...Notes on Case Analysis David Robinson, September 2008 Business school cases are quite long and complicated. We study cases not so much to find the right answer, but to train ourselves in systematic analysis so we will be effective decision makers in the business world. Successful case preparation depends on multiple readings of the case and multiple points of view. Multiple Readings of the Case If you attempt to analyze a case by pulling an “all-nighter” (waiting until the last minute, spend hours poring over the case and going line by line looking for insights) you will be overwhelmed. You should plan for multiple readings of the case over several days, complemented by group meetings and discussion. Multiple Points of View Even if you are preparing to write an individual brief, you should plan to discuss a case with a study group. You’ll notice that in business the major consulting firms always assign a team of people to each client, not just their single best industry expert. The reason for this is that no one person is likely to comprehend all the problems a firm faces. No two individuals are likely to have the same insights, but the combined wisdom of a team is likely to come up with a fairly comprehensive analysis. First Reading of the Case You should read the case first on your own—if you meet with your study group and open the case book and say, “OK, what’s this about?” there is every likelihood that your team will degenerate into “group think” (one person comes...
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...Short Essays Instructions You will write four Short Essays in this course. The goal of these essays is for you to think over and analyze information biblically and theologically to articulate a case for your own views. Follow the steps below to successfully complete each essay. Step 1: Familarize yourself with the general expectations of the Short Essay assignments as described below. You must use the Short Essay Template to compose your essay; this will ensure that you adhere to proper formatting (double-spacing, 1-inch margins, and 12-pt. Times New Roman font). In addition, you must follow Turabian style and include a Bibliography after each essay. The body of your essay should be 600–800 words in length, this does not include your name, course and section number, essay title, and Bibliography. For each essay, you will be reading articles from the Elwell text and then answering various questions about a theological topic. Use the Short Essays Template in which to compose your essay; this will ensure that you adhere to proper formatting (double-spacing, 1-inch margins, and 12-pt. Times New Roman font). In addition, you must follow Turabian style and include a Bibliography after each essay. Each essay should be 600–800 words in length, not including your name, course and section number, essay title, and Bibliography. Thus, you need to be concise yet...
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...is a Creative Brief In its simplest term Creative Brief is the bridge between smart strategic thinking and great advertising (advertising that involves consumers on both – rational and emotional level, and which is capable of affecting a change in both their thoughts and behavior) and is the key tool with which planners and their account management partners can unlock the talents and imagination of their agency’s creative people. If the Creative Brief is informative, well argued and insightful, then their chances of creating better advertising are increased and the process of doing so is made considerably easier. Main task of Creative Brief is to inform the creative team, and most important to inspire them. To reduce all the information that has been gathered from the client, consumer research and perhaps many other sources and funnel it down to a single, potent idea and from that idea to create a sense of possibilities of great advertising just waiting to happen. So it is at the same time an exercise in synthesis and expansiveness. Please note that it is necessary for Creative Team to be active participant along with the Account Planner and Account Executive. Creative Teams contribution (thinking) at early stages will improve the quality of the brief and act as catalyst for the process of creative development itself. PLEASE NOTE: 1. Client should not participate in Creative Briefing 2. If it’s not relevant to consumers, it’s not relevant to the brief 3. The purpose...
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...CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION At present real estate sector (RES) is one of the booming sectors in Bangladesh. Day by day as time passes on, this sector is becoming healthier since the substantialgrowth of population is creating a tremendous housing problem and due to theincrease in demand of commercial spaces this sector has come into being. This sector provides an integrated and planned package to resolve these problems. 1.1 Purpose This report briefly reviews on the RES in Bangladesh in recent years and recommendsfor both the real estate developers and the government policy of Bangladesh on RES. 1.2 Scope The RES has so far spread its wings over Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, Rajshahi andSylhet. This report focuses only on the flourishing of real estate business in Dhakaand the real estate developers which are members of Real Estate & HousingAssociation of Bangladesh (REHAB) especially the prominent ones. 1.3 Limitations This report has been prepared based on secondary data. Concentration of real estate business in Dhaka may not reflect equal urgency in other cities mentioned earlier.This report does not include some of the problems created by illegal and unfair practices of very few of the developers, which is damaging the image of this sector. 1.4 Assumptions Recommendations of this report are based on the assumptions that REHAB will prevail and RES will keep on flourishing rather than recede or retard CHAPTER 2: EMERGENCE OF REAL ESTATESECTOR IN BANGLADESH The concept...
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...Often when we experience a disaster that will set in motion the need for change. As we look back through history we come to realize that we have a tendency to make changes after a disaster has already occurred. We often have many warning signs prior to an incident but we choose to ignore them and continue to take chances as was done at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. On March 25, 1911 in New York City 146 people paid with their lives because of the unsafe working conditions that many workers endured during that time. Had just a few precautions been taken before that fateful night it is likely the loss of life would have been greatly reduced. This tragedy helped pave the way for new safety standards including better fire codes and factory safety standards. Industrial growth was proving to be hazardous to people’s health; America was now the world leader in industrial accidents. There was no denying the extremely harsh working conditions were to blame for many of the accidents. The workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory on the 9th floor were getting ready to go home, standing in single file with open purses so they could be checked to ensure they were not stealing from the company. It was the end of the day and the workers were giddy to be leaving, within moments chaos ensued. Flames had broken out on the 8th floor and as they had in the past workers grabbed pails of water to douse the flames only this time the fire spread quickly, before anyone was aware the...
