Publications by Ashley Plante
Best Practices 5
Chapter Opening Questions A manager needs to monitor: Assess the company’s vulnerability to recession Sketch out a contingency plan for dealing with recession build flexibility into the day-to-day operations Develop an early warning system to identify coming downturns Summary Managing through the Business Cycle Steps Description Assess vuln...
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Best Practices 7
Chapter Opening Questions A manager needs to: a series of steps he/she can take to cut costs to survive recessions and how to spot opportunities to take advantage of recessions Summary Table of possible options in a contingency plan Expecting a downturn During moderate downturns During severe recessions capital spending reevaluate cut entirely...
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Real World Applications 5
The vunerability assessment Analyze the data for your client company’s industry and answer the following questions. How much have sales in the industry declined in the recession? What’s the worst that has happened in the past? In the recession in 2008-2009, the industry dropped nearly 12% in sales. There was a significant decline in 2005 th...
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Real World Applications 7
Evaluate your client company’s contingency plan Read your client company’s response, see whether it is consistent with lessons we learned in chapter seven and whether you can improve it by applying this week’s lessons. Elaborate at least in 200 words and cite the lessons from the Best Practices 7 assignment. Grappone includes some key steps...
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Best Practices 8
Chapter Opening Questions A manager needs to: monitor the economic cycle to ensure the same amount of flexibility in foreign countries as there is in the US. Summary For a major industrialized country, the monitoring system would closely resemble that used in the United States with an addition of foreign exchange risk. For a less developed count...
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Best Practices 9
Chapter Opening Questions A business manager, to assess the risk of a regional recession, needs to monitor the national economic cycle, the national cycle of the most important industries in the state/region, and the internal growth cycle/the regional economic cycle of the state. Summary Although a regional economic cycle is not perfectly synchr...
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Real World Applications 9
Economic Dashboard Location Quotient https://www.analyticsforeconomics.com/ Your interpretation Examine the chart above and answer the following questions in at least 200 words. What is the status of New Hampshire’s economy now? Is it in a recession? Is a recession around the corner? How similar is New Hampshire’s economy to its U.S. count...
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Real World Applications 8
None of our client companies operate in a foreign country. They don’t sell into a foreign market. Nor do they manufacture in a foreign market. So we will use a hypothetical manufacturing company, Daewoo, for the assignment. Daewoo is an American automobile manufacturing company that makes cars in the U.S. and sells in the U.K. market. Assume th...
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Best Practices 10
Chapter Opening Questions A business manager in a capital-intensive industry needs to monitor its own industry cycles because they routinely experience (a visual cycle of over investment, overcapacity, and the price war/weaknesses). Summary Why capital-intensive industries are different Elements that make capital-intensive industries prone to o...
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Real World Applications 10
Assume Daewoo, a hypothetical oil extraction company, has the following cost structure. It spends: • $40/barrel on labor costs, raw materials, energy, and • $35/barrel on interest, depreciation, insurance, and administrative staff expense. Read the textbook carefully, and answer the following questions. A recession hits, the market price of ...
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