...Contents IntroductionDay 1MarketingDay 2Ethics Day 3AccountingDay 4Organizational BehaviorDay 5Quantitative AnalysisDay 6 FinanceDay 7OperationsDay 8Economics Day 9StrategyDay 10MBA Mini-Courses ResearchPublic SpeakingNegotiating International BusinessBusiness LawTenDay MBA DiplomaAppendix: Quantitative Analysis TablesBibliographyMBA Abbreviation LexiconIndex AcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorPraise for the Ten-Day MBACopyrightAbout the Publisher Introduction After I earned my MBA, I had a chance to reflect on the two most exhausting and fulfilling years of my life. As I reviewed my course notes, I realized that the basics of an MBA education were quite simple and could easily be understood by a wider audience. Thousands of Ten-Day MBA readers have proven it! Readers are applying their MBA knowledge every day to their own business situations. Not only useful in the United States, The Ten-Day MBA has been translated into many languages around the world. So many people are curious about business education, including doctors, lawyers, businesspeople, and aspiring MBAs. This book answers their questions. The Ten-Day MBA really delivers useful information quickly and easily. Current MBA students have written me that they even use the book to review for exams. Ten-Day MBAs are “walking the walk and talking the talk” of MBAs every business day. It’s proven that this book can work for you. Written for the impatient student, The Ten-Day MBA allows readers to really grasp the fundamentals...
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...anything or anyone else.” Marilyn Manroe, perhaps the most iconic woman of the twentieth century. Due to the suffering she experienced mostly as a child bouncing in and out of foster homes she desperately searched for attention and affection. A part of what she was missing was compensated by the love and admiration her fans showered her with and what she claims made her the star that she was. Her combination of beauty, sexiness, intelligence and vulnerability is what made her legendary, who continues to inspire many till this day, however that is not all that she was. Marilyn was famous for acting, modeling, singing, etc. She certainly had the whole package. However the entire world was mesmerized by her because of her sexuality and charm. She posed nude for a calendar shot and appeared on the first issue of playboy. The promotion of those photos made Monroe a very popular star. Her fame enlarged when she won a golden globe for her performance in the movie “Some like it hot”. And what launched her as a sex symbol was her appearance in big roles like” gentlemen prefer blondes” and “how to marry a millionaire”. Her dumb character was used for comedic purposes in films; however she was not dumb at all. In fact people recall her being a perspicacious and shrewd business woman who took her craft very seriously. Unlike other contemporary celebrities she was not afraid to take risks. She was smart enough to strike a balance between satisfying her appetite without disappointing the public...
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...B – Society’s Child The text, which is an excerpt from “Society’s Child- My Autobiography” deals with the themes of saying your opinion and to stay true to yourself even though it’s hard and the racial discrimination that still occurred during the 1960’s. I shall elaborate on both of the themes and the way they’re presented. The author of the text is the well-known musician, folksinger and writer Janis Ian who was born 1951. Janis Ian had her first hit single, “Society’s Child”, at the age of thirteen. The song is about an interracial romance forbidden by her mother and frowned upon by peers and teachers. The extract from her Autobiography shows her struggle at a concert, as she is fighting to keep on singing as some people at the concert repeatedly started chanting “Nigger lover” as she sang the song. She then runs of stage and into the restroom where she is crying and discussing with her promoter whether she should go back on stage or not. In the end she decides to stubbornly stick to her principles and walk up on stage and began to sing the song again from the top. She gathered the courage and stayed true to herself. The topic is of universal interest. Not only because racism is something that still exists today, but also because the text represents a person with a lot of courage who can stand up for themselves and their principles –even if they’re on their own. Even though it is published in 2009 and discusses the events of the 1960’s oppression of the Afro-American...
