...Tttttttttttt · Jay Barney, Ch. 1,2 · Porter (1996). What is strategy, Harvard Business Review (HBR) · Assigned questions: In no more than two double spaced pages, please answer the following questions about your current or previous firm: - What is its strategy? · Jay Barney, Ch. 1,2 · Porter (1996). What is strategy, Harvard Business Review (HBR) · Assigned questions: In no more than two double spaced pages, please answer the following questions about your current or previous firm: - What is its strategy? · Jay Barney, Ch. 1,2 · Porter (1996). What is strategy, Harvard Business Review (HBR) · Assigned questions: In no more than two double spaced pages, please answer the following questions about your current or previous firm: - What is its strategy? · Jay Barney, Ch. 1,2 · Porter (1996). What is strategy, Harvard Business Review (HBR) · Assigned questions: In no more than two double spaced pages, please answer the following questions about your current or previous firm: - What is its strategy? · Jay Barney, Ch. 1,2 · Porter (1996). What is strategy, Harvard Business Review (HBR) · Assigned questions: In no more than two double spaced pages, please answer the following questions about your current or previous firm: - What is its strategy...
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...How I Met Your Mother Opening January 13, 2015 The regular meeting of the How I Met Your Mother was called to order at 6:30 on January 13,2015 in CBS by Erin Schwartz. Present Ted Mosby, Lily Aldrin, Marshal Erikson, Barney Stinson and Robin Scherbatsky Scene One Lily Aldrin is having contractions in her apartment while Ted and Robin are freaking out. Ted had this crazy idea that he should make an email to send to their family and friends to let people know she’s going into labor but Lily doesn’t want that. The only thing Lily wants right now is for Ted and Robin to tell her stories about their friendship to keep her mind occupied from the pain. While Ted and Robin are telling Lily these stories, Barney is in a casino with Marshal (Lily husband) who drank a little too much Barney promised Marshal he would get him there in time for the baby. If he does he asked if he could choose the middle name of the baby which is ‘Wait for it.’ The only way Barney could get Marshal back in New York is to try to win a motorcycle. They lost so Barney decided it was time to steal it, but he got caught. Eventually, They caught a bus and Barney convinced the bus driver to drop them off at the hospital just in time for the baby arrival. Agenda for Next Meeting A jump to the future finds the gang celebrating Barney's wedding and reminiscing about how they emboldened Ted to seek true love and do whatever it takes to get back with the one that got away. Adjournment Meeting was adjourned...
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...A LOOK AT THE MEDIA While watching 30 minutes of Fairly Odd Parents on Nickelodeon I noted that the theme was about getting a girl. Timmy Turner, the main character uses his Fairy God Parents to make wishes. He is considered a “good guy” however he abuses his powers. When Timmy uses violence no one makes any complaints. For example, he used Cupid’s arrows to shoot Trixie, the love of his life. The arrows made her fall in love with him. This show tries to justify violence by creating characters that miraculously recover by the next scene or even in the middle of the scene. It seems that Timmy Turner and his Fairy God Parents hold the power in the show. In order for Timmy to make wishes he needs his Fairies. They are to grant him every wish that he wishes for, with some rules of course. Instead of ending with violence Timmy finds a way to reverse his wishes. In this episode his mother was hit with an arrow and fell in love with Mr. Crocker who is Timmy’s teacher and foe. Timmy lives with his mother and father. They are married and their relationship with Timmy is portrayed negatively. There has been an episode or two that shows his parents grounding him, other than that adult guidance is absent. It is very easy for Timmy to trick his parents. He can do that with or without his fairies. They don’t seem to really care what Timmy does. His parents are rarely home. They leave him with a terrible baby sitter named Vicky while they go out. Most main characters are males (Timmy...
