...There is one required group case write-up as shown in the Tentative Schedule. The write-up should be no longer than four double-spaced pages inclusive of exhibits (such as tables, charts and figures). In addition to these four pages, you may have a cover page and another page (the last page of the write-up) that is an assessment of group member contributions. The sum of the group member contributions must total 100%. Please use an 11 point font with a 1.5” margins (for my corrections and comments). (Do not use a plastic cover for the report; staple the pages at the top left of the page). While you will be given many possible questions to consider and discuss, your case write-up will focus on only a few questions. Please clearly indicate in your write-up the questions that you are answering. The recommended solution should be based on the available data in the case and address the decision and/or policy issues facing the firm. The grade you receive on the case write-ups will be based on your ability to provide a solution that you can defend well, one that is also supported from the facts of the case, and one that has a solid financial foundation. In addition, you will be graded on grammar, spelling, punctuation, format and general appearance of your case write-up. In efforts to be sure that each team member participates, the work of each member must be attached (separate to the stapled report) to the back of the case report. This work can be handwritten. It is strongly...
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...How to Write a Research Paper For the rest of the semester, you will work on writing a three- to four-page research paper. Of course, college preparatory students are expected to write the longer length, and general the shorter. Your paper will include a title page, an outline, a body, and a works cited page in this order. I will give you the time and the resources to write this paper, and I will tell you how to write and guide you as you go. I even will try to get you research materials. The rest is up to you (History). We will spend four days in the Nute library and at least one day in room 8 or a computer lab, working on this paper in class, unless people are wasting their time, in which case, the number of days will be fewer than the above. The research paper is worth ____ grading points, and by itself constitutes about 25% of your quarter grade. Another 5-10% of your quarter grade will be made up of homework and in-class assignments of rough draft sections of the research paper. Because of the importance of this paper to your grade, rarely do students pass this course without writing a research paper. Please write your paper and pass this course (Anon, 428). The paper will be due on ___________________, in time for me to grade it, give it back the following Monday, and give you time to fix it and resubmit it for a higher grade that Friday. Any papers I receive by one of these Fridays, I will return, graded, the following Monday. This schedule means that you...
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...medium, and for the next 10 years (at least), text will remain the best way to communicate. During that time, you can make or break your business success, your very life possibly. Without the good business writing skills, you'll be doomed. And in today's fast-paced real world, nobody denies the importance of good business writing skills. Writing is still one of the best methods of communication. The majority of business jobs today require above average writing skills. Business writing has become more than a nice thing to have - it has become a necessity. Most small business people don't have proper writing skills. Most of them never really learned how to write to communicate when they should have - in school. And most small businesses can't afford to hire a writer. There are, of course, hundreds of books that teach you how to write, the classic being... The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. Only two problems with these "general writing" books... 1. They are so dry as to be almost unreadable. 2. They have almost nothing to do with the REAL world. Besides these books, there are thousands more on how to write "sales copy." The favorite is Ken Evoy's Make Your Words Sell. It's now free. There's no charge - you're not even asked for your email address. This book is great, if you have something to sell. And even then, keep in mind that SELLING comes after PREselling (C-T-P-M process). Writing to PREsell is an entirely new concept to the art of business writing...
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...Syllabus: Fall 2015 Course Number: MKTG 315-201 Course Title: New Product and Service Management Credit: 3 credits Class Days: MW 11:00-12:15 p.m. Instructor: Professor E. Yoon E-mail: eunsang_yoon@uml.edu Office: Pasteur 308 Phone: (978) 934-2814 Office Hours: MW 1:00-3:00 p.m. and also by appointment CATALOG DESCRIPTION This course focuses on the process of new product and service development and marketing. Emphasis is given on market opportunity identification, R&D-marketing interface, business model development, market potential estimation, and market entry timing. Preference: Marketing concentrators. Group Project: A product development and marketing plan. Career relevance: Developing and marketing new product or service. PREREQUSITES: MKTG 201: Marketing Principles and MSB filter courses. MSB 300/400 level courses are restricted to the MSB students who have completed the filter courses. COURSE OBJECTIVES This course is designed to familiarize students with the principles and practices in the conceptualization, design, testing, forecasting, and launching of new products and services. Course objectives include comprehension and application of: 1. Strategic elements of new product development 2. Concept generation, evaluation, testing, and screening 3. Product protocol, design, development, and sales forecasting 4. Teamwork, product use testing, and market-entry strategy, and ...
