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Consider and discuss the practical implications of the recommendations for the business, such as the challenges/process of changing company culture, impact of hiring/firing decisions on talent management and cost, company financial performance and impact on customer /consumer confidence.

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Volkswagen emission scandal

Review the Volkswagen emission scandal and complete a thesis based off this outline and do not add a summary of the scandal:

1. What could the company have done differently:

Before the scandal:
– CEO should have been more involved in the decision-making process
– Hostile environment for employees?

During the scandal:
– Since the problems with the vehicles were known, leadership should have made better decisions

After the scandal:
– Produce more zero-emission cars
– Win back the trust of its customers
– Repair their brand in order to branch into other countries
– Third party audits to ensure no rules are being broken and reports must be made public

2. Alternative courses of action:
– Chose the safety of consumers over costs
– Research for better manufacturing
– Be more transparent with the public on decision making moving forward
– Establish clear ethical goals/standard

3. Recommendation: Consider and discuss the practical implications of the recommendations for the business, such as the challenges/process of changing company culture, impact of hiring/firing decisions on talent management and cost, company financial performance and impact on customer /consumer confidence.

Company must set clear ethical standards across the board

Impact of recommendations:
Maximizing the benefit:
– Helps build customer loyalty
– Keep good employees/positive work environment
– Increase in productivity
– Positive brand image
– Creating way for more opportunities for the company
– Producing efficient cars

Minimizing the risk:
-Training on standards
-Less money spent on lawsuits
– Rewards for following standards
-Accountability

Have you already paid the thief? Was the art delivered by the thief or thieves? Did you receive one painting? Is the envelope we found related to the museum heist? Can you identify your buyer, if you have one?

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INTERROGATION QUESTIONS FOR INTERVIEW FLOWCHART

We had a brainstorming session and came up with the following yes/no questions that we’d like
you to ask in the lie-detector session with each fence. Can you organize these into a flowchart
that shows how you’d move on from each question given either a yes or no response? Use
LucidChart.com, and submit your flowchart for review.
Note that we’ve got the following lines of questioning:
• Number of paintings received
• Thief identity (or more info)
• Identity of, or info about, the delivery person (if not the thief)
• Delivery vehicle info
• Buyer info
• Payment info
• Envelope info
You might be able to use these different lines of questioning as a way to organize the questions
in the interview (and the flowchart).

Here are the questions:
– Have you already paid the thief? (if so, get payment details)
– Was the art delivered by the thief or thieves?
– Did you receive one painting?
– Is the envelope we found related to the museum heist?
– Can you identify your buyer, if you have one? (if so, get identity)
– Did you meet the delivery person or persons?
– For each delivery person (thief or otherwise):
o Was he/she tall?
o Was he/she a man or a woman?
o Can you identify them? (if so, get identity or identities)
– Did you see the delivery vehicle? (if so, get details)
– Did you receive more than one painting?
– Do you have a buyer?
– Does Speedy Courier know the delivery destination of the envelope already? (if so, get
delivery destination)

From your own experiences, identify which strategies seem most effective in a particular situation and explain why.

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Week 7

While failures are often brushed under the rug, Liu highlights some of the ways leaders fail and some framing strategies for responding to failures. From your own experiences, identify which strategies seem most effective in a particular situation and explain why.

Write a profile that offers insight into a place with a unique identity—or that perhaps contributes to the unique identity of its community/city. Write a profile that offers insight into a person with a unique/fascinating career, hobby, or life experience.

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Essay 3: Research Profile

Assignment:

You’ve read many profiles—they appear in magazines, on websites, and as non-fiction bestsellers. Interviews, biographies, and documentaries are also specific kinds of profiles. Think of them as windows into a subject; the essay offers knowledge that the writer has gained and is sharing with the reader. You will want to focus on certain aspects of your topic, since you can’t cover everything in this essay.

Profiles rely on primary and/or secondary research as the source of information. Since primary research (interview, observation) is most likely not feasible for you, you will rely on secondary research. If you are able to do primary, you are certainly welcome to include it. For this essay, you will conduct secondary research. You will also use the synthesis skills practiced in Essay 2, but expand on them by crafting your own topic, inquiry questions, finding and evaluating your own sources to use in the essay, and integrating more than two sources.