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...B. Society’s Child – My Autobiography In 1965 the civil rights movement was still at its highest. It was 10 years ago since Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to at white man in the bus. A lot had changed since, but some people could not stand the black, while others began to accept them as being equal with the white people – people were divided. Some did not dare to speak up about acceptance of the black, because they were afraid of being killed. It was the circumstances at that time, but the 15 years old singer/songwriter Janis Ian, was not afraid – at first. She wrote a song about an interracial romance, and not everyone found it acceptable. Janis Ian got a lot of hate mail, threats and even got shouted of the stage, but this only became a turning point for her life and singing career. Janis Ian’s autobiography is written as an article and is divided into columns. The main purpose of a structure build like an article is to inform the readers, and so do this autobiography. It also makes it very easy to read, and her messages also seem clearer. The text contains flashbacks on page 2, column 2 to page 3, column 1 and on page 3, column 2 to page 3, column 1. She uses the flashbacks as an information to the readers about the former circumstances. This gives us a better understanding of the situation. It is very important for Janis Ian that the readers of her autobiography understand how she feels, and feel compassion with her. She is very afraid of going back on stage...
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...education. When designing a curriculum, the comprehension must be understood in a classroom. The topic of this paper is using a curriculum to set up a pre-k classroom. It’s very important when understanding the curriculum to master the essentials when designing a classroom. Designing a classroom is one of the major issues for a teacher when trying to incorporate the curriculum into the classroom. Most classroom are well thought of because the usually plan a participation exploration, and conducive to a learning environment. Teachers who have better classrooms have students with higher achievements and organizational skills. A real challenge for teachers is trying to provide general educations that are inclusive that works for all children. Some of the theories and/or philosophies that I have chosen was John Lock because that education make the man, and I believe that and it’s all about where you put the education after you have it. So he came up with a theory of Associationism. A great mind needs to be brought to light. Another great philosopher is John Dewey because he believed in the continuance of life and the meaning for it is that education is really needed in every person. I envisioned my classroom having a lot of informed posters on the wall and different centers for playing/ learning as in science, technology, manipulative, writing etc., also having a little are in the corner but the window to use during circle time to see the...
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...BUSINESS PLAN OF [pic] “EVERY CHILD IS SPECIAL” [pic]EASTWEST UNIVERSITY Course Title Introduction to Business (Bus-101) Prepared For Rumana Parveen Senior Lecturer Business Administration Department East West University Prepared By- 1.Abdalur Rahman Sadi ID# 2009-2-10-167 2.Quazi Shamsul Islam ID# 2009-2-10-154 3.Jubair Rahman ID# 2009-2-10-155 4.Mohammad Golam Syed ID# 2009-2-10-240 5.Mustafijur Rahman ID# 2009-2-10-171 Submission Date: 29-07-2009 PROFILE OF THE GROUP The team of the business plan consists of five members. These members are going to start the business. We will share the ownership of the business equally. The share of the ownership will be based on the investment of the owners. All of the owners are going to invest TK. 8, 00,000/- for the establishment of the business. These owners will take every major decision for the business and they will share the profit or loss of the business equally. We will appoint the management of the business and will closely supervise them. Initially, the five partners or entrepreneurs will hold all the managerial post. However, as we grow bigger then we can consider hiring any professional manager to take care of matters. For any decisions to be approved all of our owners must be agree. Otherwise, the decision will not be accepted. For the better management of the business as well as for the communication and decision-making...
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...Valentine's Day customs developed in early modern England and spread throughout the Anglosphere in the 19th century. In the later 20th and early 21st centuries, these customs have also spread to other countries along with other aspects of American pop culture, but its impact so far has been rather more limited than that of Halloween, or that of US pop-culture inspired aspects of Christmas (such as Santa Claus). Due to a concentrated marketing effort, Valentine's Day is celebrated in some East Asian countries with Chinese and South Koreans spending the most money on Valentine's gifts. China In China, the common situation is the man gives chocolate, flowers or both to the woman that he loves. In Chinese, Valentine's Day is called lovers' festival (simplified Chinese: 情人节; traditional Chinese: 情人節; pinyin: qíng rén jié). The so-called "Chinese Valentine's Day" is the Qixi Festival, celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. It commemorates a day on which a legendary cow herder and weaving maid are allowed to be together. Valentine's Day on February 14 is not celebrated because it is often too close to the Chinese New Year, which usually falls on either January or February. In Chinese culture, there is an older observance related to lovers, called "The Night of Sevens" (Chinese: 七夕; pinyin: Qi Xi). According to the legend, the Cowherd star and the Weaver Maid star are normally separated by the Milky Way (silvery river) but are allowed to meet by...
