Category: Business

Now is the time to celebrate what you have learned in the course and apply it in practice. Imagine you are a business analyst who is writing an article for Forbes magazine evaluating a recent initiative by a prominent organization of your choice and the data-based decision-making processes they implemented. Your editor has asked you to include the below bullet points in your evaluation.
In your final paper,
Select an organization.
Describe the industry and business model.
Examine a recent initiative that the organization implemented.
Assess the success of the initiative.
Describe the organization’s decision support systems and their decision-making process.
Identify the decision support tools used by the organization to make various structured, semi-structured, and unstructured decisions.
Outline their processes and tools the organization used following the decision tree model.
Evaluate how their decision support system contributed to either the success or failure of the initiative.
Assess how the organization could have approached the initiative differently to realize greater success.
The Evaluating an Organizational Initiative final paper
Must be five to six double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style Links to an external site. as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft Word Links to an external site. resource.
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper in bold font
Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.
Student’s name
Name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Due date
Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice Links to an external site. resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions Links to an external site. and Writing a Thesis Statement Links to an external site., refer to the Writing Center resources.
Must use at least two scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources Links to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source.
To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view Quick and Easy Library Research Links to an external site. tutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.
Must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your Paper Links to an external site. guide.
Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the APA: Formatting You

Please put together complete and well thought out responses. I am looking for original input so please share your thoughts and experiences so we can all learn from them. Please make sure that you back up the posts with factual information
Post1: Posted Date: January 25, 2024 1:13 PMStatus:Published
Harvesting in a business, also known as exiting, is a method that owners and investors might use to get out of a business, and typically reap the value of their investment. Longenecker et al. (2023) in the book say “A entrepreneur needs to understand that harvesting encompasses more than merely selling and leaving a business. It involves capturing value (cash flows), reducing risk, and creating future options” (pp. 334, para. 7). Many entrepreneurs forget and fail to have harvest plans after they have s successful firm.
There are four separate methods when harvesting a privately held firm and those include selling the firm, distributing the cash flow, offering stock through the public, and using private equity recapitalization. Most of the time when an entrepreneur wants to sell their company it relates to retirement, estate planning, and a desire to diversify investments. They can sell to strategic buyers, financial buyers, or employees. Harvesting by slowly withdrawing a firm’s cash from the business has two important advantages: the owner can still control the business while they are slowly harvesting their investments and they do not have to look for a buyer or deal with any of the expenses of selling the firm. Offering stock through the public helps enhance the reputation of the firm, and provides an additional source for capital to grow, a stock that is publicly traded can create ongoing interest, and publicly traded stock is more attractive to personal keys. This happens through a process called Initial Public Offering (IPO) which “requires registering the stock issue with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and adhering to the “blue sky laws” that govern the public offering at a state level” (Longenecker et al, 2023, pp. 341, para. 1). Harvesting using private equity recapitalization, which is also called private equity recap, happens when a private investor provides a combination of debt and equity to a firm and allows entrepreneurs to cash out just their portion of their investment.
Planning for a firm to be harvesting eventually is a fundamental part of having strategic business management. Harvesting allows owners to convert their assets into cash or investments, it helps owners with retirement, allows owners to maximize the value of their business, opens new growth opportunities, and allows owners to have peace of mind. References
Longenecker, J. G., Petty, J. W., Hoy, F., & Palich, L. E. (2023). Small Business Management: Launching & Growing Entrepreneurial. Cengage Learning.
Post2:
Explain what is meant by the term harvesting. “Harvesting” typically refers to business strategy of growing and maximizing the value of an existing product,service or business unit before either divesting or discontinuing it. It involves Maximizing cash flow and profits in the short term,often by reducing costs and making efficiency improvements ,whilst gradually reducing investments in the product or service. 2.What is involved in harvesting an investment in a privately held firm?
When harvesting an investment in a private firm, several steps are involved in the process. First things first, the investor needs to assess the current value of the firms ownership stake in the firm. This involves evaluating the financial nn health and overall performance of the business, as well as the growth prospects. Once they have determined the value the investormay decide to sell the ownership stake either to another investor or a public offering.Investment bankers, lawyers, & other professionals will take part in the transaction.
3.Why should an owner of a company plan for eventually harvesting his or her company There are a lot of reasons why an owner of a company may plan for harvesting their company. The reasons may well be anyof these; Financial Gain, Retirement, New opportunities, etc… It’s very important to plan ahead and think and ponder about the factors such as market conditions, timimg, and the needs & goals of the business and the owner. This in the long run ensures a successful harvest. Also a very prepared harvest when the time comes. Harvesting can be a rewarding process. It maybe challenging but well worth it in the long run. References include; “the exit strategyHandbook: The best guide for entrepreneurs starting,Planning, and exiting a business” by Jerry mills

