Explain to the Admissions Committee your decision to pursue the Ivey MSc in International Business. Why are you an ideal candidate for the program and how will the program help you achieve your goals?

Motivation

Explain to the Admissions Committee your decision to pursue the Ivey MSc in International Business. Why are you an ideal candidate for the program and how will the program help you achieve your goals? (500 words or less)

Describe in your own words the content of the article, which includes research background, why need to conduct this research, what methods were used to collect/analyze the data, what they found, and what do the findings imply.

Any

You are required to describe in your own words the content of the article, which includes research background, why need to conduct this research, what methods were used to collect/analyze the data, what they found, and what do the findings imply.

How do Instagram influencers influence the market, the trend is decided by influencers or consumers?

How to make a new brand by using digital marketing tools, not just art inspiration.

OR 2. How do Instagram influencers influence the market, the trend is decided by influencers or consumers?

What were the two different “demands” that you were experiencing. Why/how did you “approve” of each one – on what grounds? What did you decide to do in the end?

Ethical dilemma

Try to identify one real life example, from your own life, in which you faced an ethical dilemma — where you felt two competing ethical demands, and had to decide what action would be the most ethical action to take. Try to use Critchley’s language to describe what was happening to you.

1) What were the two different “demands” that you were experiencing
2) Why/how did you “approve” of each one – on what grounds?
3) What did you decide to do in the end?
4) How did this decision/action affect your sense of “moral selfhood”
(Did you feel like you had acted like a good person? Did it change your ideas about morality or about yourself as a moral or immoral person?)

Explain what the employees should know regarding the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Provide examples of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations. Identify company actions or red flags that might indicate violations of the Act. List any consequences of the violations.

“International and Comparative Law” in Dynamic Business Law.

Review the scenario and complete the activity below. This scenario can also be found in the “Questions & Problems” section of Ch. 6, “International and Comparative Law” in Dynamic Business Law.

In an interview published by The New York Times in February 1976, former Lockheed President A. Carl Kotchian defended the payment of bribes by the company as follows:

“Some call it gratuities. Some call them questionable payments. Some call it extortion. Some call it grease. Some call it bribery. I look at these payments as necessary to sell a product. I never felt I was doing anything wrong.”

More than 30 years later, Reinhard Siekaczek, an accountant employed by Siemens who oversaw an annual budget for questionable payments in excess of $50 million, stated:

“I never thought I would go to jail for my company. …We thought we had to do it. Otherwise, we would ruin the company. …People will only say about Siemens that they were unlucky and that they broke the Eleventh Commandment. The Eleventh Commandment is, ‘Don’t get caught.’”

You have been hired to assist ABC Multinational Company to help educate employees on ethical practices and corporate culture. More specifically, related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, your role is to prevent situations described in the above scenario.

Create either a handout, job-aid, poster, or flier to educate employees on the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act. Complete the following for your educational tool:

Explain what the employees should know regarding the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Provide examples of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations.
Identify company actions or red flags that might indicate violations of the Act.
List any consequences of the violations.
Recommend actions to report possible violations.
Describe protections for whistleblowers. Why are they important? How do the protections impact the Act?

 

Choose the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to take maximum advantage of its strengths, and the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to fix its most significant weakness.

External and Internal Environments

In this assignment, you are to use the same corporation you selected and focused on for the Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness assignment.

Using the corporation you chose from the Week 3 assignment, Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness, examine the industry in which the entity operates. Use any or all of the following resources to conduct research on the company:

Company website.

Public filings from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Filings & Forms page.

Strayer University’s online databases.

The Lexis Advance database.

Other miscellaneous sources. Note: the company’s annual report will often provide insights that other resources may not include.

Use the External and Internal Environments Template [DOCX] to ensure that your assignment meets the requirements.

Requirements

Write a 4-6 page paper in which you do the following:

Choose the two segments of the general environment that would rank highest in their influence on the corporation you chose.

Assess how these segments affect the corporation you chose and the industry in which it operates.

Considering the five forces of competition, choose the two that you estimate are the most significant for the corporation you chose.

Evaluate how well the company has addressed these two forces in the recent past.

With the same two forces in mind, predict what the company might do to improve its ability to address these forces in the near future.

Assess the external threats affecting this corporation and the opportunities available to the corporation.

Give your opinions on how the corporation should deal with the most serious threat and the greatest opportunity. Justify your answer.

Give your opinion on the corporation’s greatest strengths and most significant weaknesses.

Choose the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to take maximum advantage of its strengths, and the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to fix its most significant weakness. Justify your choices.

Determine the company’s resources, capabilities, and core competencies.

Go to the Strayer University Online Library to locate three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is as follows:

Analyze the effects of the general environment, competition, threats, opportunities, strengths, and weaknesses relative to a corporation.

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Write an essay comparing the two individuals in each of the traits mentioned. Conclude with several general statements about the impact of credibility on communication efficiency and effectiveness.

Credibility Comparison

A. Compare Two Individuals’ Credibility
Think about two people—one whom you trust implicitly and another who you do not trust. Ideally, these should be two people you currently work with or have worked within the past. Compare them in the following ways: (a) competence; (b) caring; (c) character; (d) openness of communication; and (e) ease of communication.

