...Assignment #1 LaTonia A. Roberson Business Administration Capstone-BUS 499 Professor Eliopoulos July 11, 2011 Assignment# 1: Case 11: “Great Lakes: Great Decisions” 1. Perform an analysis of the Social/Demographic, Technological, Economic, Environmental/Geographic, and Political/Legal/Governmental segments to understand the general environment facing Great Lakes. Describe how Great Lakes will be affected by each of these external factors. Social/Demographic Segment-Ellie Shannon, the Division Manager for Great Lakes Chemical Corporation had a concern for what option was to offer regarding the continued use of lead based additives in developing countries. Even though it was not illegal to do so, Ms. Shannon considered the potential effects this decision would have on Great Lakes to compete in global markets and if it would impact the company positively or negatively as a corporate citizen. Technological Segment-Great Lakes was a company that always sought to keep up with technology and ways to make its product better. During the 1950s they focused on petroleum production and from there moved into the bromine and chemical business. Great Lakes developed chemical products for applications such as water treatments, specialty household cleaners, flame retardants, polymer stabilizers, fire suppressants, and performance chemicals. Great Lakes took on the production of lead additives and that is where they made the majority of their wealth. Economic Segment-Great...
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...program. It examines the processes by which organizations formulate strategy, implement policy, and evaluate outcomes in the highly competitive and dynamic global environment. The ethical implications of strategic choices are a central concern of this course. Analytic, integrative, and decision-making skills will be exercised through the use of case analysis and decision making. INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS Required Resources Hitt, M. A., Ireland, R. D., & Hoskisson, R. E. (2011). Strategic management: Competitiveness and globalization, concepts and cases: 2011 custom edition (9th ed.). Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning. Supplemental Resources Angwin, D., Paroutis, S., & Mitson, S. (2009). Connecting up strategy: Are senior strategy directors a missing link? California Management Review, 51(3), 74-94. Derfus, P. J., Maggitti, P. G., Grimm, C. M., & Smith, K. G. (2008). The red queen effect: Competitive actions and firm performance. Academy of Management Journal, 51(1), 61-80. Franken, A., Ewards, C., & Lambert, R. (2009). Executing strategic change: Understanding the critical management elements that lead to success. California Management Review, 51(3), 49-73. COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Identify the vision, mission, and stakeholders of a firm. Identify how the six segments of the general environment affect an industry and its firms. Identify the five forces of competition. Analyze the external environment for opportunities and threats...
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...Assignment 1: Great Lakes: Great Decisions CaShante Sledge Professor Barry Adkins BUS 499 April 15, 2012 Assignment 1: Great Lakes: Great Decisions Perform an analysis of the social/demographic, technological, economic, environmental/geographic, and political/legal/governmental segments to understand the general environment facing Great Lakes. Describe how Great lakes will be affected by each of these external factors. Great Lakes produced specialty chemicals for the production and distribution of polymers, fire suppressants and retardants. Founded in the 1930s, Great Lakes were known as an oil and gas exploration company under the name of McClanahan Oil Company. In the 1950s its focus was petroleum production but later took a different approach into the bromine and chemical business. The idea behind the company was to extract bromine salt water brine deposits from underground. Having a headquarters in Indiana, Great Lakes built a great reputation and became the world’s largest bromine plant in southern Arkansas. Great Lakes have proven to be a leader in the industry of leaded additives. Technological advances for the company include advances to eliminate the harmful chemical being produced. Great Lakes were committed to “protecting the health and safety” of its employees, communities, and the environment(Hitt, Ireland, & Hoskisson, 2011). Great Lakes seemed to have a good Management Information System to track their profits...
