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International marketing flop – Google search engine in China
$20.00Write a 3-5 page paper describing an international marketing flop ( product or service that was introduce and the format is APA). The paper should address the following area.
- Company
- Product (be specific)
- Timeline (did this occur recently, in the 80’s, when as precisely as possible)
- What was the marketing flop?
- Why was the marketing effort a flop?
- How much did the flop cost (if you can find it)?
- What did the company do in response to the flop?
- What’s happening now with the product in the area the flop occurred?
********The topic of flop is google searching engine:***************
“Why Google, the big American businesses, has failed to dominate the Chinese search market rather than other countries.”
Analysis should be indepth and specific. Please use the marketing knowledge.
Use the Internet to research best practices in supply chain management
$10.00Please answer each bullet with ONLY 4 sentences. Only respond using the number not the discussion. List at least one reference for answers
- Use the Internet to research best practices in supply chain management. Be prepared to discuss. Determine which best practices can be applied to the greatest number of small businesses. Explain your rationale.
- Analyze the principles of Total Quality Management (TQM) and Six Sigma in regard to quality control of a product or service, and make at least one recommendation for improvement. Explain your rationale.
- Describe a retail business from the US such as Walmart, K-Mart, Target with which you are familiar and determine the most suitable means of inventory control. Provide specific examples to support your response.
- For the same business in question #3, discuss what innovative steps you could take to deter employee theft and/or shoplifting.
- Analyze the three internal governance mechanisms (ownership concentration, boards of directors, and executive compensation) and recommend a possible fourth mechanism that would help align the interests of managerial agents with those of the firm’s owners. Provide specific examples to support your response.
- Use the Internet to research basic approaches to corporate governance outside of the U.S. (excluding Germany, Japan, and China). Determine how U.S.-based corporations could incorporate elements of the corporate governance practices you researched to help top-level managers make better ethical decisions. Provide specific examples to support your response.
- Corporate governance has become a hot issue in the U.S. over the past two decades. From your analysis of the case study, determine two possible corporate governance challenges that might be faced by Best Buy as a result of its rapid growth and why they could become corporate governance issues.
- Make recommendations for how Best Buy can overcome these challenges. Provide specific examples to support your response.
Business Report (Interview on a human resource manager)
$10.00Instructions
- Interview. Interview an individual currently working in a human resource management capacity. The candidate could be from your own organization or an organization from any sector (i.e., government, education, religious, non-profit, for profit) that you are familiar with, or you could contact an HR professional affiliated with a local chapter of SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management). To identify a local SHRM chapter in your area, go to the following SHRM web site:
http://www.shrm.org/Communities/SHRMChapters/Pages/default.aspx
- The interview may be conducted in person, via Skype, or by phone. Ask the following questions (using the associated headings in your report paper):
- Interview Candidate: Identify the candidate, the organization, as well as the role and HR responsibilities of the interview candidate. Also include how you came to identify and select this person for your interview, and the means with which your interview was conducted (i.e., in person, via Skype, or by phone).
- Group Type for Organizing HR: Identify which of the four types of groups for organizing HR (i.e., transactional HR group, corporate HR group, embedded HR group, or centers of expertise), the organization is using.
- Outsourcing of HR Functions: Are any of the HR functions outsourced? If so, which ones? If not, why?
- Trends Shaping the HRM Function: What trends are shaping the HRM function for this individual (e.g., globalization, technology, demographics, competition, skills of employees, economy)? How so?
- Technological Application Support: What technological applications are used to +—support the HR function? (See Table 1-2 on page 18 for possible examples.)
- Keeping Current in HRM: How does the individual keep current with issues affecting HRM from within the organization (internally) and external to the organization, including new legislation?
- Attention-Getting HRM Function: What human resource management function has required the most attention by the individual over the past six months (i.e., strategic management; workforce planning and employment; human resource development; compensation and benefits; employee and labor relations; or occupational health, safety, and security?
- Advice for Up-and-Coming HR Professionals: What recommendations does this individual have for someone interested in entering the field of human resource management?
- Your paper should be written as a PROFESSIONAL REPORT WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND CONCLUSION. There should be a minimum of one paragraph for each question, with an APA heading for each of the questions, as identified in bold above. Do not include the questions. The individual paper is to be written in APA 6e style with proper mechanics (i.e., sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and spelling). A title page and reference page are required, in addition to the paper length of 550-650 words.
- Before submitting the assignment, thoroughly edit the paper for APA formatting and mechanics. Be sure all requirements have been met.
Evaluating Capital Projects Mini-Case
$15.00Read the Evaluating Capital Projects Mini-Case
a. Write a 3 page memo answering the questions included in the Mini-Case.
b .Describe how 1 Chronicles 28 relates to the capital budgeting concepts included in the various questions.Your MEMO should:
a. Answer the questions stated above (a&b).
b.Be at least 3 pages.
c.Use proper spelling, grammar, APA formatting, and include citations as appropriate.The conference on evaluating capital projects has been very helpful. You have received a significant amount of information and multiple projects to evaluate to hone your skills. To adequately teach Grammy and the board you will need to answer several questions about the capital-budgeting process. You will do this in a business memo that is no more than four pages long.
