...Part I: eBay’s Strategic Process Part I: eBay’s Strategic Process Our Mission eBay's mission is to provide a global trading platform where practically anyone can trade practically anything. Our Marketplace On an average day, there are millions of items listed on eBay. People come to the eBay marketplace to buy and sell items in thousands of categories including antiques and art, books, business & industrial, cars & other vehicles, clothing & accessories, coins, collectibles, crafts, dolls & bears, electronics & computers, home furnishings, jewelry & watches, movies & DVDs, music, musical instruments, pottery & glass, real estate, sporting goods & memorabilia, stamps, tickets, toys & hobbies and travel. Members from all over the world buy and sell on eBay. Currently, eBay has local sites that serve Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. In addition, eBay has a presence in Latin America and China through its investments in MercadoLibre.com and EachNet, respectively. eBay offers a wide variety of features and services that enable members to buy and sell on the site quickly and conveniently. Buyers have the option to purchase items in auction-style format or items can be purchased at fixed price through a feature called Buy-It-Now. In addition, items at fixed price are also available Half.com, an eBay company. eBay is dedicated to its community...
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...The following statements will help you get an idea of how, as you begin this course, you perceive yourself as a student. For each statement, select the number that feels right to you, from 1 for “not true at all for me” to 5 for “absolutely true for me.” 1. I see the connection between the effective study skills I learn today and my future academic, career, and life success. 2. I set effective short- and long-term study goals that will help me manage my workload. 3. I manage my time effectively and control any tendency to procrastinate. 4. I am aware of what causes me stress and I take steps to reduce it. 5. I am aware of my personal learning style, and I choose study strategies that take advantage of my strengths and minimize my weaknesses. 6. I understand the components of critical thinking and use critical-thinking skills to get the most from my work. 7. I take a systematic approach to reading and studying. 8. I am aware of various note-taking styles and techniques and use the ones that help me to best take down and retain information. 9. I use listening and memory techniques that work best for me. 10. I approach writing assignments with a plan and with enough time to carry it out. 11. I know and use the strategies that help me do my best on tests. 12. I understand and use a research strategy when doing library or Internet research. Total your answers here: 36 • If your total ranges from 12 to 27, you consider your academic...
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...Medical Insurance Control Strategies Joyce A. Holt HCR/230 07/20/2010 Myrnell LaShay Martin, MBA/HCM Many employees have medical insurance coverage under group health plans (GHP) that the employers buys from insurance companies. Human resources department manage these health care benefits negotiating with health plans and selecting a number of products to offers employees. Both basic plans and riders offered, riders consist of option purchased by employees to add coverage such as vision and dental. In addition, complementary health care a popular rider covering treatment as in chiropractic, manual manipulation, acupuncture, message therapy, dietetic counseling, and vitamin, and minerals. Employers select certain benefits changing standard coverage or providers during negotiations to reduce the price, an employer may omit specific benefits. For example, coverage of prescription drugs, different provider network (for certain type of care), hire a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) to operate the prescription drug benefit more inexpensively. Although some large companies the employer cover the cost of employee medical benefits rather than buying insurance from other companies. The employers create self-funded health plans that do not pay premiums to an insurance carrier or a managed care organization. Large companies insure themselves and assume the risk of paying directly for medical services, setting aside funds with which to pay benefits. They may also buy...
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...AED/202 Reading and Writing Development Sandy Mackey June 28, 2013 Kristen Weiss Reading and Writing Development As a future educator I believe that reading and writing is the utmost import thing in a child’s education. Without these two skills a child will not be able to succeed in school. For my essay, I chose two age groups that I want to teach; middle childhood, ages six through ten, and early adolescence, ages ten through 14. The reason I chose these two developmental ages is because I believe that children enjoy learning; they are like sponges, always trying to absorb as much as possible. The reading development in middle childhood children and early adolescent childhood children seem somewhat different. Middle childhood children start by identifying letters and matching letters with individual sounds, knowing what a word is, and interpreting spaces and punctuation are the earliest building blocks for reading skills (www.education.com). Early adolescent childhood children, usually do not have an issue with reading; they can identify vocabulary words in a book and sound out the words. Children of this stage usually enjoy reading. Writing skills for both middle and early adolescent children develop in the same way as their reading skills. Middle childhood children are more focused on what they are writing, their spelling, spacing, punctuation, and coherence has improved (www.education.com). As for the early adolescent children...
