...The Blue Chip Investment Company FIN510A - Finance The Blue Chip Investment Company - Team Members: Pragadeshwara Raja Chinnapan (Prag) – Chief Investment Officer (CIO) Soumyonil Bose (Neil) – Chief Executive Officer Archana Gondi - Chief Financial Officer Shalini Suresh - Chief Operating Officer Eric Gunho Bae - Chief Risk Analyst The Blue Chip Investment Company Blue Chip Investment Company is a stock management firm that aims to produce superior investment returns by aggressively seeking capital appreciation in rising markets. The Blue Chip investment Corp. was founded by Eller MBA’s Prag, Neil, Archana, Shalini, Eric with an initial investment of $250,000 from each stakeholder. We endeavor to maintain a portfolio of stocks that generates high profits over a short period of time for the stakeholders. Our goal is to maximize stakeholder wealth by making opportunistic short-term investments based on proactive investment research and a disciplined strategy. Our Strategy Our company’s short term strategy is to invest in US Retail industry’s top performing stocks. We are specifically targeting the high retail stock returns during this US holiday season. The US Retail Industry The National Retail Federation (NRF) estimates that U.S. retail sales will rise 3.9% during this holiday season, overshadowing last year’s growth of 3.5%. Sales during the months of November and December are estimated at $602.1 billion. NRF also forecasts a 13%-15% rise in online holiday sales to $82...
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...Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class Book Review About the Author Karyn Lacy is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and the Center for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She focuses her work on African American studies, race and ethnicity, and the black middle-class. Her book Blue-Chip Black received the Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities in 2008. Overview Blue-Chip Black reveals a comparative exploration of black middle-class life in three distinct middle-class suburban communities in the Washington, D.C. area. The first community Lacy focuses on is Lakeview, Michigan, which is...
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...inconsistencies in his mathematics calculations. Found after he added a Pentium System to his computer group. Upon Further inspections and calculations, he contacted Intel with his results. Intel denied that there was a problem with their chips. When it became clear that their chips were flawed, and the accusations were true. Intel changed its policy, admitting that their chips were indeed defective. Intel agreed to replace the defective chips for free, but only if the uses could demonstrate that they needed and unflawed chip. In the fall of 1994, IBM decided to halt all shipments on their Pentium based computers. After they discovered the Flaw during their testing. Intel finally agreed to replace the flawed microprocessors for anyone who asked for a replacement. Because Intel new about the Flawed chips before it surface in the press. They had already corrected the problem on another version. Intel continued to sell the Flawed chips, and had planned to continue its bad practices until the bad chips were exhausted. In doing this Intel had to write off 475 million dollars to solve the problem, when they could have corrected it from the beginning. Intel has learned from their mistake and now feel that flawed chips should be replaced before and upon request, no matter how insignificant the problem seems to be. If the same flaw was to happen in a new CPU today, I think especially if the company decided to cover it up like Intel did. It would cost the...
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...CASE STUDY: Chipping Away at Intel General Environment 1. Social Important as a semiconductor business, provided as the biggest chip maker in the industry. Intel’s mindset is toward better customer relations and away from perspective of being the only real competition in the marketplace. 2. Technological Concerned with chip making for PCs but then went beyond it into the production of information and communication appliances as well as providing services related to the Internet. Barrett created a new wireless unit that combined new acquisitions such as DSP Communications Inc. ( a chipset supplier for digital communications) with Intel’s memory operations. 3. Economic Affected by Septemeber 11, 2001 and needed to withdraw investments in new markets (production of network servers and routers and e-commerce service for small businesses) due to direct result of the downturn in economic condition. Intel’s shares also suffered. At $26, were down to 60 pecent compared to their highest over the previous years and get worse after the downturn and fell further to $20 by October. 4. Ecological Not being mentioned in the case. 5. Political Operates on a global basis and so be attuned to different governmental and country requirements in its distribution and sales. The manufacturing plant in Hamburg, Germany suggests an important political dependency that must be monitored. Task Environment...
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...Future Statement For this report I am to write of a technology that I could see evolving in the near future and so the technology I could possibly see becoming widespread is micro chip implantation , able to store, transmit, and capture data in real time with other chips or servers like using your identification or even a debit card to even a hand held gps unit and compacting it all into a chip the size of a eraser and implanting it into a humans limb now this by its self is amazing but then the limitations grow exponentially. The first impact this could have would be with Society. Now Society as a whole might clash with this concept at first due to some fundamental human traits such as invasion of privacy, This chip if left unchecked could function the same as a gps unit and give someone the ability to track individuals making such things as missing person’s would be much easier to find. The second impact would be Economy. This could change everything we know about current banking practices by allowing your banking information to implanted on this micro chip and injected in to yourself so that instead of swiping a card your data is automatically registered and updated with your actual bank to route funds and make payments and deposits. The third and final impact I could foresee is Politics. Now imagine a world where your personal and life data is stored on your body and can be accessed there would surely be very little information that could not be accessed either by...
