Business research for decision making unit 4 db & (peer responses)
Description
Graduate Programs Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards (DB) are a key component of online learning. They foster active participation of learners and dialogue with fellow learners and instructors. Graduate-level courses require learners to create original posts to course DBs and to engage in dialogue by responding to posts created by others throughout the course. Original posts and responses should be substantive, and if references are made to the works of others, APA guidelines for in-text citations and references apply.
Minimum Weekly DB Expectations
Post an original and thoughtful Main Post to the DB prompt.
Respond to at least 2 other posts from learners and/or the instructor (Response Posts).
The first contribution (Main Post or Response Post) must be posted before midnight (Central time) on Friday of each week.
Two additional responses are required after Friday of each week.
For DB assignment prompts with a Part One and Part Two, Part One should be addressed in the first week of the unit with a Main Post and minimum of 2 Response Posts, and Part Two should be addressed in the second week of the unit with a Main Post and a minimum of 2 Response Posts.
More on DBs
At the end of each unit, DB participation is assessed based on level of engagement and the quality of the contribution to the discussion. DBs allow learners to learn through sharing ideas and experiences as they relate to course content. Because it is not possible to engage in two-way dialogue after a conversation has ended, no posts to the DB are accepted after the end of the unit. Learners must demonstrate an appropriate depth of understanding of course content to receive credit for having submitted substantive posts. Typically, this is achieved with 34 strong paragraphs for Main Posts and 23 strong paragraphs for Response Posts.
This DB has three parts:
Compare and contrast vertical and horizontal integration. What are some of the variables make each of these integrations valuable? Provide an example of a vertical and a horizontal integration that has happened recently.
In what circumstances should an organization consider diversification as a viable strategy?
What benefit does a global strategy provide an organization? Describe a situation when a global strategy would not be a viable solution for an organization.
In your own words, please post a response to the Discussion Board and comment on other postings. You will be graded on the quality of your postings.
Company x’s principal strength is its inbound and outbound
22. Company X’s principal strength is its inbound and outbound logistics system; its relative weakness, however, is after-sales service. Its competitor, Company Y, however is often plagued with lagging shipments and an inflexible distribution setup. Company Y remains successful because it maintains a fully staffed service department and, as a result, the company is known for its dependable service. This type of analysis allows them to identify ways to build on relative strengths and avoid dependence on capabilities at which the other firm excels.
DisaggregatingPast performance comparisonBenchmarkingIndustry comparison
23. The ability to meet humanitys needs without harming future generations is now a top priority in most corporate agenda
rulesrighteousnessethicssustainability
24.Which component of a marketing audit includes major developments in income, prices, savings, and credit that affect the company?
CulturalPoliticalTechnologicalEconomic
25.Prestige LLC, a small company that manufactures specialty cereals and energy bars, wants to launch a “green marketing” program in response to heightened consumer awareness about environmental issues. What should the company do to maximize the program’s chances of being successful?
Explain the rules and regulations laid out by governmental agencies to protect the environment.
Demonstrate that the products will benefit both customers and the society in the long-term.
Emphasize benefits to the consumer rather than environmental benefits.
Focus on the efforts and costs incurred by the company to bring these “green” products to consumers.
26.The marketing manager needs to know the cost of the research project before approving it. During which stage of the marketing research process would such a consideration most likely take place?
Step 1 defining the problem
Step 4 analyzing the information
Step 2 developing the research plan
Step 5 drafting the report
27.New-to-the-world products are ________.
low-cost products designed to obtain an edge in highly competitive markets
existing products that are targeted to new geographical markets
new product enhancements that supplement established products
new products that create an entirely new market
28.A set of ideas on organizational control based on the belief that the separation of the ownership from management creates the potential for the wishes of owners to be ignored refers to
the moral hazard problemethical responsibilitiesAdams theoryagency theory
29.Which control should periodically reassess its approach to the marketplace with a good marketing audit?
Marketing controlStrategic controlEthical controlPerformance control
30. BMW’s “The ultimate driving machine,” American Express’ “Don’t leave home without it,” New York Times’ “All the news that’s fit to print,” and AT&T’s “Reach out and touch someone” are all examples of ________.
brand sloganbrand missionbrand visionbrand personality
Case study mba schools in asia-pacific*****already a++ rated
Use the following questions for guidelines and directions on what to include in the report:
1. What is the type of data (Quantitative or Qualitative) for each of the columns (variables) in the dataset? If quantitative, is the data discrete or continuous? Neatly summarize your response below in a table for all the columns (variable).
