Publications by Jack Tortolani
RealWorldApplications5
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? Well saying how there has only been one recession where they have kept track of both of data points I’m using....
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BestPractices6
Chater Openning Questions A manager needs to develop an early warning system that includes: Macroeconomic Warning signals, End-user information, Customer sales forecasts, and critical costs. Summary Managing through the Business Cycle Steps Description macroeconomic warning signals The early warning system should include indicators for the o...
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RealWorldApplications6
Survey of Professional Forecasters The author writes on page 31: "At the beginning of 2001, the economy was not in recession. The fourth quarter of 2000 data had not been released but would, in time, show that the economy had grown by 2.2 percent in twelve months. Forecasters were nervous, however. The consensus forecast published by the Federal ...
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BestPractice7
Chater Openning Questions A manager needs to: Assess the company’s volnerability to recession. Sketch out a contingency plan for dealing with recession. Build flexibility into the company’s day to day operations. Develop an early warning system for identifying coming downturns. Summary Table of possible options in a contiengency plan Exp...
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RealWorldApplications7
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. So my company is Grappone and...
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Chater Openning Questions A manager needs to: pay attention and be concerned about business cycles in other countries, as looking at the United States isn’t enough. 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 de...
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RealWorldApplications8
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. Assum...
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BestPractices9
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, and the regional economic cycle of the state. ## Summary Although a regional economic cycle is not perfectly synchronized with its national co...
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RealWorldApplications9
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. cou...
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BestPractices10
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, over capacity, and the price war). Summary Why capital-intensive industries are different Elements that make capital-intensive industries prone to overbuil...
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