Chapter 1- What is strategy? Strategy- how to do better than your rivals What is the present situation? Where do we want to go? How will we get there? Strategy- doing things differently from rivals- competitive advantage Effectiveness & Efficiency Doing things differently than others either differently providing value Beauty is in the eye of the beholder Efficiently- “don’t care about value- but do it more efficiently Google focusing more on efficiency Sustainable Competitive advantage
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September 28‚ 2011 Mr. James Dimon‚ CEO J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. 270 Park Avenue‚ New York‚ NY 10017 Subject: New market for hedge funds Dear Mr. Dimon: It is a pleasure for ABS Consultants to be working with J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. As follow-up to our initial conversations‚ we have considered various trends occurring within the financial arena‚ and have identified one trend specifically within the space of alternate investments that would most
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Identify examples of bias‚ fallacies‚ and specific rhetorical devices in the speech. Political bias: “With one purpose only: to point out and make public the dishonesty‚ the downright villainy‚ of Boss Jim W. Gettys’ political machine—now in complete control of the government of this State!” His opinion of this groups’ work is judgmental. Ad hominen: Kane attacking his Boss Jim Gettys’ political leadership as “the dishonest and downright villainy presented false hopes to the public. Scare tactic:
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There are two sides to every story. Parents‚ students with siblings‚ or even school faculty can attest to the statement that when someone is to blame in a situation‚ there can be two or more very different stories as to how the problem arose. Usually it is a matter of “he said she said” and depending on the situation‚ you pick the story that either sounds most accurate to you or that you want to believe. You may think that this is something that just happens at this day in age‚ but this occurs everywhere
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Coffee Supplies 132 Midnite Road Singapore 556677 Dear Sir or Madam‚ RE: My complaint on 13th May 2012 I am writing with regards to a terrible experience I had at Coffee Supplies one week ago. I ordered coffee beans as usual on March‚ and till now‚ I have still not receive my coffee beans. It’s been 2 months since I ordered‚ so I decided to give your company a call to see what went wrong. As I always liaise with Michelle in my dealings with your company‚ I called her up as usual‚ but the
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What appears on the next page is a graph representing “aggregation bias” in data. Per Bakken’s report‚ he assumes that there are no differences between stand-alone retail properties (such as Walgreens) and strip-mall retail properties. He even uses a case study to “prove” that there are no differences in rents between strip and stand-alone retail properties. However‚ by looking at the graph on the next page‚ it is possible to find a stand-alone retail property (from Submarket B) that overlaps with
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elected in to legislature. Juenke‚ Eric Gonzalez. "Ignorance Is Bias: The Effect Of Latino Losers On Models Of Latino Representation." American Journal Of Political Science 58.3 (2014): 593-603. Academic Search Complete. Web. 24 Feb. 2016. This source in particular was a study done to examine why minorities get elect to office and when do they get elected. The study was mostly focused on state legislative candidate data from two specific sources‚ ranging from 2008 to 2012‚ and used this information
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Representation and Bias By Deborah Callaway Herzing College Online W4A1-Reflection Assignment November 26‚ 2009 Representation and Bias When creating or reviewing a research study‚ we need to consider the information and decide if it is representative or biased in order to make clear decisions. When the information or sample is representative‚ it means that the people studied are like the people who you wish to generalize and it must have the same significant
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When stories are told‚ no matter who the narrator is‚ their testimonies always differ from the truth. We see this in eyewitness accounts of crimes where witnesses overwhelmingly fail to accurately recount events. We also see this in stories‚ specifically‚ ones told in the first person where the narrator tells a story from their point of view and inject their own personal biases in the process often leaving the audience pondering what the truth is. Margaret Atwood addresses the issues of different
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As Aristotle once said “Beauty‚ is a greater recommendation than any letter of introduction” (www.thinkexist.com). The beauty bias is the notion that people who are attractive are usually rewarded socially. The idea of beauty is a socially accepted principle and although this principle has been widely accepted from the beginning of time‚ the standards of beauty have drastically changed from the past. In today’s society‚ there is a large amount of discrimination based on the physical attractiveness
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