...Nova Southeastern University Wayne Huizenga Graduate School of Business & Entrepreneurship Assignment for Course: MGT5015 Submitted to: Submitted by: Date of Submission: Title of Assignment: CERTIFICATION OF AUTHORSHIP: I certify that I am the author of this paper and that any assistance I received in its preparation is fully acknowledge and disclosed in the paper. I have also cited any sources from which I used data, ideas of words, whether quoted directly or paraphrased. I also certify that this paper was prepared by me specifically for this course. Student Signature: ___________________________ Student Signature: ___________________________ Student Signature: ___________________________ Student Signature: ___________________________ Student Signature: ___________________________ ******************************************* Instructor’s Grade on Assignment: Instructor’s Comments: Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………pg. 3 Legal Section………………….……………………………………………………....pg. 5 Relevant Legal Principles…………………………………………..................pg. 6 Application of Law …………………………………………….….………….pg. 7 Legal Conclusion………...…….……………………………….……..............pg. 8 Ethic Section……………………………………...……………………….…………..pg. 8 Utilitarian Ethical Analysis……………………………………………………pg. 8 Kantian Ethical Analysis……………………………….………….................pg. 12 Machiavellian Virtues………………………………………………………..pg...
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...eBay vs. Craigslist When I need to buy or sell an item on the internet and get the best good price I probably look at either eBay or Craigslist. EBay is one of the largest online auction sites, while Craigslist is a leader when it comes to online ad posting. Both sites offer a wide range of services and items that consumer need. In order to evaluate these sites, I look at the user-friendliness, cost, selling items, and user’s safety. The first thing that I noticed when using eBay and Craigslist is that they are really user friendly. One of the features that both eBay and Craigslist have is how easy it is to setup an account. It took just minutes to set up both my accounts, but some of the other features are different. Craigslist is used more for searching in a specific region for products and services. For example, when I search for an item in Craigslist I have two choices, I can search for it in the search bar or by the region that I live in. In contrast it is easier to locate an item in eBay by that item’s name rather than a specific location. One difference between eBay and Craigslist is their cost of an ad. When I sell an item on eBay I have to place an ad. Users can have as many ads as they want, but where eBay gets them is with the pictures. Pictures are essential to sell a product for top dollar. EBay gives users five photos for a set price, but they have the option to buy more room for pictures. ...
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...Adam Llado Dr. Peterson American Government February 19, 2015 Craigslist Killer On Monday, two unidentified bodies were discovered submerged in a lake along with an SUV near Telfair County. The very next day, the bodies were identified to be that of 69 year old Bud Runion, and his wife, June Runion, 66. Authorities had been searching for the couple since they went to buy a vintage mustang off the popular website Craigslist. 28 year old Ronnie Adrian “Jay” Towns became the prime suspect when investigators traced the last known contact with the Runions to Towns. Although his father told WSB on Tuesday that his son was innocent, he went into the woods where Towns was hiding and talked him into surrendering. Towns gave himself up on Monday and was charged with malice murder and armed robbery. The 28 year old never owned a vintage car like the one the couple was looking for. Since the topic I chose is about a story based in fact, all three sources that I read from were not in any way biased or prejudice; although some sources did touch on different points in the case. The key similarities in the sources would be that they all reported in some way how and why Ronnie Adrian “Jay” Towns was arrested. They also gave further details on the innocence of the victims and how they were upstanding citizens who were gruesomely murdered. The one key difference in the sources is that only 2 sources reported further on the families of Towns and their reactions to the crime. His uncle and...
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...characteristics. The aim for us is to determine which wave craigslist is a result of, and explain why. The first wave emerged in the late 90s. The second wave emerged early 2000 and lasted until mid-20s. Everything after that until present day is considered a result of the third wave. Looking at Craigslist from a timeline-perspective, this tells us that the company is a part of the first wave. This is only one of a variety of characteristics that makes Craigslist a part of the first wave. The first wave was strongly dominated by U.S companies. As mentioned in the company introduction, Craigslist was developed and started up in the US. The company started its company with the intent of helping the San Francisco Bay area community. As popularity grew, they expanded to other communities in other cities. It was not until later on in Craigslist’s existence that they expanded to other countries. As of today they serve over 700 cities in 50 different countries. Even though they serve such a huge variety of communities, the US communities still serve as their main market in terms of usage. The graphs below compare the usage between Craigslist and two other huge e-commerce companies that emerged in other waves. Also, the revenue-model Craigslist used, and still uses, resembles the ones used by first wave companies. The first wave companies relied on simple forms of online advertising as a main revenue source. Craigslist revenues come only from charging for paid job ads in several...
