Shake and Erupt: A critical reflection on teaching earthquakes and volcanoes to KS3 Rationale: Perhaps the most dynamic features of the Earth’s awesome power and nature are when Volcanoes and Earthquakes occur. Their workings are at the very core of our planet’s history and their unpredictable activity continues to shake mankind’s understanding of the planet. This topic or scheme of work for my mixed ability year nine class offers a plethora of attributes that both incorporates sound core Geographic
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The Environment: The Role It Plays in How One Learns Name Course School Name Instructors Name The Environment: The Role It Plays in How One Learns Have you ever found yourself sitting in a classroom or at a lecture and afterwards not remember anything that was just mentioned? On the other hand, how about that same material was being taught to you and instead of being lectured to you, you were given the opportunity to see it happen or do it for yourself; this time you remembered
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In SOWK 301 and 302, I learned the value of giving clients the opportunity to provide input concerning their treatment goals and what they hope to gain from therapy. We watched several videos in which this was demonstrated. One question asked in several of these videos by the clinician to the client was “How can I best help you?”. This question gives the client a chance to tell the clinician their goals. Next, the clinician can tailor treatment to these goals. This is one of the questions I most
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with Betania Tanure, Professor of Organisational Behaviour at PUC / BTA, and case writer Elin Williams, as an aid to instructors in the classroom use of the case “Ricardo Semler: A Revolutionary Model of Leadership”. Financial support from INSEAD Alumni Fund is gratefully acknowledged. Instructors can register and login at cases.insead.edu to access instructor-only material supporting INSEAD case studies (e.g., videos, handouts, spreadsheets, links). Copyright © 2014 INSEAD COPIES MAY NOT BE
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example of poor crisis management, and contrast toy maker Mattel’s recall crisis of 2007 as an example of successful crisis management. It will first lie out the rhetorical context of each case before embarking on a detailed analysis equating the effectiveness of both firms’ external communications, and in the case of Ford-Firestone, how these might have been alternatively approached in order to avoid detrimental reputational damage. * Fink (1986, from King, 2000) defines an organisational crisis
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BP (British Petroleum) is 1 of the biggest energy companies in the world, there are almost 100000 employees in this company. BP offers to its consumers petrochemical products for daily use items, energy for light and heat, fuel for transports with retail services. From 1966 Lord Browne was the CEO of the company for many years. He focused on two areas : one is green energy and second is knowledge management. In my research I focused on BP when Lord Bowne was CEO. BP was first adopter of Knowledge
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| 2012 | | Prof. Gervais Victoria Skarbinski | [Netflix] | A case analysis on the movie rental company Netflix. | The major portion of revenue that Netflix derived came from its unlimited streaming plans that included either one, two or three DVD’s out at a time from the mailing system. Netflix began as a DVD rental provider that allowed customers to use the internet to select the DVD’s they wanted to rent. Netflix’s strategy so far has included offering various plans that incorporate
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section was filled and when she was asked to stand she refused; she was arrested. In this case her body was a political statement, because she stayed still
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Case Analysis – Nike Shifts With Its Environment 1. From what you can tell by reading the case, in addition to other information you know about Nike, how has each element of the company’s microenvironment contributed to its development of the new stores and their innovative features? λ Nike+: With Nike+, runners can measure their exercise time, pace, energy consumption, etc. Meanwhile, these data can be uploaded to a dedicated community of runners named nikeplus.com. Thus, runners can get professional
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Case 2 1. How does Hammerpress employ the concept of dynamic pricing? Hammerpress offers a set of pricing options. They are like other companies in the industry. They practice cost-based pricing, which is: design great product, add up the costs, and set a price. First, they offer an estimate price to the customer and offer a certain amount of revises. In the video though, revising a piece of work can be costly, and Hammerpress tells their consumers that it will cost them extra in order to make
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