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...Assignment 1: Great Lakes: Great Decisions Kimberly Ortiz Professor McGrath BUS499: Business Administration Capstone April 14th, 2012 Assignment 1: Great Lakes: Great Decisions Perform an analysis of the Social/Demographic, Technological, Economic, Environmental/Geographic, and Political/Legal/Governmental segments to understand the general environment facing Great Lakes. Describe how Great Lakes will be affected by each of these external factors. Social /Demographic Segments: Entering into different areas of the world will affect Great Lake’s Social and Demographic strategies, it is more than extremely important that they make the right decisions based on what is needed in the area and by the inhabitants. Different people from different countries and cultures use products inversely; the misuse of a product could have a major impact on the health and welfare of a society. There needs to be an understanding of how their product will be used. Demographics show that the underdeveloped countries who are mostly using the TEL. Great Lakes will be affected by the limitations they have in helping the people in these regions obtain the product that they specifically seem to produce for them (Hitt, Ireland, & Hoskisson. 2011). Technological Segments: The only technological aspect that is an issue for Great lakes is the ability to reach out to underdeveloped countries successfully and spread their product to those that would seem to be in the most need for it. With developed...
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...Assignment 1 Assignment #1: Case 11: “Great Lakes: Great Decisions” By Norvinnia J. McLaurine For Professor Sonia Heywood BUS499: Business Administration Capstone October 17, 2010 1. Perform an analysis of the Social/Demographic, Technological, Economic, Environmental/Geographic, and Political/Legal/Governmental segments to understand the general environment facing Great Lakes. Describe how Great Lakes will be affected by each of these external factors. Social/Demographic: * Brain damage in Children * Adults lead exposure leads to hypertension, hi blood pressure, and cardio vascular disease * Increased respiratory problems in the elderly * High Demand for Lead gasoline in developing countries * Shift from lead additives to unleaded additives Affect: From the Social stand point Great Lakes must realize that it plays an important role in how the government does business. If they continue giving in to their greed then in the long run there condoning the use of lead additives and gasoline. However this seems to be made easy for them due to the fact that governments of these regions are easily influence. It seems that most of them are content with sticking to the status quo. After looking at the numbers and percentage of people affected by lead I would think that Great Lakes would look a little deeper into its business practices. As a multinational corporation I would think that Great Lakes has a duty to the people in which buy their products. The...
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...ASSIGNMENT 1 GREAT LAKES: GREAT DECISION 1. Perform an analysis of the Social/Demographic, Technological, Economic, Environmental/Geographic, and Political/Legal/Governmental segments to understand the general environment facing Great Lakes. Describe how Great Lakes will be affected by each of these external factors. A. Social/Demographic: The future direction of Great Lakes will have an effect on different regions of the world, as their product continues to fill a need for leaded gas. This has the potential to impact both business and the livelihood of thousands of individual’s. There are also the potential health related problems as “the globalization of leaded gasoline has made Tetraethyl Lead (TEL) responsible for nearly 90 percent of airborne lead pollution in Third World cities today” (CorpWatch, 1997). Great Lakes will need to determine and understand what their decisions mean to the developing regions they service. B. Technological: Technology is not the issue for Great Lakes, instead the problems lies with the developing countries they serve. Until those countries are able to switch over the existing inventory of vehicles to unleaded gas, they will rely on the products supplied by Great Lakes. Additionally, there will be a need for additional refineries to supply unleaded gas, as the need for that gas spikes. To help offset the loss in profits from the switch from leaded to unleaded gas, Great Lakes has an opportunity to invest in the transition process...
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...Business Administration Capstone – BUS Affiliation Here 499 Assignment 1 Great Lakes Great Decisions Strayer University April 15, 2012 Abstract The Great Lakes Great Decision case is about the social responsibility a company leader would have to face, based on her decision on joining one of the top lead addictive producers Octel & Associates. It narrows down to two questions. Does the company end production of the lead addictive, since there have been added pressure from the environmentalist? Or do she continue for the benefit of the company’s profits and earning? Although originally a gas and oil exploration company, Great Lakes has had it changes throughout the years, since being founded in the early 1930s. Today, there are they are a top lead addictive producer, ever since the purchase of the company Octel in 1997, which in fact never sat well with US environmentalist. The Case 1.) Perform an analysis of the social / demographic, technological, economic, environmental / geographic, and political / legal / governmental segments to understand the general environment facing Great Lakes. Describe how Great Lakes will be affected by each of these external factors. The Analysis of the Social/demographic- The primary consumers of the products produced by Great Lakes—especially lead additives—comes from developing/third world countries. Although the case study does not specifically comment on the demographics of these countries or the social status of their people, it is presumed...
