Read and understand the case. Show your analysis and reasoning and make it clear you understand the material. Incorporate the concepts of the chapter we are studying to show your reasoning.

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Case Analysis

The cases used are at the end of every chapter. Each case also has case questions that must be addressed. To best understand the cases, read Guide to Reading Cases on pages xli to xliv in the textbook.

The Case Analysis has assignments due in Weeks 3 and 8. These are all very similar except for the assigned chapters. A reflection component has been added in Week 8.

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Week 3 Case Analysis Assignment (200 points)
This assignment will consist of an APA format paper.

Case Analysis Paper: Each student will choose five cases, each from a different chapter, from the readings in Weeks 1 through 3 (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9). The paper should be divided into sections where each case is under a heading with the case name and page number on it. A common reference page will be used for all three cases.

Your responses should be well-rounded and analytical and should not just provide a conclusion or an opinion without explaining the reason for the choice. For full credit, you must use the material from the textbook by using APA citation with page numbers when responding to the questions.

Utilize the case format below.
Read and understand the case. Show your analysis and reasoning and make it clear you understand the material. Be sure to incorporate the concepts of the chapter we are studying to show your reasoning. For each of the cases you select, dedicate one subheading to each of the following outline topics.

-Case: (Identify the name of the case and page number in the textbook.)
-Parties: (Identify the plaintiff and the defendant.)
-Facts: (Summarize only those facts critical to the outcome of the case.)
-Issue: (Note the central question or questions on which the case turns.)
-Applicable Law(s): (Identify the applicable laws.) Use the textbook here by using citations. The law should come from the same chapter as the case. Be sure to use citations from the textbook including page numbers.
-Holding: (How did the court resolve the issue(s)? Who won?)
-Reasoning: (Explain the logic that supported the court’s decision.)
-Case Questions: (Explain the logic that supported the court’s decision.) Dedicate one subheading to each of the case questions immediately following the case. First, fully state the question from the book and then fully answer.
-Conclusion: (This should summarize the key aspects of the decision and also your recommendations on the court’s ruling.)

Include citations and a reference page with your sources for all of the cases. Use APA-style citations with page numbers and references.

Develop an executive-level PowerPoint presentation with 8-12 slides that contain speaker notes and appropriate graphics. Create a SWOT analysis for the company to determine its major strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

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Executive-level PowerPoint presentation

-Develop an executive-level PowerPoint presentation with 8-12 slides that contain speaker notes and appropriate graphics.
-Create a SWOT analysis for the company to determine its major strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
-Based on the SWOT analysis, outline a strategy for the company to capitalize on its strengths and opportunities, and minimize its weaknesses and threats.
-Discuss the various levels and types of strategies the firm may use to maximize its competitiveness and profitability.
-Outline a communications plan the company could use to make the strategies you recommend above known to all stakeholders.
-Assess efforts by this corporation to be a responsible (ethical) corporate citizen and determine the impact these efforts (or lack thereof) have on the company’s bottom line. Provide specific examples to support your response.

Read the lesson material as well as the articles by TechRadar and also by Spencer referenced in your study materials. Compare at least two of the tools, examining advantages and disadvantages of each type.

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Participate in a presentation

Sometime in the course of your education or your career you will probably be asked to lead or participate in a presentation. You’ll find it valuable to know the options available for presenting information to a group in a clear and engaging manner.

Read the lesson material as well as the articles by TechRadar and also by Spencer referenced in your study materials. (You may also do further research, if desired.) Then compose a brief document of between 500 and 850 words (approximately 2 to 3 pages long). Your document should do all of the following:

Compare at least two of the tools, examining advantages and disadvantages of each type.

Speculate about why a particular situation or setting might call for one type of software over another.

Think about classroom, social, or workplace experience you have had as an audience member for a presentation. Critique one aspect (either positive or negative) of the presenter’s use of presentation software. [MO 5.1, MO 5.2]

https://www.techradar.com/best/free-presentation-software
TechRadar’s list of the best free presentation software
https://business.tutsplus.com/articles/online-free-presentation-software–cms-30002
Spencer, L. (2020, June 26). The 15 best free online web presentation software tools for 2020.

Explain how you can use this blog post, article, or report as a model for your own future effective writing. Analyze what you will want to do in the future to ensure that your writing, too, is effective.

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Effective writing

This assignment asks you to consider what effective writing is and what you can do to become a stronger, more effective writer, as well as giving you the opportunity to practice your own writing skills and get constructive feedback from your instructor.

Read one of the following:
• an informal blog post from the Internet
• a short peer-reviewed journal article from the PG library
• a business report located on the Internet

NOTE: The blog, peer-reviewed journal article, or report you choose must address an issue (like a problem, an advancement, a new discovery, or a recommendation for a change or solution to an issue) in your field of study (Business Administration) that you want to learn something about or that interests you. Do not choose an article listing qualifications for a job or a career field, an article that simply lists facts, a newspaper article, or an encyclopedia entry, for this assignment.

TASK: Your assignment is to write a double-spaced, two-paragraph review in which you define the qualities of the blog, article, or report that make it effectively written and then explain
how you might use this blog, article, or report as a model for your own future writing effectiveness.

