Oligopolies are prevalent throughout the world and appear to rapidly increasing. Unlike a monopoly, where one corporation dominates a certain market, an oligopoly consists of a select few companies that have significant influence over an industry. Choose one current example of an oligopoly in the market e.g., cable television, cellular phone service, computer operating systems, airline industry, auto industry, pharmaceuticals, etc. Each student must choose a different example (first come, first served!). With a minimum of two detailed paragraphs; Explain how this oligopoly works (companies involved, competition/cooperation) Explain the effects on consumers, both positive and negative.

Read the Following Background Information: PI plans to headquarter the business in commercial space in a local shopping center. The PI headquarters will include private business offices, a reception area, and a conference meeting and planning space to which potential and existing customers will be invited to discuss proposals for painting jobs, paint products, and to complete contracts for painting jobs. The business space will be open to the public to collect information and inquire about PI services, examine paint displays, and view photos and exhibits from ongoing and past painting jobs. The shopping center in which PI will be headquartered is busy and heavily trafficked with customers every day. The PI owners are concerned about potential accidents on the store property and other liabilities that could arise with customers and employees. At the direction of your supervisors at BC, you are tasked to develop a plan to identify and minimize potential tort risks that PI faces in its public retail store operations. PI owners will use the plan to refine policies and procedures to prevent and/or minimize liabilities for PI in the retail facility. Instructions For this project, you will write a plan to be presented in a PowerPoint presentation. There is no set number of slides but include a title page and a reference page. Use the note section to discuss, explain and support the ideas and conclusions presented in the presentation. The notes must be complete, clear and comprehensive and submitted with the Power Point in order to receive full credit. The plan focuses on potential tort liabilities (except product liability, which is not included in this project.) The Power Point presentation will: A. identify and describe specific tort liabilities that PI could face in its retail store operations; B. develop and explain policies and/or procedures PI could implement to prevent or minimize these tort risks; C. evaluate and discuss how PI owners should orient employees to apply these policies and/or procedures to prevent or minimize identified tort risks. You should use only assigned resources available in the classroom for the project. Use in text citations, as needed. Include a References list of cited resources. Label each part of the Power Point as follows: A. Potential Tort Liabilities B. Policies and Procedures to Minimize Tort Risks C. Employee Orientation

Please Number Your Answers 1. McDonalds in the early Kroc years. a. What was the value proposition offered by McDonalds? What brought customers (repeatedly) in the door? b. What did the SWOT analysis look like at this time? 2. McDonalds in the Skinner years (c, 2003) a. Had the value proposition changed? b. How does a SWOT analysis look different? c. What do those changes suggest about the need to adapt? 3. McDonalds (2017) a. How does a SWOT analysis look different? b. What do those changes suggest about the needing to constantly challenge your value propositions for your targeted markets?

When the LEAF first came to market it was promoted as the World's first affordable zero mission car. is this still product point differentiation today?

1.Information Technology leaders, including information assurance and security professionals, communicate through various channels including e-mails, texts, and social media. It is imperative that the IAS professional communicates in a concise, professional, and courteous manner. The tone of the communication impacts how the receiver interprets it. Based on the readings in this unit, you study the different aspects of planning and drafting message with an intended meaning. Employing an adaptive writing technique and use of positive and courteous tone and language will result in a more clearer understanding of the sender/receiver relationship. Based on the Radical Rewrite: Watch Your Tone! (Guffey & Loewy, p. 58), review the scenario and provide at least five specific writing errors. Include examples.

Once again I have the decidedly unpleasant task of reminding all employees that you may NOT utilize company computers or the Internet other than for work-related business and essential personal messages. Effective immediately a new policy must be implemented.

Our guys in IT tell me that our bandwidth is now seriously compromised by some of you boys and girls who are using company computers for Facebooking, blogging, shopping, chatting, gaming, and downloading streaming video. Yes, we have given you the right to use e-mail responsibly for essential personal messages. That does not, however, include checking your Facebook or other social accounts during work hours or downloading shows or sharing music.

We distributed an e-mail policy a little while ago. We have now found it necessary to amplify and extrapolate that policy to include the use of the Internet. If our company fails to control its e-mail and Internet use, you will continue to suffer slow downloads and virus intrusions. You may also lose the right to use e-mail altogether. In the past, every employee has had the right to send a personal e-mail occasionally, but he must use that right carefully. We don’t want to prohibit the personal use of e-mail entirely. Don’t make me do this!

