...com/2013/07/09/not-just-a-game-the-impact-of-sports-on-u-s-economy/ Summary of article: Gwen burrow talked about the job growth created by the sports industry. The industry creates about 456,000 jobs that pay an average of $39,000. This is a lot of jobs that sports create. Credibility: Gwen Burrow, is a writer for Economic modeling. Economic Modeling is a data company who helps organizations connect better with people. Relevance: In this scenario, they have captured necessary data to understand how sports benefits the economy. The data they found is the amount of jobs are created because of sports. * Angelo Spaminato, World Stadiums, Past and Future (2016) http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_menu/past_future/future_stadiums.shtml Summary of article: This website has a list of every sports stadium in the world. It has information on stadiums that are already in use, being built, and announced. Currently there are 9 stadiums being built or announced in America. Credibility: World Stadiums is the most comprehensive website on the internet about sports stadiums in the Unites States. Relevance: According to World Stadiums, currently, there are 9 stadiums in America either announced or currently being built. This is relevant because it adds to my point that sports industry creates job growth. * NFL Players Association, Average time length for a player (2014) http://www.nflplayers.com/user/template.aspx?fmid=181&lmid=349&pid=0&type=l#a3 Summary of article: Athletes only last...
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...in different parts of the store so that she does not get very bored. This variation is task gives her a very different outlook on her position and she is often very motivated. Alex on the other hand does exactly the same thing every single day and is often unmotivated. His conversations with Stephanie indicate that he is very unsatisfied with his occupation. His supervisor Dan believes that if someone is repetitive at their job, they will perfect it. This honestly can be true; however, it makes most people bored and in most cases no longer wanting to go to work. Both managers have two different styles of management and believe that despite of that the overall goal they set for the employees will still be attained. For the past two years Stephanie has been performing numerous tasks in different departments. Her supervisor even allows her to go above and beyond her scope of responsibility and give them the opportunity to perform managerial tasks. Jonathon allows them to take the initiative and order supplies when the quantities run low. Stephanie is thrilled with having a position where she has the ability to be creative and develop with recipes for the store’s culinary center....
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...Accounting Information and Predicting Financial Performance: Accounting information can be useful in order to help predict future performance in the short and long term. It is important to note however that accounting information including accounting ratios show a company’s performance at a period in time. It is historical data. Trends can be identified by comparing data in sequential periods and future forecasts can be determined using historical data. There is no evidence or proof however, that these patterns will predict the future at a level of complete certainty. In my opinion, it would be hard to argue that decreasing profits over an extended period of time, or deteriorating liquid assets and increasing long term debt will have a negative impact if a trend continues. Eventually a company will have financial difficulties. Another type of predictive model that utilizes accounting information includes regression analysis. Regression analysis is viewed by many to be more useful that financial data or ratios alone. Regression analysis often test whether past stock prices, sales, profit, financial ratios, solvency, and other items are related to other variables including GDP, interest rates, market saturation of the industry, etc. In addition, a degree of confidence can be determined concerning the relationship of the variables in regression analysis Accounting ratios are determined from financial data, which as mentioned is historical. I do not feel that all financial ratios...
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...Coral Divers Resort Introduction Coral Divers Resort is a small scuba diving resort, which has a comfortable niche in the scuba diving industry. The owner of the coral diving resort, Jonathan Greywell with his promotional strategy had been enhanced by the resort (Beamish & Neupert, 2008). According to the case study “Coral Divers Resort (Revised)” (Beamish & Neupert, 2008), over the years, Greywell had established a solid reputation for the Coral Divers Resort as a safe and knowledgeable scuba diving resort. Coral Diver Resort offered not only a divers wild renege selection of diving activities, but also a beachfront location. As a small well regarded all round dive resort in the Bahamas, however, many divers had come to prefer coral diving resort over the other crowded tourists resort in the Caribbean" (Beamish & Neupert, 2008). However, Greywell was able to found this niche by creating short weekend and mid-week diving ventures, which was a service that attracted the public. Furthermore, Coral Divers Resort has targeted both the aficionado divers and the tyro; as a matter of fact, both of them want maximum diving pleasure at a minimum expense. Jonathan Greywell, the owner of a small scuba diving operation in the Bahamas is reassessing his strategic direction in the light of declining revenues (Beamish & Neupert, 2008). Among the changes being considered are shark diving, family diving, exit, and shifting operations to another Caribbean location. The owner...