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...Craigslist and Adult Services 1. How would you advise Craigslist? Discuss the legal and practical issues involved and how they should be resolved, and explain why? If I had to advise Craigslist, I would first tell them that if they want to advertise adult content they must make disclaimers such as 18 and over to enter this site. Craigslist isn’t meant to be a pornographic site, so if they wanted to get into that industry they should do it through another means, or even go as far as creating another website strictly for Craigslist Adult services. As the article mentions pictures of nudity and “verbiage” should not be Craigslist. Some legal and practical issues that can arise from this situation may contain child pornography and prostitution, human trafficking, connections with sexual offenders, molesters and violators. As far as resolving this situations they may be a little hard if they are not being monitored, but for instance if the authorities believe that a certain “transaction” such as child prostitution may be going on Craigslist should do everything in its power to help the authorities find this person or people responsible by handing over and information that was captured, advertised, etc. 2. Even if legal, has been, and is, Craigslist acting as a moral company? Justify your response ethically, that is, by referring to and incorporating ethical theories and principles. In my opinion, I do not believe that Craigslist is acting like a moral company. Craigslist...
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...email this posting to a friend indianapolis craigslist > housing > apts/housing for rent please flag with care: [?] miscategorized prohibited spam/overpost best of craigslist Stating a discriminatory preference in a housing post is illegal - please flag discriminatory posts as prohibited Avoid scams and fraud by dealing locally! Beware any arrangement involving Western Union, Moneygram, wire transfer, or a landlord/owner who is out of the country or cannot meet you in person. More info $995 3br-Indy Downtown\Mass Ave\IUPUI (1414 E.Vermont St.) (map) Date: 2011-07-08, 3:51PM EDT Reply to: hous-fyrpw-2484003906@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?] Combine the Ammenities of Downtown with the Quiet Soothing Charm of a Renovated Historic Neighborhood and you've got the Ideal Urban Environment!!! This Charming,Renovated Duplex is just 3 minutes from the Heart of Downtown Indianapolis and seldom available. The address is 1414E/ Vermont St. From downtown go east on New York, left on Highland, and right on Vermont-- or just take Vermont east from College. To go back downtown get on Michigan and in a second you are at Mass Ave and the Arts and Restaurant district- while an additional five minutes will take you to the heart of IUPUI!! This duplex is on the best street in the hot Holy Cross neighborhood - comprised of young professionals and older original homeowners. You will notice new half million dollar homes next to original " Painted Lady "...
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...Ray F, Maryana K, Kangi J, Brittany M 10/2/14 Management Information Systems Jia Shen Peer to Peer Online Shopping Peer to Peer online shopping is a high tech version of old fashioned bartering systems. Peer to Peer online shopping connects people all over the world by facilitating online sharing. Typically, an online peer-to-peer marketplace brings people and/or businesses together online to deal with each other directly without having to go through a slow, expensive middle man. Peer to Peer online shopping can be convenient, it can save time by having everything in one place, and save money by cutting out the middle man which will reduce the overall cost for the consumer and increases the profits for the provider/business. Peer to Peer online shopping can also be fun, and highly specialized. During the recession people had less money which caused them to spend less which eventually led to Collaborative consumption. Collaborative consumption which is consumers selling or renting to each other is encouraged by all of the Peer to Peer online sights. For example E Bay is a online auction and shopping website that provides peer to peer and business to consumer sales service via internet. According to our text book "one of the most surprising benefits of collaborative consumption however, turns out to be social. This is true because it allows for sharing between strangers and allows us to make meaningful connections. "Collaborative consumption is an economic model based on...
