...Running Head: Course Project: School For Thought Course Project: DeVry University – Keller Graduate School of Management Managerial Decision-Making (MGMT530) September 2012 Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction – Overview of Decision Problem 4 Problem Statement 4 Objectives 4 Summary of Key Objectives: 5 Alternatives 6 Description of Alternatives: 6 Selection 6 Consequence Table with Original Values: Title 7 Weighted Scoring Model: Title 8 Consequences 9 Risk Profile: Title 9 Implementation, Monitoring and Control 10 Timeline: 10 Summary 11 Works Cited 12 Executive Summary I am nearing the end of my graduate studies for a master’s in nursing administration. I was presented with the option to continue for another year at my present academic institution for a master’s in business administration. However, an additional option was presented from another academic institution, to pursue a doctorate degree in nursing practice. The program is two years. Should I pursue another master’s degree but in business administration or move on with my master’s in nursing administration and go right for my doctorate in nursing practice? My true goal is to stay true my nursing core values. I would like to be prepared for a role as a Chief Nursing Officer (CNO). Introduction – Overview of Decision Problem Problem Statement The nature of the decision correlates to pressure as I am quickly approaching...
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...Executive Summary By the year 2040, the population of Tea Gardens is predicted to be 85 000. This will be due to a mining boom in the area where the high level of coal resources will create approximately 30 000 jobs. As there are many more jobs compared to 2004 levels, there will also be more families moving into the Tea Gardens area, meaning more dwellings will need to be built. In 2011, Tea Gardens is surrounded by protected wetlands and it is assumed that they will still be protected in 2040. Hence, the housing industry must start to build flats and high rise apartments to cater for the increase in population. Whilst Tea Gardens will be mainly a mining town, there will also be an increase in tourism during the summer months. There will a maximum of approximately 5 000 tourists per month coming to the Tea Gardens area. Hence, hotels must be built to accommodate this and promote tourism in the local economy. With this large population increase in a short amount of time, more schools and hospitals would need to be built to provide a high standard of living for the growing town. Also, utilities such as electricity, plumbing and water resources must be secured for the future. To secure the water supply for the growing town of Tea Gardens, a dam at Tillegra on Williams River has been proposed. In order to construct the dam to realistic proportions, Group 26 Consulting has performed the following: Estimated the water demand for both residential and industrial sectors...
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...Smart Service Queensland Information Systems and Green IT Strategies 2010 Submitted: 18/10/2010 Prepared by: Varun Kewal (Student No: W0103335) varun_kewal@hotmail.com Word Count: 2,847 words Letter of Transmittal Green Tech Pty Ltd 23 Virtual Drive Technology Park, QLD 4125 18 October 2010 The Director Smart Service Queensland 37 Creek Street Brisbane QLD 4000 Dear Ms Jeans, Please find attached our report analysing the IT infrastructure for SSQ and value that can be added with the implementation Green IT strategies. As discussed with you in our meeting on 2 August, we have focused on the issues and challenges being faced by the current IT infrastructure and possible solutions. We have paid particular attention to the IT Infrastructure Ecosystem in place and have provided a breakdown of the different hardware and software in place currently and what opportunities exist to make improvements to improve processing power as well as realise savings in the long run. Our analysis highlighted that there are issues and challenges currently being faced due to the current IT Infrastructure in place. We recommend that you proceed with the replacement of current IT hardware that is nearly at the end of it’s 5 year cycle as already identified by the ICT Manager Steve Young. I wish to take this opportunity to thank Mr Young for making himself available to provide invaluable data to assist with this report. We have also identified a number of...
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...Quarter 2 (7th)‐ “Melting Pot” and “How I Learned English” Stage 1 – Desired Results Standards LRA 3.2 (Fall EOC) Identify events that advance the plot, and determine how each event explains past or present actions or foreshadows future actions. ARG LRA 3.4 (Fall EOC) Identify and analyze recurring themes across works (e.g. the value of bravery, loyalty, and friendships; the effects of loneliness). ARG V1.1 (Fall EOC) Identify idioms, analogies, metaphors, and similes in prose and poetry. V 1.3 (Fall EOC) Clarify word meanings through the use of definition, example, restatement or contrast. WA 2.5‐ (STAR) Write summaries of reading materials. SUM WA 2.2 (On Demand/ STAR) Write Responses to Literature. ARG WS 1.2 (On Demand) Support all statements and claims with anecdotes, descriptions, facts and statistics, and give examples. REF WS 1.3 Use strategies of note‐taking, outlining and summarizing to impose structure on composition drafts. AN, SUM, REF WS 1.4 (Fall EOC) Identify topics and evaluate questions and develop ideas leading to inquiry, investigation, and research. AN, ARG WS 1.7 (On Demand, Fall EOC) Revise writing to improve organization and word choice after checking the logic of ideas and the precision of vocabulary. ALANG WOC 1.4 (On Demand) Demonstrate the mechanics of writing (e.g. quotation marks, commas at the end of dependent clauses) and appropriate English usage (e.g. pronoun reference). ALANG Big Ideas & Understanding(s): ...