Genre Conventions:

Profiles usually rely on conventions such as a unique, surprising, or engaging perspective by the writer
description of and information about the subject vivid description of people/places/events information gleaned from primary and/or secondary research an organized but interesting structure correctly synthesized, integrated, and cited source material

Topic Choices:

PLACE: Write a profile that offers insight into a place with a unique identity—or that perhaps contributes to the unique identity of its community/city.

PERSON: Write a profile that offers insight into a person with a unique/fascinating career, hobby, or life experience.

GROUP/SUBCULTURE: Write a profile that offers insight into a group or subculture and its identity characteristics.

EVENT:Write a profile that offers insight into an event that affects the national or local community.

TREND:Write a profile that offers insight into a recent cultural trend (i.e. something that has gained in popularity or visibility).

Select a type of facility and describe the area selection process, set-up of the facility, and operations. Address the following concerns: location, marketing/promotion, security, operations, maintenance, financial matters, etc.

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Operate a Facility

Assignment:

1) 1000 word minimum, not including title page and references.

2) Select a type of facility and describe the area selection process, set-up of the facility, and operations.

3) Address the following concerns: location, marketing/promotion, security, operations, maintenance, financial matters, etc…The paper is to include the aforementioned but is not limited to the subjects listed. It’s the responsibility of the student to consider all relevant functions.

An in-depth paper on what type of facility you envision yourself seeking employment at and how you would pursue it.

Give examples of how and why you selected the facility that you did.

Identify the types of investment that have been relevant to the space industry and explain how investment has affected this industry’s emergence.

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Investment

Learning Objectives: Assess the role of investment in the commercialization of technology and the birth and growth of new industries.

Case: Mark, K. (2016) “Capitalism’s Next Frontier: Competing in Outer Space” Ivey Publishing. (Harvard Business School Press)

Assignment 3: Identify the types of investment that have been relevant to the space industry and explain how investment has affected this industry’s emergence.  (In order to receive credit, limit your answer to 500 or fewer words and submit it via Blackboard prior to class on. Tuesday, March 1, 2022. No late assignments will be accepted.)

Critique and analyze the current vision statement based on the criteria from the course text. After analyzing the vision statement, create an updated version of the vision statement that addresses any issues identified in the critique.

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Rethinking Mission and Vision Statements

For this assignment you will be working to rethink the vision and mission statements of your selected library. Rather than starting from scratch, you will be critiquing your organization’s current statements based on the standards outlined in the course text. Then, you will be rewriting the statements in an effort to address any shortcomings found during your critique and analysis.

Instructions:

Use the library you have already chosen for the semester. Be sure to identify your library in your assignment – YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.

Locate both the mission and vision statements for your library. (SEE ATTACHMENTS FOR THESE)

Using this template (SEE ATTACHMENTS FOR THE TEMPLATE NAMED “VISION AND MISSION STATEMENTS – THIS IS A WORKABLE WORD FILE), you will critique and analyze the current vision statement based on the criteria from the course text. Be sure to refer to the text (APA citation required) and provide specific examples to support your analysis.

After analyzing the vision statement, create an updated version of the vision statement that addresses any issues identified in the critique. Be sure to include a short follow up paragraph after your new statement to indicate what changes you made and why (make sure to discuss in terms of the criteria used to analyze the original vision statement).

Repeat this analysis and creation process for your mission statement. When critiquing the mission statement, be sure to use the standards set out specifically for mission statements in the course text and not those used for the vision statement.

After analyzing the mission statement and creating a new statement, be sure to include a short follow up paragraph to indicate what changes you made and why (make sure to discuss in terms of the criteria used to analyze the original mission statement).

As an investor, discuss which company you would choose to invest in and provide a rationale for your decision. Support your conclusions, why or why not?

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Coke an Pepsi

Write a 8-10 page research paper on the selected companies below. The 8-10 pages do not include the title page, graphs or references. The paper must include an introduction or abstract and a summary conclusion. (I will assign the group members to the groups.)

