Should US substantially limit its global involvement? As the leader of the world, do you think US needs substantially revise its foreign policy in this century. Please consider the following issues:

Does the world need a leader and why?

Why the US has played the role in the past decades?

Does the US benefit from its position as the world leader?

If the US really limits its global involvement, what would be the consequences?

Cerner Corporation announced a first-come, first-serve stock repurchase offer to its shareholders – the company agreed to repurchase 2,653,780 shares of its common stock in exchange for total consideration of $173,434,000. Cerner had 329,641,500 total shares outstanding before the redemption.

You acquired 16,482,075 shares of Cerner's stock two years ago for $20/share. You were the only shareholder to participate in the repurchase offer and Cerner agreed to redeem the total number of shares directly from you.

Using the applicable tax rates provided below, compute your after-tax savings if the redemption is treated as an exchange as opposed to a dividend distribution. Any dividend income amounts should be considered ordinary income in character.

For purposes of the after-tax savings calculation, you should assume you are liable for the net investment income tax on both capital gains and dividend income.

Applicable tax rates:

Individual - ordinary income - 34%

Individual - long-term capital gains - 20%

Individual - net investment income - 3.8%

Cerner Corporation announced a first-come, first-serve stock repurchase offer to its shareholders – the company agreed to repurchase 2,653,780 shares of its common stock in exchange for total consideration of $173,434,000. Cerner had 329,641,500 total shares outstanding before the redemption. You acquired 16,482,075 shares of Cerner's stock two years ago for $20/share. You were the only shareholder to participate in the repurchase offer and Cerner agreed to redeem the total number of shares directly from you. Using the applicable tax rates provided below, compute your after-tax savings if the redemption is treated as an exchange as opposed to a dividend distribution. Any dividend income amounts should be considered ordinary income in character. For purposes of the after-tax savings calculation, you should assume you are liable for the net investment income tax on both capital gains and dividend income. Applicable tax rates: Individual - ordinary income - 34% Individual - long-term capital gains - 20% Individual - net investment income - 3.8%

Data show that an average Canadian and American citizen hold CA$2000 and US$4000 of their currency respectively. Since money is bulky, it can be stolen, pays no interest and in general we do not see our fellow Canadians holding $2000 in their pockets, where are these dollars and who is holding them?

1) Define each of the insurance terms on page 211.

2) Which are the 4 four parts of Medicare? Explain each with 2-3 sentences.

3) What is Medicaid? Who is eligible?

4) State the three characteristics to each of the following health care systems: US, UK, and Canada.

1. Do you find it intuitive, or not, that the mean and standard deviation of a sampling distribution aren't impacted by population size? Explain to a friend who hasn't taken statistics what a sampling distribution is, and what makes them useful. What questions can they help us answer, and what information is required?

Reflection on Coronavirus outbreak and how to cope

Who would have thought that our lives would be so dramatically changed in a matter of weeks?

There are shared challenges we will all face locally, nationally, and globally.  I’d like us to use this forum to discuss issues and ideas on how to cope.

In a telephone conversation with a sales representative of a linen company, the manager of a hotel ordered $1,000 worth of sheets. Following the conversation, the manager wrote a memo to the file documenting the agreement, initialed it, and sent a copy to the sales representative. One of the linen company’s competitors learned of this contract and contacted the hotel to tell them that the sheets were poorly manufactured and that they should stop buying from the linen company and buy everything from the competitor. The hotel then cancels the contract and starts buying from the competitor.

The linen company’s sheets are not poorly manufactured. The linen company can sue both the competitor and the hotel for losses suffered, one for a tort and one for breach of contract, but the linen company is not allowed to recover twice for the same harm.

What is the tort that the linen company can sue for and who is the defendant?

Who should they sue for the breach of contract claim?

What damages would be recoverable from each defendant so that it would not be recovering the same damages twice?

Does the Statute of Frauds create a defense to the lawsuit against the hotel?

Why or why not?

Its a law question

Methods

Participants

Participants (N = 8,997) were undergraduate students at 20 2- and 4-year college and university campuses in Minnesota who completed the 2015 College Student Health Survey.¹⁷ Data were collected online between February 16, 2015 and March 27, 2015. Most (68%) participants were female. Participants identified as White (81.6%), Asian (8.6%), Black or African American (6.1%), American Indian or Alaska Native (2.1%), Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander (0.4%), other races (1.9%), and prefer not to answer (2.9%). Percentages did not add to 100% because respondents could indicate more than one race. The median age of the sample was 21 years old (range =18–74). Most (73%) of the sample was enrolled in 4-year colleges and universities. Almost half (47%) were first-generation college students (ie, neither parent had a 4-year college degree). The sample included participants who identified as heterosexual (89%), bisexual (4%), g** or lesbian (2%), or other (4%). The study was approved by the institutional review board (IRB) of the university that sent the survey (Study # 0012S75881). Other schools signed an agreement with that university or sought approval from their own IRB. All study procedures were carried out in accordance with the latest version of the Declaration of Helsinki. Students provided consent on the online survey.

