has been asked to analyze the financial performance of Sears and Wal-Mart. Although Wal-Mart is the industry powerhouse‚ its 20% return on equity (ROE) lags behind that of Sears’ 22%. Analysis: Wal-Mart operates fewer stores than Sears but is ahead in terms of total selling area by a ratio of 3.4:1. Between 1995 and 1997‚ Sears’ retail store revenue per selling square foot was not only lower than that of Wal-Mart but in decline. Sears allows customers to pay for merchandise over time if
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Case O: “Cultural Competency at Marion County Health Center” Marion County Health Center (MCHC) is a non-for-profit organization that provides woman health services at its Women’s health clinic. The Clinic provides services to a diverse population of 60% whites‚ 30% African-American‚ and 10% mix of various races. Breast screening rates at the Clinic was lower the required standards‚ and significantly lower for non-white patients. The lower rate and disparity in services conflicts with the mission
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Advocate Christ medical Center Health Planning and Policy Management EHC 4498 Heather Cooper 2/2/2014 Advocate Christ Medical Center‚ opened in 1961‚ it is a teaching hospital that is ranked as a top one hundred facility and is located in Oak Lawn‚ Illinois. Advocate Christ Medical Center is a seven hundred sixty-four bed medical center (Center‚ 2014)‚ in 2012 this facility had forty thousand seven hundred and sixty seven admissions. In 2012 alone this hospital performed eleven thousand
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Setting and background‚ case overview Park-John Medical Center is a full-service for profit community hospital located in heart of Plantation‚ FL that provides a wide range of healthcare services to residents in Central Broward County for over 50 years. Park-John Medical Center is a 356-bed hospital that serves a diverse population from surrounding cities most of which falls under the low-income population. For the past 10 years Park-John former Director of Patient Registration‚ Iris Foote‚ has
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Ferguson Family Daycare Center is a privately held Limited Liability Company (LLC) run by its two owners Miriam Ferguson-Campbell (CEO) and Bernice Ferguson. Ms. Ferguson-Campbell is a successful entrepreneur for over 25 years. Ms. Bernice Ferguson professional resume is well diverse with 10+ years as a Registered Nurse (RN)‚ 20 years as chairperson of the New Jersey Department of Health and 15 years of successful real estate trading. Kathy Ferguson whom is the director of the facility executes daily
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skyscraper architecture "http://www.coshe.com/search/" The architectural design of the 20th century skyscrapers has been redefined due to the advancement of our modern technology. Benny Louie Humanity 450 Dr. Maureen Schmid 17 May 1999 The architectural design of the 20th century skyscrapers has been redefined due to the advancement of our modern technology. In our modern society‚ the architectural design of skyscrapers is changing the downtown landscape of metropolitan areas. Due to the change of
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Mr. Sears Catalogue is a movie that portrays a very educational tone. The movie features many historic photos and footage‚ as well as presents a chronological timeline of the rise of the Sears Catalogue and Mr. Sears’ success. One of the main ways that this educational tone is presented is via a narrator opposed to actors. In having a narrator it is made very clear that the premise of the film is not necessarily to entertain but to inform. This film effectively conveys its message. The message
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Medical Center and you are currently faced with a shortage of nurses. Your firm currently has plans to expand the nursing staff by 11%. In addition‚ the annual turnover of the current 400 person nursing staff is 36%. A. Describe how you would creatively recruit to fill your nursing position needs in this marketplace where there is a current undersupply of nurses. I would seek to form partnerships with colleges and universities that have nursing programs. Westcoast Regional Medical Center would
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gamut from acceptance to resistance. After failing to desegregate on their own‚ the schools in Clark County School District in Las Vegas‚ Nevada were compelled by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to act. As a result‚ they created the Sixth-Grade Center Plan of Integration to desegregate the elementary schools within the district. The plan required children to be bussed to the Westside (the black community) for one year during sixth grade. All other years‚ the children from the black community were
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Running head: SEARS CORE COMPETENCIES EXAMINED Sears Core Competencies Examined July 8‚ 2012 Sears Core Competencies Examined All companies have core competencies that they use to differentiate their company‚ product‚ or service from the competition‚ Sears is no exception. Also‚ it is common for a company’s core competencies to change‚ as their industry progresses through phases and shifts its emphasis between product and process innovations (Regis University‚ 2011)‚ Sears is no exception. Yet
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