...As the star college football player runs on to the field for the biggest game of the year, he sees everyone wearing shirts, poster, signs, and tickets with his face on it, and yet he doesn’t make a dime of the profit. College student athletes already receive much of a free education through paid scholarships (Mendelson) and at the same time the universities make millions off these athletes, but the athletes don’t receive any of it.The issue deserves attention and is important because people can’t agree on whether it is right or wrong to pay college student athletes. Even though paying college student athletes has a few pros, most students already receive a free education, athlete payment would not be equal, and the main focus of college is to receive an education. Most student athletes receive a free education already. If they are a good enough student athletes, they receive large sums of money in scholarships to top tier schools to get an education (Mendelson). Receiving a free education is essentially already a form a payment and getting into a top school gives them an opportunity they otherwise might not have without sports. Studies have shown that some universities will spend up to 90,000 dollars on some student athletes a year (Mendelson), thus making it apparent much of their education is free....
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...an accountant there are still many fields on could go into. As account you are not stuck with helping people with their taxes. There are some pros and cons in becoming an accountant. If one choses to become an accountant one could make good money. As you graduate college you will have to choose some type of path. Like I said there are many jobs one could do once you get that pesky degree in accounting. As Hallinston (2013) states in his article one could become a CPA. A CPA is a Certified Public Accountant and they do the broadest of jobs. Some things of those include bookkeeping, managing your client’s finances, preparing taxes and auditing financial statements. With that your clients could be individuals, companies, corporations, governments and non-profit organizations. (Hallinston 2013). Another job you could chose is Management accountant. Now with this you would be recording and analyzing the financial information of a company (Hallinston 2013). As this type of accountant you would prepare budgets and taxes, evaluate performance, and perform cost accounting and asset management. Also you may have to prepare financial reports for shareholders, creditors, tax authorities and regulatory bodies. So I guess you could say this field of accounting is a bit narrower (Hallinston 2013). Another major job you can do after graduating college and getting certified as a...
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...Standardized Testing Standardized testing should not be required for admission to college because it doesn't really tell you anything. Why make someone take the ACT, SAT, or any IQ test just to see if their smart enough for college, or to even get in that specific college. Some people don't do well with test taking so they get a bad score. All that really shows if your good at test taking or not. This is why standardized test should be abolished from college admissions. A standardized test is called such because everyone takes the same test with the same questions, so ones performance can be compared to everyones else, in order for a relative score to be obtained (Lurie, Karen. "Standardized Testing.”). The first SAT was published in 1926 and administered 8,040 people. Standardized tests serve to offer measure of aptitude. There are standardized test that can measure school progress, intelligence, memory, and behavior capabilities. Some standardized tests are given to a whole group of people at once, others are given individually. There are also...
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...agreements based on whole-life costing; progressively reducing transaction and process costs, and the provision of more qualitative added-value service. The concept advances Cooperative purchasing from a reaction to outside forces or top-down pressures, to a supply methodology congruent with an overall business strategy. Based on a detailed research and analysis, we have come to a conclusion that forming a strategic coalition with ISI (Interuniversity Service Inc), a not for profit organization that is currently responsible for all Education related procurement for Atlantic Canadian provinces except NL will solve the major issues discussed above and will provide more value to NL’s educational structure and at the same time will reduce overall operational and overhead costs. ISI provides strategic sourcing approach towards procurement by operating based on Total Cost of Ownership model and by bulk commodity and services purchasing provides Total Landed cost strategy to the business. Being a not for profit organization, their True north is to serve the community and creating a better Educational structure in Atlantic Canada. They have demonstrated their ability to add value, reduce cost and therefore providing excellent services within a specified budget to all the other provinces in Atlantic Canada, which has proven...
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...Running head: PROS AND CONS Pros and Cons of Compensation for NCAA Division I Student Athletes Mark Dunkley PEP 461 Student The College at Brockport Abstract This paper weighs in the pros and cons for the compensation of Division I college student athletes. This paper also introduces a plan that would allow monetary compensation of college athletes in the United States. A survey was distributed to 14 males of the Suny College at Brockport basketball team Pros and Cons of Compensation for NCAA Division I Student Athletes The exploits of student-athletes in sports have variously been advanced as generating a lot of dollars in forms of revenues for their respective institutions, which has generally raised the question as to why they shouldn’t be compensated for their sporting prowess. Student-athletes generate tens of millions of dollars for their respective athletic departments and ideally then should be reimbursed. However, as per the guidelines of the National Collegiate Athletics Associations (NCAA), athletes are not supposed to receive any commercial use of their personas and likenesses and are indeed not expected to gain any monetary compensation for their sporting engagements. This has generally been interpreted to mean that they cannot enter into agreements for endorsements in their sporting activities as has been the case with professional engagements. Instead, students are expected to benefit from the payment for tuition fees from their sporting activities...