Measures

Factors perceived to affect academic performance

Factors that were perceived to affect college academic performance were assessed by a measure that presented students with a list of 20 factors, including stress.¹⁷Students rated each factor in terms of whether they had experienced it and, if so, whether or not it had affected their academic performance during the past 12 months (1 = I do not have this issue/not applicable; 2 = I have this issue, my academics have not been affected; 3 = I have this issue, my academics have been affected). The similar question on the NCHA survey assessed how academics were affected (eg, scored lower on a test or project) in separate responses, graded for severity of the academic impairment, whereas this survey had a single response option for academics being affected by the factor.

Stress

Stress was measured on a 10-point scale on which students rated their average level of stress over the past 30 days (1 = Not stressed at all to 10 = Very stressed). The construct validity of scores on this measure was supported by the finding that students who scored higher on this measure also reported more days with poor mental health (including stress, depression, and problems with emotions) in the past month (r = .49, p < .001).

Coping self-efficacy

Coping self-efficacy was measured on a 10-point scale on which students rated their ability to manage their stress over the past 30 days (1 = Ineffective to 10 = Very effective). The construct validity of scores on this measure was supported by a negative correlation between coping self-efficacy and stress (r = −.47, p < .001).

Resilience

The Brief Resilience Scale (BRS)¹⁸ is a 6-item measure of resilience, defined as the ability to “bounce back or recover from stress” (p. 194). Students rated each item (eg, “It does not take me a long time to recover from a stressful event”) on a 5-point scale (1 = Strongly Disagree to 5 = Strongly Agree). Higher scores indicate greater resilience. Smith et al reported a test-retest reliability coefficient of .69 in a sample of undergraduate students over a one-month period and Cronbach’s alphas ranging from .84 to .87. In the current sample, α was .88.

Social support

Students rated the supportiveness of their family, friends, college/university faculty, and college/university staff on four separate items. Each item was rated on a 10-point scale (1 = Very unsupportive to 10 = Very supportive). To create an overall measure of social support, scores on these four items were averaged (α = .84).

Academic performance

Participants reported their cumulative grade point average (GPA) to two decimal places (M = 3.35, SD = 0.49). The correlation between self-reported college GPA and data from student records was r = .90 in a meta-analysis.¹⁹

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What were the strengths and weaknesses of the methods used?

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Strong corporate culture, ability to adapt is best blueprint for going global: Lenovo

The blueprint for any company that pursues international expansion starts with building a strong entrepreneurial culture that adapts to the times, according to Chinese technology giant Lenovo Group.

It is a business principle that has served Lenovo well in its decades-long transformation from a start-up electronics company in mainland China in 1984 into the world's biggest supplier of personal computers.

"When a company becomes bigger, make sure that there is a unique culture committed to execute its strategy," Ivan Cheung, Lenovo executive director and general manager for Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea, said in his interview at the South China Morning Post's Game Changers Forum 3 on Tuesday.

Lenovo has been a role model for many Chinese technology companies since it acquired IBM's PC business in 2005. Photo: AFP

Lenovo has been a role model for many Chinese technology companies since it rapidly expanded its international operations after acquiring the personal computer division of IBM for US$1.75 billion in 2005.

The computer giant, which operates in more than 160 countries, has continued its expansion with the purchase last year of Motorola Mobility for US$2.91 billion from Google and the commodity x86 server business of IBM for US$2.1 billion.

"We're trying to replicate our success in the PC industry, in the smartphone and enterprise server businesses," Cheung said.

He pointed out that Lenovo translated the principles of accountability and entrepreneurship into a few action points: "We plan before we commit; we perform as we promise; we prioritise company first; and we practice improving everyday."

In their book The Lenovo Way, authors Gina Qiao and Yolanda Conyers said the strong corporate culture keeps the company prepared to change and diversify.

"The Chinese have a saying: To cultivate trees, you need 10 years. To cultivate people, you need 100 years. That's fine with us because we know how to be patient," the authors wrote.

Amid changes in the global economy and evolving consumer tastes, start-ups must also realise that being adaptable can help them survive tough times.

Lenovo currently finds itself in need to be more nimble as global personal computer sales continue to decline and competition in the smartphone and commodity server businesses intensify.

The company last month announced that it was laying off 3,200 employees in non- manufacturing jobs, out of its total 60,000 worldwide staff, under a sweeping restructuring plan.

That would help the company reduce expenses by US$650 million in the second half of its fiscal year to March and US$1.35 billion on an annual basis.

The restructuring will see Motorola be responsible for designing, developing and manufacturing smartphones. The production supply chain for personal computers and servers will also be integrated.

Yang Yuanqing, the chairman and chief executive at Lenovo, said last month that the company targeted a 30 per cent global market share in personal computers and the turnaround of its mobile devices business in two to three quarters.

Question:

What changes did Lenovo undergo? Process change or strategic cultural change? Explain your answers based on the consideration of the theme of change, driving force, and the degree of the organization changes. What are the reasons for Lenovo’s to success?