Describe the company’s current Value Chain. Identify and explain/justify any changes to the Value Chain you think are appropriate. If no changes, explain why not.

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Case Study Assignment 3

Case Study Assigned: The Walt Disney Company

Overview
This is your third case study assignment out of four. For this assignment, you will need to access the full-length case study you have been assigned at the top of this page within your Case Studies eText. You are required to read and analyze this case study.

Your analysis must:

Describe the company’s current Value Chain. (minimum of 1 page)
Identify and explain/justify any changes to the Value Chain you think are appropriate. If no changes, explain why not. (minimum of 1 page)
Provide a total of four findings of fact; 1 from the following four functional areas of business:
Management
Marketing
Finance or Accounting
Management Information Systems
Provide a full justification and recommendation for each finding of fact (minimum of 1 page each)

Directions:
Case Study Assignment 3 should be double-spaced, 12-point font, and not exceed 10 pages. It must be submitted to the Case Study Assignment 3 Dropbox by 11:59 pm CT Sunday of Week 4.

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Describe the major points of the article, while the reaction should demonstrate your interpretation of the article and how you can apply that knowledge.

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Journal Article on Managerial Accounting

Locate a journal article about how managerial accounting helps businesses make decisions.

In the subject line of your post, include the name of the article you read. Then, in your initial post, provide a link to the article and a summary followed by your reaction to the article.

The summary should be approximately 250 words and the reaction should be approximately 150 words. The summary should describe the major points of the article, while the reaction should demonstrate your interpretation of the article and how you can apply that knowledge.

Do not choose an article that one of your classmates has already posted. To participate in follow-up discussion, choose one of the articles that a classmate has posted and provide your own reaction to it.

Note: It may be challenging to find a relevant article if you do not use the library.

include proper citations in your discussion post. Points will be deducted if proper citations are not used.

 

Based on your understanding, define civics and explain the importance of civic engagement within the community.

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Course work

Based on your understanding, define civics and explain the importance of civic engagement within the community.

Choose between the following topics and explain how you would result to the issue through public policy:

  • Student K -12 literacy rates.
  • Gun violence
  • Housing and homelessness.

 Write to the point where it makes you look good and that you understand the concept.

Develop a business plan including business description, product strategy, legal requirements, market analysis, marketing plan, organizational structure, and financial plan.

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Business plan.

Develop a business plan including business description, product strategy, legal requirements, market analysis, marketing plan, organizational structure, and financial plan.

What major mistake(s) did Facebook make with its platform? What do you feel were the flaws in Facebook/META’s leadership? Describe at least one strategy that META tried to address concerns from its users or its employees. Was it successful?

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Facebook Inc’s recent transition to Meta Inc

Read the following series of articles from the Wall Street Journal which leaked information regarding Facebook Inc’s recent transition to Meta Inc. The articles also give insight into the company’s leadership, organizational structure, culture, and decision-making. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039
You can also download a PDF Ebook of the report here: https://www.wsjplus.com/offers/facebook-files-ebook?adobe_mc=MCMID%3D32466041464941031690835401930393622504%7CMCORGID%3DCB68E4BA55144CAA0A4C98A5%2540AdobeOrg%7CTS%3D1666736025

Write a 3-5 page paper (double spaced with Times New Roman 12pt font) answering the following prompts. These answers should be your opinion, but relate your answers to business concepts and theories outlined in the text or in class.

1) What major mistake(s) did Facebook make with its platform? (Relate to these mistakes to concepts/theories from the text or in class)

2) What do you feel were the flaws in Facebook/META’s leadership? (Relate to these flaws to concepts/theories from the text or in class)

3) Describe at least one strategy that META tried to address concerns from its users or its employees. Was it successful? (Relate your strategy to concepts/theories from the text or in class)?

4) What changes do YOU think META should make going forward? Why? (Relate to these changes to concepts/theories from the text or in class)

5) Do you think META will become more successful than Facebook? Why or Why not?