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...------------------------------------------------- Contemporary Credible Signalling Article Summary ‘ANZ capitalises on strong hand’ written by Jonathon Shapiro and published in an August 2011 edition of The Australian Financial Review, discusses how ANZ raised $750 million in hybrid capital (capital combination of debt and equity characteristics) in order to maintain its already strong capital position and balance sheet. ANZ has a Tier 1 capital ratio of 10.6% compared to Westpac, NAB and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and will only improve with further equity issuance. The ANZ treasurer spoke of the company’s overall plan to stay ‘ahead of the game’, signalling to investors of his confidence in the company, along with a new common equity trigger clause. This clause states that if the company’s common-equity ratio falls below 5.125%, new convertible preference shares will be converted to ordinary shares. New stern regulations require bank hybrids to be more “equity-like” to absorb potential losses and provide greater capital buffers. ANZ’s hybrid issue comes amid volatile global market conditions which have caused Australian banks to refrain from raising wholesale debt. The demand for loans has fallen and debt has become less preferred due to risks of financial distress. Capital Structure & Hybrid Capital Trade-off’s Debt financing puts an obligation on a firm. A firm that fails to make the required interest or principle payments on the debt will enter into default...
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...Lesson Plan Cover Sheet LESSON TITLE: PROCESS A BAR TO REENLISTMENT TASK/SUBJECT: PROCESS A BAR TO REENLISTMENT TASK NUMBER: 805B-79S-4014 PROGRAM OF INSTRUCTION: 502-79S1O, DA MRTT COURSE SECURITY CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED LESSON PLAN REVIEW AND APPROVAL: NAME RANK POSITION DATE JONATHON J. BLUE SR SFC SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT 6 JAN 09 JESSE J. RAMIREZ SFC CHIEF INSTRUCTOR MICHAEL C. KINDLEBURG SFC CAREER MANAGEMENT NCO GARY P. HELLUMS SGM COURSE DIRECTOR LESSON TITLE: PROCESS A BAR TO REENLISTMENT THIS LESSON IS USED IN THE FOLLOWING COURSES: COURSE NUMBER(S) COURSE TITLE(S) 501-79S10 DA MRTT COURSE SECTION I - ADMINISTRATIVE DATA TASK(S) TAUGHT OR SUPPORTED: TASK NUMBER TASK TITLE 805B-79S-4014 Process a Bar to Reenlistment TASK(S) REINFORCED: TASK NUMBER TASK TITLE NONE NONE ACADEMIC HOURS: PEACETIME MOBILIZATION HOURS/TYPE HOURS/TYPE LESSON: 2 / C 0 / 0 TEST: 0 / 0 0 / 0 TEST REVIEW: 0 / 0 0 / 0 TOTAL HOURS: 2 / 0 0 / 0 TEST AND REVIEW HOURS AND LESSON NUMBERS: NONE PREREQUISITE LESSONS: NONE CLEARANCE AND ACCESS: UNCLASSIFIED REFERENCES: NUMBER TITLE PAGES ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AR 601-280 Army Retention Program ...
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...How Does Your Business Fair? (The Impact of Affordable Care Act on Small Business) On March 23, 2010 President Obama signed into law the comprehensive health reform known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act informally known as Affordable Care Act. According to the Executive Office of the President, Council of Economic Advisors (EOP/CEA), “the key goals of health care reform is to reduce the growth rate of costs while maintaining choice of doctors and health plans and assuring quality, affordable health care for all Americans.” (The Economic Case for Health Care Reform, June 2009) The ACA is created to improve the overall quality of health care delivery and its’ systems while adding new consumer protections. In the ACA there is a clause known as the individual mandate. This mandate requires most U.S. citizens and legal residents to obtain qualifying health care insurance coverage, and if not will be required to pay a tax penalty. Effective January 1, 2014 employers with fifty or more employees that do not provide affordable health coverage will receive an assessment where for those businesses with less than fifty employees are exempt. States have created health benefit exchanges for individuals and small businesses through which health coverage can be purchased at affordable prices. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published several fact sheets and brochures highlighting what the ACA means for large and small businesses, individuals...