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...Wilson, President Theodore Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Fred Astaire, Humphrey Bogart, and Thomas Edison have all owned this type of dog. The three types of dogs considered to be a “pit bull” are the American Pit Bull Terrier, the American Staffordshire Terrier, and the Staffordshire Bull Terrier. These breeds have developed from bull-dogs over centuries in England. They were originally used for “bull-baiting”, and require much exercise because of their pasts. Pit bulls have worked as many things and are now used as therapy dogs. Despite their history and personalities, many people have differing views. In the beginning they were America’s...
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...Five-Step Approach to Unstructured Problems 1. Succinct Statement of the Financial Reporting Issue(s) Provide a brief statement of the accounting issue that includes the characteristics of the transaction that introduce uncertainty about how to record it. How should an expenditure, in this instance to purchase a lottery ticket, which has a high risk of providing no future cash flows be reported? 2. Brief Summary of the Economic Purpose of the Transaction State the reason corporate management has entered into the transaction, or, alternatively, summarize the event that has led to the reporting controversy. (This can be difficult in some practice cases but is usually obvious in the FASB concepts cases.) Phil N. Tropic bought a lottery ticket to participate in a drawing by a local charity. His motive for the purchase is not clear since the purchase may have been made for a chance to win $1 million or to support a local charity. 3. List of Alternative Ways to Report the Transaction List all approaches that have reasonable merit. The objective is to be complete without listing alternatives that are obviously without merit. In developing alternatives, you will often find it helpful to think in terms of i) alternative times when the transaction could be recorded (recognition) and ii) alternative ways to measure the amounts at each time (measurement). (Do not provide journal entries, although you may find it helps you to develop them on scrap paper.) a. Expense...
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...Evangelical Society Jets 41:2 (June 1998): 201-203. Survey of Theology Marvin T. Roberts May 17, 2015 Contents Page Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………….1 Brief Summary…………………………………………………………………………………….1 Critical Interaction………………………… ………………………………..……………...…1-2 Conclusion…………...……………………………………………….…………………………2-3 Bibliography………………………………………………………………………………………4 Introduction The paper of James D. Dvorak deals with the debates of the comparison between John and the synoptic gospels. Its provides information of the relationship of John to the synoptic gospels that has been a recurring problem, not only for two centuries of modern critical scholarship, but for Christian theology and exegesis over a much longer period. Brief Summary In the paper of James Dvorak he uses three (3) theories to discuss the relationship of John to synoptic gospels. Literary Dependence that is discussed to make claims that John was literarily dependent upon one or more of the synoptic. Literary Independence contends that John was not dependent on the Synoptics but that the similarities between the two are due to use of a common tradition. And there is Mediating View in which some scholars believe that there is a possibility fourth gospel can be adequately explained without primary or fundamental reference to the Synoptic gospels, but also without denying the fourth evangelist’s awareness of...
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...In Kate Choplin’s “The story of an hour” ( 1894) we read and see the view of a house wife’s life, and a insight on how she feels about the death of her husband as well as the reaction she has when she finds out that he is indeed -- not deceased. In this Reader response approach I will give you my view on how this story captured my attention and interest with its witty title, and how it shows the irony of one woman’s life changed in one hour. Kate choplin’s short story gives us an insight of how a woman is given devastating new that her husband has been killed. But after you read this story you begin to wonder, is this woman sad or overjoyed with the news?? This literary work caught my attention because it can have two different perceptions. The perception that was most obvious to me was that she was at first in dismay, then realizing she will have a new chance at life- is over joyous. The lines here give a insight to her thoughts, and give us the inner feelings of bewilderment she felt with both these were fully recognized. “When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: "free, free, free!" The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes.” (Choplin,1894) . when I read jamil’s emotion essay I was able to better understand I see a different view on what Mrs. Mallard was possible thinking. Jamil quotes “When she hears the news of her husband’s death, Mrs. Mallard’s...
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...overly informational with a great deal of fine print and lack of a color image that jumps off the page to grab the attention of the reader. The advertisement for the new Icom IC-7100 (QST Magazine 2013) demonstrates clear, simple and eye catching advertisement that stands out from many other ads for equipment and services. Yet it does not over power the reader with too much information, but invites the reader into researching the advertised item further on his or her own by providing a website address and brief list of items that can be accessed through it. In breaking down the ad it is a full page advertisement conveniently located next to a very busy collage of other ads all with very small print. That does help the Icom advertisement (QST Magazine 2013) stand out. The ad does use a couple images with in it, but the eye is drawn to the main image first that does include the common and patented technology trademark. In big bold letters stating “Creating New Standards for HF Mobiles”(QST Magazine 2013). That further peaks the curiosity of the reader to look more into the advertisement. The fading images near the top give a brief pictorial view of some features that then fade to the background pointing out more capabilities for the reader to investigate. At the top of the page the readers eye are then drawn to the fact that it is a new design and its simplicity. The use of a hand with the index finger extended conveys the concept of...
