Case Study: Immelt and the reinventing of General Electric Posted on July 29‚ 2011by Bruno Mognayie This case study was part of a strategy assignment taken at the SDA Bocconi School of Management. I’d like to thank my fellows Gouri Wagle‚ Felipe dell’Oro‚ Andrea Masina‚ Paolo Cerchiario‚ Ashna Suri-Sasmal and myself for the insights that contributed to put through this work. The issue: In September 2009‚ Ge’s Board of Directors reappointed Jeff Immelt as CEO. My team was asked to prepare a memo
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1. Oil companies do not allow dealers (franchisees) to buy gas from distributors. Dealers must buy gas from the central oil company. Dealers often complain that this is unfair. The practice has been the subject of antitrust lawsuits. Oil company executives argue that this policy is important because it limits free-riding on the part of the distributors. Explain the executives’ arguments in more detail. The Oil Company executives argue that allowing dealers to buy gas from distributors would be
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Specialization The definition of specialization is‚ “the degree to which organizational tasks are subdivided into separate jobs” (Daft‚ 2013). Perdue Farms uses vertical integration in its management of tasks. “As a vertically integrated agribusiness‚ the company is able to ensure quality at every step in the supply chain” (Perdue Inc.‚ 2008). Perdue breeds and hatches all of its eggs‚ hand-picks their growers‚ designs/builds chicken houses based on individual engineering formulates and manufactures
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How Apple Made ‘Vertical Integration’ Hot Again — Too Hot‚ Maybe By Knowledge@WhartonMarch 16‚ 20120 * * * * * * inShare11 * Read Later FENG LI / GETTY IMAGES ------------------------------------------------- RELATED * ------------------------------------------------- Apple‚ Motorola Mobility Discussed Patent Settlement‚ EU Says Bloomberg * ------------------------------------------------- Judge Orders Google‚ Motorola Mobility to
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Competitive Exposure GM’s Case Study 3 Question 1 - Why is GM worried about the evolution of the JPY? * The Japanese automakers were one of the main competitors of General Motors because their main advantage came from having large portions of their cost structure denominated in Yen‚ which meant that they were liable to achieve significantly reduced costs in the face of currency depreciation. This reduced cost would comprise of lower cost of productions‚ thus leading to a rise in the Product
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Corporate Culture Culture refers to the fundamental values and norms that a group of peoplesuch as an ethnic group‚ a nation‚ a corporation‚ or some other organization or professionholds or aspires to hold. Every culture distinguishes itself from others by the specific ways it prefers to solve certain problems‚ such as those that arise from relationships with other people‚ from the passage of time‚ and in dealing with the external environment. Groups of people have "typical" cultural traits that
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Case Discussion Questions 1. GE used to prefer acquisitions or Greenfield ventures as an entry mode rather than joint ventures. Why do you think this was the case? According to our textbook‚ a firm can establish a wholly owned subsidiary in a country by building a subsidiary from the ground up‚ the so-called Greenfield strategy‚ or by acquiring an enterprise in the target market. Acquisitions have three major points in their favor. First‚ they are quick to execute. By acquiring an established
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CASE 22 Jeff Immelt and the Reinventing of General Electric[1] On April 25‚ 2012 Jeff Immelt‚ chairman and CEO of the General Electric Company‚ presided over the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting in Detroit‚ Michigan. As representatives of the “99 Percent Movement” protesting GE’s low rate of corporate tax were ushered from the hall‚ and GE’s board members and corporate officers took their seats‚ Immelt reflected on his eleven years as head of GE. Immelt knew that taking over from
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THE GE / JENBACHER CASE Final Paper International Mergers and Acquisitions (0926) Florian Köller 0251208 The purpose of this paper is to discuss the strategic rationale and the possible implications for General Electric (GE) when taking over the Austrian turbine producer Jenbacher. For a better breakdown of the different aspects of this issue the paper is subdivided into the following sections: Business rationale Logistical aspects And legal implications 1. Business
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General Electric (“GE”)‚ similar to many major corporations in the 1980s and 1990s‚ underwent a restructuring phase in line with the McKinsey Restructuring Pentagon. Through this restructuring‚ General Electric implemented a portfolio-planning model to manage the ever-increasing demands of a company involved in over 190 businesses. Ultimately‚ this model allowed GE to formally??? GE set lofty goals of increasing earnings per share 25% faster than the growth of GNP. In order to achieve this the
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