‚ proved to be disastrous for Chrysler. Looking back‚ I’m sure the company’s CEO’s can see the poor decisions they made. They
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PROPOSED GAP ANALYSIS PLAN When the channel gaps are identified‚ the next step to close these gaps so that the zero-based channel may be achieved. Different types of gaps require different types of solutions. So now we have to close the gaps. Proposed Demand-side Gaps: There are three main methods to close the demand side gaps. * Expanding or retracting the level of service outputs provided to target segment. * Offering multiple service output levels to target segment. * If required
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it and player salaries are no exception. Teams of different sport like basketball‚ baseball‚ soccer and football spend a lot of money on their players which is ridiculous not just for the fact that they paying that amount of money but the fact that millions of money which can be minimize are being paid to a player that if he decide not to play‚ no one will harm player‚ which brings me to saying that reduce the ability of the richest teams to bid up the price of players and‚ salaries are sure to fall
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important to you in a job-the salary or the conditions? “ What is better in the life of work? The conditions or the salary? Today many teenagers have to decide between these two things‚ for some it is an easy decision for others not. But what is more important for you‚ if you have a nice job‚ that you can love every day or a very good salary so that on your bank account there is a lot of money. Many people will say that the conditions are more important because you must do your job every day. Choosing
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New Yorker Dan Mintz moved to China as a freelance film director with no contacts‚ no advertisingexperience. DMG had emerged as one of China’s fastest growing advertising agencies. Mintz attributeshis success in part to what the Chinese call guanxi: Guanxi means relationship and through businesssetting it can be better understood as connection. Guanxi has its roots in the Confucian philosophy of valuing social hierarchy and reciprocal obligations. Confucian ideology has a 2‚000-year-old history inChina
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