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Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the changing nature of the global business environment, buyer behaviour in a global context and the factors which influence the implementation of an organisation’s competitive business strategy in a global context.

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Thriving in a Competitive Global Context (Written Report)

Unit learning outcomes:

1.Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the changing nature of the global business environment, buyer behaviour in a global context and the factors which influence the implementation of an organisation’s competitive business strategy in a global context.

2.Demonstrate skills and abilities in collecting and analysing appropriate information, applying a range of strategic business and financial tools and techniques available, to plan and evaluate global business and e-business operations.

Task:

During this unit you will have understood that many international businesses operating within a globalised world can be exposed to different types of risk. Consider the following question: Critically evaluate the major strategic risks that can impact a global business and identify potential risk responses. You MUST use robust industry examples to support the points you make. Important note: you must select one specific industry to focus your answer on.

You need to:

  • Deliver a report that includes a detailed analysis that identifies the primary strategic risks facing an international business in your chosen industry.
  • Analysis requires you to identify appropriate risk responses.
  • Develop and support your analysis by ideas and techniques drawn from academic theory and up to date research.
  • Ensure your arguments are backed up by evidence.

How will the company’s philosophy affect the cost and efficiency of its operation? Is Starbucks able to balance the triple bottom line and reinforce its culture of corporate and social responsibility?

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Starbucks sourcing philosophy

How will the company’s philosophy affect the cost and efficiency of its operation? Is Starbucks able to balance the triple bottom line and reinforce its culture of corporate and social responsibility? In other words, does Starbucks successfully fulfill environmental and social responsibilities while maintaining financial success? How should Starbucks prioritize its financial, environmental, and social investments to achieve long-term success? 500 words

A motor cycle and a human being have one thing in common. Both can move from one place to another. State three characteristics of living things that a motor cycle does not possess.

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Science question

  1. Define
  2. a) Microbiology (1mk)
  1. b) Biotechnology? (1mk)

2.a) What is active transport. (1mk)

  1. b) Outline two roles of osmosis in plants. (2mks)
  1. A motor cycle and a human being have one thing in common. Both can move from one place to another. State three characteristics of living things that a motor cycle does not possess. (3mks)

Speculate about why images might be important in non-literate cultures. What might be one concern about images used in religious rituals? Can you identify an example of a non-religious icon.

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The role(s) of images in non-literate Culture

Speculate about why images might be important in non-literate cultures. What might be one concern about images used in religious rituals? Can you identify an example of a non-religious icon.

Describe your motivating factors in providing healthcare to underserved communities in support of the Nurse Corps Scholarship Program mission.

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Nursing Question

Essay Question: Describe your motivating factors in providing healthcare to underserved communities in support of the Nurse Corps Scholarship Program mission.
Provide specific personal and professional experience demonstrating your interest in positively impacting underserved communities

God tells Adam not to eat from the tree of knowledge (Genesis 2:16-17) but doesn’t explain why this particular fruit is dangerous. Why is it wrong to follow rules if you don’t understand and agree with them?

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Week 9 Genesis

Reaction question:

  1. God tells Adam not to eat from the tree of knowledge (Genesis 2:16-17) but doesn’t explain why this particular fruit is dangerous. Why is it wrong to follow rules if you don’t understand and agree with them?
  2. Why should you follow rules even when you don’t understand or agree with them?

 

Reading Questions: Read the chapters from Genesis noted below as well as the Biblical selections handout.

  1. What two substances does God use to create man? What potential conflicts are there between these two substances? How does the passage from Tanya (Biblical Selections Handout) interpret this conflict?
  2. How does the serpent deceive Eve? What does she believe will happen to her if she eats from the tree? (Gen 3:1-6)
  3. What does God select Abraham for at Genesis 12? Although the Bible does not explain why God called on the elderly Abraham, what do we learn about him as a young man from the passage in Genesis Rabbah (Biblical Selections Handout)? What did he do when he was in charge of his father’s store?
  4. Explain what God asks Abraham to do in Genesis 22. How does Abraham respond and how does the story conclude?
  5. . How does Jacob steal Esau’s birthright? (Genesis 25, 27) Does God judge Jacob’s actions as commendable or dishonorable? (Gen. 28) How does the historical information about Jacob and Esau (Biblical Selections Handout) change your reading of the story?
  6. Explain the fist fight that Jacob gets into in Gen. 32. Who is he wrestling and who wins the fight? What might this mean if read as an allegory? (Biblical Selections Handout)
  7. To satisfy the lecture portion of this course, please view the Spotlight Lecture posted in the Week 10 folder. Demonstrate by answering the following: Explain why Moses’ vision contradicts the laws of nature.