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...12 Assignment 1 Great Lakes Professor Mary May Bus 499 When analyzing the article “Great Lakes, Great Decisions” the six factors that are used are technological, demographical, socio-cultural, economic, political, and global. The technologically that is available is starting to leave the company behind. The article stated that some countries had not yet switched from leaded to unleaded gasoline for their cars and machinery. When the new technology is used this could leave behind some of the current customers and cause the company to lose money in the short term. The company will have to consider this when they are deciding what technology they will use and which they will skip. The largest factor’s that has impacted the Great Lakes project is the demographics and socio-cultural issues. Octel’s customers are located around the planet and from all different kind of backgrounds and economic groups. The countries that these people call home could be third world or they could be highly developed. The income distribution is wide. They do not have a stable middle class. The socio-cultural concerns are the driving force for the other five factors. When governments begin taking on the mentality and values of its people they will begin leaning toward “greener” processes which could cause the company to lose more customers. Without changing the processes and the products being offered the company could be left behind. The company will lose its market and will not...
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...Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM) Faculty Name | Dr Tapan K Panda | Year/Term | 2014 - 15/Term-1 | Course Name | Marketing Management-1 | No. of Credits | 3 | No of Contact Hours | 20 | Session Duration | 90 Min. | About the Instructor: Dr Tapan K Panda is a professor of marketing at Great Lakes Institute of Management Chennai and Director of Kotler Srinivasan Centre for Research in Marketing. Prior to joining at Great Lakes, He taught at leading business schools of India including Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, Kozhikode and Indore as a full time faculty member. He has published fifteen books in various areas of marketing and was awarded late Dewang Mehta Best Marketing Faculty Award 2011 and AIMS International Best Management Professor Award in 2013. His areas of interest include brand management, customer relationship management, digital marketing. He can be reached at tapanpanda@gmail.com Course Objectives and Key Take Away This is the first course in marketing for students of the Post Graduate Program in Management. This course is designed to acquaint students with conceptual foundation of marketing and its various facets affecting business decision making in a modern organization. It focuses on * Building clear understanding of customer orientation in organizations and how marketing serves as a value delivery mechanism. * Sensitizing students to issues related to marketing environment and how managers...
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...Pamela Lowe September 1 – October 10, 1805 Down the Lolo Trail As with other great explorers throughout history, there has always been a need to go where only myths and legends exist. When Napoleon Bonaparte refused the offer to purchase New Orleans, and countered with the opportunity for the United States to purchase the entire French claim, it was an offer too great for James Madison to refuse. The offer was taken back to the President and approved by Congress with a vote of twenty-four to seven. The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States, which was quickly becoming overcrowded. But since this region had yet to be explored no one knew what exactly they had gotten themselves into. And this would be how history arrived at the Corps of Discovery, and to the Lewis & Clark Expedition. After watching a PBS documentary about Lewis & Clark, (with my dad, who was so excited to share this with me) I chose to summarize the portion of the expedition that traveled over the Rockies. Mainly because my father’s family is from the Missoula, Montana area, my father was born in Tarkio, Montana. My mother was born in Hollywood, Idaho. She spent her childhood in the Kamiah, Weippe and Lapwai, Idaho area. I was also born in Pullman, Washington, and raised in Medical Lake, Washington. My family history is deeply entwined in the region. The expedition prior to the fall of 1805 had been easy in comparison to what lie ahead for Lewis & Clark. It seems as though...
