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  • Value Alignment (Walmart)

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    Discuss with your Learning Team an existing organization with which you are familiar that is different than the one you used for the Conceptualizing a Business paper.

    Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you analyze the individual values and the organization’s values as reflected by the organization’s plans and actions. Include the following in your paper:

    1. Analyze the origin(s) and subsequent evolution of your personal and workplace values.
    2.  Explain how your individual values drive your actions and behaviors, and analyze the alignment between your values and actions and behaviors.
    3.  Analyze the degree of alignment between the organization’s stated values and the organization’s actual plans and actions.
    4. Explain the differences and analyze the degree of alignment between your values and the organization’s values as reflected by the organization’s plans and actions.

    5 pages, 1 Reference

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  • Strategic Plan 1-DTL Nutrition (Down to Lift)

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    Business Model and Strategic Planning Outline as a guide to complete sections of your capstone project each week. A final paper is due in Week 5. Cite your resources.
    Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper in which you explain the importance of innovation in your selected business’s vision, mission, and values, and determine your business model for this new division. Include the following:
    • Propose a new product or service for the new company division. The division should be customer-focused with an innovative mission statement. Ensure that you are differentiating your product or service.
    • Describe how the division addresses customer needs and achieves competitive advantage.
    • Create a vision and a business model for this new division that clearly demonstrates your decision on what you want your business to become in the future.
    • Explain how the vision, mission, and value of the new division align with the company’s mission and vision.
    • Summarize how the vision, mission, and values guide the division’s strategic direction.
    • Define your guiding principles and values for your division in the context of culture, social responsibility, and ethics.
    Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
    4 Pages, 1 Reference
    Study Tip 101: Space it out.
    A relatively new learning technique called “spaced repetition” involves breaking up information into small chunks and reviewing them consistently over a long period of time. So don’t try to memorize the entire periodic table in one sitting—instead, learn a few rows every day and review each lesson before starting anything new.
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  • Price Quotes and Pricing Decisions Applied Problems

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    Jessica Alba, a famous actress, starts the baby and family products business, The Honest Company, with Christopher Gavigan. Alba and Gavigan set up their site so families can choose what kinds of non-toxic, all-natural products they’d like to use and get them in a bundle. Families can choose all kinds of products from food to hygiene necessities and cleaning supplies. Suppose they are thinking of expanding their business into five domestic markets: Phoenix, Dallas, Chicago, New York, and Atlanta. Assume their primary goal of business is to maximize economic profits, although they want to do business honestly.

    Show all your calculations and process. Describe your answer for each question in three- to five-complete sentences.

    You are a business adviser for Alba and Gavigan. Describe a skimming price and a penetration price, and advise them whether they should charge a skimming price or a penetration price, with supportive reasoning for and against each pricing alternative. Are they likely to make economic profits initially? Can they continue to make economic profits in the long term? Why or why not? Discuss. What advice would you give to Alba and Gavigan to help them make more profit in the long term?

    Problem 2:

    You operate your own small building company and have decided to bid on a government contract to build a pedestrian walkway in a national park during the coming winter. The walkway is to be of standard government design and should involve no unexpected costs. Your present capacity utilization rate is moderate and allows sufficient scope to understand this contract, if you win it. You calculate your incremental costs to be $268,000 and your fully allocated costs to be $440,000. Your usual practice is to add between 60% and 80% to your incremental costs, depending on capacity utilization rate and other factors. You expect three other firms to also bid on this contract, and you have assembled the following competitor intelligence about those companies.

    BUS640 Week 5, Problem 2 Chart Attached

    Show all of your calculations and processes. Describe your answers in three- to five-complete sentences.

    What price would you bid if you must win the project? What price would you bid if you want to maximize the expected value of the contribution from this contract? Defend your answers with discussion, making any assumptions you feel are reasonable and/or are supported by the information provided.

    5 Pages, 4 References

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  • What will be the ethical code of your company?

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    Code of Ethics

    Imagine that you are starting your own company. What will be the ethical code of your company?
    Write a 300-word minimum ethical code of conduct listing the rules and principles that your company will use in decision-making.
    Provide a brief explanation of why you selected each rule and principle.

    1 Page, APA, 1 Reference

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  • Briefly describe the details of the fictitious business

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    Assignment 1: Operations Decision

    Assume you have been hired as a managing consultant by a company to offer some advice that will help it make a decision as to whether it should shut down completely or continue its operations. It currently uses 100 workers to produce 6,000 units of output per month (working 20 days / month). The daily wage (per worker) is $70, and the price of the firm’s output is $32. The cost of other variable inputs is $2,000 per day. You are told that the firm’s fixed cost is “high enough” so that the firm’s total costs exceed its total revenue. The marginal cost of the last unit is $30.