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...One great way to briefly turn the conversation toward myself at a party is to answer the question, "So, what do you do?" with, "I'm a writer." Not that most of the people I've met at parties have read my novels or short stories or feature articles; when they ask, "Have I seen any of your stuff?" I shrug and the conversation moves on. If I want attention for an hour or so, however, I'll tell them my horrible secret — for several years I made much of my freelance income writing term papers. I always wanted to be writer, but was told from an early age that such a dream was futile. After all, nobody ever puts a classified ad in the paper that reads “Writers Wanted.” Then, in the Village Voice, I saw just such an ad. Writers wanted, to write short pieces on business, economics, and literature. It was from a term paper mill, and they ran the ad at the beginning of each semester. Writing model term papers is above-board and perfectly legal. Thanks to the First Amendment, it’s protected speech, right up there with neo-Nazi rallies, tobacco company press releases, and those "9/11 Was An Inside Job" bumper stickers. It's custom-made Cliff Notes. Virtually any subject, almost any length, all levels of education — indulgent parents even buy papers for children too young for credit cards of their own. You name it, I've done it. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the plurality of clients was business administration majors, but both elementary education majors and would-be social workers showed up...
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...your ability to read. Following are the six steps for completing your two-page Academic Skills Plan – blank plans are attached. To see examples of how to complete each of the steps, refer to the Sample Academic Skills Plans for Reading on the following 2 pages. The goals of this Academic Skills Plan are that you: 1) master four new reading skills, 2) increase learning in your present courses, and 3) earn higher grades. Step 1 What is my present situation? On a blank Academic Skills Plan (pp. 4 & 5 attached), write one of the “Challenges with Reading” that you circled on page 71 of your text, including its number. Write a different challenge on the second blank Academic Skills Plan. Explaining your reading challenges in detail will help you choose the best strategies to address them. See examples of how to do this step on pages 2 & 3 attached. Step 2 How would I like my situation to be? In Step 1, you identified two challenges you are having with reading. Now shift your focus from these challenges to how you would prefer your situation to be. On your Academic Skills Plan, write your goals for reading. State them in the present tense as if they already exist (e.g., I understand . . . rather than I will understand . . . or . . . I enjoy . . . rather than I will enjoy . . .). See examples on pages on the following 2 pages. Step 3 What are my possible choices? Review strategies for reading on pages 72–84 of your text. Choose two strategies you think will help with your...
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...achieved: 1. To help you learn and apply strategic thinking, critical thinking, analytical skills, and management. 2. To enhance professional skills such as verbal and written communication as well as presentation and teams work skills. Textbook and Required Readings: Contemporary Strategy Analysis 8th Ed., 2013, Text & Cases by Robert M. Grant Information on the Web: Information for the course is available on the Moodle website listed above which will outline the semester and provide notes and updates as needed. 1|Page Marks: In class performance Peer Review by team members Case write-ups – in groups: Starbucks Danone Case write-ups – done individually: Class Case Presentation (written and oral): Team Individual 15% 10% 15% 15% 25% 15% 5% To pass the course, you must also get a passing grade on the non-group portion of the course. That is, your participation mark (out of 15%) plus your Peer Review (out of 10%) plus your individual case mark (out of 25%) must add up to at least 25% (out of 50%). In-Class Performance: A large component of your grade is your level of participation and quality of contribution to the class and to your respective team. Attendance is mandatory and 5% of your grade will be assigned to your attendance and 10% to your contribution – this includes but not limited to – questions asked during lectures...