Choose a country. Explain how the country scores on four Hofstede’s cultural dimensions. Prepare relevant information about the country’s background and explain how this relates to the country’s cultural dimensions identified by your group.

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Singapore’s Hofstede’s cultural dimensions 

MGMT 2600 Organizational Behavior – Group Paper (10%

 

The group paper is due through safeassign on Dec. 6, 2022 at 11:59pm.

For each day the paper is late, 1 point out of 10 will be deducted.

 

 

Length of paper: 10 pages (+/-1 page)

Reference Style: APA

Content:

  1. Choose a country (not Canada, USA or any country of the group members)
  2. Explain how the country scores on four Hofstede’s cultural dimensions.
  3. Prepare relevant information about the country’s background (e.g. history, government, economic etc.) and explain how this relates to the country’s cultural dimensions identified by your group.
  4. Give examples of two management practices (e.g. leadership style, hiring practices, team work, promotion practices) and two examples of business protocol/etiquette (what is appropriate behaviour in the business setting of the particular country) based on the cultural dimensions of that particular country.
  5. Provide three pieces of advice to foreign managers to prepare them how to conduct business in that country.

 

This of this project as a consultation for a company who is going to send one of their managers abroad. You are in charge to prepare a paper and presentation that will help the manager to be well prepared for the cultural differences of that country and organization.

Paper Details:

  1. Your paper must fulfill the appropriate academic standards (e.g. title page, introduction, proper subheadings, proper APA citations and references; conclusion)
  2. Only minimal and short quotes are permitted (below 50 words). Paraphrasing is a crucial ability to be developed in academic writing.
  3. For all aspects of this paper, you will need to conduct extensive outside research, drawing on multiple RELIABLE sources, as well as explicitly apply concepts we’ve discussed in class. The Internet is a great place to get information – e.g. company sites, business news sources (e.g. Bloomberg Business Week, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Forbes). BUT this is not the only source to be used. FDU has a great online research library, and you should use it extensively. News sources, business publications, trade journals, etc. must also be utilized and referenced. Open-source websites (like Wikipedia), blogs, prior student work, and sites with no authorship attributed are NOT acceptable.

Prepare a PowerPoint presentation slide deck for a topic of your choice, related to your workplace or career interests.

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“The art of communication is the language of leadership.” James Humes

For this assignment, you will apply the practices of planning, creating, and delivering an impactful professional presentation. Identify an important topic for your role, company, or industry. The topic should be something you care about, and something you want to persuade your listeners to do something about.

For example, you may want to:
• Address your company’s executive leadership team about relaxing your office dress code
• Persuade your department head to reconsider their remote work policy
• Convince your boss that you deserve a promotion to your company’s leadership team
Think carefully about how to define the major objectives of your presentation, so that you can design and deliver your presentation with those objectives clearly in mind.

Instructions
Follow the steps below to prepare your slide deck and create your video presentation in Zoom:

1. Prepare a PowerPoint presentation slide deck for a topic of your choice, related to your workplace or career interests. It should be designed to persuade your listeners to act on your words. It is recommended that your slide deck contain no more than 12 slides, including a cover slide and a

2. Apply slide design best practices: use brief slide headings and minimal text, include images and/or charts, and format your slides professionally

3. Deliver a presentation with a time limit of 6 to 8 minutes, using Zoom. The video must include both you and your slides. The main focus is you, the speaker, with the slides providing support for your.

4. Be sure to utilize and to exhibit all the presentation and video best practices listed below.

Note: See your Blackboard course for instructions on using Zoom.

Determine whether your corporation, or its most significant competitor, would differ in slow-cycle and fast-cycle markets. Support your position with specific evidence.

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Business-level strategies

Overview

In this assignment, you are to use the same corporation you selected for the assignments in Weeks 3 and 6. You will examine business and corporate-level strategies and their impact on corporate success comparable to the competitive environment.Use any or all of the following resources to conduct research on the corporation:

The corporation’s website.

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

Strayer University’s online databases.

The Lexis Advance database.

Other credible sources.

