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MGT FOOD BROKERS FALL INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LAW
$32.00INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LAW
COURSE Number BUSA 391
You are the President, Sole Director and Sole Shareholder of MGT Food Brokers Inc. (“MGT”). MGT is in the business of buying and selling Congealed food products on the international market. Generally, customers of MGT, either in Canada or elsewhere around the world, request that you source Congealed food products for them. You do this through your wide knowledge of Congealed food packaging companies around the world and by purchasing the required products for MGT’s account. MGT purchases the products and then resells them to its customer. MGT arranges for the products to be shipped directly to its customer.
One of MGT’s deals just went sour. Here is the background: On May 15, 2014 you received a telephone call from a company base in California USA known as HypoAllergenic Foods Products Inc. (“HypoAllergenic”). HypoAllergenic specializes in selling foods, which are guaranteed not to have traces of peanuts, insecticides or other substances, which are known to cause allergic reactions. HypoAllergenic has ordered from you for delivery to them twenty-five (25) containers of Congealed carrots. Deliveries are to be made to HypoAllergenic’s plant facility in Los Angeles, California. HypoAllergenic has requested one (1) container to be delivered on the last day of each month for twenty-five (25) months commencing September 30, 2014. The price agreed to per container is US$150,000.00. An essential condition of the transaction is that the carrots be free of any traces of peanuts or pesticides. If there are any traces MGT agrees in writing with HypoAllergenic that HypoAllergenic could immediately cancel the contract with MGT.
Upon receipt of the order MGT immediately contacted Congealed Vegetables Limited. (“Congealed Vegetables”), a Congealed food wholesaler operating out of England, but selling vegetables from farms around the world, and negotiated to purchase from them the required quantities of Congealed carrots for a price per container of US$100,000.00 DDP Los Angeles, California. The only pertinent terms and conditions of the written agreement between MGT and Congealed Vegetables are:
- By no later than July 1, 2014 a letter of credit, in favour of Congealed Vegetables, having the following provisions, will be issued by MGT’s banker, National Bank, Main Branch, Montreal Quebec:
- the letter of credit will be for a total amount of US$2,500,000.00;
- the letter of credit will be irrevocable;
- the letter of credit will permit twenty-five (25) monthly draws, commencing in the month of October, 2014 of US$100,000.00 each provided that in each instance the following documents are delivered to the nominated bank no later than the 23rd day of the month:
- a duplicate original of onboard clean marine bill of lading relating to that month’s shipment; and
- an attestation by the carrier that delivery of the container of Congealed carrots had been made to HypoAllergenic on the 1st day of the current month.
- Each draw is payable on the 23rd of each calendar month commencing October 23rd, 2014.
- An arbitration clause, which reads as follows:
“All disputes arising out of work in connection with the present contract shall be subject to arbitration under the Rules of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce by 3 arbitrators appointed in accordance with the said Rules. The said arbitration shall be conducted in English in the Churchill Hotel, London, England.”
- This contract shall be interpreted and construed in accordance with the laws of Quebec, Canada. For greater certainty, the CISG will apply.
On June 30, 2014 MGT arranged for the requisite letter of credit to be issued by the National Bank to Congealed Vegetables. In order to persuade the National Bank to issue the letter of credit MGT had to put up security of CDN$150,000.00. As MGT and you personally were already tapped out, unknown to your spouse, you persuaded your mother-in-law to put up, as security, her last CDN$150,000.00, which she kept in cash in her mattress.
On October 1, 2014 HypoAllergenic advised MGT that the first container of Congealed carrots had arrived on September 30, 2014 as required. HypoAllergenic indicated to MGT that it would start to process the Congealed carrots and would be paying for the first container load of carrots by electronic transfer to MGT’s bank account on October 22, 2014
On Friday, October 10, 2014, National Bank telephoned you to tell you that the nominated bank in England had received all of the documents from Congealed Vegetables and that consequently the National Bank intended to pay Congealed Vegetables, via the nominated bank on October 23, 2014. You assured MGT’s account manager that the requisite US$100,000.00 to cover the letter of credit would in fact be in MGT’s bank account no later than the close of business October 22, 2014. He told you that if it was not, the bank would take your mother-in-law’s $150,000.00 which she put as guarantee.
