...consumers are spending money, the economy thrives positively. The retail stores cannot keep inventory on the shelves and new merchandise is ordered causing production facilities to make more products and order more raw materials. If consumers don’t feel as secure about their finances, they spend less money and the economy slows down. This example shows how important retail business is to the economy. The Sherwin Williams Company is a major global retailer that will be discussed. This essay will analyze Sherwin William’s production and operations management system, evaluate the use of teams in its production and operations management system, and also discuss Sherwin William’s ability to adjust when the economy faces a downturn. Describe a major global corporation Sherwin Williams was founded in 1866, just one year after the Civil War ended. The founders of Sherwin Williams were Henry Sherwin and Edward Williams. Sherwin Williams is the largest paint and coating producing company in the United States. This company is also among the largest producers in the world. Sherwin Williams operate in locations worldwide such as, North America, South America, Central America, the Caribbean, Asia/Pacific, and Europe. The company’s headquarter is located in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1866, there were no railroads to the Pacific Coast, no Suez Canal, no Panama Canal, no telephones, no electric lights, no electric railways, no typewriters, and no automobiles. With few...
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...Introduction Nowadays, our government belongs to the poorest country in the world. Most Filipinos are blaming the government because they believe that it owes the benefits or privileges that our nation has. This is why Filipinos will often hear people say, “It is the government fault why there are poor people in the Philippines”. People do not believe in hard work of our present leaders to the betterment of our society, without knowing that the success and progress of our nation depends on the qualities of its leaders and followers. A leader is a very important figure in a nation, community or organization. A leader requires a lot of hard work and dedication. It means you put yourself in the service of others. Therefore, a good leader must have the ability to lead people to undertake activities for the benefit of all through initiative and being responsible. The first priority of a good leader is to give the needs of the people. They should commit themselves in providing good services to our fellowman. Same with the leader, a follower must also know their standing to whom to follow, when to follow and where to follow. A follower is the one who accepts the leadership of another, the one who helps the leader to achieve one’s goal. A good leader is a good follower. In Valenzuela City, According to Caiña (2011), as a testament of eternal pursuit for innovation in providing everyone access to knowledge and information in the era of Cyberspace, Digital and New Media revolution,...
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...reducing energy. Clear Tech Filament PET Caret id the sustainable soft flooring I chose because it is made form recycled plastic bottles. It has the attributes of polyester as well as exceptional performance characteristics such as excellent appearance retention and longterm wear.(shawfloors.com) Shaw Floor 00244 Maple Flooring for Hobby Area I chose the same flooring in the Hobby area as I did in the Living Room Duro Design Ash brown bamboo flooring Color Selection for Living Room SHERWIN WILLIAMS- ANTIGUITY WALL COLOR SW6402 I CHOSE THESE COLORS FOR THE LIVING ROOM BECAUSE THE CLIENT LIKES EARTHY COLORS , SO I TRIED MY BEST TO STAY IN THE AREA OF SOME EARTH TONES. THE COLOR ANTIQUITY IS IN THE GREEN FAMILY WHEN IT COMES TO PAINT. AND THE SPRING TIME PAINT COLOR CAME FROM THE SAME FAMILY GROUP SO THAT THEY WOULD FIT WELL TOGETHER. SHERWIN WILLIAMSSPRINGTIME CEILING COLOR SW6708 Color Selection for Bedroom SHERWIN WILLIAMS-FULL MOON WALL COLOR SW6679 WALL COLOR SHERWIN WILLIAMS- CRESCENT MOON CEILING COLOR SW7124...