Instructions:

Use the Business-Level and Corporate-Level Strategies Template [DOCX] to write a 6-8 page academic research paper in which you include the following:*Note: The title page and source list are in addition to the 6-8 page requirement

Assess the business-level strategies you believe to be most appropriate for the corporation’s long-term success. Support your position with specific evidence.

Assess the corporate-level strategies you believe to be most appropriate for the corporation’s long-term success. Support your position with specific evidence.

Analyze the competitive environment to determine the corporation’s most significant competitor. Be sure to include a comparison of the business-level and corporate-level strategies for both corporations.

Based on your analysis, conclude which corporation is most likely to be successful in the long term. Support your determination with at least three pieces of evidence.

Determine whether your corporation, or its most significant competitor, would differ in slow-cycle and fast-cycle markets. Support your position with specific evidence.

Use three or more quality sources, including your textbook, to support your writing. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate. Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment.

For help with research, writing, and citation, access the library or review library guides.

Produce writing that is clear and well organized and applies appropriate Strayer Writing Standards (SWS) style. Writing contains accurate grammar, mechanics, and spelling.

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:

Determine business-level and corporate-level strategies for a corporation’s long-term success comparable to the competitive environment.

Explain whether or not this article would be useful if you were to write an essay on your selected topic. How would it contribute to your work? Does it give good empirical evidence? Does it introduce a specific theoretical approach?

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The right to housing

Instructions

This assignment requires that you carry out research on a theme from the second half of the semester. The goal is not to produce an essay or a specific argument, but rather to engage in a conscious and systematic research practice.

Note that there are two sections to this assignment.

Section One:

You are to find THREE peer reviewed journal articles that address the topic you have chosen. Please note that the topic you have chosen should be one of the central themes of the article. You may choose from any of the peer reviewed journals listed below to find your articles.1

  • Journal of Law and Economics
  • Journal of Economic Literature
  • Journal of Law, Economics and Organization The American Economic Review
  • Studies in Political Economy
  • Journal of Law and Social Policy
  • Economy and Society
  • Business and Society
  • Law and Society Review

1 Note that you should use at least two of the above journals for your research. In other words, you can’t select all three of your articles from the same journal.

After you find these three articles from some of the journals above (you will have to look through many articles to narrow down your choices), you will create an annotated bibliography. An annotated bibliography involves creating a bibliographical entry for each of the three sources you find (see APA style sheet linked below for formatting instructions), and including two pages (500 typed words) following each source. In the annotation you should include the following:

1)  Give an account of the source of the article. What journal is this article found in? What discipline does it belong to, and what is its academic orientation? It is strongly recommended that you visit the journal’s website and review its mission statement  in order to identify its theoretical and ideological orientation. Keep this information in mind when reading the article and when writing your summary of its argument.

2)  Write a brief summary of the argument presented in the article. This will involve you first reading the article carefully, and then articulating its core argument. DO NOT copy the abstract or only include information from the introduction. You should cite directly from the body of the article at least three times, preferably from different sections and page ranges.

3)  Explain whether or not this article would be useful if you were to write an essay on your selected topic. How would it contribute to your work? Does it give good empirical evidence? Does it introduce a specific theoretical approach? Does it address a particular historical or geographical instance? Does it give an account of a debate in the field? There are many possible answers to this question.

 

What issue are you addressing? What about the current state of affairs is unsustainable and/or harmful? Who will pay for it? Who will benefit from the policy change? Who may lose out? What are the long-term consequences?

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Addressing COVID crisis

In the midterm, you were asked to advice President-Elect M. Bobinson on short-term policies to address the COVID crisis. Thankfully, vaccines have been developed and (hopefully) the end is in sight. However, some serious work will have to be done to rebuild the American economy. Pick a policy that is important to the American economy (criminal justice reform, healthcare, unemployment, climate crisis, financial instability, student loan debt, etc.) and present a long-term policy plan for the new Commander-in-Chief.

What issue are you addressing? What about the current state of affairs is unsustainable and/or harmful? Who will pay for it? Who will benefit from the policy change? Who may lose out? What are the long-term consequences?