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...after the fact was a huge let down for customers. Customers expect that if a company finds a problem with their products that they inform them about it and provide a fix to the problem. Intel finally announces in December of 1994, that there would be a total recall, replacement, and destruction of all of the flawed processors. Something that should have happened months before. Finally, they have done right. Intel commits to purchase of all chips produced through the end of the year in January 1995. Intel sets aside 420 million dollars to cover costs of replacing all flawed processors upon request in mid-December 1994. If a flaw of this nature happened again today, with the economy as it is and they acted as they did back in 1994. Intel would more than likely be looking for a way to run. Today, Intel has competition that could very well take Intel customers. The only thing Intel may have to hold them up is a government bail. The only reason that would happen is because Intel produces a major amount of government computers have a chip made by...
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...Unit 5 Analysis 1: Pentium Flaw In the summer of 1994, Intel discovered the Pentium Flaw. Once discovered they decided that their chips did not need to be recalled because the chance of the average user finding out about the error was 1 in 9 billion. Thomas Nicely, a professor at Lynchburg College in Virginia, made the error public. He had sent an e-mail to several colleagues. Nicely was using a few computers to compute mathematical problems. He wanted to prove they had enough power to do so. I feel Intel did not handle the problem professionally at all. While Intel knew that there was a flaw in the chip, they continued to send out a defective product. Regardless of who might discover the error, they should have recalled the chip to have them replaced. By deciding to send out the flawed processor, this probably helped the company as well. Before this mistake, not many people were aware of Intel. After months of research, Intel finally decided to recall the chip. Thomas Nicely had then run over a quadrillion calculations on a revised chip and was unsuccessful of reproducing the error. I am unsure of the outcome if a similar flaw like this were to happen today. With the help of social media and the internet, word of any flaw or error today would spread like wildfire. The old rule of thumb is 1 tells 10, well now it's more akin to 1 tells 10,000. I believe that if a homogeneous situation were to occur it would be handled expeditiously and promptly. I’m sure Intel has new policies...
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...people to see if they were also having the same problem. After a couple days Thomas wasn’t the only person who realized there was a problem. People around the world who had access to the Internet found this out. The diversion result from Pentium was off by sixty-one parts per million. Intel then was forced to tell people about this hiccup but said that it was of little importance and that it wouldn’t affect most people in a big way. Even though this was most likely true it made everyone feel like they messed up and nobody wants something that doesn’t work how it’s supposed to even if it’s off a little. Intel then felt the need to tell customers that if their Pentium chip was flawed in any way they would replace it with Pentium chips that were flawless. Not a lot of people even bothered to replace their chips at all. In, 1995 Intel had to pay $475 million because of the flawed processors. My opinion on the “Pentium Flaw” is that it is a complete outrage. Everyone always wants the best of the best and if it has a flaw people tend to keep away from it. If the new IPhone came out the same day as the new Galaxy S3 and there were rumors of the IPhone having some type of bug in it, people might lean more towards the Galaxy S3. The problem is they had somebody who knew about the problem and then proceeded to still sell the product. That is simply unfair and completely unprofessional for a huge company like Intel. If there was another incident like the Pentium flaw that happened...
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...Half Blood Blues, an award winning novel by Esi Eydugan, really surprised me with all it had to offer. Its not everyday you can find a book that gives you a deep insight into the jazz community of the 1930's. If you were to go through the music app on my phone you would find about 6 hours of swing, jazz, and blues. The style of music is appealing to me, and upon opening the book I found that the pages were filled with lingo and aspects of that community. A theme erupts involving how places change, and the language helps to enrich the experience. The first few pages of the book follow the young jazz musicians in the 1930's. Some topics such as racism, the 2nd world war, and poverty are introduced as well as the setting. Although the exposition of a novel tends to be boring, Edugyan integrated a massive plot point that is revisited later in the novel when the book flashes forward to the 1990's....
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...these events to slowly (or not so slowly) chip away at their happiness, self-worth, and relationships. The main character in Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” is an example of a woman who allows her hardships to deeply affect her life, even when her surrounding loved ones cannot see it. Though Granny Weatherall acts like a strong, independent woman, her consciousness reveals what has been hidden behind her facade for the last 60 years. A reader’s first impression of Granny Weatherall is that of stubbornness and self-sufficiency. Granny was given...
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...And to do while listening to old REM Rain is falling on the fields. We shield ourselves in acid metal pop. But there’s green all around us, and it never gives up. Harmony grows and ebbs, like it was meant to, all around us, now it’s bent too. Ghosts in the meadows, ephemeral in their gaze, they hang around, waiting for love to equate, their state. There’s a drum beat, slow, and dumb, keeping the time, almost silently. And the guitar strings, they sing melodically, in chords and tabs written, in heaven and forgotten, as some silly hooks. We burn books in our minds, but keep them on our shelves, so that we can revisit them, when we need a piece of hell. We fight and laugh, and fall in love blessed, almost every time, we meet again. while listening to old REM Rain is falling on the fields. We shield ourselves in acid metal pop. But there’s green all around us, and it never gives up. Harmony grows and ebbs, like it was meant to, all around us, now it’s bent too. Ghosts in the meadows, ephemeral in their gaze, they hang around, waiting for love to equate, their state. There’s a drum beat, slow, and dumb, keeping the time, almost silently. And the guitar strings, they sing melodically, in chords and tabs written, in heaven and forgotten, as some silly hooks. We burn books in our minds, but keep them on our shelves, so that we can revisit them, when we need a piece of hell. We fight and laugh, and fall in love blessed, almost every time, we meet again. while listening...