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2. Using Excel, find the mean, median, standard deviation, minimum, maximum, and the three quartiles for each of the quantitative variables identified in part 1 above. Neatly summarize it below in a table on this document. Comment on what you observe.
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3. What are the minimum and maximum full-time enrollments? Which schools have the minimum and maximum full-time enrollments?
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4. What is the average number of students per faculty member? Is this low or high? What does this mean to prospective applicants who are interested in pursuing an MBA in one of the leading international business schools?
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5. What are the mean, median, and modal ages? What does this mean to prospective applicants?
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6. What is the mean percentage of foreign students? How many and which schools have 1% and 0% foreign students? Which schools have highest percentage of foreign students? Please state these percentages.
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7. What percentage of schools require the GMAT test?
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8. What percentage of schools require English tests such as Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)?
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9. What percentage of schools require work experience? From this percentage, does this appear to be a significant factor in gaining admissions?
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10. What are the mean and median starting salaries? Which schools have the minimum and maximum starting salaries? How much are these minimum and maximum salaries?
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11. What are the mean tuition for foreign students and for local students? Does there appear to be a significant difference? What is the difference between the two means?
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12. How many schools require work experience and how many of them dont? What is the mean starting salary for schools requiring work experience? What is the mean starting salary for schools requiring no work experience?
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13. How many schools require English tests and how many dont? What is the mean starting salary for schools requiring English tests? What is the mean starting salary for schools requiring no English tests?
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14. Comment on the skewness for the data on starting salaries.
a. Plot a histogram and determine the skewness.
b. Find the skewness coefficient.
c. Find the mean, median, and mode for starting salaries and compare the three measures to determine skewness.
Finally, use Empirical Rule on the starting salaries and determine whether the salaries follow the Empirical Rule.
Uml and class diagrams using ibm rational software architect
All Diagrams MUST BE Completed with IBM Rational Software Architect!!!
Scenario/Summary
As the software architect for the SRS system, you are making good progress in your work. After finishing the Functional Modeling (activity diagram, use case diagram, and use case descriptions) of the SRS system, you are now ready to move on.
In this week, you will use the models of your Functional Modeling to determine and design your class diagram and complete a CRC card for each class. The Structural Modeling is very critical for the success of your project since it is the backbone upon which the entire project is built, so take the time to design and refine your class diagram and its corresponding CRC cards.
Deliverables: wk3
Class diagram for the SRS system
CRC cards for each class in your class diagram
Verification and validation of your work
Explanation of your work
In this week, you will use your functional and structural models as the basis for your behavioral models that need to be developed for the SRS system. Specifically, your deliverables for this week are designed to develop these two behavioral diagrams for the Register a Student for Classes use case.
Sequence diagram
Communication diagram
In addition, you will also need to create a state machine diagram for the RegistrationRecord class (the class that maintains the registration of a student in a class).
These behavioral model and diagrams are major milestones in your architectural and design work. They give you your first opportunity to verify that your use case (in this case, Register a Student for Classes) could actually be implemented using the objects of your class diagram design. If you reach this verification, then you are done with the analysis phase of your SRS project.
Deliverables: wk4
Sequence diagram for the Register a Student for Classes use case
Communication diagram for the Register a Student for Classes use case
State Machine diagram for a RegistrationRecord object
Verification and validation of your work
Explanation of your work
start the design phase where you generate specific directions for the implementation of the system by the software development group. The first step in the design phase is to examine the SRS class diagram and to try to simplify its organization using a package diagram. The package diagram ensures that classes that belong together are grouped into a single package and thus simplify the development of these classes and their maintenance.
Deliverables: wk5
SRS package diagram
Verification and validation of your work
Explanation of your work
Business & finance 5-2 milestone two submission assignment | BUS 400 – Driving Business Opportunities
Overview
You are excited to see the possibilities after finishing the Business Model Canvas Template. The next step is the development of the BMC slide deck for review by the experienced former project manager mentioned in the Module Four assignment.
Scenario
In the BMC slide deck, you will make educated assumptions (based on research in Marketline, Yahoo Finance, or the companys website) about your selected companys resources, partnerships, cost structures (what needs to be paid for), how the product or service will be marketed, value delivery (product sold online, in-store, or both), and the unique value proposition for a specific targeted market segment.
All 9 segments of your redeveloped BMC must encompass elements to achieve new product/service feasibility.
Beyond profitability, other key elements that the experienced project manager stressed were diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), as well as corporate social responsibility (CSR). In the marketplace, companies that have diverse project teams get varied perspectives that help the overall project. Just as important, companies that give back to the communities they serve do better and are supported by millennial buyersa big target segment for many companies.
