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    Cost Benefit and Effectiveness Analysis (CBA and CEA)

    Define Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA). Define Cost Effectiveness Analysis (CEA). Then compare and contrast the differences and similarities of a CEA and CBA. Be sure to cite your sources of information and provide examples.

    Metrics in innovation

    Discuss the role of metrics in business innovation. Discuss your role as an employee of the organization in regard to the innovation metrics used to motivate employees to innovate. What innovation metrics should be created to hold leaders and managers accountable for innovation?

    Effective risk management

    Risk management is everyone's responsibility. What does this mean? Support the information that is presented. Include citations and references and provide examples and your reactions. What does responsibility involve? Why does it matter? Answer this question in a narrative format that is 1200 words or more.

    Global Organizations: Risk Management

    Hello I need help developing a response to the following questions: 1. Discuss the fact that, strategically, American global business organizations must plan to function in areas of the world beset by conflict or instability, or be beaten out by the competition. From the vantage point of a CEO of an American global company th

    Wal-Mart Anti-bribery Case

    Money. Secrecy. Foreign officials. "Greasing palms." Bribery. That's the dirty little secret about doing business globally that managers at multinational companies don't want to talk about. It's illegal for U.S. companies to bribe foreign officials as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) states. The FCPA resulted from Securi

    Alcan: IT Changes

    The case that you will use for this and the following two modules is another case that is coincidentally also Canadian in origin but in a very different business environment—the aluminum business (spelled here "aluminium" in the British fashion—you may use whichever spelling you choose.) It describes the analysis of the comp

    Best Value Computer Case - Sales and Sales Management

    1. Identify and describe the categories of value creation on which Best Value currently relies most. 2. How can Best Value utilize the service quality dimensions to make sure it is communicating a consistent message of high-quality service and value every time someone from the company interacts with a customer? 3. Assume y

    Leadership and Innovation Management

    Innovation management plays an important role in the innovation process. How do you describe the role of leadership in managing innovation? If you were a leader of an organization, what steps would you take to create an effective innovation management system? What types of challenges do you think you would run into when trying t

    Change and Resistance to Change Management

    What are some methods managers can use to overcome the resistance to change, and why this is vital to organizational success? Discuss a time when you were required to change something in your organization, whether a process, procedure, policy, or something else. How did the change come about, and how did you deal with the cha

    Accident Prevention in the Work Place - Robert Battles Article Review

    I am to write a three page summary of the attached article and answer the following: What is the author's main point? Who is the author's intended audience? What is involved in analyzing potential job hazards and developing an accident prevention plan that will prevent and reduce the cost of accidents? How should you respon

    Meaning of Flexible Budget

    I have the following task, and I need some help getting started: summarizing and analyzing a recent article (less than one year old) on flexible budgets.

    Foreign Direct investment (FDI) and its effects on the host and home countries

    Resource-transfer effects, employment effects, balance-of-payment effects, and effects on competition and economic growth are the major benefits a country receives from inward FDI. Three costs of FDI concern host countries, namely: 1) they arise from possible adverse effects on competition within the host nation, 2) adverse effe

    Rationale of European Integration

    Starting with the first part of the previous century, Europe had a growing economy, a flexible social structure, and a good educational system, which assisted the gradual development of modern industrialization. At first, the positive attitude toward industrial prosperity was limited to important personalities like Monnet, but t

    Ethical Considerations For Innovation In an Organization

    Senior leaders need to embed innovation in the organizational culture by creating policies and taking actions to support innovation. What ethical aspects would you consider when creating policies to support innovation? Identify all the stakeholders that would be affected by the innovative policies that you intend to create.

    Monsanto's Roundup Case Study

    Please reference the attachment for a case study on the Monsantos Roundup. Please provide the responses to A, B & C in a Word doc only.

    Google and its operational model

    Google has been touted as a company that attracts, develops and retains outstanding talent. Using this link to the company's website, http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/, give a detailed explanation to each of the following questions: 1. How does Google attract and hire talent? 2. How does Google develop and retain talent?

    Air versus Ground Transport for Medical Emergencies

    Assuming a person is conducting a qualitative study, define the phenomenon related to the research, and select a qualitative research design. Discuss the rationale for the research design selection of air versus ground transport of both medical and traumatic emergencies, and the patient outcomes based on the mode of transpor

    Kroger & Customer Value

    Kroger is one the largest grocery retailers in the country. Using the document I attached, give your answers and identify where and how Kroger creates value for their customer through the value chain. The Kroger website (link below) is a great source of information. Click on "About the Kroger Co." at the bottom of the webs

    Innovation: IBM Innovation Strategy

    Select an organization and discuss the innovation strategy used by the organization and identify the strengths and weaknesses of that type of innovation strategy. If you were the leader of an organization, what factors would you take into consideration when selecting an innovation strategy?

    Global Business Ethics and Leadership

    Hello I need help developing response to the following questions: 1. What risks might occur in dealing with different employee constituencies? Is it possible to use one set of criteria to hire nationals of the host country and different criteria to hire nationals of the country in which the organization is based? What America

    Assessing and Alleviating Groupthink

    Part 9 A - Describe the term groupthink. - Which attributes are typically present for groupthink to develop? - How can a team reduce the tendency for groupthink and move past the norming stage to the storming stage? B You have just been assigned the lead role on a team project at work. Your team is comprised of people fro

    Portfolio Expected Rate of Return and Beta and the Constant Dividend Growth Model

    Monica Dubois, an ABC investment advisor, has a new client, Mr. Jack Klein. Mr. Klein is a conservative investor who is interested in a required rate of return of 10% on his stock investments while assuming lower market risk. You are asked to help Monica make a suitable portfolio recommendation backed by risk-return calculations

    Research Southwest Airlines Business Decisions

    Research Southwest airlines and address the following: • Are employee empowered at Southwest Airlines and to what extent? • What are the benefits to empowering employees at an organization such as Southwest Airlines? • Provide your suggestions and recommendations for developing empowerment at Southwest. • How com

    Technological Innovation and Communication

    Kindly assist with the following questions: 1. To what extent is technology "an actor" in society, forming and evolving according to its own dynamic? 2. What are some of the key pitfalls for businesses that focus on technological innovation? Is there such a thing as being "too focused" on technological innovation? 3. Ho

    The Growth of International Equity Market Essentials

    The international equity market consists of all stocks bought and sold outside the issuer's home country. Stock exchange listings of the greatest number of companies from outside their own borders are Frankfurt, London, and New York. Respond to the following: What is the international equity market? Identify the factors

    Different Philosophical Approaches to Ethics

    Indonesia's economic growth has been hampered for decades, first because of the dictatorship of former President Suharto and the massive debts that were accumulated during his regime, and, more recently, because of the country's excessive red tape and corruption that make it difficult to start a business. Transparency Internatio