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...Should College Athletes be Paid to Play. C Team BCOM/275 Robert May Should College Athletes be Paid to Play. Should college athletes be paid to play? That is the question and discussion being presented not only in this paper but also across many colleges in these United States. There are many pros and cons to college athletes being paid to play their sport, which makes this is a very controversial topic. Are the sport scholarships and uniforms enough? Should schools really pocket all that money they make in revenue from the sports teams? Many moral, ethical and legal issues can be raised in the idea of paying college athletes to play, on both the pro and con side of the issue. Should an athlete receive a full ride scholarship and also be paid from the school to play? Many big universities may be able to handle such a thing, but what about the small colleges that do not receive such a large amount of revenue from their sports teams? Can or should schools pay all the athletes or only the top players? What about Title IX, how will potentially paying athletes be affected by it? All these topics will be discussed, as well as Team C’s final decision on this matter. PROS In 2012 the athletic revenue reported by University of Texas was $163.2 million, Alabama $143.4 million, Ohio State $142.0 million and Michigan $140.1 million (Berkowitz, Schnaars, & Upton, 2014) Coaches like Nick Saban (Alabama Football) and Mike Krzyzewski (Duke Men’s Basketball) make in excess of $7 Million...
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...Should College Athletes Get Paid? College athletes should be paid for playing at the college level. This topic is interesting to me because it has been a debatable topic for a long time. College athletes deserve to get a pay check because they are still responsible to keep their grades up while playing and training for football. They work harder than the pros because they have more of a motivation to get to the higher profession than someone who is already there. They can use that money to help support their families. The coaches are getting paid but they don’t play a sport or endure in a sport. The NCAA is making a profit out of them. In all honesty, the college athletes are one of the most hardest working athletes that don’t get paid. College...
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...Post-secondary schools of all kinds—expensive, elite colleges, state universities, and community colleges—are flirting with the idea of MOOCS, massive open online courses, where tens of thousands of students can take the same class simultaneously. Is this the future of college? Nathan Heller wrote about the phenomenon in the May 20, 2013 issue of The New Yorker in "Laptop U." I recommend you find a copy or subscribe online for the full article, but I'll share with you here what I gleaned as the pros and cons of MOOCS from Heller's article. What Is a MOOC? The short answer is that a MOOC is an online video of a college lecture. The M stands for massive because there is no limit to the number of students who can enroll from anywhere in the world. Anant Agarwal is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and president of edX, a non-profit MOOC company owned jointly MIT andHarvard. In 2011, he launched a forerunner called MITx (Open Courseware), hoping to get 10 times the usual number of classroom students in his spring-semester circuits-and-electronics course, about 1,500. In the first few hours of posting the course, he told Heller, he had 10,000 students sign up from all over the world. The ultimate enrollment was 150,000. Massive. The Pros MOOCs are controversial. Some say they are the future of higher education. Others see them as the eventual downfall of it. Here are the pros Heller found in his research. MOOCS: 1. Are free. Right now, most...
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...5/14/2009 Apple Inc. Case Study Key Success Factors •Expertise in particular technology/research • Proven ability to improve production processes • Customer-need satisfaction • Continued innovation Recommended Strategy Spread out consumer confidence in Steve Jobs to the Apple team and stakeholders Develop and launch the stakeholders. MacBook Air Mini by 2nd quarter 2010 to encourage said consumer confidence in Apple. 1 5/14/2009 Environmental Analysis Internal Positive ● Brand Recognition ● Customer Loyalty ● Sterling Reputation External Positive ● Highly technological society ● BRIC countries’ continued growth Internal Positive Internal Negative ● Steve Jobs’ health concerns ● Stagnant Desktop line ● Lack of netbook product line External Negative ● Global recession ● Poor IP protection in emerging markets Five Forces Model Threat of SubstitutionLow • Cost of switching F products is high • Product loyalty is strong Supplier Bargaining PowerModerate • Only two CPU manufacturers (Intel/AMD) • Small pool of talent to choose from Competitive Rivalry-High • Rapid and frequent product innovation by large firms • Product technology copying • Large firms with disparate unique strategies Buyer Bargaining Power-Moderate • Infrequent Customer Purchases • Customer Switching dd costs are high g • Recession creates decreased demand Potential new Entrants-Low •High barriers to entry •Incumbent firms spend to keep out new firms Apple...
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...METABICAL CASE STUDY REPORT INTRODUCTION Excess weight had become a big crisis in the US, affecting about 65% of the adult population leading to different kinds of health complications. In the past, several manufacturers had introduced various weight loss products like over-the-counter (OTC) drugs, herbal products, supplementary fad diets, etc. All of these have proven to be unsuccessful because of their ineffectiveness, severe side effects and lack of credibility among consumers. At this juncture, Barbara Printup, the Senior Marketing Director of Cambridge Sciences Pharmaceuticals (CSP) wants to introduce CSP’s newest revolutionary prescription drug, Metabical. It is the only FDA approved prescription drug for overweight people, which has minimal side effects and long term benefits. PURCHASING DECISION MAKING PROCESS (Q1) The communication strategy of Metabical targets both the health care provider and the consumer. Depending on the initiators there are two different purchase decision processes in the purchase of Metabical for the overweight problem. 1. For Customer: a. Problem identification: The various health awareness programs, BMI table etc help a health conscious or beauty conscious individual to identify the overweight problem. b. Information search: Once the problem is identified the individual decides on the course of action. He/She may decide to either ignore the problem or work on it. Metabical is interested in the group of individuals who are ready to...