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...example, a college graduate joins the Marine Corp and is given the position of Second Lieutenant. Another way to become a positional leader is to be given a promotion because someone in authority recognizes a talent, trait, or potential they consider to be consistent with a leader (Maxwell, 2011). At the position level of leadership, it is about power and position. Mr. Maxwell uses a great analogy to make this point. He refers to characters on the Andy Griffith Show. He describes the Sheriff, Andy Taylor as a laid back people person. Everyone knew he was in charge. He did not even carry a gun. He would talk with people and use his influence to lead. On the other hand was Deputy Barney Fife. Deputy Fife carried a gun and a single bullet but only because Andy allowed him to do so. When Barney was in charge everyone knew it. He had to tell everyone that he held the “position” of leadership while Andy was away. He often pulled his gun, unnecessarily, to show that he had the power to take control of anyone who might question his position. He was not about influencing people but about forcing his position of power upon them. According to the John Maxwell, these leaders are lonely because of the way they act. They get people’s least, not their best performance and when they ask their subordinates for something extra, they may get compliance but they rarely get commitment. Ironically, positional leaders are also usually just doing enough to get and stay in their position...
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...1. Play laser tag once a week. 2. Tip generously. We ALL have to make up for Ted. 3. Don't get married before you're thirty. 4. Always open a door for a lady. Even if she's ugly. 5. Own at least one suit, but twelve if you can. 6. Keep your apartment chilly. Nipples reveal themselves at temperatures below 60° F / 150° C. 7. An easy way to score chicks is to pose as a NASCAR driver because they're rich, dangerous, and nobody knows what they look like because, duh, helmets. 8. Mani-pedis are not just for girls, but drinks with umbrellas emphatically are, Marshall. 9. Two never-fail ways to grease a bouncer: Slip him a $20, or compliment his neck muscles. 10. Have a "guy" for everything. 11. If it seems like the group is almost ready to go, play it safe and yell, "Shotgun!" 12. Remove your keys from your front pocket before receiving a lap dance. It's called respect. Plus, you'll feel it on your junk more. 13. Learning to play the air drums will save your life one day. 14. Give at least as many high fives as you get. 15. Subscribe to "O" magazine. It's full of great tips and tricks for around the house. 16. Have sex in a bathroom stall. 17. If you ever find yourself in a tricky situation, ask yourself, "What would Ted do?" and do the exact opposite. 18. Teacup pigs might be lady-magnets, but they apparently don't digest chocolate. 19. If you ever meet a contortionist, I swear to God don't you ever let her go. I am so serious about this. I gotta sit down or...
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...Case Study #1 – Sunspot, Inc. 1. Strategic alliances among suppliers can be beneficial among companies that share the same vision. Some benefits of an alliance include lower total costs, reduced time to market, improved quality, improved technology and improved continuity of supply. In the case of Sunspot, Inc. the CEO, Ms. Monica Foltz can look to adopt and create strategic alliances with suppliers for parts to manufacture sunglasses. Overall, Ms. Foltz can hope to lower costs of sunglasses which may help to garner more market share and increase her customer base. She can also direct more of her attention on future development, new products, R&D and innovation because an alliance allows for a shared vision among the supply base and openness that is progressive towards current demand. 2. Disadvantages of alliances may include many factors. One such factor is in order to have an alliance, the firm must have executive level commitment. Without the commitment of top level executives alliances can be hard to get long term vision shared between alliances. Two firms need to pledge to cooperate for long term success and be open about cost, long term objectives, technology, and the overall supply chain. The relationship must be adaptable through changing economic struggles and advantages, environmental issues and competition. Another disadvantage of alliances may include the fact that they are resource intensive. On top of all of these factors, alliances take a...
