Management Concepts Professor: Justin U. Harris Ph.D. Assignment #1 Comparing Two Businesses Authors Note James M. Gordon‚ Strayer University Correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to James M. Gordon‚ E-mail: g2gretire@yahoo.com Assignment #1 Comparing Two Similar Businesses Amazon.com‚ Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) with a +$100 billion market capitalization is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered
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Enterprise Risk Management In the 21st Century‚ the news of corporate scandals involving corruption enormously spread across not only the country but across the globe also. Accounting firms‚ investors‚ lenders‚ corporate managers and innocent bystanders were all embroiled in the chaos with the extent of corporate malfeasance being indeterminable. Collateral damage inflicted by scandals involving corporations such as Enron‚ Arthur Andersen LLP‚ WorldCom‚ Adelphia Communications‚ etc‚ was shocking
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People do acts of kindness for a reason. People help others because they are in need and because they can get a benefit out of it. For example‚ I live in Texas and over the summer we had many catastrophic events. Including hurricanes through the Houston and Corpus Christi area. There was another through Puerto Rico and many earthquakes happened in Mexico. Many people lost their lives‚ homes‚ and all of their belongings. As a close church community‚ we were able to incorporate other church communities
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Things such as settings‚ events‚ character traits‚ and language all need to be realistic. This entails a huge amount of research done by the author to support his/her novel and create a reliable‚ engaging read. Kathryn Stockett‚ the author of The Help‚ intertwines both fact and fiction accurately depicting life in the south and the hardships that African Americans faced back in the 1960’s. One of the most important aspects when writing a historical fiction novel is the setting. If this is accurate
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of Capitalism That Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs” is a book that discusses Yunus’ idea of a “social business”‚ his numerous collaborations with companies in order to rid poverty in some form from the country of Bangladesh‚ and also advice on how to formulate and get your very own social business out there. The idea of social business began when Yunus was teaching Economics in the country Bangladesh in the early seventies‚ when Bangladesh was going through a very hard patch in its history
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Week 2 Written Assignment: Auebach Enterprises These are not presented in scholarly discussion‚ but are simply the solutions. Student papers are expected to be written in scholarly discussion following APA formatting guidelines incorporating solutions and supported with scholarly research. Solutions: 1. Overhead Costs Machine Hours Departmental Rates Radiator parts fabrication $ 80‚000.00 10‚000 $ 8.00 Radiatior assembly‚ weld‚ and test 100
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ORGANIZING THE ENTERPRISE Why do you go to business? Reasons: 1. Personal Satisfaction – they enjoy challenges and risk-taking ventures. Their business success gives them a sense of fulfillment. 2. Family involvement- they feel it is their responsibility to continue the business of their parents‚ especially if it is profitable. 3. Independence and power- they want to be the boss. 4. Social Activities- there are people who are really born socializers. 5. Profit experience- some
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2002/2003 through “the Surge” of 2007 using operational design from JP 5-0 as a framework for the analysis. Planning for COBRA II demonstrates an imperfect understanding of the operational environment and an incomplete analysis of the termination‚ military endstate and objectives
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Filmore Enterprises Foundamental Concepts 1. a. See the attachment (expected rate of return) b. Based soly on expected returns‚ investment on CPC appears the best‚ for it has 9.70% expected returns‚ yet the investment on MORELY appears the cost‚ which has only 5.70% expected returns. c. Rate of return is mainly connected with the beta coefficient‚ which means if the rate of return is relatively higher‚ then the company will have higher risk. Judging from table1 in the attachment‚ CPC
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An example of an operational strategy I found was within the NIKE organization. NIKE was created in 1972‚ by co-founder Bill Bowerman & his University of Oregon runner Phil Knight. Together‚ with the people they hired‚ the company was able to grow and expand from a U.S. based footwear distributor to a global marketer of athletic footwear‚ apparel & equipment that is unrivaled in the world today (www.nikeinc.com). Operations strategy is the development of a long term plan for using the major resources
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