SOC 138/ECO 148 Exam 3 (SAMPLE ONLY) Carter T. Butts Spring Quarter, 2015 Note: This sample exam contains 20 questions, but is otherwise of the same form as Exam 3. TAs will provide solutions to this sample exam during discussion section. Study this exam carefully – some questions may return! The following applies to questions 1–3 below. Consider the following network: 5 1 3 2 4 1. Which of the numbered positions provides the best example of a hub? A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4 E. 5
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CASE: General Motors Situation: General Motors is a well-recognized brand from USA that is struggling trough the past years. The company is currently in debt, also it received $13.4 billion in government loans, and it announced a loss of $30.9 billion. GM needs to create a good plan in order to keep working in the automobile industry and become a great competitor. Strengths: * It has assembly, manufacturing, distribution, office and warehousing operations in 55 other countries * General
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How General Motors Poor Enterprise Risk Management & Managerial Decisions in the 21st Century has Effected Where They Stand Today Brittany M. Mendez North Greenville University Abstract This paper discusses the rise and fall of General Motors during the 21st century and documents many different managerial decisions that led to where the company is today. It also analyzes the enterprise risk management plan that General Motors was famous for. They were known for being a company that successfully
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Business Bailout or Bust? Case Study Noelle Nurse Tran Monica Molina BUS 1038 Professor Joyce Manu April 5, 2013 A perfect combination of unfavourable factors contributed to a major automobile manufacturing industry crisis in North America in 2009. The auto manufacturing industry had taken such a dramatic turn from being large and successful to becoming an industry full of debt and bad reputation; especially for three big and important companies: General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler
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looking at cause and effect. Organizational behaviour is the study of how individuals and groups perform together within an organization. It focuses on the best way to manage individuals, groups, organizations, and processes. In layman language, the action and attitude of people in organization. Toyota Motor Corporation has often been referred to as the gold standard of the automotive industry. In the first quarter of 2007, Toyota overtook General Motors Corporation in sales for the first time as the
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The CEO of General Electric (GE) Jack Welch had said he only had three jobs: selecting the right people, allocating capital resources, and spreading ideas quickly. When talking to hundreds of GE managers Welch used to ask them not only about their ideas but who they have shared their ideas with, and who else has adopted them. He was the head of GE from 1981 till 2001. In 1980, the year before Welch became CEO, GE recorded revenues of roughly $26.8 billion. In 2000, the year before he left, the revenues
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According to most researchers they believed that Einstein was withdrawn from the world as a boy. When Einstein started school he did surprisingly well. At the age of 16 Einstein failed the college exam the first time plainly because he did not study and later learned that it’s a bad choice to not prepare for a test. Einstein is a clear example of a person who is listed with learning disabilities in today's schools. If you have the right approach to education than labels can’t stop you from making
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General Electric General Electric Company | | Type | Public | Traded as | NYSE: GE [1]Dow Jones Industrial Average Component S&P 500 Component | Industry | Conglomerate | Founded | Schenectady, New York, U.S. (1892) | Founder(s) | Thomas Edison, Elihu Thomson, Charles Coffin, Edwin Houston | Headquarters | Fairfield, Connecticut, [2]U.S. | Area served | Worldwide | Key people | Jeffrey Immelt (Chairman & CEO) | Products | Appliances, aviation, consumer electronics
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Marketing 506 Live Case Study “Lexus” Washington State University Spring 2005 Prepared by: Brian Johnson Shin-Kai Aaron Kau Amanda McDavid Gisle Vestnes Table of Contents Introduction..........................................................................................................................3 Hybrid Car Overview.......................................................................................................3 The RX400h....................................................
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The automotive industry comprises 3% of gross global product. In many Western countries this number is higher (3.6% in the US)1 . Millions of workers worldwide are employed in auto manufacturing, auto parts, and supplies manufacturing as well as service and after sales care and other derivative industries. The auto industry produces more than 800 million cars globally. More than 250 million vehicles are produced in the United States. Despite the numbers, the level of interdependence caused
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