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...The Wheels On The Racecar By Alexander Zane Bibliographic Information: Zane, Alexander. The Wheels On The Racecar. New York: Orchard Books, 2005. Element of Music: Beat, Melody, and Timbre Materials: The Wheels On The Racecar Happy children ready to sing along Student Placement: Sitting in a circle in chairs Activity: The student will sing along with the teacher to The Wheels On The Racecar The student will repeat round and round three times The student will repeat vroom-vroom-vroom three times The student will repeat go-go-go three times The student will repeat zip-zip-zip three times The student will repeat steers and steers three times The student will repeat zizz-zizz-zizz three times The student will repeat glug-glug-glug three times The student will repeat speeds on back three times The student will repeat makes his move three times The student will repeat zooms to the lead three times The student will repeat swish-swish-swish three times The student will repeat round and round three times JUMP! By Scott M. Fischer Bibliographic Information: Fischer, Scott. JUMP!. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. Element of Music: Beat, Rhythm, Form, Timbre Materials: JUMP! Active children ready to have fun and dance Student Placement: Standing up in a single line facing the front of the class Activity The student will hold hand on cheeks to indicate sleepy mode The student will hear frog and jump high The student will hold hand on...
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...EVENT: Black Vace newspaper – in the library 2pm on Friday 4/27 Donations to PFAU library. HBCU – groups all over the world to come together. • Mixed races – either intentional or unintentional. o Mulatto – ½ black (this is an offensive term which the root word is mule) o Quadroon – ¼ black o Octoroon – 1/8 black Video – Fisk singers and early white gospel video • Literacy was a problem – acapella singing. • Gospel – “Good news” • Fisk = HBCU in 1866 Video: the history of gospel music 02 • In the African heritage it had to be the music, the preacher and the religious. o Had to be the preacher and the response • Music was to be free but then brought Christianity which was pulled out from that they say. • Involving percussion tones • Melees tone – not singing the tone right to but to shape it. We wear the mask poem: Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 – 1906) • Mask – façade, disguises you, hides you, masquerade, protection, performers. Performance v. rituals • Ritual o Gospel • Performance o For others/benefits o Entertainment o Image Video: Education on Minstrel – goes into the Images topic • Developed in 1820. • T.D. Rice • Jim crow presents himself as an African (black face) by performing how the Africans perform. Performance within a performance. • Compromise of 4, etc. o Paid performances • Call and response Images: • Co-opted • Corruption of the history image • Massive available – were everywhere. • The images like...
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...African-American dance orchestra band, which performed for 2 decades in the southern states. That’s leaded by Osborne with a specialty in blues music. * Being established in 1953 but was disbanded in 1974 by the turnover of musicians and Osborne’s increasing age. * There’s also studies on leadership and how Walter Osborne’s mgmt provided a relevant case just for that. * With the usage of frameworks proposed by Morgeson, Lindoefer & Loring * Lastly, with an examination of team leadership through the socio-historical model, illustrating lessons for the leaders and portraying power through the analysis. About Walter Osborne * Was a successful leader possessing spontaneous skills and was drummer of the Red Tops band, * Osborne had strict rules just like how businesses would have- punctuality for performances and rehearsals, band uniforms were to be neat and tidy and there was a renounce from drinking and socializing whilst on job. * He had strict rules of conduct and regular inspections on the members of the band. * Thus was popular for his leadership strength and rules towards his members without any biasness. The success of the Red Tops band * Red Tops success is mainly because of their disciplined mgmt, fine performance and exclusive talent * Where they entertained teams of dancers with a mix of blues, jazz and pop * Creating a fan base across Mississippi and nearby states * Performances were mainly for white audiences at...
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...“Black and Blue” by Louis Armstrong In the early twentieth century, a new style of music was being created in New Orleans. This style of music, known as Jazz, was performed with the audience in mind. It was heavily influenced by ragtime and washboard bands. Jazz is also highly competitive since the musicians wanted to stand out from the rest of the crowd. Their differences were accomplished through the use of timbres, improvisation, and many other characteristic of Jazz. Louis Armstrong’s version of “(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue” illustrates the characteristics of Jazz, is completely unique to his style of preference, and advocates against racial discrimination. Improvisation was the most unique and challenging style utilized in the Jazz era. Musicians used this skill set to differentiate themselves from other artists within their original musical scores along with remakes of other artist’s songs, as no two performances of a song were the same. This is because the musicians literally made up or created the notes they played for their solos during the performance. The top skilled performers of Jazz were defined by their unique ability to create interesting solos with both their vocals and instruments. Louis Armstrong had the ability to use phrasing as a singer to capture syncopations that were prominent in early jazz. Jazz in the 1920’s was a combination of blues, ragtime, swing notes, and other European influences. Armstrong was able to capture the...
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