You are a new Athletic Director at a small Division II university. The athletic program that you are taking over has been in a shambles (i.e. losing records, ineffective leadership, conflict among the different departments) for the last several years. The president of the university is bringing you in to clean up the program and change its direction. In addition, as mentioned there are conflicts between departments with the worst being between the head baseball and football coaches. Football has received according to the baseball coach all the resources while only producing mediocre results on and off the field. The baseball team has been more successful but has received very few resources. The baseball coach feels like he is under-resourced in scholarships, staffing, and budget for several years compared to football. The baseball stadium is run down, with very little seating, but football just had a new stadium built which is still only half full for games. The football coach continues to want more and often enjoys receiving resources at the expense of baseball. (Both of the coaches are currently under long term contracts so firing is not an option.)

1. Explain what 4 different leadership styles that could be used in this situation and why. What leadership approach do you think is best?

2. Using strategic management outline how you would attempt to accomplish this task?

You are a new Athletic Director at a small Division II university. The athletic program that you are taking over has been in a shambles (i.e. losing records, ineffective leadership, conflict among the different departments) for the last several years. The president of the university is bringing you in to clean up the program and change its direction. In addition, as mentioned there are conflicts between departments with the worst being between the head baseball and football coaches. Football has received according to the baseball coach all the resources while only producing mediocre results on and off the field. The baseball team has been more successful but has received very few resources. The baseball coach feels like he is under-resourced in scholarships, staffing, and budget for several years compared to football. The baseball stadium is run down, with very little seating, but football just had a new stadium built which is still only half full for games. The football coach continues to want more and often enjoys receiving resources at the expense of baseball. (Both of the coaches are currently under long term contracts so firing is not an option.)

1. Explain what 4 different leadership styles that could be used in this situation and why. What leadership approach do you think is best?

2. Using strategic management outline how you would attempt to accomplish this task?

Calculate the NPV and IRR with mitigation. Enter your answer for NPV in millions. For example, an answer of $10,550,000 should be entered as 10.55. Negative values, if any, should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to two decimal places.

NPV: $   million

IRR: %

Calculate the NPV and IRR without mitigation. Enter your answer for NPV in millions. For example, an answer of $10,550,000 should be entered as 10.55. Negative values, if any, should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to two decimal places.

NPV: $   million

IRR: %

Server-Side Attacks

In today’s globally connected cyber community, network and OS level attacks are well defended through the proper deployment of technical security controls such as, firewalls, IDS, Data Loss Prevention, Endpoint and security. However, web servers are accessible from anywhere on the web, making them vulnerable to attack.

1. What is the process called that cleans and scrubs user input in order to prevent it from exploiting security holes by proactively modifying user input.

2. Name the process that tests user and application-supplied input. The process is designed to prevent malformed data from entering a data information system by verifying user input meets a specific set of criteria (i.e. a string that does not contain standalone single quotation marks).

3. Secure SDLC is the process of ensuring security is built into web applications throughout the entire software development life cycle. Name three reasons why organization might fail at producing secure web applications.

4. How might an attacker exploit the robots.txt file on a web server?

5. What steps can an organization take to obscure or obfuscate their contact information on domain registry web sites?

6. True or False: As a network defender, Client-Side validation is preferred over Server-Side validation because it's easier to defend against attacks.

• Explain why you chose the answer that you did.

A hospital has a large number of registered physicians. Attributes of PHYSICIAN include Physician ID (the identifier) and specialty. Patients are admitted to the hospital by physicians. Attributes of PATIENT include patient ID(identifier) and patient name. Any patient who is admitted must have exactly one admitting physician. A physician may optionally admit any number of patients. Once admitted, a given patient must be treated by at least one physician. A particular physician may treat any number of patients or none at all. Whenever a patient is treated by a physician, the hospital wishes to record the details of the treatment (Treatment Detail). Components of Treatment Detail include date, time, and results.

