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Momenterpreneurship Discussion
$10.00What type of Business Would You Start? Part 1
What roles do you think of as traditionally “female” roles? How about traditionally “male” roles? When you think of certain industries or businesses, do you think that it is more likely to be run by a male or a female entrepreneur? Consider, for examples, a construction company, a cake-decorating business, a cloth-diaper business, and a furniture design firm. Do they evoke images of a “typical” owner? Who would you guess would be more likely to start these businesses.
Throughout history, women have fallen into certain social and societal roles. Although they have changed dramatically in the last century, certain stereotypes still apply. For a look at the historical perspective, read this scholarly article, “The Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough.”
Many women have turned “traditional” roles into extremely successful business ventures. Consider these three women entrepreneurs who have started businesses in the last century. In addition to skills that might be characterized as “homemaker” skills, they also possessed impressive entrepreneurial skills that allowed them to create long-lasting, thriving firms.
In 1937, Margaret Rudkin began experimenting with all-natural whole-wheat bread recipes for her asthmatic son. She began baking bread for other children in the area, and soon began a business out of her farm in Connecticut. Pepperidge Farm was born, and by 1960, the company was producing 1.2 million loaves of bread per week, as well as numerous other products. The NYTimes obituary (1967) for Margaret Rudkin gives a great overview of her entrepreneurial story.
In 1963, Mary Kay Ash invested $5,000 in a formula for beauty cream and started a business based on the “home-party” system. The company started with nine representatives, and today employs 1.6 million representatives worldwide. Read this biography of Mary Kay Ash and see what you think about her accomplishments.
Martha Kostyra Stewart began a catering business in 1976. She used the skills she had learned from her mother (cooking and sewing), father (gardening), grandparents (preserving and canning) and neighbors (baking). In 1981, she published her first book, Martha Stewart’s Entertaining. In 1997, she purchased all of the publishing, broadcasting, merchandise and licensing ventures bearing her name and consolidated them into a new company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. For more information about her career, check out this biography.
What similarities and/or differences do you see between these three entrepreneurs? What skills did they possess that fostered their success? How did they turn their “traditional” skills into multi-million dollar companies?
A common source of inspiration for a large number of entrepreneurs’ business ideas comes from raising their children. Ideas for strollers, diapers, toys, learning activities, dolls, etc. come from parents who realize there is a market need for something they wish existed. For example, Ruth Handler, the creator of the Barbie doll, came up with the idea for an “adult” doll after watching her daughter, Barbara, play with adult paper dolls. (At that point, all children’s dolls resembled babies.) Click here for more information.
In recent years, the term “Mompreneur” has emerged to describe the woman entrepreneur who is concurrently raising children and running a business (usually related to their child in some way). For some definitions of a “Mompreneur,” and some interesting insights, read WiseGeek’s answer to the question, “What is a Mompreneur?.” What do you think of the term, “Mompreneur?” To read about someone who successfully started a business while raising her children, read, “Baby Einstein: Genius Through Imperfection,” also by Aliza Sherman, about Julie Aigner Clark. What are your thoughts on Mompreneurs? Do you think that it is a relevant and appropriate term? Do you think it accurately describes the entrepreneurs it attempts to describe? Do you feel that it is in any way derogatory toward women entrepreneurs that also have families?
This week, discuss how traditionally female roles factor into the entrepreneurial process. Explore the benefits and potential downsides of applying these skillsets to business ventures. Do you think this trend will continue, or do you think women are entering “non-traditional” industries at a greater rate? Is there less of a difference today between how men and women are raised and the skills they are taught? Will that make a difference in the types of business women choose to start? These are all questions to consider as you explore this topic.
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Assuming Pennick agrees with his staff on the choice of Mallory or Watson…
$5.00Part_1
Think of what you may imagine as being an opportunity in the market place?
How would you determine if you should conduct or not conduct a marketing research?
Part_2
1- Assuming Pennick agrees with his staff on the choice of Mallory or Watson, what now is Pennick’s decision in terms of decision alternatives?
2- Assuming Pennick is not confident in his assumptions about the consequences of the outcomes associated with your decision alternative, what should Pennick consider doing?
3- Should Pennick decide to conduct marketing research, write the research objective.
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International marketing flop – Google search engine in China
$20.00Write a 3-5 page paper describing an international marketing flop ( product or service that was introduce and the format is APA). The paper should address the following area.