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...Introducing Transaction Log Files Each SQL Server 2000 database has at least one transaction log file and can have multiple transaction log files spread across a number of disks. Each transaction log file is a separate operating system file and is used by only one database. Each transaction log file generally has the .ldf filename extension (this extension is not required). Each transaction log has a logical filename that is used in Transact-SQL statements and a physical filename that is used by the Windows operating system. Additional file properties include the file ID number, initial file size, file growth increment (if any), and maximum file size. Unlike data files that contain pages, transaction log files contain a series of transaction log records. A sequential log sequence number (LSN) identifies each transaction log record. Regardless of the number of physical log files, SQL Server 2000 treats the transaction log as one continuous log. SQL Server 2000 logically divides each physical transaction log file into a number of virtual log files (VLFs). The number and size of virtual log files are determined dynamically based on the size of each transaction log file. Each transaction log file has at least two VLFs. Each growth increment (if any) is treated as a separate physical file with its own VLFs. The number or size of VLFs cannot be configured or set directly by the database administrator. SQL Server 2000 tries to maintain a small number of virtual file logs because it...
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...Success * 1 - 5 * 6 - 10 * 11 - 15 * 16 - 20 * All Pages Screenwriting is a skilled trade, and a good screenplay must be molded and managed with craftsman hands. But so does a screenwriting career. It takes dedication, fortitude, and time – ten years to have overnight success - but if you’re willing to do the hard work to turn your ideas into completed screenplays as well as build a screenwriting career, follow this 20 step roadmap to screenwriting success: Click Here to Start 1. Watch Tons of Movies Lots of them. Good, bad, old, new. All genres. Make it your quest to become exposed to all things film. It’s a badge of honor to earn film nerd status, because as we all know, “Nerds Rule the World.” The more movies you see, the easier it’ll be to identify plot points, sequences, and act breaks. You’ll even start watching the clockwhen viewing DVD’s at home, as you’ll be inundated with the desire to analyze, but you’ll know when you experienced something truly great when you stop thinking and just enjoy the ride. 2. Read Tons of Screenplays As many as possible. This helps to understand screenplay form as well as see how the pagetranslates to the screen. You get a sense of different screenwriting styles and voices, and most importantly you will be exposed to the application of clear, concise writing, while using creative brevity to maximize the visual medium. Learning how not to direct on the page and maximize white space is all part of it. Check out some websites...
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...A Gap of Sky “A Gap of Sky” by Anna Hope is about a young girl who, like a lot of other young people, is exposed to a huge amount of pressure. She is caught in a dilemma between desires and expectations, because nowadays there is so much you have to live up to. You have wear nice clothes, do well in school, have lots of friends etc. So it’s not surprising that sometimes you would want to get away and forget about all that. In this story, the young girl, whose name is Ellie, doesn’t live up to her parents and teachers expectations, which results in her taking drugs, especially coke. We don’t really follow Ellie for a long time but on her journey for printer ink, she is still able to go through a big range of emotions; fear of death, joy, rebelliousness, dejectedness, freedom and so on. After reading the first few lines, we get a pretty good idea about what Ellie is like. The description of her walking up with swollen cheeks and peeing in the sink gives us a good picture that Ellie is living on the edge where nothing matters anymore. It is clear to us that she isn’t living a very healthy life. Her wealth is terrible; her chest hurts and she has inflammation of her eyes. “She sits on the bed, brings her legs up under her chin, rummages for what she can remember from the night before”. This tells us that she had been very affected by alcohol and drugs, since she remembers nothing but glimpses. It also appears that this is something she does often, almost every night...
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...importance to stand up for what is right even when times get tough. To start with, Nightjohn believed the importance to have other slaves learn to read and write was very significant. He would risk almost anything, including his own freedom. Nightjohn has escaped to the north - where owning slaves is illegal - many times, but yet he comes back to do the right thing by teaching slaves to read and write. ”He wasn’t wearing a shirt and when he turned his back the sun caught the scars from the old whippings. Rippled and rigid” (page 73). Since Nightjohn comes back to the cruelty of being a slave in the south, knowing that he will get even more of the terrible scars to educate other slaves proves that you have to persevere through the tough times...