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...parts of the economy where you compete. In 2015, selling kit to movie theaters has been great business, selling kit to steel mills less so. In your China, are you dealing with a tiger or a tortoise? Your performance in 2016 will depend on knowing the answer to this question and shaping your plans accordingly. Many well-established secular trends in China will continue in 2016. The service economy’s expansion is perhaps most prominent among them. In this piece, as usual, I won’t spend much time on the most familiar things. Instead, I will highlight what I believe will become the more important and more visible trends in 2016, either because they are now accelerating to scale or a discontinuity may become a tipping point. (For a quick summary, see sidebar, “The China Orr-acle: Gordon’s predictions for 2016.”) I hope you find my ideas valuable. The 13th five-year plan—few surprises Much of China’s 13th...
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...Contents I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 II. BACKGROUND 3 III. WHAT LED TO THE RECESSION? 4 IV. THE LOST DECADE 5 V. FISCAL POLICY 8 VI. MONETARY POLICY 9 VII. COMPARISON BETWEEN JAPAN AND THE U.S. 12 VIII. EXHIBITS 15 A. CHART 1 – GENERAL GOVERNMENT GROSS DEBT AS % OF GDP - COMPARISON 15 B. CHART 2 – NOMINAL GDP OF JAPAN - TREND 16 C. CHART 3 – REAL GDP OF JAPAN - TREND 17 D. CHART 4 – PER CAPITA GDP OF JAPAN - TREND 18 F. CHART 5 – INFLATION RATE OF JAPAN 19 G. CHART 6 – DISCOUNT AND LOAN RATES FROM BANK OF JAPAN 20 H. CHART 7 – UNEMPLOYMENT RATE – JAPAN 21 I. CHART 8 – NIKKEI 225 INDEX 21 IX. REFERENCES 22 I. Executive Summary Japan experienced a period of exceptional economic growth becoming an economic powerhouse by the 1980s. However, Japan was not able to carry this economic prowess forward into the 21st century. The Japanese economy lost an entire decade in the 1990s due to economic stagnation -- one that was characterized by deflation, three recessions and a slowdown in economic growth. A stock market crash followed along with more than a three-fourths decline in real-estate prices which plagued Japan’s economy causing huge destruction in wealth, leaving both corporations and households with large amounts of debt. This period famously came to be known as the "lost decade". The Japanese government watched as GDP growth slowed down and inflation fell at a rapid pace causing them to enact several fiscal stimulus packages in an attempt to revive the...
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...Cerebral Height Institute of Management & Communication PGDM Batch 2 Term 6th Management Control System Activity – Project Report On Nokia Strategies Adopted By Nokia In Order To Achieve Its Goals Submitted to: Submitted by: Prof. Aniruddha Durafe Rajkamal Paroha Anshuman Singh Parihar INDEX * Introduction to Nokia * History of Nokia * Mission & Vision * Goals & Objective * Organizational Culture * Management Control System in Nokia * Nokia Product Mix * Strategy Formulation * Strategy Adopted by Nokia to achieve its goals * Strategy Goal Introduction to Nokia Nokia is a multinational corporation engaged in the manufacturing of mobile phones devices, in converging internet and communication industries, having about 132,000 employees working worldwide. The organization is the World’s largest mobile manufacturing company and is operational is 150 different countries having an approximate global annual sales revenue of € 42 billion and operating profit of € 2 billion in the preceding year 2010. The organization has a market share of about 28.9% as of the preceding year 2010 and is still the market leader in the world of mobile phones. Nokia Corporation has a history of 146 years and it wasn't the way it is today, it took Nokia decades to reach at this point. The first Nokia century began...
