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    The GM Foundation The General Motors (GM) Foundation was fashioned in 1976 with a purpose to support and strengthen communities across the country. However in the past year GM has decided to take the foundation in a new direction renaming it GM Philanthropy and Corporate Giving but the transition will not take place until the end of calendar year 2016 (Cain, 2016). The foundation focuses on donating money to projects in the areas of sustainability, STEM education, safety, and to teamGM Cares which

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    OUTSOURCE INSOURCE FINAL BUSINESS ANALYSIS PAPER ON GENERAL MOTORS (GM) 1 Outsource Insource Final Paper Patricia J Helligar Capella University ISTM 5010 Dr Mike 03/15/2013 OUTSOURCE INSOURCE FINAL BUSINESS ANALYSIS PAPER ON GENERAL MOTORS (GM) Table of Contents 2 Part 1 – General Motors - The firm I will analyze for my final project and the major topic that will be addressed .................................................................................................... 3

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    Marketing Strategies of General Motors Aditya Sanaboyina Professor Meaghan Cordero Fairleigh Dickinson University Fall 2015 Creation, acceleration and emotion are the key components for any automobile industry to deliver its goods to the expected standards. General Motors, popularly known as GM has been a pioneer in the global autoindustry for more than 100 years. Developing from horseless carriages to the latest sports cars, innovations have always excelled at putting the world

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    GENERAL MOTORS CANADA General Motors Canada stands a truly sustainable company. The general Motors Canada Company is a very sustainable company in a variety of ways, mainly known in three categories as economic, social, and environmental sustainability. General Motors Canada is as mentioned, sustainable in each of these and is striving to be greater as well. General Motors Canada is a truly environmentally sustainable company as General Motors Canada helps gain, aid and discovers new and eco-friendly

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    General Motors is one of the largest car manufacturing companies in the world. Best known for their automobiles, General motors have become a household name and an empire. It did so not only by selecting the right brands and manufacturers to work with but by remaining innovative and creating designs as rapidly as society develops. If you don’t think of GM when thinking of the auto industry, surely one of their many popular brands comes to mind. The general motors company is home to the well-known

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    Introduction The beginning of the General Motors recall crisis was the alleged failure by the company to recall its faulty cars on time, despite having known about the ignition switch problem, which persisted over a decade. The aforementioned design flaw in over a million vehicles, which caused hundreds of fatalities, was well known by the company’s management, before the decision to recall the faulty vehicles. Ethical issues relate to the recall crisis concern GM’s favoring cover-up over legal considerations

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    General Motors Company Billy Durant was a young man who worked as an itinerant salesman while managing bowling alleys. While working as a salesman and managing bowling alleys Durant, founded an organization that became the United States largest industrial company nationwide. In 1886, Durant launched a manufacturing horse-drawn carriage business and over the next several years he invested lots of his own money in notable manufacturers such a Buick Motor Company. By 1908, Durant created General

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    [pic] GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY Case Study Radencovici Octavian Tudorica Alexandru Lupu Mariana Bartoloni Giulio General Motors Corporation “Engineered without compromise” 1. General Presentation of the company One of the world’s largest automakers, GMC has it’s roots traced back to 1908. Also known as GM, this company is a United States-based automaker with its headquarters in Detroit, Michigan. After the General Motors Company was founded, it soon became known as one of the largest car manufacturers

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    General Motors North America market share in 2005 fell to 25.5% compared to 26.7 in 2004. Decreased in market share also due to sales declines in segment where GM has high volume such as large sport utilities, mid-sized utilities, and mid-sized cars. The unfavorable

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    The General Motor Corporation and Alfred Sloan Khanh Do Phuong Phan Operation Management Fall 2015 Writing Paper Introduction There are few of important personalities who have made tremendous contribution to the process of industrialization of America. These industrialists help the economy of the country improving and developing. One of such famous inventor who has significant contribution to the operational management of the auto industry back in the old time was Alfred Sloan Jr. Sloan was known

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