- Company
- Product (be specific)
- Timeline (did this occur recently, in the 80’s, when as precisely as possible)
- What was the marketing flop?
- Why was the marketing effort a flop?
- How much did the flop cost (if you can find it)?
- What did the company do in response to the flop?
- What’s happening now with the product in the area the flop occurred?
********The topic of flop is google searching engine:***************
“Why Google, the big American businesses, has failed to dominate the Chinese search market rather than other countries.”
Analysis should be indepth and specific. Please use the marketing knowledge.
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Use the Internet to research best practices in supply chain management
$10.00Please answer each bullet with ONLY 4 sentences. Only respond using the number not the discussion. List at least one reference for answers
- Use the Internet to research best practices in supply chain management. Be prepared to discuss. Determine which best practices can be applied to the greatest number of small businesses. Explain your rationale.
- Analyze the principles of Total Quality Management (TQM) and Six Sigma in regard to quality control of a product or service, and make at least one recommendation for improvement. Explain your rationale.
- Describe a retail business from the US such as Walmart, K-Mart, Target with which you are familiar and determine the most suitable means of inventory control. Provide specific examples to support your response.
- For the same business in question #3, discuss what innovative steps you could take to deter employee theft and/or shoplifting.
- Analyze the three internal governance mechanisms (ownership concentration, boards of directors, and executive compensation) and recommend a possible fourth mechanism that would help align the interests of managerial agents with those of the firm’s owners. Provide specific examples to support your response.
- Use the Internet to research basic approaches to corporate governance outside of the U.S. (excluding Germany, Japan, and China). Determine how U.S.-based corporations could incorporate elements of the corporate governance practices you researched to help top-level managers make better ethical decisions. Provide specific examples to support your response.
- Corporate governance has become a hot issue in the U.S. over the past two decades. From your analysis of the case study, determine two possible corporate governance challenges that might be faced by Best Buy as a result of its rapid growth and why they could become corporate governance issues.
- Make recommendations for how Best Buy can overcome these challenges. Provide specific examples to support your response.
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Business Report (Interview on a human resource manager)
$10.00Instructions
- Interview. Interview an individual currently working in a human resource management capacity. The candidate could be from your own organization or an organization from any sector (i.e., government, education, religious, non-profit, for profit) that you are familiar with, or you could contact an HR professional affiliated with a local chapter of SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management). To identify a local SHRM chapter in your area, go to the following SHRM web site:
http://www.shrm.org/Communities/SHRMChapters/Pages/default.aspx
- The interview may be conducted in person, via Skype, or by phone. Ask the following questions (using the associated headings in your report paper):
- Interview Candidate: Identify the candidate, the organization, as well as the role and HR responsibilities of the interview candidate. Also include how you came to identify and select this person for your interview, and the means with which your interview was conducted (i.e., in person, via Skype, or by phone).
- Group Type for Organizing HR: Identify which of the four types of groups for organizing HR (i.e., transactional HR group, corporate HR group, embedded HR group, or centers of expertise), the organization is using.
- Outsourcing of HR Functions: Are any of the HR functions outsourced? If so, which ones? If not, why?
- Trends Shaping the HRM Function: What trends are shaping the HRM function for this individual (e.g., globalization, technology, demographics, competition, skills of employees, economy)? How so?
- Technological Application Support: What technological applications are used to +—support the HR function? (See Table 1-2 on page 18 for possible examples.)
- Keeping Current in HRM: How does the individual keep current with issues affecting HRM from within the organization (internally) and external to the organization, including new legislation?
- Attention-Getting HRM Function: What human resource management function has required the most attention by the individual over the past six months (i.e., strategic management; workforce planning and employment; human resource development; compensation and benefits; employee and labor relations; or occupational health, safety, and security?
- Advice for Up-and-Coming HR Professionals: What recommendations does this individual have for someone interested in entering the field of human resource management?
- Your paper should be written as a PROFESSIONAL REPORT WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND CONCLUSION. There should be a minimum of one paragraph for each question, with an APA heading for each of the questions, as identified in bold above. Do not include the questions. The individual paper is to be written in APA 6e style with proper mechanics (i.e., sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and spelling). A title page and reference page are required, in addition to the paper length of 550-650 words.
- Before submitting the assignment, thoroughly edit the paper for APA formatting and mechanics. Be sure all requirements have been met.