Provide an evaluation of two proposed project, both with a 5-year expected lives and identical initial outlays of $110,000. Both of these projects involve additions to a highly successful product line, and as a result, the required rate of return on both projects has been established at 12 percent. The expected free cash flows from each project are as follows:
Project A Project B Initial outlay -$110,000 -$110,000 Inflow year 1 20,000 40,000 Inflow year 2 30,000 40,000 Inflow year 3 40,000 40,000 Inflow year 4 50,000 40,000 Inflow year 5 70,000 40,000 In evaluating these projects, please respond to the following question:
- Why is the capital-budgeting process so important?
- Why is it difficult to find exceptionally profitable projects?
- What is the payback period on each project? If the organization imposes a 3-year maximum acceptable payback period, which of these projects should be accepted?
- What are the criticisms of the payback period?
- Determine the NPV for each of these projects. Should they be accepted?
- Describe the logic behind the
- Determine the PI for each of these projects. Should they be accepted?
- Would you expect the NPV and PI methods to give consistent accept/reject decisions? Why or why not?
- What would happen to the NPV and PI for each project if the required rate of return increased? If the required rate of return decreased?
- Determine the IRR for each project. Should they be accepted?
- How does a change in the required rate of return affect the project’s internal rate of return?
- What reinvestment rate assumptions are implicitly made by the NPV and IRR methods? Which one is better?
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Why do firms calculate their weighted average cost of capital?
$5.00a.Why do firms calculate their weighted average cost of capital?
b.In computing the cost of capital, which sources should be considered?
c.How does a firm’s tax rate affect its cost of capital? What is the effect of the flotation costs associated with a new security issue on a firm’s weighted average cost of capital?
d.Can Grammy’s Legacy engage in capital budgeting and honor God? Integrate one verse or short-passage of scripture into your answer.
Export Control and Trade Sanction Essay
$35.00Topic: International Business and Law topic must be approved by professor (topic must include aspects of international business as well as law). Submit a hard copy of topic described in one or two sentences (handwritten is okay). Topic submitted in class by Wednesday, August 12.
Paper: Length – 6 to 8 pages. Format – Double spaced, font size 12. Bibliography – at least three sources, your textbook is acceptable as one source. Sources must be cited within the paper, e.g., (Smith, p 4).
Writing assignments and presentations will be graded on the depth of the arguments, the analysis, coherence, and editing (grammar and mechanical correctness). Presentations are also graded on preparedness and presentation skills. (250 points)
Briefly describe a small business you could envision yourself owning…
$10.00Please answer each bullet with ONLY 4 sentences. Only respond using the number not the discussion. List at least one reference for answers
- Briefly describe a small business you could envision yourself owning and discuss the most appropriate source of debt capital for that business. Explain your rationale.
- Research the various loan programs available from the Small Business Administration, located at http://www.sba.gov/. Discuss how you could best use an SBA loan to get your business running or expanding. Provide specific examples to support your response.
- Using the same small business you described in the question #1, determine the best possible location for your business within driving distance of where you now live. Explain your rationale.
- Discuss the layout and design configuration of a building you would like to use to house your business, including how you would comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- Determine why, given the advantages of international diversification, some firms choose not to expand internationally. Provide specific examples to support your response.
- As firms attempt to internationalize, they may be tempted to locate their facilities where business regulation laws are lax. Discuss the advantages and potential risks of such an approach, using specific examples to support your response.
- From an ethical perspective, determine how much information a firm is obliged to tell a potential strategic alliance partner about what it expects to learn from the cooperative arrangement. Explain your rationale.
- Use the Internet to research two U.S.-based companies you believe would mutually benefit from working together in some way. Determine which type of cooperative strategy would most benefit the two companies you researched. Provide specific examples to support your response.
Finance Coursework Assignment
$5.00Go to http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools and then go to the heading, investing and click the link Fix Your Asset Allocation. Answer the questions and click calculate. Try different options and see how the calculator suggests you allocate your investments. Choose the result you are most comfortable with.
- What are your preferred results, please share your time horizon, risk tolerance, flexibility and in a selloff answers.
- Describe the reasons for your time horizon, risk tolerance, flexibility and in a selloff answers.
- Can Grammy’s legacy operate within the existing financial markets and honor God? Integrate one verse or short-passage of scripture into your answer. – Yes, Grammy’s legacy can operate within the existing financial markets and honor God!
Leadership Reflection Report
$15.00The reading for this class is “The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle—How to Become a Servant Leader”, by James C. Hunter. You will read this book across the course of the semester, and in the last week of the course, using the principles in the book, reflect back on how Servant Leadership may have influenced some of the decisions you made in the Community Care Center over the past 4 months.
As this book is your primary resource for this paper, you do not need to make a reference page. However if you draw from other websites or books, a reference page is required. If you quote the author in your paper, please cite it appropriately, giving him the credit. This paper will be 3 full pages in length in appropriate paragraph format. (1.5 line spacing and Times New Roman 12 and 1″ margins). I will be taking off points for grammar. spelling and sentence structure and format.
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