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...LOVE THAT DOG #1 pages 1-24 Whose poem is this? Who is telling this story? What does “anonymous” mean? Use only the context; do not go to the dictionary. Read the following four poems from the back of this book: The Red Wheelbarrow Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening The Tiger dog Which poem do you like the best? Why? On page 20, our narrator complains that he doesn’t know who the YOU is in the pasture poem (you need to read it now—it’s right after “dog”). Who do you think is the YOU in the poem? Why? On pages 23 and 24, our narrator is puzzling over what makes a poem. He wonders if it’s just typing something in poem form. What do you think? What makes a poem a poem? LOVE THAT DOG #2 pages 25-41 On page 25, we have a line that is an echo from one of the poems we just read. What is the line? The same line shows up again, in capital letters, on page 29. Why do you think this author keeps using that line? Read the poem “Street Music.” What is the music of your street? What sounds do you hear on your street? Once again, the author uses a line from one of the poems in the book. It’s on page 34. What is the line? Why do you think the author used it here? Extra Credit: Write a “Street Music” poem about your own street right here: Read “Apple.” Write your own shape poem in the space below. You may write about anything you like. Use the back if you don’t have room here. Why do you think that Jack has not wanted his name on his poems...
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...A hard copy of this report (2-3 pages, excluding appendices, single-spaced, 12-point font; please do NOT put the assignment into folders – just the stapled pages is all we need, and a cover page is optional) is due in class on the date the case is scheduled for class discussion in the above schedule. You need to be physically present in class for us to accept a hard copy of your assignment. Assignment: Analyze the case information, and after updating the case information with current information on the industry and company, suggest some strategic options that the company can follow in the future. Your strategy recommendation should be relevant for the present time, rather than for the time when the case was written (which could be a few years earlier). In other words, the case is only meant to give you some background information. Your analysis has to go beyond the information presented in the case study. Please use the following format in your write-up (page suggestions are single-spaced, but make sure you adhere to the 3-page limit): please refer to case in all parts, and do at least 2 different case graph and data analyses in the parts that you think will best fit in the context. ( might be in the 3rd part. The case data and graphs should be in the appendix.) 1. (½-page). Briefly summarize the company and its businesses. 2. (½-page). Define clearly and concisely the strategic challenges facing the industry and firm today (please refer to the case and you will need to update...
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...across the network without incurring high overhead and integrating the DSM mechanisms with the local memory management. The consistency model provided by a given DSM implementation attempts to balance performance and ease of programming: while DSM provides the abstraction of shared memory, it is not true shared memory - both from the point of view of the semantics and the cost of shared memory access. The focus of this paper is to identify the issues involved in the design of DSM systems, briefly highlight the mechanisms in use by some current DSM implementations and propose some new DSM models for future distributed systems. I INTRODUCTION As computers become cheaper, there is increasing interest in using multiple CPUs to speed up individual applications. There are basically two design approaches to achieve this goal of high performance at low cost: multiprocessors and multicomputers. Multiprocessors contain physical shared memory; Processors in a multiprocessor can easily communicate by reading and writing words in this memory. Multicomputers, on the other hand, do not contain physical shared memory; processors communicate by exchanging messages. To combine the advantages of multiprocessors (easy to program) and multicomputers (easy to build), communication paradigms that simulate shared...
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...THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO Joseph M. Bryan School of Business and Economics Department of Accounting and Finance Fall 2008 I. Meeting Time and Place FIN 625.01, Corporate Strategy and the Finance Function 6:30 pm – 9:20 pm M, Bryan School (Room 204 Bryan Bldg.)[1] II. Instructor Daniel T. Winkler Office: 324 Bryan Bldg. Phone: 256-0122 E-mail: dt_winkler@uncg.edu Blackboard: http://blackboard.uncg.edu Office Hours: 5:15 pm – 6:15 pm M, 11:15 am – 12:15 pm W, or by appointment III. Prerequisites Prerequisites: MBA 605, 617; Co-requisite is MBA 620 IV. Course Materials Douglas R. Emery, John D. Finnerty, and John D. Stowe. Corporate Financial Management, 3rd Ed., Prentice Hall Publishing (Pearson), 2007. ISBN: 9780132278720. Harvard Business Review Cases (HC) purchased and downloaded online at: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/cases/cases_home.jhtml. Case ordering numbers are given in parentheses next to each case in the Tentative Schedule. HP (Hewlett Packard) 10 B II, 17BII financial calculator or the equivalent. V. Course Description and Purpose The UNCG Graduate Bulletin describes MBA 625 as follows: "Finance in the strategic management process; corporate strategies and shareholder value creation, financing...
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