Describe in detail the Quantitative Finance or Fintech topic you are considering including its main ideas and applications.

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Write a report about the topic that incorporates the following components:
— Describe in detail the Quantitative Finance or Fintech topic you are considering including its main ideas and applications.
— Address the purpose and function of the topic you selected; in the case of Fintech
topics, discuss what traditional financial technology the Fintech topic is designed to
replace as well as the pros/cons of each solution.
— If applicable, construct a dataset associated with your topic, implement it, and
construct associated examples. Feel free to create related graphics/plots.

Describe a work-related experience you have had and how either you (preferably) or someone else handled an organizational challenging problem.

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Question:

You must describe a work-related experience you have had and how either you (preferably) or someone else handled an organizational challenging problem. The problem must involve a degree of ambiguity and uncertainty as well as conflicting values and/or priorities that needed to be balanced. Typically, such a problem presents someone with an action dilemma – ‘what should I do?’ You must describe the dilemma in its context as informatively as you can, offer a review of the relevant literature, and analyze the problem by drawing on the relevant concepts and frameworks discussed in the Module.

 

How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?

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The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?

What are the advantages of top-down budgeting? Of bottom-up budgeting?

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Answer the following questions. Support your answers with references, examples, etc.
1. What are the advantages of top-down budgeting? Of bottom-up budgeting? What is the most important task for top management to do in bottom-up budgeting?
2. In preparing a budget, what indirect costs should be considered?
3. What is a variance?
4. What is “program budgeting”?
5. What is the difference between project- and category-oriented budgets?
6. How does a risk analysis operate? How does a manager interpret the results?
7. Describe how a risk matrix is constructed
8. How would a decision tree be useful for a project manager?
9. How far should the cause-effect diagram be broken down into subfactors?
10. Contrast the risk responses for threats and opportunities.

Explain how you would undertake an analysis of the results?

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  1. UCB has appointed you as research consultant to construct a questionnaire which addresses the client brief objectives, using a maximum of twenty questions.                                                                                                    (approx. 300 words)

Explain the purpose of the various questions in meeting the objectives, i.e. what

information you are expecting to discover from specific questions. In addition, explain the appropriateness of the question format e.g. why open/closed? Multiple-choice? Scaled or rated? Etc. Please show evidence that you have consulted/used theory on questionnaire construction to support your decisions related to question choice.                                                                                                    (approx. 500 word

  1. Explain how you would undertake an analysis of the results? In your analysis, which questions could be cross referenced to provide further insight                                                                                                         (approx. 200 words)
  1. How does the questionnaire address the campaign messages (client brief, objective 3)?                                                                                                          (approx. 200 words)

In addition, to this quantitative research questionnaire, which other qualitative research method(s) would you undertake and why (i.e. how would this help you to fully achieve the objectives

What form of heat transfer is most effective in preserving pigments, minerals, and vitamins in foods, specifically vegetables, and why?

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Relating back to the safety and sanitation module, why is it important to cook the chicken to an internal temperature of 165 degrees? How can we relate heat transfer to food safety?
Without destroying the integrity and appearance of a freshly cooked chicken breast, which method of heat transfer do you think is best to reach 165 degrees, and why?
Brainteaser: What form of heat transfer is most effective in preserving pigments, minerals, and vitamins in foods, specifically vegetables, and why?

What Explains the Lack of Innovation at American Express

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What Explains the Lack of Innovation at American Express

Produce a REPORT which demonstrates a critical understanding of pressures on organisations to pursue ethical operations and environmental management practices within the Hospitality sector.

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You are required to produce a REPORT which demonstrates a critical understanding of pressures on organisations to pursue ethical operations and environmental management practices within the Hospitality sector.

Create an international business or international venture outside of the U.S.

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Final Paper: Strategic Plan

[WLOs: 1, 2, 3] [CLOs: 1, 3, 5]

Prior to beginning work on this Final Paper, review Chapters 1 through 20 in the course textbook.

The Final Paper should demonstrate your understanding of the readings and other course material. By creating an international business or an international business venture, you will utilize your subject knowledge expertise in discovering and overcoming the challenges of expanding a business to a new host country. In a 2,000- to 2,500-word paper, you should integrate readings and class discussions, and you may include explanations and examples from previous experiences as well as implications for future applications. All opinions or ideas should be supported with credible and recent data. All data used must be cited with in-text citations and a bibliography on the references page.

In this paper, you will

Create an international business or international venture outside of the U.S. (e.g., export/import, franchising, manufacturing, joint venture, etc.)
Define the name, nature of the business, and brief background of the company and industry. Be sure this venture is created and is unique and innovative.
State the specific target market for the venture.
Create a strategic plan that includes the following (in any order you decide):
An analysis of the competitive advantage of your venture (Why will it be successful?).
A PESTLE analysis, or a similar business analysis process, of the host country.
A 6- to 12-month timeline of your venture’s expansion.
A list of SMART goals.
A summary of startup human resources and marketing concepts.
A SWOT analysis of the venture that evaluates at least four challenges and advantages and/or opportunities and threats (e.g., cross-cultural, foreign currency, legal, etc.).
Suggest recommendations to overcome the challenges and threats from the SWOT you conducted.
Please note each step of the strategic plan is worth 1 point.

What obstacles to progress do you predict and how might you overcome them?

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The use of teams has increased in our organizational settings. As a leader, part of your job is to increase team effectiveness and lead teams through change to increase effectiveness. This may sound simple, but the process of achieving positive team change is challenging. As a leader, your perspective on how the team operates has an affect on the change dynamic.

With this in mind discuss the following:

– Imagine that you are one of a team of five General Practitioners (GP) working at a local practice. You want to initiate some changes in the way the team approaches non-traditional medical approaches such as counseling, homeopathy, nutrition, and osteopathy.
– The GPs meet monthly for one hour to discuss finances and review medical updates. They do not really know each other well or work together on patient care.
– There is no real team leader, although the Practice Manager takes the lead when the group discusses administration.
– Use the Tuckman Model of Team change to explain how you could lead the team towards a new way of working together.
– What obstacles to progress do you predict and how might you overcome them?