Description: European new car sales data for September released Friday showed Volkswagen AG weathered the initial storm in the two weeks following the explosion of the emissions scandal that forced the German company to lower earnings estimates, take a EUR6.5 billion ($7.4 billion) charge and change its chief executive. Source: MarketWatch.com Date: Oct 16, 2015… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Part 3 Management: Empowering People to Achieve Business Objectives
Here’s what you need to know about the TPP
Description: The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a trade agreement that’s been in the works for years. Critics say it will ship more jobs overseas, while its supporters say the deal will be good for American workers. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Oct 05, 2015 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2015/10/05/trans-pacific-partnership-tpp-trade-deal.cnnmoney/ Questions for Discussions: What are the reasons for supporting… Read more »
Why the Cost of Your Cereal Keeps on Rising
Description: Its price tag is rising faster than that of other groceries, at a time when cereal companies shrink its packaging and cut back on coupons. What’s behind the trend? Source: NBCNew.com – video report Date: Oct 05, 2015 Link: http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/why-the-cost-of-your-cereal-keeps-on-rising-533944387539 Questions for discussion: Why are cereal prices rising while demand falls? Using SWOT analysis,… Read more »
Could Rogue Software Engineers Be Behind VW Emissions Cheating?
Description: Michael Horn, CEO of Volkswagen America, met with an incredulous response from several U.S. lawmakers Thursday when he testified that the German automaker’s emissions cheating scandal was the work of a handful of rogue employees, not a high-level corporate conspiracy. Source: NBCNews.com Date: Oct 09, 2015 Link: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/could-rogue-software-engineers-be-behind-vw-emissions-cheating-n441451 Questions for discussion: What is your… Read more »
Will Amazon.com Inc crush Etsy.com with new ‘Handmade at Amazon’ category?
Description: Retailers from booksellers to grocery stores have quaked in fear at the prospect of losing market share to Amazon.com Inc., and now the Seattle-based Internet behemoth has set its sights on the web category dominated by Etsy.com, a marketplace for artisanal and handmade goods. Source: NationalPost.com Date: Oct 08, 2015 Link: http://business.financialpost.com/news/retail-marketing/will-amazon-com-inc-crush-etsy-com-with-new-handmade-at-amazon-category Questions for… Read more »
Meet the guy who invents new beers for Anheuser-Busch
Description: Rob Naylor is a brew master at the research pilot brewery of beer giant Anheuser-Busch. Every day he dreams up, brews and tastes new types of beer looking for the next big hit. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Sep 30, 2015 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2015/09/30/anheuser-busch-research-pilot-brewery-beer-new-flavors.cnnmoney/ Questions for Discussions: How is this large brewery competing against… Read more »
Why America’s Oil Output Refuses to Collapse
Description: Somewhere amid the maze of wells that Murphy Oil Corp. has scattered across Texas’s sprawling Eagle Ford shale formation, Brett Pennington is carrying out a little experiment. Source: Bloomberg.com – video report Date: Oct 01, 2015 Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-30/america-s-oil-output-refuses-to-collapse-here-s-one-reason-why-#r=read Questions for Discussions: How has the management of oil companies reacted to collapsing oil and sand… Read more »
The Decline of “Big Soda”
Description: The drop in soda consumption represents the single biggest change in the American diet in the last decade. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Oct 04, 2015 Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/upshot/soda-industry-struggles-as-consumer-tastes-change.html?ref=business&_r=0 Questions for discussion: What is happening to the soda industry? How are companies responding to the challenges?
The ‘Yelp for people’ app has everyone freaked out
Description: Many think friend-rating app Peeple is a really bad idea Source: MarketWatch.com Date: Oct 01, 2015 Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/friend-rating-app-peeple-has-everyone-freaked-out-2015-10-01 Questions for discussion: With the recent controversies surrounding existing social media companies in mind, what are some of the special managerial concerns related to such an app? Do you think the concept will appeal to the… Read more »
3 things you need to know about the Volkswagen scandal
Description: You might have heard that VW has admitted to cheating on emissions tests. But how did they do it? And what does it mean if you’re driving a diesel-powered Volkswagen? CNNMoney auto expert Peter Valdes-Dapena explains everything you need to know. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Sep 23, 2015 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2015/09/22/volkswagen-emissions-cheating-scandal-explained.cnnmoney/ Questions for… Read more »