Financials, DEI, and CSR must be addressed in the funding pitch, which you will complete as your course project, due in Module Seven.
Prompt
You will create a slide deck that will help you expand on your BMC chart in detail as you refine how your selected company will create value for itself while delivering a new product or service for customers. Complete the Milestone Two Template linked in the Guidelines for Submission section for this assignment.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Deliver a unique value proposition.
Leveraging the blue ocean strategy, what makes the product or service unique?
How does it provide a strategic advantage in the marketplace?
Answer key business model questions about the customer.
Customer acquisitions
Revenue models
Price points for the product/service
Key activities for the value proposition (product or service)
Answer key business model questions about assets, partners, and cost.
Assets available
Key partners
Cost structures
Import your existing business model canvas chart from Module Four.
Clarify your business model assumptions.
Check your assumptions
Complete the assumptions chart
Prepare to meet customers.
Highlight the materials needed
Update your documentation.
Targeted segment
Type of value delivered
How the product is unique
Update your business model.
Complete any updates to the BMC chart
Guidelines for Submission
Submit the completed Milestone Two Template PPT. Sources should be cited according to APA style.
I have attached my last week assignment for reference
Also, I have attached this week’s template for the assignment.
Small business week 1 discussion
Discussion – Week 1COLLAPSE
Small Business Ethics
Small business owners firmly believe in their business, and are closely vested in the success of their venture. Instead of working for someone else, they work for themselves. As a result, they not only own the business, they own the benefits, challenges, and ethical obligations of operating a small business.
To prepare for this Discussion, read Case 2, G & R Garden Center: Lawn Care Services Division in your Entrepreneurial Small Business textbook, and consider the ethical issues involved. Do you believe that the Ash family should continue or discontinue the Big Rick, The Lawn & Garden Doctor division of their company? What are the risks and benefits of each option? Are there any other ethical and moral responsibilities that the company has to its consumers outside of those required by the law and, if so what are they?
Post your response by Day 3.
Read a selection of your colleagues postings.
Respond by Day 5 to two or more of your colleagues’ postings in one or more of the following ways:
Ask a probing question.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues posting.
Offer and support an opinion.
Make a suggestion.
Expand on your colleagues posting.
Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you learned and the insights you gained as a result of the comments your colleagues made.
Be sure to support your work with specific citations from the Learning Resources and any additional sources.
Click on the Reply button below to reveal the textbox for entering your message. Then click on the Submit button to post your message
What lessons do the ancient greeks teach us about the role of
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Question: WHAT LESSONS DO THE ANCIENT GREEKS TEACH US ABOUT THE ROLE OF PERSONAL CHARACTER IN A GOOD NATIONAL LEADER?
Instructions:
Create a composite leader who exemplifies the qualities which the Ancient Greeks desired in a good leader. Construct your composite Greek leader by identifying and explaining significant acts by at least five (5) people created by Hesiod, Homer and/or Sophocles which demonstrate how personal character effects the actions and the effectiveness of a good leader. What can we learn from the ancient Greek ideas, which link personal character and leadership success that would help us to more clearly judge the competence of our national leaders?
Pay most attention to how, in the Greek mind, character affects the style, methods and effectiveness of national leaders.
Essay should not be an evaluation of the individual policies of modern leaders regarding specific issues such as war or the economy.
The writing guidelines at the Course Material link and the Pocket Style Manual have instructions and criteria that should be applied in the composition and correction of your work and the work of the student you evaluate. See Course Material among the menu selections on the Course Content page. Click on Selected Course Readings and consult Format for Constructing a Thesis and Considerations for Writing Papers.
Phil, please follow professors request below:
WHEN EVALUATING ESSAY CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING:
1. Where and how well does the paper follow the directions of the assignment?
2. Can you see that the writer understands Greek ideas about leadership, honor and the heroic and can draw parallels from it to the actions of recent national and local leaders?
3. Does the writer use specific examples from class readings in the analysis?
4. Are the examples from class readings adequate support for the writers thesis? Why or why not?
5. Are there additional elements in Greek literature that could be used in a better fashion by the author?
6. Has the author used clear examples from the readings to illustrate points? Explain why or why not.
7. Are there other Greek writings that could help to improve the essay?
8. Is the paper well written?
9. Does the paper have a clear thesis?
10. Is the thesis well developed?
11. Does the writer use correct grammar?
12. Is the essay well organized: does it have an introduction and a conclusion? Explain why or why not.
13. Focus the greatest part of your evaluation on points 1 through 3!
Items 1 through 5 above are the criteria that are used by the Professor and the Teaching Assistant to evaluate your final paper
Expanding the organization | MGT 576
Choose 1 country that the organization (Home Depot) youve been working on in this course could consider expanding into.