Today, October 22, 2014 you felt like you were the Thanksgiving Day turkey being carved up for dinner. MGT has just received a written notice from HypoAllergenic advising you that it has discovered traces of peanuts in the Congealed carrots and therefore has decided to:
- Reject the first container of goods;
- Not make the payment as promised on October 22, 2014; and
- Cancel the balance of the contract.
After a few telephone calls you have been given to understand the source of the problem. Congealed Vegetables obtained the first shipment of carrots from organic growers. However, because the organic growers did not use pesticides they frequently rotated their crops. As a result, some of the carrots that were shipped to HypoAllergenic were from fields where peanuts had been grown in the previous season.
In order to get your thoughts together on how to deal with this problem, and before calling you advisors, such as your lawyer, you have decided to put together a memorandum in the form of a term paper of approximately 3000 words dealing with the following issues:
- What could you have done to avoid getting into this mess?
- Now that you are in this mess, what strategy would you adopt include in your discussion:
- indicate any alternatives which you have considered and rejected, explaining why you have rejected them; and
- your evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the strategy that you have chosen as well as the likelihood of success.
Tesco Sustainability initiative
$0.00Use the Internet to research the socially responsible or sustainability initiative(s) for one (1) Fortune 500 company. Create a brief, but compelling, advertisement for the company’s product(s) that focuses on the socially responsible or sustainability initiative(s) that you researched. Provide a rationale as to why the advertisement you created represents positive external communication from the company.
Background on the Macy’s company discussion of the industry they operate in
$12.00Background must be 2 pages long and must use at least three different sources:?
Background on the Macy’s company discussion of the industry they operate in, and location/locations in which they operate.?General information on the happenings of the industry over the last couple of years.Because each industry is different, you will need to use your judgment as to what is interesting and important.
Some ideas to get you started: is this a growing industry, what are the struggles in the industry, where is the industry headed, how extensive is competition in the industry.?General information on the happenings of Macy’s over the last couple of years.Elements of an organization motivation plan that encourage high job satisfaction, high productivity, high quality work, and low turnover
$12.00Assignment 1: Teamwork and Motivation
Due Week 6 and worth 200 points
Imagine that you are the owner of a small manufacturing company. Your company manufactures a commodity, widgets. Your widget is a clone of a nationally known widget. Your company’s widget, WooWoo, is less expensive and more readily available than the nationally known brand. Presently, the sales are high; however, there are many defects, which increase your costs and delays delivery. Your company has fifty (50) employees in the following departments: sales, assembly, technology, and administration.
Write a three (3) page paper in which you:
1. Identify significant elements of an organization motivation plan that encourage high job satisfaction, high productivity, high quality work, and low turnover (i.e., job flexibility, training, recognition).
2. Determine which motivational theory you would use to support your motivational plan.
3. Propose three (3) ways to motivate the minimum wage service worker. Support your suggestions with a motivation theory.
4. Consider how communication, attitudes, behaviors, and culture affect team performance. Outline a guide that you would use to lead a work team (e.g., cross-functional, virtual, problem-solving, etc.).
5. Reflect on your individual experience working with your team. Ensure that you include the following:
a. Challenges that you experienced during this process
b. How you would approach team projects / assignments differently in the future
c. The most important lesson learned from this experience
Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
· Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
· Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date.
The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
· Explain the variety of motivational theories and job design considerations.
· Analyze the formation and dynamics of group behavior and work teams, including the application of power in groups.
· Use technology and information resources to research issues in organizational behavior.
· Write clearly and concisely about organizational behavior using proper writing mechanics.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric found here.
Influence of social networking Essay
$15.00ENG 101: Assignment Two
Length: 3 to 5 pages plus a Works Cited page
Goals/Grading Criteria
In this paper, I want to see:
- A strong title and thesis.
- A balanced and organized discussion that provides sufficient background regarding your topic and which supports your thesis.
- Coherent, well-developed paragraphs.
- Proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
- An academic tone.
- Proper document format (see page 56 of A Writer’s Reference).
- References to at least two works we have read for class. You can either quote directly or paraphrase the material you use, but be sure to provide proper citations in either case.
- In-text citations that follow MLA format.
- A Works Cited page that follows MLA format.
- A strong conclusion.
For more information on many of these topics, see the “Notes on Writing” folder under Course Materials in Blackboard.