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...Background and Product Lines 2.2. Consolidated Balance and Income Statements 2.3. Divisional Financial Statements 2.4. Ratio and Trend Analysis 3. Lockheed Martin Financial Statement and Analysis 3.1. Background and Product Lines 3.2. Consolidated Balance and Income Statements 3.3. Divisional Financial Statements 3.4. Ratio and Trend Analysis 4. Financial Comparison between the Two Companies 4.1. Consolidated Comparisons 4.2. Military Aircraft and Space Divisions Comparisons 5. Summary/Conclusions 6. Bibliography 7. List of Tables 8. List of Figures List of Tables T-1: Consolidated Financial Balance Sheet-The Boeing Company T-2: Consolidated Income Statement-The Boeing Company T-3: Divisional Financial Summary-The Boeing Company T-4: Consolidated Financial Ratio Analysis-The Boeing Company T-5: Consolidated Financial Balance Sheet-Lockheed Martin T-6: Consolidated Income Statement- Lockheed Martin T-7: Divisional Financial Summary- Lockheed Martin T-8: Consolidated Financial Ratio Analysis- Lockheed Martin List of Figures F-1: Total Assets Divisional Trend Analysis-The Boeing Company F-2: Sales Divisional Trend Analysis-The Boeing Company F-3: Net Earnings Divisional Trend Analysis-The Boeing Company F-4: Net Capital Expenditures Divisional Trend Analysis-The Boeing Company F-5: Total Liabilities Divisional Trend Analysis-The Boeing Company F-6: Research and Development Divisional Trend Analysis-The Boeing...
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...European University 2013-2014 Human Resources Management Class Summary Gauthier Steiner European University 2013-2014 Human Resources Management Class Summary Gauthier Steiner Contents What is Human Resource Management? 3 Who Performs the Human Resource Functions? 4 Key Challenges for HR Managers 5 HRM and Strategy 6 Organizational Performance and the Human Resource Manager 7 Communicating Human Resource Programs 8 Equal Employment Opportunity & Diversity 9 Equal Employment Opportunity Laws 9 Landmark Court Cases 11 Compliance Agencies 12 EEO Implementation 12 Key terms of the chapter 13 Job Analysis and Job Design 15 Basic Terminology 15 Job Analysis 17 Job analysis method 19 Disadvantages of job analysis 21 Job Design 21 Advantages of job specialization 21 Job design consideration 22 Human Resources Management: Chapter 1: Strategy What is Human Resource Management? Human resource management (HRM, or simply HR) is the management process of an organization's workforce, or human resources. It is responsible for the attraction, selection, training, assessment, and rewarding of employees, while also overseeing organizational leadership and culture and ensuring compliance with employment and labor laws. Nearing the 21st century, advances in transportation and communications greatly facilitated workforce mobility and collaboration. Corporations began viewing employees as assets rather than as cogs in a machine...
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...Proposed acquisition of Molton Brown Company Limited Analysis and Recommendations & Share Valuation of L’Oréal 1. Executive Summary This report is prepared for the management of L’Oréal Company, the global leader in cosmetics and beauty products. The aim of the report is to analyse and propose recommendations to the board of L’Oréal directors in regards to their proposed acquisition of Molton Brown Ltd, a UK based manufacturer of upmarket cosmetic products. Molton Brown is fully owned by KAO Group, a Japanese manufacturer of personal care products. In addition, the report analyses the current share price of L’Oréal based on current economic climate, their credit rating, corporate governance and other factors. The analysis of financial statements of L’Oreal and its peers indicate that the business is well managed. Over the past three years the company has achieved a regular year on year increase of turnover and at the same time it managed to maintain its operating profit margin, which was the highest when benchmarked to its key competitors such as Unilever or Estee Lauder. L’Oreal current ratio, used to assess the liquidity of the business, decreased versus prior year. This was mainly caused by the issue of commercial paper repayable within one year. This however should not be a concern to the management, as favourable terms with suppliers and customer means that the business can meet its current liabilities. The analysis of peers suggests that it is industry...
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...Exxon Mobil Corporation Exxon Mobil Corporation - Financial and Strategic Analysis Review Publication Date: 03-Aug-2012 Reference Code: GDGE1203FSA Company Snapshot Key Information Exxon Mobil Corporation, Key Information Web Address www.exxonmobil.com Financial year-end December Number of Employees 82,100 NYSE XOM Source : GlobalData Company Overview Exxon Mobil Corporation (ExxonMobil) is an integrated global oil and gas company. The company's operations include exploration and production of oil and gas; refining, transportation and marketing of oil and natural gas; and manufacture and sale of petroleum products. ExxonMobil also has interests in petrochemicals and electricity generation facilities. The company operates through three reportable business segments, namely, Upstream, Downstream and Chemical. It offers products and services under various brands such as Exxon, Esso and Mobil. ExxonMobil is headquartered in Texas, the US. ExxonMobil is expanding its operations and presence in unconventional gas resource assets. 9.75 4.37 26.59 11.03.00 15.06 0.02 Key Ratios Exxon Mobil Corporation, Key Ratios P/E EV/EBITDA Return on Equity (%) Debt/Equity Operating profit margin (%) Dividend Yield SWOT Analysis Exxon Mobil Corporation, SWOT Analysis Strengths Weaknesses Improvement in Financial Performance Extensive Research & Development Activities Geographical Diversification Pending Litigations Note: Above ratios are based on share price as of 01-Aug-2012...