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...INTERNAL MEMO TO: Ronald Burns President FROM: Jade Gaynor Marketing Officer RE: Janmar Coatings Strategic Issues Proposal DATE: May 11, 2015. Strategic Issues and Problems I strongly agree that the company is within a state of urgency for change, the competitive landscape we operate in has been a maturing industry since 2004, we have noticed a high barrier of entry which has caused high levels of competition from Sherwin-Williams, Benjamin Moore, PPG Industries, Valspar Corporation, Grow Group, Pratt & Lambert and the Glidden unit of Imperial Chemicals-- all major producers of paint within the architectural coatings segment. To our detriment our competitors are able to operate at a lower cost and have a national reach as they supply to national retailers. Changes in the industry which we have to address and adapt are the frequent R&D which translates to increases in expenditures, however, with more targets R&D, Janmar will be better able to satisfy the target market (specialty paint stores, lumberyards and independent hardware stores) needs. Noticeably, there has been an increase of higher quality products within the coatings industry, this has led to a reduction in the number of coats and application time. I have been given responsibility for (1) determining whether Janmar should increase advertising, (2) assessing whether Janmar should cut prices, (3) settling the dispute whether Janmar should increase its sales force, and (4) decide...
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...The Cuckoo’s Egg by Cliff Stoll, is a fascinating book that shows that truth is really stranger than fiction. When reading this book I found myself wondering the same things that Cliff did and felt the same frustration and excitement the chase must have brought to him. What does a cuckoo’s egg have to do with computers? How does a $0.75 accounting discrepancy lead to the KGB? And I asked myself how does an astronomer turned systems manager catch a computer hacker? When Cliff was transferred to the Lawrence Berkley Lab computer lab he had no idea that there was a cuckoo’s egg hiding in his nest (network) that would eventually hatch not just in his computers but into a cat and mouse chase that would lead from Berkley to Virgina to Mitre (a Network Service Contractor) to numerous military bases not just in the United states, but around the world, to eventually Hannover, Germany and consume most of his life for over a year. His live in girlfriend and eventually wife Martha a Law student at Berkley, had her own frustrations along the way when Cliff’s obsession with the hacker by way of a Cliff’s overnight campouts under his desk and a pager set to transmit Morse code that invaded their home, special occasions, bedroom, and even shower. This hacker used many names Svetek, Hunter, and numerous others that were either stolen by way of a program planted by the hacker or new users the hacker created after aquiring systems privileges. The passwords he used for these new accounts...
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...Research Memo Date: October 16, 2013 To: Prof. Hastings From: Riki Kotaka Subject: How do music companies address the issue the music sales has been declining? Introduction Music is essential for our lives, however it is difficult for those who get involved with music industry to make a profit. Music industry has been shrinking since 1999 when Napster, pioneering music file share service, was founded [1 McCormick]. In 1990’s when the music sales were at the peak, the total global music revenue was around $30 billion, but the one in 2012 was only $16.5 billion [2 Pfanner]. I did summer internship at Sony Music Entertainment in Tokyo for a month. I’ve participated in some meetings to consider marketing plans for musicians. One main reason of the sales declination is an illegal downloading. Although laws prohibit illegal downloading, there are still massive illegal downloading websites on the Internet. However, global music sales in 2012 increased for the first time since 1999, and the number of songs downloaded illegally was declined to 210 million in comparison to 1.2 billion in 2008. [3 Sherwin] It seems that music companies finally found some efficient ideas to overcome illegal downloaders. Do music companies actually increase their profits? And how did music companies start adjusting the situation? The purpose of the research paper is to figure out the main reasons why music sales finally increased, any differences to market music products and if the situation...
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...Interoffice Memo Date: 7/2/2013 To: Ronald Burns From: 001-78-2434 Subject: JanMar’s Coatings, Inc. Recommendation Company’s Situation The problem that we discussed in our last board meeting dealt with deciding where and how to execute corporate marketing efforts for the year 2005 among the various architectural paint coatings market in the southwestern United States. Industry Background The architectural coatings industry is a mature market that estimates to be a $12 billion dollar industry with 1 to 2 percent annual growth rate which accounts for 43 percent of the total industry dollar sales. About 50 percent of architectural coatings dollar sales are brought in by do-it-yourself (DIY) painters’ purchases. Professional painters’ purchases are accounted for about 25 percent of the dollar sales. The rest comes from the government, export, and contractor sales. Furthermore, there are three main types of distributors: mass merchandisers and home improvement centers (50%), special paint stores (36%), and hardware stores and lumberyards (14%). Company Background Our company markets to over 50 counties in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Louisiana from its headquarters in Dallas, Texas. The major service area is in the 11 county Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metropolitan area. Our company is made up of two market segment areas, Dallas Fort Worth and Non-Dallas Fort Worth. The sales volume of architectural paint and products sold in our company’s 50 county service areas was $80...
