Take Your Pick
Due date. March 06 2014
We’d like you to design and develop strategy for a large, public company. And, we’d like you to do so using the

themes within the two modules we’ve just completed: Risk Management and the International module. Essentially,

we’d like to put you into the shoes of the CEO and design a few key strategies that would help grow earnings and

reduce risk in the company’s operations.
Let’s get a bit more specific. Review GENERAL MOTORS company and examine what the company is doing now, both in

terms of risk management global strategy. In particular, here’s what we recommend you do:
Pull up a company’s annual report (10-K).
Read the entire section titled “ Item 1” (includes items describing the general business) and “Item 1A” (also

known as the risks section).
Then, read the section titled “ Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of

Operations.”
Next, examine the company’s international business situation. Sometimes, this information is located in a section

called “Operating Segments” other times it is not. You might have to dig around for this info.
Also, search the document (hitting CTRL+F usually does the trick) and enter keywords that include “ derivatives”

and “hedging.”