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...To: Fred Flintstone, Manager of Bedrock Indiana Computing Services From: Barney Rubble , Support Team at Bedrock Indiana Computing Services Date: September 29, 2014 Subject: Web Conferencing for Bedrock Mr. Flintstone, We, the support staff, have recently identified that here at Bedrock there is a need for conferencing equipment so we can communicate with our sister office, Capone’s Illinois Computing and Company in Chicago. We have spoken with Capone’s support staff and identified the following needs that we both have: 1. Crisp video so we can see each other’s moves with clarity 2. Clear sound quality so we can both understand each other very well 3. An easy to use interface that even a not so wise guy can use and understand In the table attached, we have listed 3 possible options that we believe Capone’s as well as Bedrock can come to an agreement on. On the table page we have also listed our resources so you may visit each website and read about them if you wish. Below I will give a basic overview of the 3 options. Our first option is Skype. It is a well-known platform that can deliver what we need to do for a very small fee. Setup is simple and we already have a laptop that we can use the webcam on to run the session. We can also call any landline in the United States for $2.99/month as well as worldwide should we deem that necessary. Our Second option is WebEx. Cost is around $19/month and offers great video and sound quality over the internet. With this...
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...How I Met Your Mother Show and the Sexist Ideology The television show, How I Met Your Mother (HIMYM) was first aired on CBS television in the year 2005. Its airing continued until March 2014 with its different episodes eliciting a lot of public attention and curiosity partly because of the unique way in which its core theme was being passed to the audience. Throughout the TV show, Ted Mosby emerges as an unmatched main character. It is through the activities of Ted and his group of close friends that live in Manhattan that Ted manages to articulate to his daughter and son the various issues, activities, and challenges that he addresses as he falls in love with their mother – Ted’s wife. In this paper, I argue that the show has a sexist ideology that emphasizes the fact that women are easy to manipulate and can be used in any way that a man desires (Matterhorn 4-13; Capps 1-3). The sexist or feminist ideology is very dominant in the show. The relationship between Ted Mosby and other characters plays an important role in communicating critical love relationships in a comic way. The use of comedy greatly helps the film writers and actors to incorporate vital messages in a rather jovial manner. Issues that would otherwise be considered sensitive are therefore portrayed in a keen and very peculiar manner that also addresses the challenges and good experiences that people in relationships often experience. Indeed, Ted is a character in the CBS television show that is over focused...
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...Colonel Lloyd kept the boys from taking his fruit many different ways such as tarring the fence to prevent them from eating the fruits. He covered it in tar to display evidence that it was someone trying to eat this fruit. Tar is a dark substance that is easy to identify when someone took something. He most likely did it a certain way to remember who took the fruits from off the tree. The punishment of that would be severely harsh whippings (David Blight, editor Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 13). Old Barney is the father slave to young barney which is the son slave. Old Barney’s job description is to care for the houses and make the farm look more acceptable. Old Barney was treated poorly by his slave masters. According to the...
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...1. Mr. Hutz will argue on the behalf of Barney Grumble that the evidence of the beer bottle and the blood sample should be excluded because they violate Grumble’s constitutional rights. The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution protects Barney Grumble from illegal search and seizure. Also, the beer bottle was taken out of the car by the school principle; which could be seen as tampering with evidence. Hutz could even argue that there is no proof that the bottle was even taken from Grumble’s car. Furthermore, the blood sample was taken by the school nurse was illegal since there was no consent form Grumble. In fact, if this was the same sample as what was later analyzed by the hospital chemist, the sample of blood was not even requested by law enforcement. 2....
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...Tina Barney, a photographer from New York, is known for producing large-scale photographs of her family and friends. Photographing her close family and friends in her work implies that she has a very close interpersonal relationship with them. Anyone who views her work can clearly tell that she likes to include many bright, happy colors in her photos. This shows that the mood she portrays in her work is happy and bright. If her colors were not used in this way the mood wouldn’t be as happy, and would be sad. For example, in her piece “Jill & Polly in the bathroom”, Barney utilizes happy colors such as pinks and greens to demonstrate how the picture is happy. Before Tina Barney became well known, she was a teenager that was introduced to photography by her grandfather. Once...