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...Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice Volume 7 | Issue 1 Article 2 September 2013 The Legal Implications of Gender Bias in Standardized Testing Katherine Connor Ellen J. Vargyas Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/bglj Recommended Citation Katherine Connor and Ellen J. Vargyas, The Legal Implications of Gender Bias in Standardized Testing, 7 Berkeley Women's L.J. 13 (1992). Available at: http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/bglj/vol7/iss1/2 Link to publisher version (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/ This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals and Related Materials at Berkeley Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice by an authorized administrator of Berkeley Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact jcera@law.berkeley.edu. The Legal Implications of Gender Bias in Standardized Testing Katherine Connort Ellen J. Vargyast TABLE OF CONTENTS I. II. INTRODUCTION ....................................... THE FACTUAL CONTEXT ............................. A. The Scope of the Problem ............................ 1. Post-Secondary Admissions Tests .................. 2. Vocational Aptitude Tests and Interest Inventories. B. Causes of Gender Differences in Test Scores ........... 1. Post-Secondary Admissions Tests .................. 2. Vocational Aptitude Tests and Interest Inventories. C. Validity of the Tests .......................
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...Begin Reading Table of Contents Photos Newsletters Copyright Page In accordance with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher is unlawful piracy and theft of the author’s intellectual property. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at permissions@hbgusa.com. Thank you for your support of the author’s rights. For Isabella and Calista Stone When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices. —Jeff Bezos, commencement speech at Princeton University, May 30, 2010 Prologue In the early 1970s, an industrious advertising executive named Julie Ray became fascinated with an unconventional public-school program for gifted children in Houston, Texas. Her son was among the first students enrolled in what would later be called the Vanguard program, which stoked creativity and independence in its students and nurtured expansive, outside-the-box thinking. Ray grew so enamored with the curriculum and the community of enthusiastic teachers and parents that she set out to research similar schools around the state with an eye toward writing a book about...
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...Marketing Management, Millenium Edition Philip Kotler Custom Edition for University of Phoenix Excerpts taken from: A Framework for Marketing Management, by Philip Kotler Copyright © 2001by Prentice-Hall, Inc. A Pearson Education Company Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 Marketing Management Millenium Edition, Tenth Edition, by Philip Kotler Copyright © 2000 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from the publisher. Compilation Copyright © 2002 by Pearson Custom Publishing. This copyright covers material written expressly for this volume by the editor/s as well as the compilation itself. It does not cover the individual selections herein that first appeared elsewhere. Permission to reprint these has been obtained by Pearson Custom Publishing for this edition only. Further reproduction by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, must be arranged with the individual copyright holders noted. This special edition published in cooperation with Pearson Custom Publishing Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Please visit our web site at www.pearsoncustom.com ISBN 0–536–63099-2 BA 993095 PEARSON CUSTOM PUBLISHING 75 Arlington Street, Suite 300, Boston, MA 02116 A Pearson Education Company SECTION ONE Understanding Marketing Management Marketing in...
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...PRAISE FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY LEADER “The Zenger Folkman leadership model is distinguished from others in that it is backed up by research and data. That data validates the effectiveness of identifying an individual’s strengths and developing them, rather than focusing on weaknesses. The Zenger Folkman philosophy has its eye on the right goal – real, measurable results.” —Bill Blase Senior Executive Vice President Human Resources AT&T Corp. “I fell in love with The Extraordinary Leader on page 1. From the moment I started reading I really got jazzed, and my enthusiasm only increased the more I read. You see, I’m just mad about books that attack cherished but unsupportable assumptions about anything, especially leadership. That’s exactly what Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman do, and they do it persuasively, precisely, and professionally. The Extraordinary Leader is no hackneyed rehashing of tired nostrums. Through their exceptional research, the authors demonstrate and prove that leadership does make a difference and that you can learn to lead. There are some profound insights in this book, and whether you’ve studied leadership for over 20 years, as I have, or you are brand new to the subject, Zenger and Folkman give you much more than your money’s worth. And while their research gives the book distinctive credibility, their examples and practical applications give it life. This is a book that scholars and practitioners will be referring to for years to come. If your goal is to...
