Notes, summaries, assignments, exams, and problems for Baccalaureate

Strategy Formulation Process

Stage 1: Identify Company Mission and Goals

Define the business and its main objectives.

Ex: Company activities.

Stage 2: Identify Core Competency and Value-Creating Activities

Analyze the company's unique abilities and activities.

Stage 3: Formulate Strategies

Select a multinational or global strategy. Formulate corporate and business-level strategies.

Levels of Company Strategy

CHARTDPTS

1. Growth Strategy: Designed to increase the scale or scope of a corporation's operations.
   • Methods: Mergers and Acquisitions, Growth, Joint Ventures, Strategic Alliances.
   • Example: Tesla
2. Retrenchment Strategy: Designed to reduce the scale or scope of a corporation's business.
   • Example: PRISA
3. Stability Strategy: Designed to guard against change and

Understanding Business Ethics

Business ethics refer to the moral foundations that characterize the relationships companies maintain with stakeholders or interest groups. Ethics influences ordinary management and can also lead to modifying a company's strategy.

Impact on Decisions and Strategy

Business ethics affects different areas when making business decisions, especially economic and legal issues (Weiss, 2006). For example, companies involved in scams often see their reputation and share prices plummet due to a loss of confidence.

Consequences of Unethical Behavior

A recent example involves Volkswagen, following the scandal concerning the manipulation of polluting diesel engines. The collapse of companies involved in unethical practices is often...

With robots becoming more common each and every day, it is important to understand both the advantages and disadvantages that robots have. This will help enable people to better determine when to use and when to not use robots.

The Advantages of Robots

Cost: The most obvious advantage of robots is their cost. Robots are cheaper than most human counterparts, and their costs are still decreasing.

Abilities: Robotic abilities, what robots can do, are now extremely vast and growing.

Productivity: Robots do not tire and can work very long hours without service or maintenance. As a result, robots can be significantly more productive than people.

Precision: Robots can be much more precise than people. For instance, robots should not tremble or shake as...

Vocabulary

Demanding: adj. needing a lot of effort and skill. Flustered: adj. nervous and confused, especially because you have been given a lot to do or are in a hurry Bizarre: adj. very strange or unusual Think on their feet: to be able to think and react to things very quickly without any preparation Approach: noun. A way of doing or thinking about something. Rather than: phrase. Instead of Crush: verb. To destroy somebody’s confidence Recruitment agency: noun, a specialist company which finds and interviews candidates to fill job vacancies in other companies. Job seekers: noun. People who are looking for a job. Flapping: verb, moving sth quickly up and down, e.g. wings Spot on: the right answer Paid-back: devolver  Weird: raro Spooky...

Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs)

Asteroids that cross the orbits of inner planets.

Comets

Icy counterparts to asteroids, formed beyond the frostline.

Kuiper Belt

Objects outside the orbit of Neptune to the beginning of the Oort Cloud.

Asteroids

• Small, naturally formed solid bodies that orbit the Sun.
• Airless and show no detectable outflow of gas or dust.
• 18 different compositional types, ranging from solid metal to soggy dirt clods.
• Most are"rocky" consisting of common minerals and free metal. -"Iron" composed of almost pure metal (mostly iron and nickel). -"Carbonaceous Chondrite" composed of rocky material and carbon-rich compounds.

Asteroid Facts

• Rocky leftovers of planet formation.
• Largest is Ceres, diameter ~1,000 km.
• 150,000 in catalogs, and probably over

Thermal Energy

Thermal energy is the energy a body has due to the movement of its particles. Temperature is a physical magnitude which measures the thermal energy, that is, the movement of a body's particles - SI: KELVIN. The CELSIUS is more generally used. Heat is the thermal energy in transit. This process is carried out naturally between two material systems which are at different temperatures - SI: JOULES-Calories. 1 cal = 4.18 J 1 J = 0.24 Cal. Two bodies A and B have thermal equilibrium when both are at the same temperature.

Physical Changes

Temperature variation: normally the temperature of a body increases when it gains heat and decreases when it loses heat. Changes of state: when a change of state occurs, the temperature of a material...

Some decide to study abroad because they think is better and they learn more, but this is true?

Firstly, go to study in another country is better because you learn a new language, new cultures and you meet people very different from you. Furthermore you learn differently than in your country and this is cool.

Secondly, study abroad is bad because you miss your family and you get used to an environment that is not yours.

In conclusion, I believe that it is better to study in another country to live a unique experience

Unit 8

Determiners and Pronouns

• In one respect, the older games and the modern games are similar, but they are very different in another.
• Many modern games engage the player both emotionally and intellectually.
• It's no longer black and white - but every shade of grey.
• Parents and teachers both seem to overlook something important about the gaming industry.
• All
• Some
• Much
• No
• Each
• Very few
• Most
• Several
• Very little
• A lot of
• No
• None
• An awful lot (una cantidad muy grande)
• Precious little
• Second to none (Insuperable, el mejor)
• Good few (e.g., "unas buenas x horas")
• Make the most of (Aprovechar)
• Either way (De todos modos)
• All too often (Muy seguido)
• One by one (Uno x uno)
• Each and every one (Cada uno)

Vocabulary: Amount

• Small discount
• Extra charge
• Full refund
• Great deal
• High cost
• Large