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... | | | | | | | | |Introduction | | |Computer software giants and visionaries in the 80s, such as Apple and IBM were in their beginning stages of developing the PC and | | |paving the way for others to follow in their footsteps and implement their ideas to enhance technology in the future. Many years | | |later a young Mark Zuckerberg and his college friends concocted an idea in their Harvard...
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...and the director was on top of it. If the employee or supervisor did not full out the review they were called and disciplined for it. The review process was even in the Human Resource job description. Result- What I have taken away from this case study is the employee needs to follow up just as much as the employer. Even though one year your supervisor might of done the review one year, he may not of done it the following year. You need to be responsible and follow up an ensure the review is done. In the end its your job performance and your money on the line not your supervisors. Summary- The aspect that had a huge impact on me would be the impact of a supervisor not doing his or her job. I use to work for a catholic college in San Antonio, and my co workers supervisor did not do an appraisal for the school year. My co worker did not get his raise at the end of the year because of the mistake. When he...
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...THE SPORTS GUY 1. CASE SYNOPSIS The Sports Guy is a small sporting goods store located in a small town in the Greater Toronto Area and owned by Bob Rhodes (“Rocky”). Ten years back Rocky decided to start his own sporting goods business, of which he owns 60% and family members and friends 40%. Rocky purchased a land in town, with his startup capital and mortgage loan. Nearly 70% of the sales consist of equipment and uniforms bought by the local teams and the other 30% is consisting of wide range of sports and recreational merchandise. Its main competitor in town is the Canadian Tire store and Sports Guy’s sales have not been growing much in the recent years. Rocky lacks the ability to manage his inventory and his declining inventory turnover is increasing his debt. Rocky wants his business to grow but to do so he needs to access bank credit to finance higher inventories and future expansions. 2. PROBLEM STATEMENT The main problem for Rocky is to improve Sports Guy’s profitability. 3. SITUATION ANALYSIS SWOT ANALYSIS: Strengths * Passion and knowledge about sports – it is a fairly attractive industry for Rocky because his expertise, passion and community involvement differentiate his business from his competitors * Growing company – growing rapidly for the last few years and the area around the store has become a prosperous neighborhood, making their location a busy commercial area * Very well advertised in the local community (TV channel, flyers, local...
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...Exotic Smokes Cigarette Company Consumer Behavior Outline MKT/554 June 13th, 2011 Exotic Smokes Cigarette Consumer Behavior Exotic Smokes Cigarette Company (ESCC) has employed TRIAAD Research Group to analyze and outline consumer behavior, needs, and desire for fruit and candy flavored cigarettes. ESCC will target 18-25 year old customers implementing a $25 million dollar advertising campaign. Competition and Tobacco Information Tobacco is a global industry native to America and can be grown on any warm and moist continent. Presently there are six main manufacturers of cigarettes in the United States consisting of; RJR Nabisco, Inc, B.A.T. Industries, Loews Corporation, Liggett Group, and Phillip Morris. China, India, and Brazil were the three top sellers of tobacco in 2000 with the United States being fourth. Joanna Johnson (2010) states the British American Tobacco (BAT) reports the market share leaders as Phillip Morris International (PMI) - 16%, British American Tobacco (BAT) - 13%, Japan Tobacco International (JTI) - 11%, and Imperial Tobacco - 6%. Top Five International Brands • Marlboro • Winston • Mild Seven • LM • Kent Top US Tobacco Companies • Altria • Lorillard • Reynolds American Consumer Perception A quote posted by "I’ll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It’s addictive. And there’s a fantastic...
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...In an effort to continue save money while continuing its growth, Global Communications must make a decision and create a plan that will allow them to expand their products and services internationally. Of late, Global Communications has witnessed a sharp decline of its stock prices and are facing problems with their employees concerning the outsourcing of jobs. The goal of this paper is to identify Global Communications problems and provide them with solid solutions as courses of action. These actions will be achieved by applying the Nine-Step Decision-Making Model and various other concepts discussed throughout this course. The Nine-Step Decision-Making Model consists of the following items: 1. Describe the Situation-This can take time, but is well worth the effort. Individuals involved in this part of the process must understand the context of the problem. 2. Frame the "Right" Problem-This stage is also challenging. Individuals are often encounter difficulties in trying to determine the true problem needing to be addressed. Working to frame the “right” problem is also challenging because it forces team members to be clear and concise about the situation that needs to be addressed. 3. Describe the "End-State" Goals-The focus of problem solving is the solution, not the problem statement, which may be thought of as the means to the end. The “end state” is the ultimate goal of...
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