Use the following chart to help ensure that you meet the following expectations in the final draft of your Assignment

Paragraph 1
• Define effective writing and your own thoughts about what this term means.
• Identify the article, blog, or report you read and then apply your definition of effective writing to explain how the article, blog, or report you read is effectively written. Consider how this writer establishes and develops a main point and meets the intended audience’s needs, for example.

Paragraph 2
• Explain how you can use this blog post, article, or report as a model for your own future effective writing.
• Analyze what you will want to do in the future to ensure that your writing, too, is effective.

References:
• After the 2nd paragraph of your paper, also include a References list with links to the Writing Center information you use, as well as to the article, blog, or report you are writing about.

In no more than 5 typed pages, identify Target’s Strengths and Weaknesses relative to Walmart’s. Use your own observations as well as other sources to speculate concerning the causes of the firm’s relative performance.

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Resource Analysis

Assignment 2, Resource Analysis:

In no more than 5 typed pages, identify Target’s Strengths and Weaknesses relative to Walmart’s (in other words, how are the two firms different in 2022).

Differences in resources or capabilities are one of the possible CAUSES of that performance.

Use your own observations as well as other sources to speculate concerning the causes of the firm’s relative performance.

Ratio Calculation Target Target Walmart Walmart NI/NS COGS/NS SG&A Exp/NS Deprec. Exp/NS Int. Exp./NS ROE: NI/SE Equity Multiplier TA/SE ROA: NI/TA TAT: NS/TA CAT: NS/CA Inv. Turn.: NS/Inv. NS/Cash ARTurn.: NS/AR NS/prop, plant, & equip. Debt/TA Current: CA/CL Acid Test : CA-Inv/CL Co. owned / total stores NS/store NS/Employee NS/sq. ft.

 

What is the relationship between business behavior that is legal and business decisions that are ethical?

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Business Behavior

What is the relationship between business behavior that is legal and business decisions that are ethical?

For this assignment please include a 3-page paper to discuss and explore the topic.

Note that the title page does not count as a page and neither does the work cited.

Discuss, briefly, the aspects of the proposed new business, such as the competitive priorities that Roberts asked about. Create a table containing the project activities used in the letter assigned to each activity, the time estimates, and the precedence relationships from which you will assemble the network diagram.

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Pert Mustang Case Study

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you address the following points:

-Prepare the report that Vicky Roberts requested, assuming the project will begin immediately. Assume 45 working days are available to complete the project, including transporting the car to Detroit before the auto show begins.

-Discuss, briefly, the aspects of the proposed new business, such as the competitive priorities that Roberts asked about.

-Create a table containing the project activities used in the letter assigned to each activity, the time estimates, and the precedence relationships from which you will assemble the network diagram. You do not have to go into details of the steps after including them in the table.

-Draw a network diagram of the project similar to Figure 7.3. You can use the Word shapes feature, or insert an Excel section to represent the diagram. Please do not paste an image from the text.

-Determine the activities on the critical path and the estimated slack for each activity. Show the specific task letters in the path, and how the slack times are determined. Summarize the critical path, the steps and the days required along with whether or not the project would be completed in time.

-Be sure to use APA format and include sources to include the course text at a minimum.

Resource: Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains, Ch. 7
Read Case: The Pert Mustang at the end of Ch. 7 (pp. 619).

Identify a growth industry. Provide: number and size distribution of companies, the nature of barriers to entry,the height of barriers to entry, and the extent of product differentiation. Discuss the nature of competition in a growth, a mature, and a declining industry.

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Strategic business

Identify a growth industry. Provide:

  1. a) number and size distribution of companies,
  2. b) the nature of barriers to entry,
  3. c)the height of barriers to entry, and
  4. d) the extent of product differentiation

Discuss the nature of competition in a growth, a mature, and a declining industry.

 

Write a critical analysis of the research methodology and research methods that they plan to use in their study – approximately 2000 words.

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Research methods in business and management

Research Methodology/Methods Analysis Assignment

Students should write a critical analysis of the research methodology and research methods that they plan to use in their study – approximately 2000 words (The impact of the Employee Experience on the Engagement level)

 

What is the research question? What background information is necessary to understand the context? Why is the research question important? What methodology is used to inform their question? How is the experiment designed? What are the variables of interest?

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The effect of mobile device use and headline focus on investor judgements.

Prepare a one-page synthesis in illustrative form for each paper that includes each one of these answers.

  1. What is the research question?
  2. What background information is necessary to understand the context?
  3. Why is the research question important?
  4. What methodology is used to inform their question? How is the experiment designed?
  5. What are the variables of interest? (What is the dependent variable? What are the independent variables? What variables are controlled?)
  6. How are the variables measured?
  7. What are the hypotheses?
  8. What are the findings?
  9. Can we believe the findings? (i.e., is the research design valid?)

Internal validity (the probability that observed changes in the independent variable are indeed responsible for variation in the dependent variable)

Construct validity (the degree to which proxy measures of the constructs represent the construct of interest)

External validity (the degree to which the study’s findings can be generalized to other populations of subjects and settings)

  1. What are the ramifications of these findings?
  2. Are there related or future research opportunities?

Write 2 Page Summary for each paragraph topic below.

Brown, T., S. Grant, and A. Winn (2020). Distracted investing: The effect of mobile device use and headline focus on investor judgements. Accounting Organizations and Society 83 (May): 1-13.