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...known as one of the top computer distributors in the country, Dell computers recently struck a deal with an investment firm Siler Lake to ensure their continued success in the technology industry. With the constant changing of technology, Dell initially experienced great success as one of the top 3 computer manufacturers in the world. But thanks to new marketplace competition, Dell has continued to see a significant loss in sales to new and upcoming Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard. With the developments of smart phones couples with the introduction of tablets and IPads, Dell has found itself in a less than desirable state. 1. What are the main concepts of the article? As technology continues to develop and change, computer manufactures are finding they must either keep up with the popularity craze or face potential collapse. Even if successful at one point in time, the rapid changes that technology bring cause great potential for loss if a business is unable to remain fluent with current technology. IBM, is a great example, although hugely popular in the 1990s, they have been unable to keep up with new and upcoming technological geniuses such as Apple. In this type of industry, it’s important that a company have the skilled developers to create the next and upcoming technology in order to remain in this technological game. 2. This week’s reading assignment highlights types of management, management functions, organizational structure, and human resources. Please discuss these concepts...
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...Pearl Harbor is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is a United States Navy deep-water naval base. It is also the headquarters of the United States Pacific Fleet. The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941 brought the United States into World War II.[1][2][3] Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 19th century 1.2 Naval presence (1899-Present) 2 See also 3 References 4 External links History Pearl Harbor was originally an extensive deep embayment called Wai Nomi (meaning, “pearl water”) or Puʻuloa (meaning, “long hill”) by the Hawaiians. Puʻuloa was regarded as the neighbor of the dolphin god, Kaʻahupahau, and his brother (or father), Kahiʻuka, in Hawaiian legends. According to tradition, Keaunui, the head of the powerful Ewu chiefs, is credited with cutting a navigable channel near the present Puʻuloa saltworks, by which he made the estuary, known as "Pearl Lake," accessible to navigation. Making due allowance for legendary amplification, the estuary already had an outlet for its waters where the present gap is; but Keaunui is typically given the credit for widening and deepening it.[4] 19th century See also: History of Hawaii Pearl Harbor in the 1880s. During the early 19th century, Pearl Harbor was not used for large ships due to its shallow entrance. The interest of United States in the Hawaiian Islands followed its whaling and trading ships in the Pacific....
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...Research Paper: NAB Customer Service Employee Turnover Name Email GM591ON_M Leadership and Organizational Behavior Professor Date Abstract This paper will focus on the Customer Service department at North American Bancard. An overview of the company including the author's role will be explicated. Essential issues, events, and actions to help frame the problem will be identified. The problem statement will be well defined and specific enough for each reader to gain a clear idea of the Organizational Behavior topic and the direction of the research. Each reader will be given an encapsulated review of what information the author found most relevant to the research. The problem will be explored, providing an identification and description of the root causes. Solutions to the problem will be provided, supported and defended, to logically flow with the analysis of the problem. The author will reflect upon the research conducted, to show how the author's personal, academic, and professional development was influenced. Introduction: Company Overview The organization that my research will be based on for my final project is North American Bancard. North American Bancard was founded in 1992. It started with one employee in a shared office. As of today, North American Bancard has over 600 employees in a 100,000 sq. ft corporate office. The company provides merchants with the ability to accept credits cards, debit cards, EBT...
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...Sasha Watson Examples of Exemplary Leadership I have not plagiarized on any aspect of this assignment. INTRODUCTION Leadership serves as the process to influence. A true leader is not just there to lead a company, they must also have a purpose, and every organization thrives under the guidance of a strong leader. This involvement is usually accomplished by organizing a group of individuals to achieve a mutual goal. Strong leaders establish principles concerning the way each constituent should be treated and assess the way goals are executed. In addition, strong leaders take chances, understand risks and ultimately defeat unforeseen challenges likely to exist in this competitive market. For the purpose of this paper, it is essential to understand the term “exemplary leadership”. Exemplary leaders are visionaries in their own way; they look for innovative ways to improve the organization by creating bold and creative changes so they can harvest continued growth and success internally. Consequently, though leaders are unable to predict the future they do prepare diligently utilizing performance tools and emulating the core behavioral strategies to conquer their competition and thrive when least anticipated. The selected reading, Great by Choice (2011), written by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen helps strengthen the realization of true exemplary leadership. For the research analysis, the authors studied major companies that achieved remarkable results over a 15 year span...
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