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...because of their illness or those elders who yearn to be with people who are of their age and understand what they are going through at times. A little while ago I found out about adult day cares. An adult day care is offered to persons who are sixty years or older who can’t be left alone for periods of time. Adult daycares usually don’t take elders who are bed ridden or can’t take care of them selves. Adult day care will accept elders who wear diapers and use catheters, or those who use wheel chairs or walkers as long as they are coherent. Adult day cares staffs certified nursing assistance, and nurses to provide medical care. Some adult day care centers provide transportation if needed. Elders can participate in a number of activities like arts and craft, board games, educational activities and activities that could help them continue to perform their activities of daily living. Adult daycares also sometimes provide transportation to doctors appointments. The very good thing that adult day care provides is time for care givers to run aarons, spend time more personal time with their children or their spouse or just give them time to take a load off. Most adult day cares are open normal business hours. This program could cost up to seventy dollars a day. Medicare and Medicaid don’t cover the cost but some long term care insurances...
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...food industry. With a quick phone call, or a quick online search, you can have food delivered to your doorstep within the next few minutes or in some cases, days. Lindt chocolate café’s do not provide any quick food delivery services, although if you are living in the USA, you are able to purchase their products online and have them shipped to you; a service not currently available in Sydney. The telecommunications revolution has not only change the way we communicate, but is used in our every-day activities as well. We are able to utilise the Internet or make a simple phone call and order certain products at any time of day. Strengths: * Limited start up risk * Ability to sell products online or over phone * Information website with opportunities to promote further products | Weaknesses: * Diminish Lindt’s high quality characteristic * Transportation costs * Limited flexibility in pricing * Competition providing quicker service | Opportunities: * New customer base * Marketing opportunities on appropriate days e.g. valentines day | Threats: * Insurance costs in regard to transportation * New competition * Imitators`` | Strengths Lindt chocolate allows us to go online, browse their menus and purchase their products at any time of day, which will then be shipped to you within the next couple of days. This to the customer is convenient, time efficient, and allows the customer to view Lindt’s menu in the comfort of his or her own home. There is...
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...WHAT IS THE BEST WAY to drive innovative work inside organizations? Important clues hide in the stories of world-renowned creators. ItturnS out that ordinary scientists, marketers, programmers, and other unsung knowledge workers, whose jobs require creative productivity every day, have more in common with famous innovators than most managers realize. The workday events that ignite their emotions, fuel their motivation, and trigger their perceptions are fundamentally the same. The Double Helix, James Watson's 1968 memoir about discovering the structure of DNA, describes the roller coaster of emotions he and Francis Crick experienced through the progress and setbacks of the work that eventually earned them the Nobel Prize. After the excitement of their first attempt to build a DNA model, Watson and Crick noticed some serious flaws. According to Watson, "Our first minutes with the models…were not joyous." Later that evening, "a shape began to emerge which brought back our spirits." But when they showed their "breakthrough" to colleagues, they found that their model would not work. Dark days of doubt and ebbing motivation followed. When the duo finally had their bona fide breakthrough, and their colleagues found no fault with it, Watson wrote, "My morale skyrocketed, for I suspected that we now had the answer to the riddle." Watson and Crick were so driven by this success that they practically lived in the lab, trying to complete the work. Throughout these episodes, Watson and...
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...Out of all of the days that I lived this one was the scariest that I’ve been in. But before I tell you about that day let’s start off on how it came down to that day. I was an enlisted infantry solider for the United States Army in Afghanistan on deployment where this particular week we were select for a big operation can tell you details about the mission but it was a long and strenuous 10 days. When we finally get dropped off from the helicopter to the area we were going it was night time and a long grueling walk to were we need to too be. With all the equipment that we need to too carry out there also the water and food to was a lot of weight for one person but as a group we knew we could motive each other to make it. Thru valleys up cliffs and into a village we walked for a couple of hours. The village that we walked into was completely token over, you could see that there was a big fight that went down the placed looked like bombs were dropped everywhere. But that would be relevant so we thought , well we found a small little house that we could bunk down in for the next week or so. For you see our mission wouldn’t happen till the end of the ninth day. Setting up is a tricky thing because the idea is not to have loop holes in your security but nothing is perfect. So for the next couple of days we would get into firefights some long some like ten minute fights. But regardless a fight is a fight and in situations like that you can tell the difference in the weapons that...