Select a company ( Real estate Co.) you may want to own in the future, that you mentioned in your introduction, and prepare a professional  presentation to investors justifying the use of either variable or absorption costing (you select one) for your company.
You want to justify the method you selected as to why it provides the most useful information to the management of this company. Provide specific related examples in your PowerPoint and provide one slide using Excel to justify your selection in numerical terms. 
Presentation Requirements:
* Create 6-10 slide a PowerPoint Presentation (be sure one slide is your Excel example)
* The first slide must contain your name, date, and course information
* The last slide is your reference list
* Prepare the voice-over presentation.
* Proper APA format on citations and referencees
* Minimum of 1 scholarly source 

We’ve learned that there are legal implications that impact every area of the marketing mix, including product, price, place, and promotion. This week, we will share examples of companies that have gotten into trouble because they didn’t engage the right legal expert when planning and executing their marketing mix elements.
For your initial post, do the following:
Search newspaper articles, trade journals, the Federal Trade Commission website (ftc.gov), or other credible sources for an example of a company that was fined or otherwise punished for an illegal marketing practice.
Summarize the details of the violation, including the law or regulation that was violated by the company and any consequences.
Discuss which element of the marketing mix (product, price, place or promotion) the illegal marketing practice affected.
If you were the marketing professional assigned to this project, what question(s) could you have asked your legal expert to help ensure your project was on the right track?

Dear freelancer, please complete the below 2 papers, one 200 words discussion and a 4-page data analysis and reflection.
Discussion:
Full order description: 📋 MAIN DETAILS: Instructions: Identify and research a major issue that is prevalent in the industry related to your career choice that can be analyzed using data analytic models. Review pages 29-35 for examples in the healthcare and retail industries. Use only the attached powerpoint as a source.
Address all of the following: 1. Identify the industry and the specific issue for analysis and discuss the impact of the issue within the industry. o For example, in the healthcare industry, accidental falls present a serious health risk for adults 65 years and older with 33% experience falls every year (Sharda, Delen, & Turban, 2018).2. Utilizing data, provide the specific measurement and the costs associated with the issue.o For example, costs associated with accidental falls in 2013 amounted to $34 billion (Sharda, Delen, & Turban, 2018). 3. Identify and describe a major business within the industry that would benefit from conducting analytics that would address this problem. Provide a short review of the company including profit, customer base, revenue, and sales for the most current year available.4. Discuss the specific type of analytics (descriptive, predictive, and/or prescriptive) that would be conducted in order to address the issue using the graphic below. Be sure to include the variables to be analyzed.📎 ATTACHED:-Instructions-
Data analysis paper and reflection:
Task summary: Covenant Hospital, facing congestion at its main location and three clinics, tracked customer arrivals over 10 weeks. You are tasked with analyzing this data to create charts/tables showing variations in customer traffic by day and hour, identifying stable patterns, and suggesting operational improvements to reduce long waiting lines.
Full order description: Dear Freelancer,please complete the following task: write a reflection.📋 MAIN DETAILS: Covenant Hospital operates a main hospital and three outlying clinics in a medium-size city. All four locations perform similar outpatient services, and patients typically visit the location nearest them. The hospital has recently had more congestion—longer waiting lines—than it (or its patients) would like. As part of a study to learn the causes of these long lines and to suggest possible solutions, all locations have kept track of customer arrivals during 1-hour intervals for the past 10 weeks. All locations are open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. and on Saturday from 9 a.m. until noon. For each location, the hospital and clinics collected data that contains the number of customer arrivals during each hour of a 10-week period. The manager of Covenant has hired you to make some sense of these data. Specifically, your task is to present charts and/or tables that indicate how customer traffic into the hospital locations varies by day of week and hour of day. There is also interest in whether any daily or hourly patterns you observe are stable across weeks. Although you don’t have full information about the way the hospital currently runs its operations—you know only its customer arrival pattern and the fact that it is currently experiencing long lines—you are encouraged to append any suggestions for improving operations based on your analysis of the data.For this Assignment, download and review the Covenant Hospital data file in this week’s resources. Reflect on what analyses might be required to address the manager’s request.📎 ATTACHED:- sources- Rubric- Data

