Business & Finance

   Scenario 1) You know from government legislation that the legal tax rate on your property is 2.4% and the city’s assessed value of your property is $155,000. However, your property is currently on the market for only $60,500 due to a significant downturn in the housing market. What is your Effective Property Tax Rate? Scenario 2) You know from government legislation that the legal tax rate on your property is 2.4% and the city’s assessed value of your property…

Using the Internet and Strayer University databases, research Starbucks’ organizational culture and the key leadership and management traits used to execute the business strategy. Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:Suggest the key elements of Starbucks’ organizational culture that contributes to its success in a global economy. Indicate management’s role with creating and sustaining the organizational culture.Assess the effectiveness of Starbucks’ management decisions in providing innovative offerings for its customers (e.g., WiFi, style of coffee, etc.)…

Think of the importance of trade in your life.  Look simply at what you're wearing today.  When you shop, do you look for the "Made in the USA" label?  Perhaps you believe we might be better off as a nation economically if we produced more goods in the attempt to become more self-supportive.  Perhaps you believe we should increase the amount of goods traded internationally.  Opinions and speculation vary as much as the number of economists that predict economic climate. …

Marketing Plan: Part II Throughout this course, you will compile a comprehensive marketing plan. (Note: You will use the same scenario throughout the course.) This scenario will be the basis of your start-up company and will be the catalyst for the subsequent marketing plan that you will compile. The company that you choose to submit a marketing plan for is a fictional start-up company (not an existing company). This unit’s submission should consist of the items listed below. Provide a…

OPTION 2:  Write a three-page, double-spaced research paper summarizing three (3) scholarly articles that used human subjects in the research.  All research articles MUST have been drafted in the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing Research, or the Journal of Consumer Psychology within the past 15 years (i.e., between January, 2002, and the present).  Articles from older publications or journals other than those noted WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.  Full text of articles from these journals is available from…

  this assignment, you will write a paper describing spot market and comparing foreign markets to the domestic market. Scenario: You work for an MNC where new management trainees are often required to travel internationally. A New Hire Handbook is provided to each of the incoming management trainees. The New Hire Handbook contains information about the corporation as well as some important policies and guidelines. Because of your academic credentials, the Senior Vice-President (SVP) of Human Resources (HR) has asked…

Critical analyses must be a maximum of three pages in length; only the first three pages will be read and evaluated by the instructor. You will identify the problem or opportunity and discuss a viable solution based on your analysis of the case. The general structure of all critical analyses: 1.Describe the business situation, including the macro -environmental and micro -environmental conditions facing the organization. 2.Develop the problem statement: the opportunity or threat facing the organization. 3.What alternative strategies and…

3 Pages ONLY!!! You will identify the problem or opportunity and discuss a viable solution based on your analysis of the case. The general structure of all critical analyses: 1.Describe the business situation, including the macro-environmental and micro -environmental conditions facing the organization. 2. Develop the problem statement: the opportunity or threat facing the organization. 3. What alternative strategies and programs would you consider in dealing with the opportunity or threat to the organization? Present each alternative in sufficient detail…

  I need the follow below discussion answered.  As Google continues to grow, there may or may not be some impact on its corporate structure and founding philosophy. How would you use Peter Senge’s five disciplines to (1) understand the changing environment at Google, (2) assess the major events influencing the changes, and (3) adapt to the changes? Just for your assistance, here are the five Peter Senge’s disciplines below: “Personal mastery is a discipline of continually clarifying and deepening…

  Assignment 1: Discussion—Compliance and Ethics in Risk Management During the past couple of decades there have been high profile cases of corporate scandals resulting in not only criminal prosecutions of senior executives within the guilty firm, but severe financial loss or even dissolution of the corporation. Most of the ethical lapses within the corporations involved various accounting misrepresentations to cover fraudulent activities. The inherent risks in managing activities in multiple countries with different political systems and cultures pose other…