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...Book Review “An intriguing, spirit-lifting, extraordinary exploration of two cultures in uneasy coexistence…A wonderful aspect of Fadiman’s book is her even-handed, detailed presentation of these disparate cultures and divergent views—not with cool, dispassionate fairness but rather with a warm, involved interest that sees and embraces both sides of each issue…Superb, informal cultural anthropology—eye-opening, readable, utterly engaging.” —Carole Horn, The Washington Post Book World “This is a book that should be deeply disturbing to anyone who has given so much as a moment’s thought to the state of American medicine. But it is much more…People are presented as [Fadiman] saw them, in their humility and their frailty—and their nobility.” —Sherwin B. Nuland, The New Republic 3/462 “Anne Fadiman’s phenomenal first book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, brings to life the enduring power of parental love in an impoverished refugee family struggling to protect their seriously ill infant daughter and ancient spiritual traditions from the tyranny of welfare bureaucrats and intolerant medical technocrats.” —Al Santoli, The Washington Times “A unique anthropological study of American society.” —Louise Steinman, Los Angeles Times “Some writers…have done exceedingly well at taking in one or another human scene, then conveying it to others—James Agee, for instance…and George Orwell…It is in such company that Anne Fadiman’s writing belongs.” —Robert Coles, Commonweal...
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...Enron and World Finance A Case Study in Ethics Edited by Paul H. Dembinski, Carole Lager, Andrew Cornford and Jean-Michel Bonvin Enron and World Finance Also by Observatoire de la Finance From Bretton Woods to Basel Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun, no. 21, Spring 2005 Ethics of Taxation and Banking Secrecy Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun, no. 12, Autumn 2002 Will the Euro Shape Europe? Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun, no. 9, Winter 2001–2 Dommen, E. (ed.) Debt Beyond Contract Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun, Supplement no. 2, 2001 Bonvin, J.-M. Debt and the Jubilee: Pacing the Economy Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun, Supplement no. 1, 1999 Dembinski, P. H. (leading contributor) Economic and Financial Globalization: What the Numbers Say United Nations, Geneva, 2003 Enron and World Finance A Case Study in Ethics Edited by Paul H. Dembinski Carole Lager Andrew Cornford and Jean-Michel Bonvin in association with the Observatoire de la Finance Selection, editorial matter and Chapters 1, 2 and 16 © Observatoire de la Finance Remaining chapters © contributors 2006 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence ...
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...Enron and World Finance A Case Study in Ethics Edited by Paul H. Dembinski, Carole Lager, Andrew Cornford and Jean-Michel Bonvin Enron and World Finance Also by Observatoire de la Finance From Bretton Woods to Basel Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun, no. 21, Spring 2005 Ethics of Taxation and Banking Secrecy Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun, no. 12, Autumn 2002 Will the Euro Shape Europe? Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun, no. 9, Winter 2001–2 Dommen, E. (ed.) Debt Beyond Contract Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun, Supplement no. 2, 2001 Bonvin, J.-M. Debt and the Jubilee: Pacing the Economy Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun, Supplement no. 1, 1999 Dembinski, P. H. (leading contributor) Economic and Financial Globalization: What the Numbers Say United Nations, Geneva, 2003 Enron and World Finance A Case Study in Ethics Edited by Paul H. Dembinski Carole Lager Andrew Cornford and Jean-Michel Bonvin in association with the Observatoire de la Finance Selection, editorial matter and Chapters 1, 2 and 16 © Observatoire de la Finance Remaining chapters © contributors 2006 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying...
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