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...NORML-National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws By Abigail Galicia PID: A09469570 POLI 100E Final Paper Prof. Galderisi 12/13/2012 Abigail Galicia POLI 100E Galderisi 12/13/12 Final Paper NORML-National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws “It’s NORML to Smoke Pot.” How is NORML organized, and how does it pursue its policy interests? I. Introduction. The issue of the legalization of marijuana has been a hotly-debated and increasingly bitter confrontation among Americans. On the one side lie those who oppose everything about the drug and believe it to be a threat to society’s health and well-being, while the other side is composed of “the millions of smokers, many of them well educated, successful people who resent being defined as criminals for using what they regard as a mild but enjoyable drug (Anderson 3).” Both sides—for and against the legalization of marijuana—have presented proper research and evidence on either the virtually harmless or life threatening effects of marijuana along with either the economically beneficial or detrimental effects drug policy reform will have on the US. Either way, this debate has gained political momentum in the past decades and can no longer be seen as one-sided. Fueling this debate and whole-heartedly representing the pro-marijuana lobby organization, is the interest group NORML. NORML stands for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws and has been the top main advocate in leading the...
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...should be capable of searching and access the petition available on the public online portal. Actors • User • System Brief Description The user can access search and download the available petitions from the portal. Flow of Events Preconditions • The files that the user wants to download must be uploaded on the online portal by the government agency. Basic Flow 1. The portal has the petitions of the users that include various parameters like address which enables the user to search the portal. 2. The user searches for a required petition that is categorized by the parameters 3. The user can also search by using keywords like name, city etc. 4. The search features uses the metadata linked with each uploaded petition and search for keywords within the petition. 5. Once the user completes searching the documents the user can view and download the petition by clicking on the button. Alternative Flows 1. The user filters the search and does not find the petition he wants to view or download. 2. The user uses a keyword search and does not find the document he wants to access. 3. A message is displayed on the bottom of the search page which states that the user has to contact the government agency for not finding the petition. Postconditions • SUCCESS: The user finds the petition that he was seardhing for and then views it or downloads it. • FAILURE: When the user does not find the petition that he was looking for.“The petition is not found...
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...From State Home to State House. By Joseph M. Roy: 1977 PoliticTexas: Austin Statesman American Inns of Court: Chief Justice Robert W. Calvert Home School Coalition of Texas: Shelby Sharpe, Lead Attorney appointed by Chief Justice Robert W Calvert in the Landmark case of (Leeper v Arlington class action suit. The Court ruled that Home schooling in Texas was legal and Texas Supreme Court Confirmed the Appellate ruling. Justices of Texas 1836-1986: University of Texas School of Law: Tarlton Law Library, Center for legal Research. I had the pleasure of meeting him personally with my three attorneys in his chambers in Austin. It was concerning a case I had filed against me back in the early 1970’s for possession of a ¼ oz of marijuana. He went over the details of law that the Appeals Court would...
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...The Syllable John Goldsmith December 7, 2009 Contents 1 Overview and brief history 1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 Sonority waves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 Constituents and structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3.1 Pike, Hockett, Fudge: the arboreal view . . . 1.3.2 Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic . . . . . . . . 1.3.3 How to parse CVC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.4 Syllable timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.5 Classical generative phonology . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.6 Pulgram on the syllable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.7 Natural phonologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.8 Flat structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.9 Metrical phonology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.10 Sonority redux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.11 Slots that hang from trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.12 Government relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.13 Derived sonority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.14 Optimality theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.15 Must we choose between sonority and constituency? 1.16 Phonotactics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.17 Onsets, codas, and word-appendices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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...Final Exam (Part 2) 8 Oct 2012 Researching a Career Path I chose the Protective Security Specialist (PSS) as my career path choice. I chose the PSS path due to the fact that it was one specific area of my past experience that was lacking and it has positions all over the world through the Worldwide Protective Services (WPS) Program (formally known as the Worldwide Personal Protective Services (WPPS) Program). My initial research began with people I worked with on a Static Security project in a high threat area. I soon found out that there were a few large companies, and projects, that would serve as a starting point. Aegis, DynCorp, Global, Triple Canopy, and US Training Center were the major players in the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security Program. I spoke with work colleagues that have worked for one, or numerous, of the aforementioned companies. I was mostly interested in the areas of company vision, work beliefs, and compensation plans along with the individuals’ point of view. I then began an internet search of my top 3 picks (Global, Triple Canopy, and US Training Center). I researched news articles of specific incidents, public views, and awarded contracts. Public forum sites, such as SOCNet, provided a valuable resource on how different companies were viewed & operated by, and at, the lower levels. My final task was the research of each of the company’s specific website; focusing on mission statement, focus, and plans for the future. Networking...
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