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...Karla J. Murphy Pedagogy, Volume 4, Issue 2, Spring 2004, pp. 337-343 (Article) For additional information about this article http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ped/summary/v004/4.2murphy.html Access provided by SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY (29 Dec 2014 03:14 GMT) The Pedagogical Possibilities of Covering Gilman’s Wallpaper Karla J. Murphy In his introduction to The Pedagogical Wallpaper, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock notes how the pedagogical diversity of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper” prompted him to collect essays for this book. He goes on to explain that “given the ubiquity of the text within various academic settings, I was also struck by the absence of attention to the text within pedagogical contexts. Despite the large (and steadily growing) body of criticism to the story, very little of it explicitly addresses its importance as a tool to facilitate learning or various ways in which to make use of the text in the classroom” (3). As a collection, Weinstock’s The Pedagogical Wallpaper contains informed, detailed, and diverse analysis that attempts to shore up the absence of “pedagogical possibilities” concerning Gilman’s transgressive short story (9). Among the contributors are a MOO space specialist, a Gilman scholar, a queer theorist, an existentialist, a formalist, and several reader/student-response theorists. Because each essayist presents a distinct critical perspective on Gilman’s text, each essay is likewise concerned with “how the narrative...
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...Qantas Airway Strategic Management BUSM 3125 Group Assignment 2 Jonathon Reid Sindra Hao Ming Lee – S3301727 Table of Content Executive Summary 3 Background Information 4 SWOT Analysis 5 PESTEL Framework Analysis 6 Porter’s Five Forces Analysis 9 Qantas’ Strategic Capabilities 12 VRIN Model 14 Qantas’ Value Chain 16 Qantas’ Generic Strategies 17 Conclusion 19 Reference List 20 Executive Summary This report is going to provide a fundamental analysis inboth external and internal factors that influence Qantas Airway in competing in the aviation industry. The PESTEL framework is applied to identify how issues in the political, economic, social,technological, environmental...
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...Strategic Management on Qantas Airway Qantas Airway Strategic Management BUSM 3125 Group Assignment 2 Jonathon Reid Sindra Hao Ming Lee – S3301727 Table of Content Executive Summary 3 Background Information 4 SWOT Analysis 5 PESTEL Framework Analysis 6 Porter’s Five Forces Analysis 9 Qantas’ Strategic Capabilities 12 VRIN Model 14 Qantas’ Value Chain 16 Qantas’ Generic Strategies 17 Conclusion 19 Reference List 20 Executive Summary This report is going to provide a fundamental analysis inboth external and internal factors that influence Qantas Airway in competing in the aviation industry. The PESTEL framework is applied to identify how issues in the political, economic, social,technological, environmental and legal environment may affect the industry within which Qantas operates. Moreover, Porter’s five forces model also helps identify the attractiveness of the airline and aviation industry related to five competitive forces: the threat of entry, the threat of substitutes, the power of buyers, the power of suppliers and the intensity of rivalry among competitors in the existing industry (Johnson, Whittington & Scholes 2011). The external analysis is essential to determine Qantas’ opportunities and threats. Whereas the internal analysis includes understanding Qantas’ resources and competences that are likely to provide sustainable competitive advantage, identifying Qantas’ competitive position using VRIN model (value, rarity, inimitability and non-substitutability)...
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...Purdue University Purdue e-Pubs Department of Computer Graphics Technology Degree Theses 1-1-2012 Department of Computer Graphics Technology Social Media Marketing in a Small Business: A Case Study Sarah Cox coxsl@purdue.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgttheses Cox, Sarah, "Social Media Marketing in a Small Business: A Case Study" (2012). Department of Computer Graphics Technology Degree Theses. Paper 16. http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgttheses/16 This document has been made available through Purdue e-Pubs, a service of the Purdue University Libraries. Please contact epubs@purdue.edu for additional information. Graduate School ETD Form 9 (Revised 12/07) PURDUE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL Thesis/Dissertation Acceptance This is to certify that the thesis/dissertation prepared By Sarah Lynne Cox Entitled Social Media Marketing in a Small Business: A Case Study Master of Science For the degree of Is approved by the final examining committee: Mihaela Vorvoreanu Chair Jonathon Day Judith A. Birchman To the best of my knowledge and as understood by the student in the Research Integrity and Copyright Disclaimer (Graduate School Form 20), this thesis/dissertation adheres to the provisions of Purdue University’s “Policy on Integrity in Research” and the use of copyrighted material. Mihaela Vorvoreanu Approved by Major Professor(s): ____________________________________ ____________________________________ Approved...