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...Harvard Business School 9-899-097 Rev. November 19, 1998 Walnut Venture Associates (D): RBS Deal Terms It was Friday, June 5, 1998, and Bob O’Connor was headed home for the weekend. He knew it would be a busy one, for he had many decisions to make. He had been trying to raise capital for his Company – the RBS Group, a software firm – for almost a year. He felt like he was finally nearing the end of this process, but now more issues had arisen. First, his prospective investors wanted to increase the amount of their investment. While he would be happy to have the extra money, he felt that the valuation on RBS was already lower than he had hoped, and he was reluctant to take more money at this price. Second, he had received a draft term sheet the day before. He’d only had a few minutes to scan it, but it seemed a long way from the simple deal they’d discussed weeks before. O’Connor knew he would be spending a lot of time with this document over the coming weekend. Background Wagner and other “angels” from the Walnut group had successfully gotten over several of the issues that had arisen during their due diligence process. (See Walnut Ventures Associates (A), (B) and (C) Nos.899-062, 063 and 064) Wagner described those issues and the due diligence process: The customer feedback was all quite good. O’Connor was a great salesman. The issue was: Is he a one man band? And we decided – yes, he was a one man band, but more by necessity than by choice. After watching him in...
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...Investment Choices By Karl Preissner, Xavier University Business Stats 500 Project Winter 2011 Problem Description This paper concerns a simple question, “What’s the best way to invest my money when presented with 13 alternative opportunities?” In this case, we’ll assume our investment goal is to maximize return while simultaneously minimizing the risk of loss. Since we cannot invest backwards in time, we need to develop an expectation for the future performance of our opportunities in order to make our choice. This leads to our two fundamental questions: 1. If investment skill exists, how can we find it? 2. Based on the above answer, what investment opportunity is most likely to maximize return while minimizing risk? Problem Discussion and Historical Review When did it start? The problem of appropriate expectations has been with us as long as financial markets themselves. For much of our history, adaptive expectations theory was commonly used to guide investment decisions. Adaptive expectations suggest that past data can be used to predict future expectations. More recently, and accelerating after WWI, the theory of rational expectations has come to dominate the conversation. This theory suggests that expectations are simply our best guess of the future using all available information. Two key implications of this theory are that arbitrage opportunities are quickly taken advantage of, and that as a result, we cannot predict the future ahead of...
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...Engineer, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Patrick Murphy, State Resource Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Service John M. Norman, Emeritus Professor of Soil science, Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison James VandenBrook, Water Quality Section Chief, Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection Sara Walling, Water Quality Specialist, Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection Dreux Watermolen, Section Chief, Science Information Services, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Richard P. Wolkowski, Extension Soil Scientist, Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison SOIL CONSERVATION WORKING GROUP EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Conservation of the soil resource in Wisconsin is not a new challenge but one that will become more...
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...Human Resources Planning 2010 Planning Task Force Report January 2009 INTRODUCTION The quality and expertise of the faculty and staff is crucial to the continuing success and excellence of Grand Valley State University. Grand Valley is often recognized for its overall excellence. As with any institution of higher education, this standard of excellence directly relates to the faculty members, whose efforts support the Grand Valley mission of “educating students to shape their lives, their professions and their societies,” and to the senior management and staff of the university, who lead and support these efforts. A key part of success is the stability of the workforce and the implementation of the transference of leadership and the community culture to those who will be members of the faculty and staff in 2010 and beyond. Compounding the need for planning is the widespread concern that the imminent retirement of the “baby boomers” will cause an exodus of talent in a very short timeframe. Without a firm plan, such turnover of talent could make it difficult to sustain the quality of the faculty, leadership and staff of Grand Valley. To assure university leadership, our community, and stakeholders that Grand Valley is prepared for its workforce of the future, President Haas charged the Human Resource Planning Task Force to study this important issue and report to the campus community. The task force studied Grand Valley data, considering projections of retirements, faculty growth...
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