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    Volvo in Corporate Social Responsibility. Avinash Adapa(1678167) Prof Eleni P.Mylonas EPS 8R Fairleigh Dickinson University DATE: 09-27-2014 Abstract Corporate Social Responsibility means their responsibility towards the community and the environment (both in ecological and social)

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    On The Move Reflection

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    On the Move My family and I depended on my father for a paycheck every month to pay for bills and groceries, but one month the paycheck never came. My father had lost his job from Caterpillar in Decatur, Illinois. When it happened, I was in third grade, and I had no worries, didn’t care about how I looked, and made sure that I was doing well in school. My younger brothers were in kindergarten and preschool at the time, were six and three years old, and only cared about the toys they wanted from

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    Gender, Race, And Class

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    In the All-New Volvo XC90 commercial the first words to appear on the screen is “What is Luxury?” In this commercial it appears that luxury can only be afforded by primarily white, rich males. The media in the United States has made a lot of progress towards showing gender and racial equality on TV but America still has a long way to go. As of 2015 white men still have a patriarchal ranking in media compared to women and minorities. This essay will be discussing how intersectionality, such as gender

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    Automobile Safety Essay

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    People in developed countries all over the world have come to see automobiles as the preferred way to travel. They allow independence: point to point transportation without having to rely on others to get where we want to go, to do what we want to do. Long range travel and short range travel can be undertaken whenever one desires, either alone or with other people. Citizens of the modern world must often wonder how people ever lived without automobiles. To think that human beings once traveled

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    Bastion Of Correctness

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    powerful businessman, and one who is always in control. This advertisement for Volvo was also featured in the September 2006 issue of Car and Driver. This image varies significantly from the Jaguar ad. It depicts a woman driving a car with two male passengers. However, despite the more modern view of women, this ad has undertones which reveal much about the differences in the way men and women think. For years, Volvo has been has set the bar for automotive safety. In general this tends to appeal

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    How GEELY was developed and created GEELY which is based in Zhejiang is a famous Chinese car company. However, GEELY is developing better and better. Hence the aim of this paper is to analyse GEELY and examine why this particular company has become more successful than other Chinese car companies. GEELY was founded on the 6th of November in 1986. However, GEELY was started to produce fridges. In 1994, GEELY started motorcycle manufacturing. In 1997, GEELY entered the automobile industry. This company

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    Executive Summary: The USA has an active automobile industry, and this is attributed to the availability of a market for the cars. “In 2015, the auto sales record were broken in the USA, a new record of 1,641,913 vehicles were sold up from 1,507,229 in 2014. Ford Motor Co. was among the top sellers with their sales standing at 237, 606” (Automotive News, 2016). The quality of automobiles in the USA has been improving thanks to the policies adopted by the government and the competition between players

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    Introduction Ford Motor Company is a pioneer in the automotive industry; based in Dearborn, Michigan it assembles and distributes automobiles throughout six continents. The company’s automotive brands include Ford and Lincoln. With over 187,000 employees and 62 plants worldwide, the company additionally provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. By 31 December 2014, Ford sold approximately 6.3 million vehicles worldwide, distributing from 11,980 dealerships. With no one, dominant

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    Luxury Car Market

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    There are distinctive barriers to entry in the automotive industry. The main 10 firms operating in the automotive industry have great power in terms of reputation, finances, experience, technology and existing large product portfolios. It would be highly difficult for a new company to compete with the above.
• The existing companies within the industry are joining forces, which at times do have detrimental effects for new comers to the market and for some existing companies. For instance, the

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    Ford Motor Company is presently ranked as the fifth biggest automobile brand in the world. In 2014, it produced about 6 million automobiles and generated revenues of $142 billion in 2015, mainly through sales in the United States, which continues to remain its biggest market. The mission statement of Ford Motor Company is “one team, one plan, one goal”, which is best understood in terms of the “One Ford” mission that is now a major element of the One Ford plan introduced in 2008. One team implies

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