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Assignment 1: StrategicManagement and Strategic CompetitivenessDueWeek 2 and worth 300 pointsChooseone (1) public corporation in an industry with which you are familiar. Researchthe company on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities andExchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’sonline databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report willoften provide insights that can help address some of these questions.Writea four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:Assess howglobalization and technology changes have impacted the corporation youresearched.Apply theindustrial organization model and the resource-based model to determinehow your corporation could earn above-average returns.Assess how thevision statement […]

Assignment 1In the United States, each political party writes a platform. The definition of a party platform is, “is a list of the principles which a political party supports in order to appeal to the general public for the purpose of having said party’s candidates voted into office. This often takes the form of a list of support for, or opposition to, controversial topics. Individual topics are often called planks of the platform.”I have posted the most recent party platforms for the Republican and Democrat parties. If you would like to use a different political party, please feel free to […]

Assignment 1: Innovation from Google’s Free Food StrategyDue Week 4 and worth 300 pointsGoogle is widely known for its workplace creativity and innovation within the technology field. Its search engine is the most extensively used search tool in the world, its data analytics are revolutionary, and it continues to raise the bar for innovation and design with Google Glass, smart watches, and mobile phones. Google has been featured in dozens of technology and business magazines.Additionally,Fortune Magazine’slist of the “Best Companies to Work For 2014” has ranked Google number one (#1). This ranking is largely due to employee benefits such as […]

Assignment #5: The Trans-Pacific Partnership AgreementTheTPP is a trade agreement among twelve nations. It has been negotiated but has yet to be ratified by the UnitedStates.  For assignment #5, you are toread about the agreement and write a 2-3 page paper about whether the TPP willbe a good thing.  To answer the “goodthing” question, you can use the perspective of the United States, or the otherparties to the agreement (for instance, Vietnam and Malaysia are alsoparties).  To assist you in backgroundreading, I’ve assembled three different op eds on the agreement which I willmake available to you separately.  Youare also free to […]

As you recall from earlier weeks, various philosophical orientations hold unique epistemological and ontological assumptions. These assumptions return to the forefront of attention when considering how to evaluate the rigor or quality of various qualitative research designs.Typically, when speaking of validity, qualitative researchers are referring to research that is credible and trustworthy, i.e., the extent to which one can have confidence in the study’s findings (Lincoln & Guba, 1985). Generalizability, a marker of reliability, is typically not a main purpose of qualitative research because the researcher rarely selects a random sample with a goal to generalize to a population or […]