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...This episode starts off just recapping some of things that happened in the first episode. Cornelius Vanderbilt died after a long life of hard work in the business of the railroads. Jon D. Rockefeller shot onto the scene as one of the most successful oil men in America, and as a result almost completely put the railroads out of business. A man that still managed to keep his railroad alive was Tom Scott and hid protege Andrew Carnegie. When Rockefeller found out that Scott had built an oil line that basically undermined the ones that he had already built, he pulled all of his oil off Scott’s train and ultimately put Scott out of business. The fall of Scott’s railroad empire was a huge blow to him and was ultimately caused his death. This was a traumatic experience for Carnegie as Scott was a very important figure in his life. Before Scott died he took Carnegie to the mighty Mississippi and told him his plan to build a bridge across the river to connect the East and West sides of the United States. Carnegie saw this as an opportunity to make it big in the business world just like his mentor Scott did with the railroads. Carnegie from that point on started to meet with different designers and men who had a background in bridge building. Every man that he would speak to kept telling him that it was impossible and that it was never going to work because the iron that they had available at the time wasn’t strong enough to with stand the weight of the bridge. Steel at the time was a...
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...Barnabus “Barney” Stinson: A Legen….Wait for It…Dary but Brief Character Analysis Ivy Tech Community College PSYC 101 Barnabus “Barney” Stinson: A Legen….Wait for It…Dary but Brief Character Analysis Barnabus “Barney” Stinson is one of the main characters of the show “How I Met Your Mother”, portrayed by Neil Patrick Harris. “How I Met Your Mother” is a comedy sitcom on CBS about five friends living in New York, which centers on Ted Mosby and his quest to find true love. The series is narrated by the future Ted Mosby telling his children an extremely long and elaborate story about how he met their mother. Barney Stinson is one of Ted’s best friends, and a great source of comedy for the show. Barney is a serial womanizer with father issues and questionable actions. He has a unique personality and uses crazy and elaborate tactics to seduce women. His single mother raised Barney and his older brother James. Barney and James both asked about their fathers but their mother would either lie to them or change the subject. Throughout his childhood, Barney was constantly lied to by his mother to protect his feelings. For example, Barneys mother told him he could not play on the basketball team because he was to good and it would be unfair to the other players, when in reality the coach did not want him on the team. Barney was an unpopular child and was picked on and bullied by other kids his age. One major thing that happened in Barneys adulthood that helped shape his character...
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...Nokia SWOT analysis (Barney, 1991). Internal analysis (Resource-based model) Strengths – Having the advanced technology over the competitors in the mobile phone industry – Decentralized company structure, innovative and creative employees and Charismatic strong leader, such as: Jorma Ollila. – The market leadership in the mobile industry. – Strong brand name and company image in the global market – Has its own manufacture and network. – Product innovation. – Economy of scale Weaknesses – Complacency and arrogance. – Few customized, operator-specific handsets. – Few alliances, company sticks to its standing in the market, do not want to cooperate with the operators. External analysis (Environmental models of competitive advantage) Opportunities – The emerging market in developing countries, such as China, India – The emerging market for high-end mobile phone such as business user phone. Threats – Facing more new competitors, especially from Asia. – Stronger buyer power from the network operators. – Lost market share – The market becomes saturatedong competition in mobile industry OPPORTUNITIES LG: its...
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...Poor Barney Barney has finally decided to retire after many years in law enforcement, and Barney has done relatively well and setting himself up for a good retirement by participating in some early life real estate investments (Tailer, 2014, para.1). Barney owns some property in the North Carolina mountains as well as property on North Carolina’s coast. Unfortunately, Barney has some issues that will need to be addressed both legally and spiritually while attempting to clean his rights in regards to his property. The main legal issues in this case study are eminent domain, adverse possession, joint tenancy, and good-faith purchases of value. Co-Ownership Joint ownership of property occurs when more than one person holds entitlement of a property at the same time....
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