Question for discussion: why keep wasting all this time and money? Every year the States of Virginia and North Carolina spend millions of dollars trucking sand to the shoreline to replenish the beaches.  Yet, every year — and especially when a strong storm or hurricane impacts the same shoreline, the sand is quickly washed away. […]

Strategic Management Assignment 3 Which of the 5 generic competitive strategies best characterizes your company’s strategic approach to competing successfully? Looking at your company, answer the questions posed in the Exercise for Simulation participants on p. 177.      EXERCISE FOR SIMULATION PARTICIPANTS    Has your company relied more on offensive or defensive strategies to […]

Legal Ethics, Patients’ Rights, and HIV / AIDS As the head health care administrator at USA Community Hospital, you are required to review compliance reports on issues relating to the ethical conduct of the professional staff at your hospital, patient review registries, and standard procedures surrounding the ethical treatment of patients with HIV / AIDS. […]

Assignment 3: The Value of Fair Treatment in the Workplace    The year is 2025 and the U.S. Supreme Court has declared all laws prohibiting discrimination in the workplace to be unconstitutional.  In its opinion, however, the Supreme Court made clear that employers could voluntarily adopt policies and procedures prohibiting any and all forms of […]

Unit VI Scholarly Activity Discussion Question      The lecture for this unit discussed naturalistic, participant, and laboratory observation research. Think about a situation where you may have been involved with one of these observational methods. Explain the situation and your perception of the effectiveness of this method with respect to obtaining credible information.    […]

Business Continuity Planning And Disaster Recovery Planning   Does your company (or school) have a current disaster recovery plan? What are some of the activities involved in it? Do you feel confident that your company (or school) is prepared to survive a major disaster? Why or why not?   DQ requirement: I recommend your initial […]

Writing Assignments: Each unit you will be tasked with writing an essay and three short answers to evaluate your understanding of the course materials. You will always be given a choice of questions to provide you with some flexibility in deciding which topics most interest you. Please post your responses in the assignment drop-box. My expectations […]

Subject : Decision Making And Problem Solving Assessment criteria   Students will be assessed on their knowledge of the concepts covered in the course and their capacity to apply that knowledge to improve business decision making.   Individual Project    Each student will identify a company and conduct a research project on the company’s management […]

Assignment: Dealing with Risk, Asymmetric Information, and Incentives Earlier in the quarter we discussed Southwest Airlines’ use of game theory to create new strategy. Continue to research Southwest Airlines or a company of your choice and write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you: 1. Evaluate a company’s recent (with in the […]

Assignment: Dealing with Risk, Asymmetric Information, and Incentives Earlier in the quarter we discussed Southwest Airlines’ use of game theory to create new strategy. Continue to research Southwest Airlines or a company of your choice and write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you: 1. Evaluate a company’s recent (with in the […]