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...1. Situation Analysis: 1. Current Situation- Market Analysis: Currently we don’t have any competitors. Because, we are the only one in this business. There are an increasing amount of families who have become dependent on two incomes, which has created the necessity of the child care industry. There are over 10 facilities in the area that provide similar services to Rainbow Day Care Center, each of these has a large client base, and a lucrative business. There is no doubt that there is room in the market for a high-quality child care facility. 2. Target Market: The camp quest summer camp is targeting two specific customer group, the middle to upper class, and two income professional families. This group of families has tend to learn their child with different activities. These groups has the money for child care, and are willing to spend a little extra to get a higher level of care by summer camp. So our target customer is teenagers who belong to 15 to 18 years old children. a. Middle Class: Middle class people, the largest part of our society are always in a move to change their life style. With the increase in income level, these people are demanding quality care services in our country and Camp quest summer camp Center would be committed to fulfill the desire of parents through proper care and share with their children in their physical and mental development through adventure. b. Upper Class: Upper class population of our nation can easily afford our summer...
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...ANZAC DAY A.N.Z.A.C - Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. Within Australia, ANZAC Day is the most important national commemorative occasion, that marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War and also serves to commemorate not only those who have laid down their lives for the freedom of our country, but also all those who have served, past, present and future. WHEN IS IT? ANZAC Day falls on the 25th of April every year. The reason for which this specific date was chosen was to pay homage to the date when in which the Australian and New Zealand soldiers came together to form a part of the allied expedition that had set out to capture the Gallipoli peninsula...
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...I have had in the past, I have however encountered two bosses that were different in their way of leading but both unfortunately didn’t get to the desired results which I will explain in more details. One of my longest job positions I have occupied was at this store called Chou Chou , a boutique for women shoes. The store was a part of a small chain of three other boutiques that my boss himself opened up. My first impression of Mr. Saragosti was that he was nice, friendly and knew what he was doing. However I came to realize through my own and other’s experiences that it was a nightmare to work for him. He was very commanding (coercive) in his style of work and that because he had that drive to achieve a certain amount of sales per day. All he really cared about was money. I’m not trying to discriminate in anyway but knowing he was Jewish, I thought to myself that maybe its normal that money/ profit is the primary source of his interest. I mean it is for everyone who owns a business but to a certain extent. In the case of Saragosti, he took it too far to the point that he wasn’t rational anymore. His actions and behavior were inconsistent and whenever things would go wrong he would blame it on us, the staff. He sort of had this concept that if he’s not around to command us he won’t achieve his numbers, so that could be linked also with the pacesetting type. He made sure first of all to hire all youngster has sales persons so he can direct them, because he thought that if...
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...com to identify some of the important macroenvironmental influences faced by competitors in the industry. In addition, identify some of the important social and technological influences on the firm’s industry. Share how the macroenvironment impacts the strategic planning for the selected organization. Obtaining affordable, quality child day care is a major concern for many parents. The industry consists of facilities that provide paid care for infants, toddlers, preschool an older children in before and after school programs. There are two main types of child care which makes up the child care service industry: center-based care and family child care. Market research indicates when parents rejoin the workforce the demand for child care services grow. Child care plays a key role in allowing working mothers with school-aged children to remain in the labor force. In Kentucky, there is 168,460 (26.9%) children under age 15 who are in paid child care facilities; and 94,586 (16.6%) of 5 and under who are in a paid child care setting. There are 7,580 child care facilities in Kentucky with a revenue stream of $429.6 million dollars. The industry employs some 19,955 individuals supporting an additional 6,300 jobs in other industry sector across Kentucky. Macroenvironmental influences for the child care center includes political, technological, economics, and social. Some of the most important political factors one should consider when it comes to opening a day care center is what...
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