Instructions
By the time this paper is due, we will have read the following essays: “The Power of Patience,” “Obstructed Reality,” “The Documented Life,” “Feeling Old on the Internet,” “Why People Name Their Machines,” “Real Adventurers Use Maps,” and “What’s Lost as Handwriting Fades.” For this assignment, develop your own argument about the relationship between people and technology, and use two of the essays we have read to support or lend depth to your argument.Your thesis might make a point about the influence of technology on a particular aspect of our lives, examine the ways in which technology is changing our ideas about what it means to be human, or offer a single theory about how to prevent a particular piece of technology from overtaking a specific aspect of our lives (and why doing so matters).
To focus your discussion, you can limit your discussion to a single aspect of technology (e.g., smart phones, GPS, music players) or service (e.g., social networking, file sharing, electronic banking, shopping). Additionally, you can further focus your discussion by examining the ways in which the type of technology you are discussing influences a specific aspect of our lives (e.g., how we communicate, how we think, our creativity, how we behave in public).
When you use material from our course readings to elucidate your own argument, be sure to present sufficient context to allow the reader to understand how the material you are quoting or paraphrasing fits into the essay or article in which it appears, and then be sure to relate that information to your own position. Cite your sources using in-text citations and a Works Cited page.
By “lend depth to your argument,” I mean that you might not simply use it to support your position. You could, for example, present information that goes against your thesis. In such a case, you would summarize the position of the author you are citing in one paragraph before going on to critique or refute that position in the following paragraph.
International Business— Country Ranking Research and Writing Assignment
$17.50International Business—
Country Ranking Research and Writing Assignment
Background
You are working for a company that is considering investing in a foreign country. Management has requested a report regarding the attractiveness of alternative countries based on a number of factors, such as the ease of doing business, the level of corruption, and the potential return of foreign direct investment.
Accordingly, the ranking of the top 10 countries in terms of these factors is a crucial ingredient for your report. A colleague mentioned some useful tools that would measure and rank countries in these terms:
- The Doing Business Economy Rankings
- The 2014 Corruption Perception Index**, and
- The FDI Confidence index.
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Assignment
Use the globalEDGE Resource Desk (http://globaledge.msu.edu/reference-desk) to complete the following exercise:
Find each of the three measurement indexes listed above and explain in your own words the following for each:
- What organization publishes the index?;
- Explain the index and what it measures;
- List the Top 10 countries for each of these indexes; and
- Identify any countries that rank in all three indexes’ Top 10
Length: About 1000 – 1200 words plus tables
** Hint: Click “Download Brochure” (pdf) in the Corruption Perception Index Map to get the list of rankings.
Detail description:
NO 1 Question The Doing Business Economy Rankings, I have already found the ranking chart on (http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings), so now you need to according to this ranking chart to answer below three questions, and explain and analyze in your own words. Please paste the originally chart on my paper. You also must according to this ranking chart to find that which country is suitable to invest in and can go there to develop then explain why. Only need top 10 countries. You can link to this webpage to see the chart. If you think the ranking chart that I found is not good or wrong, you can replace it, please must use the website (http://globaledge.msu.edu/reference-desk) to search.
- What organization publishes the index?
- Explain the index and what it measures.
- List the Top 10 countries for each of these indexes.
Above 3 small questions total at least 400 words.
The ranking chart that I found on (http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings) is below (only need top 10 countries)
Economy Ease of Doing Business Rank ▲ Starting a Business Dealing with Construction Permits Getting Electricity Registering Property Getting Credit Protecting Minority Investors Paying Taxes Trading Across Borders Enforcing Contracts Resolving Insolvency Singapore 1 6 2 11 24 17 3 5 1 1 19 New Zealand 2 1 13 48 2 1 1 22 27 9 28 Hong Kong SAR, China 3 8 1 13 96 23 2 4 2 6 25 Denmark 4 25 5 14 8 23 17 12 7 34 9 Korea, Rep. 5 17 12 1 79 36 21 25 3 4 5 Norway 6 22 27 25 5 61 12 15 24 8 8 United States * 7 46 41 61 29 2 25 47 16 41 4 United Kingdom 8 45 17 70 68 17 4 16 15 36 13 Finland 9 27 33 33 38 36 76 21 14 17 1 Australia 10 7 19 55 53 4 71 39 49 12 14 —————————————————————————————————————–
NO 2 Question The 2014 Corruption Perception Index**, you also must find the chart on the webpage (http://globaledge.msu.edu/reference-desk). I don’t know which chart is ok. Please find for me and paste the originally chart on my paper then according to this ranking chart to answer below questions and explain and analyze in your own words. Only need top 10 countries. You also must according to this ranking chart to find that which country is suitable to invest in and can go there to develop then explain why.