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...low calorie alternatives to beer, wine, and other dark spirits, Vodkas popularity comes as no surprise. The rise of vodka has also brought about another growing trend in the spirits industry and that is the growth of flavored vodkas. Flavored vodkas allow consumers with particular taste to enjoy an easy-to-drink spirit and also allows consumers to create many different drinks with one base liquor. One of the companies that has seen immense success in this booming market is Heaven Hill Distilleries’ line of Burnetts’ Flavored Vodka. Featuring over 33 unique and distinct flavors, Burnett’s is one of the largest players in the flavored vodka market and continues to lead in innovation of flavors as well as nationwide distribution. Executive Summary While there continues to be new competitors entering the market almost every day, one of the largest, most competitive firms in the flavored vodka market is Burnett’s Flavored Vodka. Burnett’s, widely known throughout the nation by young collegiate aged individuals and young professionals, offers one of the lowest price points for vodka in the entire industry. In addition to this, it features a product line with over 33 different flavors including seasonal flavors such as pumpkin spice vodka. By and large, Burnett’s has seen wide success without using an overly extensive marketing strategy, relying intensively on social media and in-store promotions at both liquor stores and bars. Heaven Hill Distilleries, which owns over 50 different liquor...
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...Table of Contents Executive Summary……………..…………………………….…….Key Problem/Issue of the Case…………………….…..……………AnalysisExternal Analysis……………………………….…………...Internal Analysis…………………………………………….Business-level strategy………………………..…………….Corporate-level strategy………………………..…………...Firm Performance…………………………….……………..Alternatives Available……………………………………………….Team Recommendations………………………………..…………...References…………………………………………………………...Appendices………………………………………………………….. | p.03p.04 p.07p.08p.10p.11p.12p.16p.18p.21p.22 | Executive Summary The Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant chain has been exceptionally successful since its inception in the early 90s. The growth of this “fast-casual” dining phenomenon in its early years demanded the attention of many fast food industry giants all over the United States. One in particular, McDonald’s, even spent significant time holding ownership of a controlling interest of shares in the company, and lent their distribution and growth strategies to Chipotle. This injection of wisdom certainly attributed to their current level of accomplishment as a company because it afforded exponential acceleration in both domestic and international expansion of the brand. Given the overwhelming success of Chipotle to date, the company has decided to launch an additional fast-casual format restaurant designed around a Southeast Asian cuisine theme and named “The ShopHouse Kitchen”. The ShopHouse leverages the same basic, yet proven, principles of the Chipotle Mexican...
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...understand the context of supporting individuals with learning disabilities (LD 201) Unit 4222-245understand the context of supporting individuals with learning disabilities (LD 201) Unit 4222-245 outcome 1: understand the legislation and policies that support the human rights and inclusion of individuals with learning disabilities: Identify legislation and policies that are designed to promote the human rights, inclusion, equal life chances and citizenship of individuals with learning disabilities. The Mental Capacity Act 2005: This act was introduced in England and Wales in 2007 and aims to protect the rights of people whose mental capacity is in doubt and people who do not have mental capacity. It provides a framework for making decisions on behalf of the individual. It tells us what to do if we are involved in the care, treatment, support of people aged 16 and over who lack mental capacity to make decisions. The Act states that everyone is assumed to make decisions for themselves unless shown otherwise. If it is not clear whether someone has the capacity to make a decision concerning a specific issue and assessment of their capacity should be carried out. The Mental Health Act 1983: The court of protection exists to safeguard the interests of anyone who is incapable by reason of mental disorder of managing and administrating their property and affair. Anyone found on medical evidence to meet these criteria is known as a patient. The courts duties are normally...
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...traveller Low penetration of travel The Me Effect: Changing types of travellers The growth of the business traveller The female business traveller The VFR traveller The young traveller The Red Tape Effect: the breaking down of barriers to travel Barriers still impeding Indian travellers The Leapfrog Effect: technology changing the way that Indian travellers behave The rise of mobility The collaborative traveller – India leading the way The need for capacity at the budget end of the market The need for greater budget airline infrastructure Infrastructure – the cruise opportunity The rail opportunity The Barbell Effect: growth at the upper and lower ends of the travel market in India The Indian luxury traveller The growth of the budget traveller Summary: The changing face of the Indian traveller Appendix Our approach Contributors 3 4 4 5 6 7 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 13 14 14 15 16 17 17 18 19 19 19 Shaping the future of travel in Asia Pacific 3 Foreword While the 21st century has been termed the “Asian Century”, the term “Indian Century” is equally apt as the tremendous pace of economic development in India will drive the country to a leading place in the global economy along with other markets such as China. In terms of the travel industry, India represents the emerging giant of the Asia Pacific travel market, as the number of Indian travellers will grow exponentially over the next 20 years. But alongside growth in traveller numbers, the nature of the Indian traveller will also change...
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