Part C - UML Diagramming:

Recall the EER diagram you made for Medical Solutions Hospital in Part A.  Use Draw.io or Visio to construct a UML diagram from your EER diagram. The UML diagram should have spaces for both fields/attributes and methods. Both Visio and Draw.io have built-in templates for UML diagramming. Be sure to add the multiplicities (like cardinalities).

Include:

• A method to get treatment results for a specific date
• A method to get a patient name
• A method to set a patient name
• A method to get a physician name given a particular specialty

What is possible to express with a UML diagram that is not possible to express with an EER diagram? Are there any limitations compared to an EER diagram?

Question 2

PT 1: A manager is trying to decide whether to build a small, medium, or large facility. Demand can be low, average, or high, with the estimated probabilities being 0.25, 0.40, and 0.35, respectively.

A small facility is expected to earn an after-tax net present value of just $18,000 if demand is low. If demand is average, the small facility is expected to earn $75,000; it can be increased to medium size to earn a net present value of $60,000. If demand is high, the small facility is expected to earn $75,000 and can be expanded to medium size to earn $60,000 or to large size to earn $125,000.

A medium-sized facility is expected to lose an estimated $25,000 if demand is low and earn $140,000 if demand is average. If demand is high, the medium-sized facility is expected to earn a net present value of $150,000; it can be expanded to a large size for a net payoff of $145,000.

If a large facility is built and demand is high, earnings are expected to be $220,000. If demand is average for the large facility, the present value is expected to be $125,000; if demand is low, the facility is expected to lost $60,000.

Which alternative is best, according to each of the following decision criterion?

a) Maximin

b) Maximax

c) Minimax regret

PT 2: Draw a decision tree for the three options described in Part 1. What should management do to achieve the highest expected payoff?

Please show work step-by-step. Thank you.

1. ​(Please refer to the attached exhibits and sample article​ ). Which paragraph would be best for a target audience of people familiar with economics in general and the workings of the Fed in​ particular? (choose 1 exhibit?)

2. (Please refer to the attached exhibits and sample article​ ). Which paragraph would be best for a target audience of people unfamiliar with​ economics? (choose 1 exhibit?)

3. ​(Please refer to the attached exhibits and sample article​ ). Which exhibits are the most ​accurate?

4. If the FOMC orders the open market desk to purchase government​ securities,

A.  the money supply will increase and the the interest rate will increase.

B. the money supply will increase​, and the interest rate will decrease

C. the money supply will decrease and interest rate will increase

D. the money supply will decrease, and the interest rate will decrease

Article:

Jobs and the Fed

Whatever happened to the central bank's Evans Rule?

Updated March 9, 2014 7:34 p.m. ET

The Labor Department's January jobs report on Friday had something for optimists and pessimists: The economy created only 113,000 net new jobs in the month, a second straight month of weak job growth. But the jobless rate fell to 6.6%, the labor force expanded by some 499,000 jobs, and the labor-force participation rate rose from its lowest level since 1978. So continues the slow-growth pattern of this expansion.

More interesting is that at 6.6% the jobless rate is now a mere tic away from meeting the Federal Reserve's Evans Rule target of 6.5%. That's the standard , named for Chicago Fed President Charles Evans, that the central bank said in December 2012 would be its guide for when it would consider raising interest rates. Even with mediocre job growth, the Evans Rule jobless rate target will be reached in the next few months and maybe as early as next month.

So will the Fed now look to raise the fed-funds rate from near-zero, where it has been for an extraordinary 62 months? Don't count on it. The Fed is still tapering its bond purchases at a rate of $10 billion a month, with several more months to go, and to minimize any market ructions former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was at pains to say rates would stay low as far as investors could see.

Perhaps soon the Fed will revise its Evans Rule downward to a jobless rate of 6%, or even 5.5%. But then that wouldn't say much for the credibility of Fed rules. The central bank unveiled the Evans Rule to substantial fanfare in 2012 as part of its campaign to be more transparent about policy and offer forward guidance to markets. Yet what we've learned about the Fed's guidance is that it doesn't mean very much. Perhaps the Open Market Committee should have called it the Evans Suggestion.