TASK:
Write an essay comparing the two individuals in each of the traits mentioned. Conclude with several general statements about the impact of credibility on communication efficiency and effectiveness. Make sure to title your essay “Credibility Comparison”.

Explain the cause and nature of the emotional hijacking. For example, explain what the emotions were and what caused them. Explain the impacts of the emotional hijacking. How did it affect the interaction?

Analysis of Emotional Hijacking

Think about a recent situation at school or work in which you observed a serious instance of emotional hijacking. Based on this situation, do the following:

(1) Briefly explain what happened. Who was involved and what were they doing? You can write about yourself and/or others.

(2) Explain the cause and nature of the emotional hijacking. For example, explain what the emotions were and what caused them.

(3) Explain the impacts of the emotional hijacking. How did it affect the interaction? How did it affect performance?

(4) Describe how the emotional hijacking could have been avoided or lessened.

(5) Write a set of self-awareness and self-management thoughts that would be considered effective and ineffective in this situation.

What problem will you be investigating? Why is the problem worth investigating? What is the background to the problem, how did it develop, etc.? What organization will be the subject of your investigation?

Variations to the Problem

* -Intel is Losing Its Market Presence Competing Against AMD and Nvidia.
* -Problem: Intel Losing Their Competitive Edge Against its Competition.
* -Problem: How Can Intel Compete Against Its Competitors.

1. Title page – properly formatted according to APA formatting guidelines.

2. Abstract – properly prepared and formatted according to APA formatting guidelines.

3. Introduction – What problem will you be investigating? Why is the problem worth investigating? What is the background to the problem, how did it develop, etc.? What organization will be the subject of your investigation? Provide appropriate information about the organization (history, mission/vision, industry, leadership structure, organizational structure, financial position, etc.) so the reader has a thorough understanding of the organization.

4. Problem statement – Provide a clear and concise statement to the problem to include key constructs associated with the problem. Make sure that you define the constructs within the problem and avoid generalizations. Use academic definitions to define your constructs. For example, if your problem involves leadership effectiveness, clearly define leadership and what ‘effectiveness’ means.

5. Literature review – Research each construct that is related to the problem under investigation. Introduce each construct and then inform the reader of the construct using academic journal articles to build the body of knowledge on the construct.

6. Methodology – This section should be relatively short and state how you have developed your resolutions to the problem. This may be accomplished through a meta-analysis and thought experiment. However you approached your resolution and recommendations to the experiment, they should be discussed in this section and supported by sound theory.

7. Results – This is an objective discussion of the results of your methodology and is not based upon your opinion. In this section, provide a brief summary of the literature review and methodology section (one paragraph each) and then transition into what these sections have told you. For example, “From the literature we see that emotional intelligence is a key personality trait for those who emerge as leaders. Survey results from this study support this finding…”

8. Discussion/Recommendations – In this section, you should apply your results to the specific problem under investigation in a more subjective way. List and discuss any recommendations developed in response to your research and results pertaining to the problem under investigation. “Organization X should identify individuals high in emotional intelligence as potential leaders within the organization. Training and development programs can aid in this effort and reduce the randomness that is currently present in leader emergence and development within the firm…”

9. Conclusion – a concise conclusion to the paper.

10. Reference page – properly formatted according to APA formatting guidelines.

11. Appendices – include an appendix of key artifacts related to the project as necessary. Such artifacts may include; survey results, financials, correspondence with the organization, brochures and other informative material, financials, organization charts, etc.

Considering the five forces of competition, choose the two that you estimate are the most significant for the corporation you chose. With the same two forces in mind, predict what the company might do to improve its ability to address these forces in the near future.

External and Internal Environments

Using the Universal Music Group, examine the industry in which the entity operates. Use any or all of the following resources to conduct research on the company:

Company website.

Public filings from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Filings & Forms page.

Strayer University’s online databases.

The Lexis Advance database.

Other miscellaneous sources. Note: the company’s annual report will often provide insights that other resources may not include.

Use the External and Internal Environments Template [DOCX] (uploaded to additional materials) to ensure that your assignment meets the requirements.

Requirements

Write a 4-6 page paper in which you do the following:

Choose the two segments of the general environment that would rank highest in their influence on the corporation you chose.

Assess how these segments affect the corporation you chose and the industry in which it operates.

Considering the five forces of competition, choose the two that you estimate are the most significant for the corporation you chose.

Evaluate how well the company has addressed these two forces in the recent past.

With the same two forces in mind, predict what the company might do to improve its ability to address these forces in the near future.

Assess the external threats affecting this corporation and the opportunities available to the corporation.

Give your opinions on how the corporation should deal with the most serious threat and the greatest opportunity. Justify your answer.

Give your opinion on the corporation’s greatest strengths and most significant weaknesses.

Choose the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to take maximum advantage of its strengths, and the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to fix its most significant weakness. Justify your choices.

Determine the company’s resources, capabilities, and core competencies.

Go to the Strayer University Online Library to locate three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Book Source: Hitt, M. A., Ireland, R. D., & Hoskisson, R. E. (2019). Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases: Competitiveness and Globalization (13th Edition). Cengage Learning US.