    1. Briefly describe the details of the fictitious business that you created for this assignment.
    2. Assess the current environmental scan factors that are relevant to the decision making process. Determine the factors that will have the greatest impact on plant operations and management’s decision to continue or discontinue operations. Provide a rationale for your determination.
    3. Evaluate the financial performance of the company using the information provided in the scenario. Consider all the key drivers of performance, such as company profit or loss for both the short term and long term and how each factor influences managerial decisions. Be sure to show the calculations that helped you reach your conclusions.
    4. Recommend how the company can improve its profitability to deliver more value to its stakeholders. Then, develop a brief plan to implement the recommendations.
    5. Assess the circumstances in which the company should discontinue operations and how management should react when confronted with these circumstances. Provide a rationale with your response.

    5 pages, APA, 3 references

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  • Conduct a case analysis for Corona Beer (Modelo)(Case #13,C-248)

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    Assignment 3: Foreign Market Entry and Diversification
    Conduct a case analysis for Corona Beer (Modelo)(Case #13,C-248) and prepare a 4-5 page report to complete the following:
    • Identify and discuss the trends in the global beer markets.
    • Discuss how Modelo’s international expansion was made possible through strategic partnerships with experienced distributors in local markets.
    • Identify and discuss the next foreign market that Modelo should enter and with what strategy.
    • Discuss the challenges that Modelo faces from its competitor InBev, and how it might respond strategically to the industry giant.
    • Discuss whether or not Modelo should diversity its business. If so, what business should it enter and why?
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  • Integrating Culture and Diversity in Decision Making – Google Inc.

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    Integrating Culture and Diversity in Decision Making The CEO and Organizational (Google Inc.)

    Choose one (1) of the following organizations to research: Google, Zappos, Southwest, Hewlett Packard, Xerox, W.L. Gore, DuPont, or Procter & Gamble. Use a variety of resources (company Website, newspaper, company blogs, etc.) to research the culture of the selected organization. Note: Use Question 6 as your conclusion. An abstract is not necessary for this assignment.
    Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

    1. Provide a brief (one [1] paragraph) description of the organization you chose to research.
    2. Examine the culture of the selected organization.
    3. Explain how you determined that the selected organization showed the signs of the culture that you have identified.
    4. Determine the factors that caused the organization to embody this particular culture.
    5. Determine what type of leader would be best suited for this organization. Support your position.
    6. Imagine that there is a decline in the demand of product(s) or services supplied by the selected organization. Determine what the change in culture would need to be in response to this situation.
    7. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

    Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
    • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
    • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

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  • Use of external consulting firm to provide pre-departure training for employees

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    Assignment 2: International Assignment

    Imagine that you are the HR director for a multinational firm that has recently begun to assign workers to international posts. You are responsible for determining the staffing needs of foreign operations. You will also need to adopt a mentoring program for expatriates. As you do not have the resources to provide in house training, you are considering the use of an external consulting firm to provide pre-departure training for employees.

    Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

    • Determine four to six (4-6) components that the pre-departure training will need to cover. Provide a rationale for the use of using the training components in question.
    • Propose three (3) criteria that management will use to assess the performance of expatriates working abroad. Support your proposal with examples of the fundamental ways in which these performance requirements have improved performance,
    • Recommend the recruiting and selection strategy that you believe your firm should use when offering international assignments. Provide a rationale for your recommendation
    • Compare and contrast two (2) staffing alternatives for foreign operations at your multinational firm. Select the staffing alternative that you believe to be the best fit for your scenario and provide a rationale for your selection.
    • Analyse the importance of providing a high-quality mentoring system for international assignees. Provide one (1) example of a high-quality mentoring system for international assignees to support your analysis.
    • Suggest the manner in which you plan to measure return on investment (ROI) for international assignments. Provide a rationale for your decision.
    • Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources,

    Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

    Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions,

    Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

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  • Evaluate the reasons Social Media Marketing has become exceedingly popular among businesses of all sizes

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    Assignment 4: Internet Technology, Marketing, and Security
    Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:
    1. Evaluate the reasons Social Media Marketing has become exceedingly popular among businesses of all sizes.
    2. Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of Social Media Marketing for business entrepreneurs.
    3. Assess how Social Media Marketing is helping Pepsi gain more customer insight than it would have otherwise.
    4. Research two (2) other businesses that have used Social Media Marketing to their advantage.
    5. Discuss how each of these businesses has utilized Social Media Marketing and provide examples with your discussion.
    6. Speculate what impact Social Media will have business over the next decade and identify what skills you need to improve to take advantage of the changes.
    7. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other
    8. Websites do not quality as academic resources.
    10 Pages, 5 References
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