 

This is a loose adaptation of the text with a modern take.

 

 

 

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Formulate this transportation problem and find the optimum solution using Solver.

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 Transportation problems

In the transportation problem that is summarized in the below table, the total demand exceeds the total supply. Suppose the there is no penalty costs per unit of unsatisfied demand for the first two destinations. However, the demand of the third destination should be completely satisfied. Formulate this transportation problem and find the optimum solution using Solver.

Table:

$5 $1 $7 10
$6 $4 $6 80
$3 $2 $5 15

75 20 50

How much is the invested capital at t=6? How much is the gross value multiple at t=2? How much is the gross value multiple in t=9? How much is the value multiple at t=9?

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Venture Capital

1. How much is the invested capital at t=6?
a. Please round the number to one decimal, i.e., “12.4” is $12.3456 million.
2. How much is the gross value multiple at t=2?
a. Please round the number to two decimals
3. How much is the gross value multiple in t=9?
a. (Please round the number to two decimals)
4. How much is the value multiple at t=9?
a. Please round the number to two decimals
5. How much is the realized value multiple at t=7?
6. How much is the unrealized value multiple at t=4?
7. How much is the Fund’s IRR at t=3?
8. How much is the Fund’s IRR at t=6?
9. How much is the net IRR at t=7?
10. How much is the net IRR at t=9?
11. How much is the Russel 3000 10-year rolling return for 2009?
12. How much is the Russel 3000 10-year rolling return for 2022?

13.Based on the data provided: How does the performance of the KKR fund, measured by its value multiple at the end of its life compare to ones in that sample for 2014?

Top 10%
Top 11% to 25%
Middle 25% to 75%
Bottom 11% to 25%
Bottom 10%

15. Which of the options below better describes the use of the Russel 3000 as PME for PE funds?

Question 16 options:
A. The Russel 3000 Index tracks the performance of the 3,000 smallest U.S.-traded stocks. It can be considered as a more appropriate public market equivalent for private equity funds because it encompasses smaller companies compared to the S&P 500.
B. The Russel 3000 Index tracks the performance of the 3,000 largest U.S.-traded stocks. It can be considered as a more appropriate public market equivalent for private equity funds because it encompasses smaller companies compared to the S&P 500.
C. The Russel 3000 Index tracks the performance of the 3,000 smallest U.S.-traded stocks. It can be considered as a more appropriate public market equivalent for private equity funds because it encompasses larger companies compared to the S&P 500.
D. The Russel 3000 Index tracks the performance of the 3,000 largest U.S.-traded stocks. It can be considered as a more appropriate public market equivalent for private equity funds because it encompasses larger companies compared to the S&P 500.

16. PME: Case 1
Assume the fund’s first year is 2009, the PME evaluation is at the end of the 5th year, and the public market equivalent is the Russel 3000. How much would the limited partners have at the end of 2012 if, instead of investing in the private equity fund, they had invested in the Russel 3000 index? Use the NAV after contributions or distributions.

17. PME: Case 1

Assume the fund’s first year is 2009, the PME evaluation is at the end of the 5th year, and the public market equivalent is the Russel 3000. How much is the PME’s IRR at the end of the 5th year? Please round the number to two digits and do not include the percentage sign, i.e., 12.3456% must be typed 12.35

18. PME: Case 1
Assume the fund’s first year is 2009, the PME evaluation is at the end of the 5th year, and the public market equivalent is the Russel 3000. The limited partners would have been better of if they had invested in which one of the following possibilities?

  • Russel 3000 Index Fund
  • Private Equity Fund
  • Treasury Bond with a 5.7% yield

19. PME: Case 2
Assume the fund’s first year is 2012, the PME evaluation is on the fund’s whole life, and the public market equivalent is the Russel 3000 How much would the limited partners have at the end of 2016 if, instead of investing in the private equity fund, they had invested in the Russel 3000 index? Use the NAV after contributions or distributions.

20. PME: Case 2
Assume the fund’s first year is 2012, the PME evaluation is on the fund’s whole life, and the public market equivalent is the Russel 3000. The limited partners would have been better of if they had invested in which one of the following possibilities?