Read the selected article from the University Library.
Analyze that potential international market by considering the 4 aspects of the Diamond of National Advantage: industry rivalry, demand conditions, related and supporting industries, and factor endowments.
Analyze the forces (in the home market and international market) that will help the organization succeed with its expansion and the forces that may act as barriers to that expansion. Refer to your analysis of strengths and weaknesses completed in Wk 1, Porters Five Forces worksheet from Wk 3, and your analysis of the Diamond of National Advantage.
Evaluate the 4 adjustments leaders must make when expanding internationally (Burkus, 2012). Recommend 1 specific leadership action for each adjustment, such as developing a global mindset, developing sensitivity to cultural differences, decentralizing, deciding on the level of involvement, etc.
Recommend whether the organization should expand into the chosen country. Explain your rationale.
Create a Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation to present your analysis and recommendation. Include the following sections in your presentation:
A cover slide
An agenda
Identification of the country you have chosen (1 slide, with brief speakers notes)
1 slide for?analysis of?each of the elements of the Diamond of National Advantage (4 slides, with speakers notes)
A summary of the analysis of the forces that will help the organization succeed in the new country (1 slide, with speakers notes)
A summary?of the analysis of the forces that will hinder the organizations success in the new country (1 slide, with speakers notes)
Leadership actions are required to make the 4 adjustments identified by Burkus (2012)
A recommendation and rationale?(1 slide, with speakers notes)
A conclusion
References
Cite references to support your assignment.
Empowering Growth Mindset in Education Discussion
Growth MindsetRead Carol Dwecks article, Revisiting the Growth Mindset (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and summarize what it is means to have a growth mindset and how is it different than a fixed mindset. Consider the triggers identified in the article and elaborate on any of them that may be alive in you. Defend your thoughts about how and why it is important for educators to have a Growth Mindset.Guided Response: Consider and respond to the thoughts about the Growth Mindset shared in at least two of your classmates posts. Provide your reaction to their thoughts by sharing your agreement, disagreement or suggestions to further their foundation. In addition to your two classmate responses, be sure to respond to any questions or comments posted by your instructor.You can use the Writing a Good Discussion Board Post (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. document to help create your responses.Week 4 – Discussion 2( 300 words)Week 4 – Discussion 21 1 unread reply. 1 1 reply. Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Refer to the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric under the Settings icon above for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated. Do You Believe in Me?View Dalton Shermans famous keynote speech, Do You Believe in Me? (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. At the time of this speech in 2008, Dalton was a 10 year old entering into the fifth (5th) grade. He address over 17,000 educators from the Dallas Texas area, challenging them to believe in him and his classmates.Then view the same young man seven (7) years later as he addresses educators at the Extra Yard for Teacher summit in 2015 with his Dont Lose Your Joy (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. speech.After viewing the Do You Believe in Me? (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., and the Extra Yard for Teachers Summit 2015 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., based on the Six Pillars of Character, consider the target career option in education you researched in week three, and what you know about the importance of mindset in both the student and the educator. Craft a discussion response that explains three specific ways you will show your students that you believe in them as you create your own classroom culture and climate.
Annotated bibliography on economic data
OVERVIEWIn preparation for writing each of your Discussions, you should submit your AnnotatedBibliography Assignment on the topic that is being covered for the week (Marketing,Accounting, Finance, Management, Economic Data Analysis, International Business).INSTRUCTIONSAn annotated bibliography is a list of sources (books, journals, Web sites, periodicals, etc.) onehas used for researching a topic (Annotated Bibliographies, 2020).For all sources used in your Discussion you should:
? Provide an APA formatted Citation (this should look like what you would include in anormal reference section.
? Summarize the source and discuss the research study that was conducted and what thefindings were.
? Assess the source and discuss how useful it is and how it compares with other sources inyour paper.
? Reflect on how the source will be useful to you in your discussion. How does it help toshape your argument and how are you using it to shape your writing?Each annotation should look like:
Author (year). Title of article. Title of Journal, Vol no(issue). Pg to pg.In your summary, you will begin with a discussion of the research question the study isattempting to answer. You will summarize the research that was conducted and the specificfindings that were uncovered. You will then provide a summary of what this means for the topic.Next, you will discuss how the source compares with other sources in your paper and how usefulis the source in attributing to your writing.Finally, you will discuss how the source is useful in your discussion. You will need to be specificon why it is important to use and exactly how you will use it in your writing to shape yourarguments.*Do not use I in any of the annotations.Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.