- What organization publishes the index?
- Explain the index and what it measures.
- List the Top 10 countries for each of these indexes.
Above 3 small questions total also at least 400 words.
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NO 3 Question The FDI Confidence index. I have already found the chart on (http://www.atkearney.com/research-studies/foreign-direct-investment-confidence-index), so now you need to see this webpage, according to this ranking chart and answer below three questions, and then explain and analyze in your own words. You also must according to this ranking chart to find that which country is suitable to invest in and can go there to develop then explain why. Please help me paste the chart on my paper. Only need top 10 countries. If you think the ranking chart that I found is not good or wrong, you can find others to replace it, please ensure use the website (http://globaledge.msu.edu/reference-desk) to search.
- What organization publishes the index?
- Explain the index and what it measures.
- List the Top 10 countries for each of these indexes.
Above 3 small questions total also at least 400 words.
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NO 4 Question Identify any countries that rank in all three indexes’ Top 10
It means that you should point out which country is repeatedly appearing in the following three questions’ charts which you have already found. Please write why this country is suitable to invest in and can go there to develop then explain on the paper.
- The Doing Business Economy Rankings
- The 2014 Corruption Perception Index**, and
- The FDI Confidence index.
Total words at least 1000 – 1200 words plus tables.
How developing employees enables an organization to benefit customers through delivering superior customer service
$17.50Write an essay to evaluate how developing employees enables an organization to benefit customers through delivering superior customer service. In your essay make sure to discuss all the following points:
1- Definition of customer service
2- The difference between training and development
3- The benefits of training and development
4- Potential drawbacks of training and development
5- The contribution that employees can make to the brand image of the organization
6- Potential performance indicators that an organization could use to measure the level of customer service
7- Relevant examples
Additional Files:
Paper on Failure of Enron
$20.00The energy company Enron collapsed and filed bankruptcy in 2001, which at the time was the worlds largest bankruptcy in history. Enron had engaged in fraudulent practices for some time before the collapse. The scandal this brought to corporate boards and regulators led to a serious distrust of corporations on the part of large and small investors alike. The financial disaster this brought onto individual and professional investors was chaotic, often crippling and led to major legislation to produce more responsible corporations and add trust back into the skittish market.
Write a paper describing the Enron collapse, perceived culpability and regulatory reaction to the events.
The energy company Enron collapsed and filed bankruptcy in 2001, which at the time was the worlds largest bankruptcy in history. Enron had engaged in fraudulent practices for some time before the collapse. The scandal this brought to corporate boards and regulators led to a serious distrust of corporations on the part of large and small investors alike. The financial disaster this brought onto individual and professional investors was chaotic, often crippling and led to major legislation to produce more responsible corporations and add trust back into the skittish market.
Write a paper describing the Enron collapse, perceived culpability and regulatory reaction to the events.
This paper should be comprehensive and will likely be 1500-2000 words (double spaced, 1″ margins, 14 pt font) in length.
Your document should be in the dropbox using .doc or .docx format. College level writing and formatting in MLA style is expected. Citations and and annotated bibliography are needed.
Each entry in the annotated bibliography should have a single sentence addressing each of the following regarding the source:- Write a single, short sentence summarizing the resource.
- What is the primary focus/idea found in the source?
- Why was the more source important to your understanding than other sources?
- Does the item represent mainstream, extremist or balanced perspective?
- Why is this source credible?
Grades will be based on effective communication of ideas, writing mechanics, timeliness of writing and addressing the topics stated above.
Zara Shoe Company Paper
$25.006 pages of academically written and formatted research paper on a publicly traded fashion company or retailer analyzing an aspect of the business. The paper should address the origin and history of the company, business overview (brand, distribution, sales, etc…) and conclude with the importance of the brand in the global fashion industry based upon the research.