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...is to provide a different way to solve issues among clients with whom he or she is representing. Abramson described a problem-solving mediation process which consists of a mediator and his or her position with his or her client and his or her attorneys. He also described the mediator a person who knows how to structure both side of a discussion with can help to gathered information, as well as identify issues that the client has presented as a problem. Masucci, D. (2003). The Keys to Effective Mediation Advocacy. Journal of Investment Compliance (Euromoney), 3(4), 36. Masucci article was written to address the most effective ways to mediation and advocacy stragie that may or may not work depending on the person who is presenting the stragies and wheather he or she is doing it right. Masucci also addresses how a client is pearpared for mediation and who will be the mediator of the case. Not all mediator have the same styles but the author stated that the styles should match his or he objective. The author also address the two types of mediation which are facilitative and Evaluative. Masucci went ahead to discribe the to styes such as facilitative mediator is willing to use any technique to help the client negotiate his or her case to the So the basice point to this article is perpuration on behalf of the client and the...
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...Henry Mintzberg skillfully and competently equates the process of strategy making to the process of making pottery. The strategist is similar to a craftsman, or potter in this case. Mintzberg says, “the crafting image better captures the process by which efective strategies come to be. ” When compared to the planning process of strategy making, I am much more inclined to agree with Mintzberg and theimage he creates. There are several key ideas that Mintzberg parallels to the potter and her craft. First,the potter may create a product that follows in the tradition of her past work, but she may also create awork that breaks away from tradition in a new direction. Similarly, stragies are patterns that are put intoaction over time; but strategies may emerge in a different direction than tradition has previously held.Second, strategy making must be a deliberate process-thought must precede action. But “strategies can form as well as be formulated .” Third, strategists do not necessarily have to be top management runningan organization but removed from the inner-workings of that organization. Instead, like the potter isintimately connected with her work, strategists may be those most intimately connected with thecompany and those products/services it sells. Strategists may be those on the front lines, so to speak.Fourth, the potter may fail to make one piece, but the lump that remains may be formed into somethingcompletely different. In the same way, strategies can emerge any time...
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...senior project we have dedicated a special part of it to raising money strictly for Special Olympics by hosting events. But another major part of our project is charity links. The idea of charity links to most people is simple but much more thought and effort will go into this part than you would expect. We have previously explained in our essay plans why we are doing the charity links but the information we have lacked to present to you is how we will put this on. we have a commons area in front of our cafeteria and it is common that clubs and events sell products out there so this just what we plan to do. We will set up a table out there and sell links between lunches and even possibly classes. Just like all good fund raising stragies we will advertise that we are selling these charity links for a good cause and explain briefly why and how. We plan to make announcements during lunch and hang posters around the school and even possibly get in contact with the media kids to make an announcement for us. That’s how we plan to raise money by using our charming charity links in school so we can make a reasonable sized donation to Special Olympics through BPA we hope to raise at least $100. Senior Project The point in a senior project is to relate back to your tech area, we have taken BFM for the last 4 years starting at the end of our freshman year and ending in may of our senior year. To understand BFM you have to understand how far we have come. My freshman...
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...Principles of Effective Intervention Ladonna F. Manuel Ashford University CRJ: 201 Introduction to Criminal Justice Instructor: Michael Pozesny June 10, 2013 Principles of Effective Intervention Many years of scientific study there were psychologist that developed four principles of effect which were called Risk principles, Criminogenic need principles, Treatment principles, and Fidelity principles. The first of the four principles of effective intervention is risk principle. Risk principles means that offenders should be provided with supervision and the treatment levels and it also mean like the risk of crime they commit. According to (Lowenkamp & Latessa 2002) “For our purpose. “risk” refers to the probably of reoffending”. Which means that it targeted high risk offender to help them not to get reoffended. That like certain offense consider low and some high. According to (Latessa 2002)” For example, in the sense that a felon poses a higher risk than a misdemeanor. I actually agree with this system we need to pay a lot more attention to the offender that are more higher risk then all the others. Because to me I feel that they don’t get the help they will do it again. The second principle the criminogenic need principle are attributes of the offender that are directly link to criminal behavior. For example criminogenic is addiction to like alcohol or drug and if your caught drinking while driving they send you to jail but, when you get our...
