decade The American Red Cross has been overwhelmed by rapid turnover of leadership and has struggled to restore a reputation damaged by the downfalls of leadership and harsh criticism of response reactions in recent disaster situations, such as Hurricane Katrina. Prior to the current president and chief executive, Gail McGovern, taking control in April 2008 the organization was led by Mark Everson, who was forced to resign because of an inappropriate relationship with a female subordinate. According
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MBA 649 Business policy Weiliang Xia In 1969, Don Fisher opened the first Gap store in direct response to frustrations he was feeling as an inconvenienced customer. Its unprecedented growth is a direct result of meeting a niche in the clothing market, at a time when The Gap was well positioned to meet the new demands of this "business-casual" trend, introducing other chains to expand its customer base, and aggressive expansion in the global marketplace. Today, Gap, inc. is recognized as one
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Walmart Slide1 Welcome to our presentation, our topic is Walmart, I will present the pro arguments for Walmart and Cherrif will present the arguments against Walmart. Slide 2 First of all I want to say some basic facts about walmart. Sam Walton created walmart in the year 1962 and he opened the first walmart in the same year in 1962 in Arkansas. Today we can say walmart has more than 9000 stores worldwide and its spread over 15 countries. Think about it for a second Sam Walton created walmart
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disasters. Prior to the 11 September 2001 attack on the Pentagon, the plane crash in Pennsylvania, the World Trade Center, and the 2005 Hurricanes Rita and Katrina the Federal Response Plan existed which primarily focused on the Federal roles and responsibilities during an emergency or disaster incident. By using the lessons learned and the response to the hurricane season in 2005 the National Response Plan was replaced by the Federal Response Plan. The United States has dealt with a number of unprecedented
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Case Study: Contingency Plans Christine Grandfield This study is about an impending blizzard is set to hit the area with accumulations forecasted to bring 2-3 feet of snow and damaging winds during the next 12-18 hours. Nurses on the floor are looking to Gillian Scott for direction on how to proceed if and when staff begin calling out and creating staffing shortages due to the weather situation. Gillian continues to monitor the weather closely and stays in close contact with her nursing supervisor
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Final Paper Christopher A. Malloy PHI 445: Personal & Organizational Ethics Instructor: Sandra Watts June 3, 2013 Final Paper The two organizations I will be focusing on throughout the course are two organizations I have actually donated to. The not-for-profit organization is the American Red Cross and the for-profit organization is Cancer Treatment Center of America. Being in the military and having a family member to have passed from cancer, these two organizations are dear to me
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over a billion users worldwide. Facebook went public in at an exceedingly ambitious valuation of more than $100 billion. It was the third-largest public offering in the history of the United States, behind General Motors and Visa. 11. 2005- Hurricane Katrina uprooted many families from the region and damaged the tourist economy of New Orleans. 12. 2006- The federal government in
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My Stresses of Attending College Attending College was never on my list of things to do, now that I am attending college it is extremely stressing at times. I sure did not know it would be so much homework when I enrolled at Strayer. I have to balance my personal life with school; I have house work, helping kids with homework, and dinner that must be done. I'm often left sleep deprived because of the amount of homework I have as a full time student, I may get 5-7 hours of sleep a night. The
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family support to help them get back on their feet, but in my eyes the damage was done. To this day I fear that all the sacrifices I make and hard work I put out in order to be successful would be reduced to nothing in the blink of an eye. When hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, I was equally devastated. All I could do is imagine myself in a situation like that and wondering what I would do if everything you own and cherish was just taken from you. How do you find the strength to go on? In my opinion
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back, and nobody will be there to cloud your judgement. Survival requires selfishness so that you don't have any dead weight holding you back. For instance , in 2005, there was a pregnant woman named Rosezina who went into labor during hurricane Katrina. Knowing that she needed assistance, she left through her building’s fire escape and swam for two blocks. Unfortunately, she had to leave her 5-year old son who was screaming “mama! Come back!”. She swam until she reached a hospital where she
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