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Evaluating Capital Projects Mini-Case
$15.00Read the Evaluating Capital Projects Mini-Case
a. Write a 3 page memo answering the questions included in the Mini-Case.
b .Describe how 1 Chronicles 28 relates to the capital budgeting concepts included in the various questions.Your MEMO should:
a. Answer the questions stated above (a&b).
b.Be at least 3 pages.
c.Use proper spelling, grammar, APA formatting, and include citations as appropriate.The conference on evaluating capital projects has been very helpful. You have received a significant amount of information and multiple projects to evaluate to hone your skills. To adequately teach Grammy and the board you will need to answer several questions about the capital-budgeting process. You will do this in a business memo that is no more than four pages long.
Provide an evaluation of two proposed project, both with a 5-year expected lives and identical initial outlays of $110,000. Both of these projects involve additions to a highly successful product line, and as a result, the required rate of return on both projects has been established at 12 percent. The expected free cash flows from each project are as follows:
Project A Project B Initial outlay -$110,000 -$110,000 Inflow year 1 20,000 40,000 Inflow year 2 30,000 40,000 Inflow year 3 40,000 40,000 Inflow year 4 50,000 40,000 Inflow year 5 70,000 40,000 In evaluating these projects, please respond to the following question:
- Why is the capital-budgeting process so important?
- Why is it difficult to find exceptionally profitable projects?
- What is the payback period on each project? If the organization imposes a 3-year maximum acceptable payback period, which of these projects should be accepted?
- What are the criticisms of the payback period?
- Determine the NPV for each of these projects. Should they be accepted?
- Describe the logic behind the
- Determine the PI for each of these projects. Should they be accepted?
- Would you expect the NPV and PI methods to give consistent accept/reject decisions? Why or why not?
- What would happen to the NPV and PI for each project if the required rate of return increased? If the required rate of return decreased?
- Determine the IRR for each project. Should they be accepted?
- How does a change in the required rate of return affect the project’s internal rate of return?
- What reinvestment rate assumptions are implicitly made by the NPV and IRR methods? Which one is better?
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Why do firms calculate their weighted average cost of capital?
$5.00a.Why do firms calculate their weighted average cost of capital?
b.In computing the cost of capital, which sources should be considered?
c.How does a firm’s tax rate affect its cost of capital? What is the effect of the flotation costs associated with a new security issue on a firm’s weighted average cost of capital?
d.Can Grammy’s Legacy engage in capital budgeting and honor God? Integrate one verse or short-passage of scripture into your answer.
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Export Control and Trade Sanctions
$35.00Topic:
International Business and Law topic must be approved by professor (topic must include aspects of international business as well as law). Submit a hard copy of topic described in one or two sentences (handwritten is okay). Topic submitted in class by Wednesday
Paper:
Length – 6 to 8 pages. Format – Double spaced, font size 12. Bibliography – at least three sources, your textbook is acceptable as one source. Sources must be cited within the paper, e.g., (Smith, p 4).
Writing assignments and presentations will be graded on the depth of the arguments, the analysis, coherence, and editing (grammar and mechanical correctness). Presentations are also graded on preparedness and presentation skills. (250 points)
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Briefly describe a small business you could envision yourself owning…
$10.00Please answer each bullet with ONLY 4 sentences. Only respond using the number not the discussion. List at least one reference for answers
- Briefly describe a small business you could envision yourself owning and discuss the most appropriate source of debt capital for that business. Explain your rationale.
- Research the various loan programs available from the Small Business Administration, located at http://www.sba.gov/. Discuss how you could best use an SBA loan to get your business running or expanding. Provide specific examples to support your response.
- Using the same small business you described in the question #1, determine the best possible location for your business within driving distance of where you now live. Explain your rationale.
- Discuss the layout and design configuration of a building you would like to use to house your business, including how you would comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- Determine why, given the advantages of international diversification, some firms choose not to expand internationally. Provide specific examples to support your response.
- As firms attempt to internationalize, they may be tempted to locate their facilities where business regulation laws are lax. Discuss the advantages and potential risks of such an approach, using specific examples to support your response.
- From an ethical perspective, determine how much information a firm is obliged to tell a potential strategic alliance partner about what it expects to learn from the cooperative arrangement. Explain your rationale.
- Use the Internet to research two U.S.-based companies you believe would mutually benefit from working together in some way. Determine which type of cooperative strategy would most benefit the two companies you researched. Provide specific examples to support your response.