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...BIS/219 Club It Part One Rolanda Wright Instructor: Erick Frick July 13, 2011 Introduction The Mission for Club It is to recognize the best house clubs around the World. Club It creates an atmosphere that is electrified with there multiple rooms. They are one the leed clubs around and they continue to flourish and compete with the bustling cities. They are known to have great entertainment, Djs, on-off events, promotional campaigns and the Best Bar and Clubs awards. The kind of information that Club It would need to pursue in a strategy for new competitors is to have a competitor analysis that can strategize the planning process. This analysis would understand the competition when it comes to the advantages and disadvantage in relative When it comes to the cost of leadership, there is a lot to think about and plan out; this isn’t an easy business to jump into a lot needs to be considered. Club It would need to ask how much it will be to start the business, also would need to consider the size, location, the target market and types and features of the business. There are three main sources of revenue when it comes to running a nightclub business: The admission sales, the food sales, and the beverage sales. Club It would need to consider how much they would want to invest in the marketing strategy. Most nightclubs use advertising and promotions to promote nightclub businesses by using radio stations, newspapers and sponsors, depending on the marketing...
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...You have absolutely no privacy in prison and most people have to share their cells with one or more other inmates, due to overcrowding in the prison system. The prisoner’s toilet and beds are within inches or feet of each other and they all have to take showers together. A prisoner has only certain places they can be when incarcerated, which are their cell, the yard, lunch room, shower, and common housing area. (Foster, 2006). Many different cliques are in the environment based on race or gang association. These groups can influence the management and custody in a variety of ways. The management and the daily interaction with the other prisoners must be handled with respect and sensitivity to the race factor. They have come up with stragies to combat prison gangs, which are isolation of gang leaders, segregation, labeling members for intelligence purposes, deprogramming, and the placement of these members in high-security prisons. There are special response teams that were formed to respond to gang violence, such as the Special Operations Response Team (SORT). (Foster, 2006). I do not think the only changes that need to be made to improve institutional management needs to start at all levels of the correctional systems. Some of the issues that needed to be addressed are overcrowding, gangs, and prison guards...
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...Organzitonal structure is very importnat when it comes to many organizations from day to day business. Withougt a organization structure there the company itself will not run properly, and the company may become in danger of staying open. Organizational structure will help mangers make decisons, based on the comopany needs. When the organzitonal plans are in affect using the organizonatl structure no matter how large or how small the company is the company itself will determine the structure. The company that I choose to discuss in this paper will be Best Buy. In this paper I will compare and contrast Best Buy to other compnaies structure, and also I will eveluate the company marketing, finance, human resources, and operations etc. I will also explain the company designs such as geographic, functional, customer-based, product, service, hybrid, matrix, marketing channels, and departmentalization. Best Buy Structure Best Buy was founded in 1966 by Richard M. Schulz and Gary Smoliak. The store itself started out being the name Audio Speciality store, and when the company itself expanded the company switched ober to Best Buy in 1983. Best Buy is multi business that has expanded throughout the entire world. Best Buy has designed to have maximzed the business by providing different business situations, for different individulas and different businesses. The indivudlas who help run the organizational structure are President, Vice Presidents, Board of Directors etc. Over 2000...
