Managerial Communication 510 Name – Anis S Ravuthar Student ID – ARAVUT9503 Assignment – Harvard Business review cases Topic – R. L. Wolfe Professor – Dr. Shawn Schwaner Introduction Change is inevitable however some people don’t like changes. It’s been argued every time that change is the only factor which takes you to the sky of success and prosperity. Development of the nations in the world is witnessed only because they accepted the change in their operation and function. This paper is designed to evaluate the negative growth of the Roaring Dragon Hotel (RDH) due to the change in the management and operation. It will further discuss the solution and options which can be used to overcome the issues faced by the Hotel.
Delayed marriage, delayed childbearing age, and the spacing of births, which in exceptional cases, are forms of restrictions imposed for the planning of family size. The population target set by the Government of China was 1.2 billion by the year 2000, but instead it was 1.27 billion in 2000, which was near to the government target. The Chinese government claims that this policy prevented the growth of population by nearly three hundred million people. The rate of reproduction for the Chinese family was 2.9 in 1979 and dropped down to 1.7 in 2004. For example, in Beijing, which is the largest city in China, more than half of the families have only one child ( Hesketh and Wei Xing, par 1-7).
The adjustments for 2010, 3rd quarter earnings will reduce to $98 million, down from $101.5 million, and 4th quarter will be reduced to $43 million from $114.2 million (Savitz, 2011). AMSC also stated that cash and equivalents were at $240 million quarter end, down from $260.5 million on quarter earlier (Savitz, 2011). Sinovel has no intentions of paying AMSC. This is AMSC biggest client because this client contributes to 80% of its revenues. Not good news for investors or anyone with interest in
Introduction Caterpillar shocked the business world earlier this year when it announced that it would take a $580 billion write off for 2012 Q4. This write off was in relation to Caterpillar’s acquisition the previous year of Chinese firm Siwei. Caterpillar alleged that this was the result of fraud that had been committed by Siwei’s managers. There were a lot o f questions asked in the business press. People wondered if Caterpillar had done proper due diligence, how Siwei had perpetrated the fraud, and if any Caterpillar employees had been involved.
CalPERS vs. JC Penney Overview CalPERS investment program began on February 22, 2000 when they included JC Penney on their annual Focus List. CalPERS further exclaimed that due to declining sales and a deteriorating customer base they had lost confidence in Penney’s management. Subsequent to the release of their focus list JC Penney made numerous strategic decisions to revitalize and boost the value of the company. Penney forced their current CEO James Oesterreicher to retire. Next instead of promoting from within, they searched for new blood and hired former Barney’s CEO Allen Questrom.
The new development had great impact on production such that it was delayed thus delaying delivery of the product by 30 percent. The management had no option but rather to outsource services for its assembly process from China. This called for comprehensive analysis of the situation leading hiring of consultancy services from Grunwald and Vogel. The intention of hiring Grunwald and Vogel was to help the company address the issue of late delivery that affected production. Based on the case study, risk factors that affected outsourcing process included ethical concern, quality and patent protection.
Synopsis: Toucon Collections, Inc. is an importer and distributor company with a history about 100 years. Now, its bargaining position has eroded and the gross margin slipped in recent years due to aggressive competitive bidding by others. And this case is about an opportunity for Toucon Collections to broaden their firm’s position through a contract with mass-merchandise store chain. The contract submitted by the chain stated that it would buy at 10% below Toucon’s existing prices, and that its initial purchase would be for no less than $750,000. And they estimated the purchases to be at least $4 million annually.
CISA had offered some reports and strategies to against the two giants’ requirements. They holds that China is capable of a two-month boycott on the big three miners (by the increase of domestic mining, by the reserves and cutting the number of iron ore importers). However, with a strong demand, China continues to push on with negotiations with the three ore miners. The China steelmakers claimed that the increase will be even more detrimental to small and medium-sized steel mills with smaller financial resource pools. If they accept this condition, they have to increase the prices
Demand for such vehicles can not be designed based on the jeep AMC existing, and the vehicle as desired from the Beijing Automotive Works (BAW) cost at least a $700 million. BJC and the AMC do not have the amount of money like that, and then try to convince the AMC Chinese to produce the new vehicle type Jeep Cherokee. It appeared that after convinced, the Chinese partners agreed then changed objectivity AMC began selling the cars to get money and selling the kits to get money. Appears a new problem where BJC can get foreign exchange for these kits. According to the rules when a number of foreign exchange in large numbers required a special license meanwhile BJC had never discuss about this to the Chinese government.
In 1979, when the One Child Policy was introduced, the purpose was for the Chinese population to decrease. With the policy in place, it has stopped 400 million births happening. This is a huge amount for only 35 years of being in place, so isn’t China happy with the results it has obtained? China, still believes that it needs to carry on the policy even though it has prevented so many births already; however if the policy is to be continued, it is essential for the Chinese government to work on the issue of gender equality. Due to the policy, China has too many men and not enough women, there are 120 men to every 100 girls.