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...2.0 New technology disrupts the old model – Modern Day Challenges 2.1 Preamble With the increase in technological innovation we can observe how these forces are disrupting the conventional business models and marketing strategies of industries. These innovations have shaken core of the business world where several venerable facets of the media industry such as newspapers, radio and television are clamoring for their breadth under the impact of innovative giants such as Google and TIVO with large chunk of ad revenue shifting from conventional channels to more topical channels (refer graph 2.1). Why? Primarily, conventional media industries were not poised for changes, as we observed the break neck speed at which we have proceeded from web 1.0 to 3.0 within the last decade. Could the companies have avoided the wreckage if they had prepared for this pace of change? That is questionable. Graph 2.1 We can observe several strategic inflection points which have diminished the prominence of media industries; primarily, the ability of internet based technologies to deliver richer content in a cost effective manner in comparison to the high legacy cost of running a newspaper (i.e. office buildings, printing press, editors, photographers etc.). Second is the failure of the media companies to keep pace with the evolving changes around them, and the final elements of this downward spiral is the industries disregard for the customer base or the target market, i.e. producing content...
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...business analyst of University Coop Service, I have done the researches for the successful online business models. I found that E-bay, Amazon and Craigslist are the most successful and well-known online businesses in the E-commerce marketplaces from worldwide. E-bay is the one of the largest person to person marketplace with sites around the world and it also allows sellers to set up online storefronts. Amazon is the largest online retailer, one-third of its sales volume comes from third party sellers. Craigslist is the online community that has comprehensive classified sections which are different goods and services, employment listings or personal ads. We can know that why these three online businesses get the highest achievements in online marketplaces through the numbers of visitors that visit the website and the profitability of the online sellers earn. According to Ina and Steiner.D 2011, Amazon, E-bay and Craigslist became the top visited online marketplaces again in July 2011. Amazon sites came in place of number six with 97.1 million visitors for the month, E-bay came in place of number 13th with 72.6 million visitors and Craigslist came in place of 19th with 54.7 million visitors in U.S web activity. In facts, Amazon gets the highest marks in profitability among the marketplaces reviewed which is 6.09 marks, followed by Craigslist 5.65 marks and E-bay 4.83 marks. I found that there are some key features presented by Amazon site. Security and privacy of the data...
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...analyze the roles of communication and personality in negotiation and how they contributed to or detracted from the negotiation process. I will cover how I approached the situation, what was the outcome or the result of the negotiation, and I will also discuss how I could have handled the situation to achieve a more desirable outcome. Growing up as a child I would always look at the auto trader or the penny saver and dreamed of having enough money to buy a nice car someday. Eventually I grew up and established a very good credit score that helped me buy my first car. Once I got station in Hawaii, I started buying cars and motorcycles at cheap prices because they were either broken and needed to be fixed or I would find good deals on Craigslist. I started noticing that personality can have a lot to do with whether or not the deals ends up in your favor or not. People who wanted to get rid of their vehicles and didn’t care if the car was a rip off or not were very quick with a response and short with their answer. These kinds of people will tell you anything you want to hear so that you will buy their car. I can see these people from a mile away and choose to not get involved with their drama. I also ran into people who weren’t in a rush to sell their...
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...By Mashell Chapeyama Effects of globalization in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe, like other countries, has been affected by globalization. The first thing is that the welfare of the people in the country improved. There is good medication that is coming from other countries. During drought periods we get food from as far as America. China has been contributing also to the country. A lot of funds have been donated to the country. This fund was used to assist in education. So many children are now learning in the country. The life expectancy of the people has also improved due to medication and good food that is coming from other countries. There has been an improvement in the development of the country. We have received new technology from other countries that have led to economic growth. For example, in Zimbabwe about fifty percent of our fuel now comes from bio-sources. Fuel is now being made from plants. This has led to the creation of employment. The rate of employment has increased of late. New technology has flowed in the country. We are now able to use solar energy, wind energy and hydropower due to globalization. Due to globalization the political system has changed in my country. We have now adopted democratic type of governance. This is as a result of the influence of organizations such as United Nations. Regional blocks also emphasize on the need to be democratic in governance. One negative impact has been that of environmental degradation. Due to demand of products by other...