You will be expected to study the attached E-Mail and Internet policy and return the signed form with your agreement to adhere to this policy. You must return this form by March 1. No exceptions!

List at least five specific writing faults and include examples.

Describe the career management activities in an organization you are familiar with. Comment on the effectiveness of these activities and the perception of the organization’s employees on their effectiveness.

t is a responsibility of the global firm to ascertain the level of importance of various aspects of culture. Companies’ operations need to recognize and adjust to the cultural environment. In this week’s Lesson, you will find eight elements of culture. For this assignment, there are four elements of culture that are most important when marketing products and services internationally: language, religion, manners and customs, and aesthetics. Indicate why each is important and provide examples in your response.

Please identify an existing start-up business/ new venture and assess their product/ service and pricing strategies.

Product/ Service Strategy: The uniqueness of Product/ Services What value the product offer to consumers? Assess the appropriateness of the product to the chosen target market Pricing Strategy Identify the pricing strategy and assess the appropriateness of the strategy to the chosen target market

Suppose that Dr. Su really want to get out of academia for more $$ but driving for Uber may not be ideal for him. He decides to start a new business and now sells sunglasses to a retailer called Ultimate Vision (UV). UV purchases each one of the pairs of sunglasses from Dr. Su for $75 and retails them for $115. Dr. Su’s sourcing cost from Alibaba is $35. At the end of the season, UV estimates the salvage value is only about $25 each pair. UV believes this season’s demand can be represented by a normal distribution with a mean of 250 and a standard deviation of 125.

The following is the supply chain:

Alibaba --> Dr. Su’ store --> UV retail --> customers

(a) What is UV’s optimal order quantity?

(b) What is Dr. Su’s profit when UV order at optimal?

(c) From a maximize-your-own-profit perspective, should UV order at a different amount than (a), (state your reason)?

(d) Consider Dr. Su's store and UV retail store as a single entity, what is the optimal order quantity for the single entity?  

(e) What can Dr. Su do to encourage UV order at the amount in (d)?

As the semester comes to an end and visions of your final project are perculating in your head - one last discussion for the road (worth 20 points). I'm sure that most of you took this course because it was either a requirement or you needed an online elective. There are a few of you, that I know from talking to you, have business ideas in mind that would benefit from sales training. But honestly, most people do not seek out a career in sales (it kind of finds them) and they feel that selling is something un-natural for them. I like this text by Futrell because he teaches sales as a process - breaking it down into bites we can manage. I also think there is transfer of the techniques you learn in a class like this to your every day life. So let's talk about it. Do you feel differently about sales now that the class is coming to a close? Do you view salespeople differently now? Did you find some application of this class to your personal life? And finally, would you ever consider a career in sales? You can be honest...let's talk about it...

Describe Methods to Evaluate the Need for Change in How farmers deal with losses using the Kubler-Ross five-stage model – the Change Curve

Develop a Incident Response and Business Continuity Planning for Eqauifax

Imagine that you are the Director of the HR Department at your current organization or an organization with which you are familiar. You are responsible for delegating duties to your team for the selection, development, and management of both the new and current employees. You must ensure that your organization is diverse and follows all employment laws.

(Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of these assignments. In your original work, you may use aspects of existing processes from either your current or a former place of employment. However, you must remove any and all identifying information that would enable someone to discern the organization[s] that you have used.) Needed Answered Like ASP!!!

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

1. Outline one (1) job interview process, and document the methods that you must use to select the right person for available positions. Determine two (2) employment laws that you must consider in the process in question, and examine the key ramifications of the organization’s lack of enforcement of said laws.

2. Suppose your same organization decides on an unconventional workforce comprised primarily of independent contractors and temporary workers. Predict three (3) issues that you may encounter in building relationships with each type of worker. Next, examine two (2) laws that you must follow during the relationship building process, and specify the manner in which each law would help in the relationship building process.

3. Evaluate the effectiveness of the organization’s HR policies and processes that are designed to promote a diverse workforce. Next, outline one (1) strategy for the organization that recognizes affirmative action. Include a plan to mitigate both the glass ceiling effect and reverse discrimination within your organization. Support your response with at least two (2) examples that illustrate the major benefits of the plan to the organization. Needed Back Answered Like ASP!

Identify the prominent features of the company's current business and functional strategies, and consider the Best Buy family of complementary products and services. How has the company's strategy fostered the development of core competencies?

QSO 320 Problem Set (Problem Set 4-20)

Complete problem 4-20 at the end of Chapter 4 in your textbook. You will demonstrate your work using Excel templates provided. You do not need to include a graphical procedure.