OPTION: Your group may select any two companies, who are competitors in the same industry. Please let me know in advance if you wish to select different companies than what is offered below.
Company Examples:
• Coke and Pepsi

Project Assignment Using Coke and Pepsi as an Example:
Long time competitors in the soft drink industry, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola continue efforts to gain additional market share. Which do you prefer, Coke or Pepsi? Let’s take a look at these two companies from a financial perspective rather than our drink preference.
To learn more about PepsiCo and Coca-Cola Enterprises, download the latest PepsiCo 2014 Annual Report at: https://www.pepsico.com/docs/album/default-document-library/pepsico-2014-annual-report_final.pdf and the Coca-Cola 2014 Annual Report at http://ir.cokecce.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=117435&p=irol-reportsannual:. Review the annual reports for general information.

Required:
1. Read -Understanding the Income Statement at: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/04/022504.asp

2. Read -Reading the Balance Sheet at: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/04/031004.asp

3. Compute- the following financial ratios for both companies and provide as an appendix to the required paper. If you need help understanding the meaning of the ratios or how to they are computed, go to: http://www.investopedia.com/university/ratios/

  • Liquidity measurement ratio: · Current ratio
  • Profitability indicator ratios:· Return on assets · Return on equity
  • Debt ratio: · Debt ratio
  • Operating performance ratio: · Fixed asset turnover ratio
  • Cash flow indicator ratio: · Dividend payout ratio
  • Investment valuation ratio: · Price / Earnings ratio

For each company and comparing the two, you are to write a eight to ten (8-10) page report that answers the following:
1. Provide a short background on each company, the industry and the market (growing, declining, etc?) in which they operate. (This should be no more than 1- 1.5 pages for both companies in total and can be a part of your introduction.)

2. Using the current ratio and debt ratios, discuss what conclusions you can make about each company’s ability to pay current liabilities (debt). Support your conclusions. Which company is doing better, why or why not?

3. Using the profitability and operating performance ratios, discuss what conclusions you can make about each company’s profits over the past three years. Support your conclusions. Which company is doing better, why or why not?

4. Using the cash flow indicator and investment valuation ratios, discuss which company is more likely to have satisfied stockholders. Support your conclusions. Which company is doing better, why or why not?

5. As an investor, discuss which company you would choose to invest in and provide a rationale for your decision. Support your conclusions, why or why not?

6. After concluding your research about each company and reviewing their annual report, Discuss what non-financial criteria you would consider when choosing between these two investment options? Support your conclusions, why or why not?

NOTE: You will be graded on the quality of your answers, the logic/organization of the report, your language skills, and your writing skills.

Write a paragraph of what the difference in the two documents is. How does the “South Carolina Exposition and Protest” differ in its argument from the “Kentucky Resolution”?

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Kentucky Resolution section) and South Carolina Exposition and Protest

Task
For this essay, you will need to read “Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (1798)” (but only read the Kentucky Resolution section) and “South Carolina Exposition and Protest”.

In your essay, you should:

Write an introduction outlining the basic argument of state powers versus national powers. You may want to turn to the Constitution itself to find material.
Write a brief summary of why each document was written. What is the historical context of the documents? You will probably want a paragraph for each document.

Write a paragraph of what the two documents have in common.

Write a paragraph of what the difference in the two documents is. How does the “South Carolina Exposition and Protest” differ in its argument from the “Kentucky Resolution”?

Write a conclusion that answers whether or not a state should have the ability to nullify a national law, and if so, under what circumstances? If not, why not? This last paragraph will be your opinion, but remember do not use “I” in any form. State your opinion as if it were fact.

Who is the person you chose to help you practice? How did the roll-play go in your opinion? How did the roll-play go from the perspective of the person who worked with you? What did you learn?

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Conflict resolution

Create a step-by-step guide for resolving conflict, then create a scenario where you practice what you just learned.

For the assignment you are to create an interaction with a person you know, and practice.

1)One thing you wanted to practice from the reading assignment about conflict resolution.
2)Who is the person you chose to help you practice?
3)How did you prepare for the roll-play? Follow the model you created.
4)How did the roll-play go in your opinion?
5)How did the roll-play go from the perspective of the person who worked with you?
6)What did you learn?
7)What would you want to change if you were to do it again?
8)What are 3 main points that stand out to you in the reading assignment and your search about how to resolve conflict.
9)Share an example of a personal application that applies to the reading
10)What you agree with and what you disagree with in the reading.
11)Ask a question about what you read that you don’t understand.