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...Introduction Change within an organization occurs for example when its overall strategy for success is added or subtracted or an operation or practice that has been in existence is to be changed. It can also be said to be a structured approach to transitioning individuals and the organization from its current state to a desired future state. Organizational Change Description This is organizational change is designed for Pioneer Packaging. The organizational change is designed to help the leaders to be more effective and be ready to utilize their skills so as to accelerate the organization. The organizational change is being advocated because the organization has been more on a one man lead. The president and owner of the company, Bob Steel has been making the decisions and part of the change is have his power distributed between himself and Mike Steel who is the Vice president of Sales and Marketing and hopefully the future vice president of the company. Change could either bring positive or negative effects to an organization but as the diversified six we aim for the positive change for Pioneer Packaging. As noted, people in different organizations would want to protect the status quo and will often resist change. Change Objectives Change is designed to accelerate the sales of Pioneer Packaging (P.P.). The market environment is constantly changing and it requires strong competition which will be offered by P.P. As the Diversified Six, we aim at changing...
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...Strategy Paper Kitodsha Ferguson University of Phoenix Introduction Everyday people’s life has been filling with time and stress problems. The reason why is because that I myself tend to feel like I am always rushing or trying to get things done at a certain time. Overall this can defiantly lead to stress and more of an emotional problem. So far I have learn that not everything is going to be completed during the same day. So I must divide my tasks for the whole week. In order to follow threw I must began writing down what come first. What I mean is certain task may have a day line to follow. Another would not be either it can wait nor have the money to do so until next week. Now depending on the size of my family I would have to start with which days I do laundry and what’s the menu for the week along with squeaking my work schedule. Now I have to children which one is in school while the baby is in daycare. Now I do worry most of the time when it comes to getting off work on time in order to pick up my oldest. But sometimes it doesn’t work that way due to traffic or just something else comes up. I have also learned that my children and I have to be sleep at a certain time in order to wake on time. No matter what comes to mind my family must follow the schedule in order run the day smoothly. In addition I have been in school for the last 6 years and I have started to slack off a little. The reason for that is because cost of living in sky rocket and my children...
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...Supply Chain Management COURSE OUTLINE TERM WINTER 2014 A. INSTRUCTOR AND CONTACT INFORMATION | Instructor: | Mr. Hanif Ajari | Office #: | Korangi Sector 30 near Singer round about | Telephone: | 0321- 2666071, 021-34933003(Res) | E-mail: | Ajari1230@hotmail.com | Office Hours: | Normal University hours | B. COURSE OBJECTIVE | Objective of this program is to generate basic level understanding and translating conceptual exposure in very congenial atmosphere among the students and professional that why supply chain management is among the top initiatives for businesses of all sizes. Yet most purchasing, operation, planning, and finance managers feel they don’t have good control over their supply chains. Even the best informed are saddled with questions about establishing organization buy-in, defining metrics and benchmarks, optimizing material and transactional flow, and conducting relevant competitive analysis to define business opportunities. The challenges involved in optimizing a company’s supply chain are substantial. The proposed course outline grew out of a number of supply chain management courses or workshop conducted in Executive Education programs I have taught extensively in many universities within and outside Pakistan over the past five years as well as number of projects I have handled in the field of designing the supply chain model within Pakistan or and other countries of the world. The course outline is more or less similar to the topics...
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...Term Paper Social Media Target Corporation Introduction Social Media has really transformed since May 9, 1961 when George Dayton, Founder of Target Corporation placed and ad in the Minneapolis Tribune announcing future plans for a new retail chain store. The article expressed that the store will have the best of the fashion world with the best of the discount world. Even without the store having its official name, Stewart Widdess, former Director of Publicity, knew the importance of media and getting customers excited about the opening of a new discount store. Throughout Target’s years of growth, targeting key products, target markets, development, and branding, they know what is needed to connect with their consumers and to keep them returning to experience the Target brand. Key Products Target has continued to offer their customers with key products at a discounted rate. The company has really evolved since they first opened in Minneapolis in 1962. They offer a wide variety of products ranging from a photography center, grocery store, jewelry department, personal care department, and electronics department. Target, from the very beginning liked the concept of being able to provide all your family, personal, and home care needs at a discounted rate. In 1995, Target introduced Archer Farms to their store locations. Archer Farms is a premium line of grocery products designed exclusively for Target. In the same year, they also launched their...
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