Please use the attached textbook, review the case study 8.1 Telco Corporation, and answer based on the concepts in chapter 8. 1. How should Telco approach segmenting its customers? That is, on what basis (cost to service, profitability, etc.) should the customers be segmented? 2. How should Telco tailor its service offerings to each customer segment? 3. Should certain customers be asked to take their business elsewhere? 4. How should the revised service packages to each segment be introduced to that segment? By the sales force? Should all segments be done at the same time? 5. Each division has its own sales force, manufacturing facilities, and logistics network. As such, common customers (those who buy from more than one division) place separate orders with each division, receive multiple shipments, and receive multiple invoices. Would it make sense for Telco to organize around customer rather than around product? If so, how would this be done? What would the new organizational metrics look like?

I can give you the access to the book if you need it:
Week #1 Integrative Essay. Apply chapter concepts to your corporate scandal in a 5-page essay in this format:
Part I: Conduct a stakeholder analysis. Identify the stakeholder groups impacted by your corporate scandal. Discuss each stakeholder group’s interests and power with respect to the scandal (see figure 1.3, p. 12). Draw a stakeholder map (see figure 1.4, p. 18). Explain key insights you gain into the corporation and/or scandal through this stakeholder analysis? Part II: Referring explicitly to the Issue Management Process (Chapter 2), explain how your corporation has addressed the scandal. Discuss areas where you believe your corporation excelled at issue management and where it could have done better.
Part III: Drawing explicitly on concepts from Chapter 3, discuss how your corporation/company has engaged in corporate social responsibility OR how you think it should engage in CSR. Consider the stages of corporate citizenship & cite them in your response.
Part IV: Drawing explicitly on concepts from Chapter 13, explain what you recommend senior executives, shareholders, and the board of your corporation/company do in light of this scandal.
EVALUATION: Your essay will be evaluated on the quality of insight and analysis; adherence to assignment guidelines; organization of ideas (e.g. you should have an opening attention getting phrase, a clear purpose statement and preview in the introduction, a body of fully developed ideas and connections to the text, and a conclusion that summarizes your idea and leaves your reader with a final compelling thought); specific use of course concepts; grammar and technical skills. IN ALL sections you MUST use in-text citations and make specific reference to chapter concepts

Could it really have happened and how?
Could one of the top company’s in the US, one worth billions, and heralded as the most innovative, actually be a fraud? Could people (everyone from executives, auditors, accounting firms, and more) just make up the numbers, imagine the profits and make it a reality? Aren’t there rules? What about regulators, like state and federal authorities? Shouldn’t someone have stopped it? Much of Chapter 5 talks about white collar crime like fraud. And perhaps there is no more wide-scale a fraud than Enron. You can read entire books or watch movies about the company.
But here is just a brief overview of what happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5qC1YGRMKI
Watch the video above and then pick ANY TWO below to answer (1.5 per; 3 pts total). Be sure your posts do not mirror others. Try new options (i.e., this board will be lousy if we all do the same one). Let’s make an option off limits once it has been used twice. Move on to another topic once a prompt has been used twice.
1. What was mark to market accounting and how do you think it contributed to the fraud at Enron? Give specific examples.
2. Who could or should have prevented Enron? Discuss the role of company executives/board of directorts; government regulators; independent accounting firms and auditors; the financial press and analysts for Wall Street.
3. Of the parties listed in #2 above, can you see how any may have had conflicts of interest? Explain.
4. What was the relationship of Enron to government in you view and did this help/hurt society, the economy and the company in the end?
5. Who was Jeff Skilling and what imprints did he leave on the corporate culture of Enron and how did this impact the scandal?
6. List one crime listed in Chapter 5 that you might charge Enron executives with and state why.
7. What was the role of Arthur Anderson? What happened to the firm as a result of Enron?
8. Why do you think some Enron executives were charges with crimes (and not just civil violations)? Explain using terms from Chapter 5.
9. Do you think Enron could happen again? Why or why not? Be specific.
10. What lesson does Enron hold for a company that cannot explain clearly how it makes money (or will make money for start-up or early stage firm)? 11. Describe at least 2 of the cast of characters mentioned from Enron (their bio/role, what happened to them, etc).
12. Did Enron help or hurt society overall in your view? 13. Can you think of 2 or more conflicts of interest from the video?
14. List 3 factors you think could help prevent another Enron?
15. There has been a great deal of recent activity on Wall Street with investors buying into new companies (or older existing ones) and special purpose acquisitions (SPACS) that may or may not make money. What lesson does Enron offer the investors of today, if any?
16. Also, there have been some corporate scandals in the news related to “crytpo” or crypto currency (FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried, etc). Do you see any parallels? Are widespread scandals in business inevitable or can regulations prevent them? Why or how?