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...Week 6 : Contracts and E-Commerce - Quiz Top of Form Time Remaining: | | Question 1. 1. (TCO 6) Explain the basic requirements that must be met for a contract to be enforceable. (Points : 10) | Question 2. 2. (TCO 7) Define emancipation, and list a few possible reasons for its occurrence. (Points : 5) | Question 3. 3. (TCO 7) When Samantha’s grandmother died, her mother asked her to help clean out her grandmother’s home. The books and clothing were donated to a local thrift store. However, there were a few paintings and vases that Samantha thought could be sold on Ebay or Craigslist. Samantha’s mother did not want to go to that trouble so she gave the items to Samantha. One vase was really pretty but Samantha decided not to keep it, so she listed it on Craigslist for $10. Jason Baker responded to the ad and went to Samantha’s home to view the vase. When there, he asked Samantha if she knew anything about the origins of the vase. She said she did not but knew that her grandmother liked collecting Chinese art since she had lived in China for a while. Jason had been an art history major in college and believed that this was a vase from the Ming Dynasty with a value of $500,000–600,000. He told Samantha that he really liked the vase, that he was an art history major, and it may have some value, so he was willing to pay her $5,000. Samantha readily agreed to the sale for $5,000. Two months later Jason took the vase to an art appraiser...
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...Want a job? Need a job? That’s easy, anyone can get just a job. However, if you are looking for a career (and yes, they are two distinctly different things) then before actually seeking out new employment there are three things you need. The first is, knowing the industry in which you want to work and an understanding of what the requirements are to be a candidate for that field. Next, you need a resume. Microsoft Word provides resume templates, for free, to assist you in creating a personalized resume. Last, but certainly not least, you will need a cover letter to accompany your resume when applying for positions. Keep in mind the cover letter will be the first document a hiring manager will read. Research general cover letters and industry specific ones. Use your research to assist you in writing your own. Don’t go the generic route or plagiarize anyone else’s. Make sure to highlight your strengths and allow your personality to come through and jump off the page, setting your cover letter apart from the dozens of others that the hiring manager will read that week. Entering, or reentering as the case may be, the workforce is always a daunting task. Compound this with an economy which has been notoriously struggling, increasing student loan debt, upside down mortgages and many employers unwilling to pay fair market wages based on expertise and/or education, and choosing a career can seem more difficult than sitting for the Series 7 exam. If you are newly entering the workforce...
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...E-COMMERCE RESEARCH PROJECT 1 E-commerce Research Project Ericka Lim-Spears Business 424 Liberty University E-COMMERCE RESEARCH PROJECT 2 Abstract E-commerce has taken over traditional marketing and replaced it with a modern day way of doing business. Over the past two decades our society has become accustomed to buying and selling goods as well as services online, it has become a more efficient, cost-effective, and convenient way of living. With E-commerce becoming more prominent by the day it is important that businesses strive to meet expectations of their consumers when advertising online. Social media plays a substantial role also in helping businesses promote products or services to other businesses or directly to consumers. When businesses do business with each other, also known as B2B marketing, it is important for them to have a clear idea of what their company represents and how their products or services will benefit consumers. Social media handles such as Facebook and Twitter have given businesses no matter how successful a platform to build up their consumer base which in turn will attract other businesses to take part in your product or service. Consumer-to-Consumer marketing also known as C2C is a consumer base which regular people are able to take part in e-commerce by selling their goods and services online. Websites such as Ebay and Craiglist have been home to Consumer to Consumer marketing since the beginning. Social networks such...
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...Introduction Most Americans can remember their father and mother sitting in their favorite chairs while reading their local newspaper. Others can remember waking up and walking outside to their driveway to get the morning newspaper before getting a cup of coffee. Also, it seems just like yesterday when a co-worker would take it personal if someone picked up their newspaper and started reading it without permission. Reading the daily paper was part of American culture and a favorite pastime. This simple activity informed the average citizen about local politics, events, crime, business, sales, jobs, entertainment, weather forecast, and one could even get his horoscope. Being informed through the newspaper about the local community, the nearest populated city, and our nation once gave people a since of pride. In current times, even though people are just as informed, there are many forms of media that has surpassed the newspaper in providing information with up to the minute news releases. This has taken a large share of the market away from the outdated art of reading the printed version of the news. As people have become more familiar and comfortable with the internet, they are increasingly choosing it as a source of news delivery. In addition there are several other sources of wired and wireless electronic media delivery platforms that are available to the vast majority of people. These devices include netbooks, mobile phones, and e-readers. The newspaper industry...
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