  • Private Equity Fund
  • Russel 3000 Index Fund
  • Treasury Bond with a 5.7% yield

21. PME: Case 3
Assume the fund’s first year is 2014, the PME evaluation is on the fund’s whole life, and the public market equivalent is the Refinitiv VC Index.
How much would the limited partners have at the end of 2018 if, instead of investing in the private equity fund, they had invested in the Refinitiv VC Index? Use the NAV after contributions or distributions.

Write a short biography of Angelina Jolie.

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Angelina jolie

TASK I (4 pts) Write a short biography of Angelina Jolie using the details below:

Name: Angelina Jolie. Date of birth: June 4. 1975. Birth place: Los Angeles. Califomia. US. Nationality: American. Education: Theater Institute. Califomia.
Profession: actress / film maker/activist. First movie: Lookin. to get out (1982): as a child actress. Famous movies: Mr and Mrs Smith. 2005. Want,. 2008. Salt. 2010. Hobbics: reading/volunteering/music Favorite singers: Madonna. Elvis Presley.

Calculate the DPMO for a 3.5 sigma process. Calculate the FTY for a process where 10000 widgets are produced of which 800 are scrapped due to errors with no rework.

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Logistics Question

  1. If you cannot draw the process, then
a. You don’t understand it b. Start Lean Mapping c. It doesn’t exist
d.  stop the process e.  take an art class
f. answers a and c g. a, b, and c

 

  1. Mass production was first iconized by
a. Toyota b. Ford c. Motorola
d. Enron e. Lehman Brothers
f. GM g. 3M

 

  1. Quality may be defined by
a. Patient satisfaction b. Community standards c. Prospective Payment
d. Right care, right place, right time e. answers a, b, d only
f.  all of the above g. none of the aove

 

  1. Quality trilogy
a. Deming b. Shewhart c. Taylor
d. Gilbreth e. Juran
f. Larry, Larry, and his other brother Larry g. the first three Star Wars movies

 

  1. PDCA
a. Deming b. Shewhart c. Taylor
d. Gilbreth e. Juran
f.  Plan, Do, Study, Act g.  San Antonio

 

  1. Control Chart Father
a. Deming b. Shewhart c. Taylor
d. Gilbreth e. Juran
f.  Darth Vader g.  still looking for DNA test results

 

  1. Quality Improvement Certification for Organizations
a. ISO9000 b. Baldridge c. Juran Award
d. Gilbreth Award e. Johnson Foundation
f.  NSF g.  NIH

 

  1. Elimination of Waste
a. Six Sigma b. Lean c. PDCA
d.  Trash can e.  Toilet f. PDSA
g. TQM h. CQI

 

  1. Improvement of Quality Algorithm from Motorola
a. CQI b. TQM c. PDCA
d.  Yoga e.  Seven Sigma f.  Smash and Grab
g. Lean h. Six Sigma

 

  1. Performance improvement loop by Deming
a. CQI b. TQM c. PDCA
d.  Loop 1604 e.  410 f.  610
g. Lean h. Six Sigma

 

  1. Another term for waste
a. JIT b. 5S’s c. Muda
d. Mura e. Six Sigma
f.  Spilled drink g.  Albuquerque

 

  1. Six Sigma process
a. DMAIC b. DMAAIC c. DMAIIC
d. DMADA e. DMAICC

 

  1. Six Sigma deliverable in define phase
a. Detailed process map b. FMEA c. Project Charter
d. Process Capability Analysis e. All of the above

 

  1. Name the chart below.
a. Ishikawa b. Gannt c. Pareto
d.  Check sheet e. Histogram

 

  1. Name the chart below.
a. Ishikawa b. Gantt c. Pareto
d.  Check sheet e. Histogram
  1. Name the chart below.

 

a. Ishikawa b. Gannt c. Pareto
d.  Check sheet e. Histogram
  1. Which of the 5S’ is most relevant to the diagram below?
a. sustain b. straighten c. shine
d. sort e. standardize
  1. Calculate the standard deviation of the sample for the following data.  [1, 3, 4, 1, 4, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 5]
  1. Three processes are operating sequentially with 93% reliability each. Calculate the RTY.
  2. Calculate the DPMO for a 3.5 sigma process.
  3. Calculate the FTY for a process where 10000 widgets are produced of which 800 are scrapped due to errors with no rework.
  4. Calculate the sigma of the process in 21.
  5. Calculate the RTY for a process where 10000 widgets are produced of which 800 are returned for rework and 400 of those 800 are set to customers.
  6. How does Lean differ from Six Sigma?
  7. Calculate the standard deviation of the population for the following data.  [1, 3, 4, 1, 4, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 5]