A Manager’s Role in Collaboration
Leadership styles play a role in shaping team dynamics. Cross-functional teams, whether virtual or in-person, require a leader adept at understanding varied departmental perspectives, bridging knowledge gaps, and facilitating effective collaboration across specialties.
**Complete SLP 2 before Case 2**
Case 2 Resources
Collaborative Leadership: A Must For Organizational Performance (2023)
Building Stronger Teams: The Power of Collaboration in the Workplace (2023)
Leading From Afar: How To Effectively Manage A Remote Team (2023)
Is It Better for Teams to Have Virtual or In-Person Meetings? (2023)
Building cross-functional teams for a more collaborative workplace (2023)
What is Cross-Functional Collaboration? (2023)
Text: 15.1 Teamwork in the Workplace (2023)
Text: 15.2 Team Development Over Time (2023)
Text: 15.3 Things to Consider When Managing Teams (2023)
Text: 15.4 Opportunities and Challenges to Team Building (2023)
Scholarly Readings:
A Theory of Scrum Team Effectiveness (2023)
A look at the future of work: The digital transformation of teams from conventional to virtual (2023)
Case Assignment
Collaboration
Examine how leaders can set a shared vision or goal that encourages collaboration across different departments or specialties within an organization (1 ½ Pages). Research Required.
Virtual vs. In-Person Teams
Analyze how different leadership approaches can affect team dynamics in virtual and in-person settings. Consider aspects such as communication, trust-building, conflict resolution, and motivation (1 ½ Pages). Research Required.
Cross-functional Team Dynamics
Analyze the dynamics of cross-functional teams, where members come from different departments or areas of expertise. Discuss the challenges leaders face when heading cross-functional teams (1 ½ Pages). Research Required.
All research for this case should have been published within the last two years.
No quotations are permitted in this paper. Since you are engaging in research, be sure to cite and reference the sources in APA format. NOTE: Failure to use research with accompanying citations to support content will result in reduced scoring “Level 2-Developing” across the grading rubric. This is a professional paper; not a personal one based on feelings. The paper must be written in the third person. This means words like “I,” “we,” and “you” are not appropriate.
Assignment Expectations
Use the APA-formatted MGT501 Case 2 template to create your submission.
The template is set up in APA 7: double-spacing, font, margins, headings, page breaks, APA help links.
Your submission will include:
Trident University International’s cover page
A paper with APA citations (2- to 3-sentence overview, 4 1/2-page body, 2- to 3-sentence conclusion)
The reference list page in APA format
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Introduce a current topic that is significant to you, here in San Diego.
Provide context on your topic and clearly explain a reasonable, commonly accepted claim that has been made regarding this modern issue. Use key terms such as claim, warrant, and support/evidence from the Toulmin argument format in your explanation. Be sure to provide relevant contextual evidence in support of the claim.
Label the Toulmin Argument parts (claim, warrant, and support/evidence)
Briefly provide relevant contextual support that proves that this is a San Diego issue.
After you have clearly established the validity of your initial claim, convince your audience that it is incorrect. Utilize any means of persuasion that will radically change the perspective of your audience.
Address the problems of the opposing side and explain how your new perspective helps to fix them.
Use persuasive technique and additional contextual support to prove your opposing perspective.
A common strategy of a Rogerian Argument is to make the opposition feel as though they would benefit by adopting your new counter-claim rather than flat out rejecting their point of view. In order to convince your opposition you often have to persuade them in a way that does not necessarily invalidate their ideas. You catch more flies with honey. The ultimate goal of this essay is to successfully change the mind of a San Diego reader who fully supports the initial argument about something going on in San Diego that you are refuting.
Essay must be MLA formatted including in-text citations and a works cited page
Use at least 2 sources from 2023 or later
2 Pages, typed double-spaced
Your chosen argument issue must be San Diego-based or at least San Deigo related
Requirements: 2 pages | .doc file