The Fed is still making up monetary policy on the fly, trying to see how low it can get unemployment before it has to test its political nerve and raise rams . The mistake was telling markets there was a fixed rule when the only sure thing at the Fed is more improvisation.

EXHEBITS:

Exhibit 1

The Wall Street Journal article “Jobs and the Fed” is a criticism of the supposed efforts of the Fed to be more transparent. In 2012, the Fed announced, to much fanfare, that it was going to follow the “Evans Rule”; specifically, when the unemployment rate dropped to 6.5% it would begin tightening (or at least lower the degree of easing) of open market operations in an effort to guard against a rapid increase in inflation. However, the recent spate of positive economic news and the drop of the jobless rate to 6.6% doesn’t seem to be affecting monetary policy at all. Granted, the target of 6.5% unemployment has not yet been met, but it seems only a matter of time before that point is reached and Ben Bernanke has already taken great pains to announce that the Fed Funds rate is going to remain near zero for the foreseeable future. So, in Poole’s view at least, it seems that the Fed has lost all credibility and is going to continue to keep the public in the dark about the guidelines it follows in conducting monetary policy.

Exhibit 2

The Wall Street Journal article “Jobs and the Fed” is a criticism of the Federal Reserve (which implements the nation’s monetary policy). The point it makes is that the Fed, as it’s known, has in the past promised to follow certain rules in deciding what kind of policies to pursue but that it is now going back on its word. Specifically, in 2012, the Fed announced that it was going to be more transparent in its actions and was going to follow the so-called “Evans Rule” (named after the President of the Chicago Fed). That rule dictated that when the nation’s unemployment rate fell to 6.5% the Fed would pay more attention to preventing potential inflation, rather than continuing to try to reduce the unemployment rate. However, the author points out, even though the unemployment rate is expected to fall to that target level in the near future, the Fed shows no signs of changing its policy, which up to now has been targeted at increasing economic growth and reducing unemployment. Many economists believe that it is important that the Fed make clear to the public how it decides on monetary policy and to stick to its promises and are now upset that it appears the promises made in 2012 won’t be kept.

Exhibit 3

The Wall Street Journal article “Jobs and the Fed” is a criticism of the supposed efforts of the Fed to be more transparent. In 2012, the Fed announced, to much fanfare, that it was going to follow the “Evans Rule”; specifically, when inflation rose to 2%, the upper limit of the Fed’s target range, it would begin tightening (or at least lower the degree of easing) of open market operations in an effort to guard against a further, rapid increase in inflation. However, the recent spate of positive economic news and the drop of the unemployment rate to 6.6% doesn’t seem to be affecting monetary policy at all.

Granted, the target of 2% inflation has not yet been met, but it seems only a matter of time before that point is reached. Ben Bernanke has already taken great pains to announce that the Fed Funds rate is going to remain near zero for the foreseeable future and that inflation is not the Fed’s primary concern. So it seems that the Fed has lost all credibility and is going to continue to keep the public in the dark about the guidelines it follows in conducting monetary policy.

Exhibit 4

The Wall Street Journal article “Jobs and the Fed” is a criticism of the Federal Reserve (which implements the nation’s monetary policy). The point it makes is that the Fed, as it’s known, has in the past promised to follow certain rules in deciding what kind of policies to pursue but that it is now going back on its word. Specifically, in 2012, the Fed announced that it was going to be more transparent in its actions and was going to follow the so-called “Evans Rule” (named after the President of the Chicago Fed). That rule dictated that whenever inflation rose above 2% the Fed would pay more attention to preventing prices from increasing, rather than continuing to try to reduce the unemployment rate.

However, the author points out, even though the unemployment rate is expected to fall and inflation expected to increase to above 2% in the near future, the Fed shows no signs of changing its policy, which up to now has been targeted at increasing economic growth and reducing unemployment. Many economists believe that it is important that the Fed be aware of the dangers of inflation and always err on the side of keeping that under control, even if it is at the expense of economic growth.