MGT 435 Strategy and Policies School of Business Administration - Oakland University Winter 2015 Time: 3:30-5:17 PM MW Instructor: Tianxu Chen‚ Ph.D. Office: Elliot Hall Room 300 Office Hours: By appointment. E-Mail: tchen234@oakland.edu I. Course Description This capstone course in Strategic Management aims to equip you with the knowledge and analytical tools essential to comprehend and analyze how firms formulate and implement strategies. In doing so‚ you will learn how leaders of successful
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capacity at both the district and school levels‚ thinning the ranks of assistant superintendents‚ curriculum specialists and assistant principals‚ who shouldered some or most of the load. For Beverly Jarrett‚ principal at Far West High School in the Oakland (Calif.) Unified School District‚ that has meant an upward creep from 10 hours per day‚ five days a week when she started five years ago‚ to 12 to 14 hours per day and one Saturday a month. “You’re never in this place where you can relax. You’re
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These lines are taken from the poem “Harlem” by African-American poet Langston Hughes. Written in 1951‚ the poem asks what happens when people cannot achieve their dreams because of racial prejudice. More recently‚ it inspired the title of a 1995 report on high school dropouts by the Educational Testing Service (ETS)—Dreams Deferred: High School Dropouts in the United States. The report uses some of the latest information from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the U.S. Department
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Images play a major role within our society today. Social media‚ magazines‚ advertisements have become a major part of our lives. We are constantly evolving in order to keep up with the people around us; this same concept applies to religions. When people hear the word‚ “Buddhism‚” most people think about a bald man sitting in a room meditating. However‚ Buddhism has changed over the years just like everything else in our daily lives. Physical representations play a key role in the Buddhist religion
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public official and the 14th Chief Justice of the United States. Was born in Los Angeles‚ California in 1891 and graduated from the University of California Law School in 1912 (Adams‚ 2007). Warren was admitted to the bar in 1914‚ he practiced in Oakland‚ Calif.‚ and held several local offices. He served as state attorney general and was governor of California from 1943 to 1953‚ also was a district attorney for Alameda County in California (Adams‚ 2007). In 1948 he was the unsuccessful candidate for
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Great Ones” inspired a movement whose ripple effect would last till the end of the 20th century. The legacy‚ which they left behind‚ would transcend onto the Movement of Chicano Art and especially the remnants that can be seen in the Oakland Museum of Art. The Oakland Museum of California reached out to its surrounding communities and more so to the minorities. The Chicano Art Movement brought out artist‚ photographers‚ and activist who fought for the rights of laborers during the Labor Movement‚
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John Griffith Chaney‚ Jack London‚ was born on January 18‚ 1876 in San Francisco. Jack London is most well-known for his novels Call of the Wild and White Fang. The novels and the short story “To Build a Fire” share a similar theme of survival in the wildernerness. London’s “To Build A Fire” is a story about a man and a dog traveling the Yukon trail. In the story the man is struggling to survive the harsh environment of the Klondike. “To Build a Fire” is a naturalistic story‚ influenced by scientific
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Derek Lucente Professor Allen English Comp 1 December 16th‚ 2013 Sabermetrics Sabermetrics is the mathematical analysis of baseball records and data. Sabermetrics uses its own unique statistical categories to measure player performance instead of the more orthodox categories including: runs batted in (RBI)‚ home runs (HR)‚ and wins (W) for a pitcher. The theory behind sabermetrics produces data using complex formulas to determine the value of a player for the team as a whole rather than what
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The concert that I reviewed is the Guitar Studio Recital featuring The Oakland University Saxo-Ensemble. I love listening to guitars so I figured that this was the perfect concert for me. It was very creative because the Saxophone players were dressed up as zombies and the composer was dressed up as death and he used his scythe to compose the ensemble. Halloween‚ being one of my favorite holidays‚ this was a nice surprise. I am glad that I attended this concert because it the pieces were not too
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Freed Korematsu Fred Korematsu was born in Oakland‚ California on January 30‚ 1919. His parents had immigrated to the United States from Japan in 1905. Despite the fact that he was an American citizen‚ Korematsu‚ being a Japanese-American‚ faced overwhelming racial prejudice while he was growing up. He was often bullied at school and discriminated against. Even the family of his Italian American girlfriend‚ Ida Boitano‚ felt that the Japanese were inferior to whites. In the years approaching World
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