Discipline: Business Finance - Management

  Watch this video. Using material from the video What specifically did each one of these men say about taking risks and fear of failure?  Were there any major similarities between the stories of each of these successful business leaders? What did you find interesting, unexpected, disappointing, etc. about this video?    Your initial post should […]

  Assume you are a manager of professional employees in the information technology industry.  Steve Steady, one of your employees, asks to meet with you.  The company has posted a position for a team leader in your group, and you know Steve wants the position.  You are unsure how to proceed.  Steve feels he has […]

 If a unit of capital or labor becomes relatively cheaper, then a cost-minimizing firm will substitute toward the newly cheaper factor of production. Can you think of an example where this occurred in practice? 

 Roughly speaking, a firm has increasing returns to scale if doubling all inputs leads to output increasing by more than a factor of two. Decreasing returns to scale is when doubling all of a firm’s inputs, while likely increasing output, increases output by less than a factor of two. Whether returns to scale are increasing […]

  In your initial post, discuss the following questions: 1. A 2015 New York Times article described Amazon as “a soulless, dystopian workplace where no fun is had and no laughter heard” (Cook 2015 n.p.). Employees themselves came to the company’s defense (Ciubotariu 2015). Does this reputation continue to haunt Amazon, or has it been addressed? […]

  Using the Wall Street Journal, locate an article that motivates you to do something.  Break the article down and provide examples of how you were motivated to behave differently.  I expect you to use vocabulary from the class.   Your initial post should be two to three paragraphs that explain in detail the relationship of […]

After reviewing the five generic competitive strategy options, we learned that firms that charge relatively low prices and offer substantial differentiation follow a best-cost strategy. The best-cost strategy can be an effective level strategy to the extent that a firm whose fixed costs and overhead are comparatively low relative to the competition. Address the following […]

This IP builds upon your work in all previous units. In this project, you have been analyzing and interpreting the publicly traded company, American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. (located in Appendix A: American Eagle Outfitters, Inc., 2020 Annual Report of the required textbook: Financial Accounting). Unit 1: Industry and Business Structure  Unit 2: Current Asset Analysis  […]

On a 3-to-5-page, please list and justify your plan for quality controls for the Naturalia project. Instructions: Include at least (2) in-text citations from (2) separate sources for the research that supports your proposal. Use concepts, theories, and evidence from the provided reading and course content to help justify your decisions. APA formatting is required.

What incentives influence firms to use international strategies? What three basic benefits can firms gain by successfully implementing an international strategy? Why? Determine why, given the advantages of international diversification, some firms choose not to expand internationally. Provide specific examples to support your response. As firms attempt to internationalize, they may be tempted to locate […]