Now that you’ve analyzed the environmental situation and established who is in the target market, it is time for product development. Product design is crucial because new products are being introduced every day. So, while other people focus on that aspect of development, you turn your attention to branding.   Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.  This morning, walking into the office, you greet Michelle who says, “I’d like to meet with you tomorrow to develop the branding strategy for the new product. Let’s meet for a working lunch and brainstorming session.”   “That sounds great,” you reply. “I’ll schedule the meeting and order in lunch.”  Entering your office, you begin to think about the items that you will be discussing during tomorrow’s meeting with Michelle.   We haven’t even come up with a product name yet, you think. We also need to work on an advertising slogan or tag line. You know that Michelle has an extensive background in marketing, but you really want to make a good impression and bring a sound branding strategy to the meeting. How are we going to distinguish our product from our competitors? What are the benefits that we are going to highlight in our brand that will meet the needs or wants of our target customers?  You create the following list of items that you need to address:   Identify in one sentence your overall branding strategy or brand image you want to achieve in the mind of your target segment. •Product name  •Advertising slogan or tag line  •Product attributes  •Product benefits

Read the instructions in the University of Phoenix Material: Applications of Motivation in Learning Theory, and select one option to complete the assignment. You can choose from the following options:

• Option 1: Environmental and Evolutionary Psychology Transcript
• Option 2: Environmental and Evolutionary Psychology Brochure
• Option 3: Forensic Psychology Transcript
• Option 4: Forensic Psychology Literature Handout
• Option 5: Health and Sports Psychology Plan
• Option 6: Health and Sports Psychology Literature Chapter
• Option 7: Industrial/Organizational Psychology Presentation
• Option 8: Industrial/Organizational Psychology Handout

Format your assignment in accordance with APA guidelines.

Choose one (1) company that you believe would be an ideal company to work for based on working conditions, salary, opportunity for advancement and work involved. Use the Internet to research. 

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. Evaluate the fundamental driving forces that shape the organizational environment of the selected company. Be sure to address the following: competing in a global marketplace, workforce diversity, ethics and morality, and technological innovation.
2. Examine the selected company’s specific practices or policies. Speculate on the major influences that these practices or policies have on individual and organizational outcomes.
3. Determine which practices related to work attitudes in U.S. organizations are most strongly affected by diversity and suggest a strategy to address the effects.
4. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources. 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Evaluate human behavior in organizations and the forces shaping the behavior.
• Analyze individual differences within organizations and their impact on organizational behavior.
• Use technology to research issues affecting organizational behavior in order to deliver assignments which are clear, concise and have proper writing mechanics.
• Write clearly and concisely about operations management using proper writing mechanics.

The purpose of this assignment is we need to start a firm by collaborating with few people  and then investigate the company on some parameters.

My company name is "A Wedding Story" a service or event based industry.

The company will plan and arrange the wedding related activities.

Analyze the below questions and answer them appropriately using the text book 

 —Charles W. L. Hill and Gareth R. Jones. Strategic Management: An Integrated Approach, Theory and Cases( 2015) 12th edition

or

—Sources from internet

·      The organizational structure of the company and its governance. Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

·      The strategic leadership of the company

·      The competitive advantage of the company and how the company takes advantage of its competitive    advantage in the marketplace

·      The financial viability and growth of the company

·      How the company formulate and implement strategy at the functional, business and global level

·      How the company’s strategic planning relates to domestic and global expansion and growth

·      How the company use technology to perform and advance competitive advantage 

·      How the company sees its own environment in its own business and industry

·      How the company’s corporate level strategy relates to horizontal and vertical integration

·      How Michael Porter’s model applies (or could apply) to the company

·      What SWOT analysis can tell us about the company

·      How the company market its product and compete in the market place

·      How the company develops competitive advantage and compete effectively across industries and countries

·      How the company can enhance and sustain competitive advantage in the global marketplace

·      Key opportunities for Shared Value strategies

The paper should be 10 – 12 pages, APA format, all references appropriately cited.  

Presentation: 

Minimum of 20 slides of power point presentation is also needed using the paper you have created.

One slide for each above question is minimum needed.

Note this must be original work

Reference:

For your reference I am uploading a 100% exact work on existing company EBAY.

One can take it as reference.

Tasks:

1. Share any professional and personal decisions you made in which the concept of time value of money was utilized and include the following:

• The specific decision for which you used time value of money.

• The manner in which you applied the concept.

• The tools you used to complete the analysis, including the timeline.

• An explanation of how using the concept helped you reach a more accurate decision than if time value of money had not been utilized.

Your response should consist of a minimum of 300 words and demonstrate critical thinking and analysis.

2.Download the MS6014_M2A1_workbook.xlsx template, and using the appropriate Excel financial functions, do the following:

• Determine the present value of $75,000 discounted at 6% over 6 years.

• Determine the future value of $100,000 invested today at 4% for 5 years.

• Determine what annual payment will need to be invested if you have $10,000 today and want it to grow to $100,000 over 20 years at 4.5%.

How does it define disability? What changes  were implemented throughout the hospitality industry to comply with the  Americans with Disabilities Act? Explain how a failure to comply with  the Americans with Disabilities Act may be discriminatory.  A final  element, determine whether or not intent to discriminate is necessary  for discrimination to exist.

Research Project-Week Three

You will receive feedback on the previous week's assignment by Sunday 11:59pm.  Before you complete your Week Three assignment, please read your instructor’s comments about your Week Two assignment, as well as this week’s lecture. Be sure to include any suggested changes in your project going forward.

In a three- to four- page paper (not including the title and reference pages), provide

• A revised version of your introduction, research question, background research, hypothesis, research design, and sampling plan. These revisions must be based on your instructor’s feedback if your instructor provided additional comments about these sections in Week Two.
• A discussion of the types of secondary data you could use to test your hypothesis, and why this data would be useful. If secondary data would not be appropriate, please explain why.
• The possible measurement and measurement scales you could use in a survey for testing your hypothesis. If a survey with measurement scales would not be appropriate, please explain why.
• A reference list documented in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Part 1: Entrepreneur Interview Paper

Locate a local entrepreneur to interview and write a reflection paper on your chosen person. You are required to submit a one-page biography of your entrepreneur in Week 3 that is worth 20 points. It is important: Be sure to start this assignment as soon as possible to insure that you find a suitable entrepreneur.

The purpose of this paper is to interview a local entrepreneur in order to develop insights into the world of entrepreneurship. At the end of the process, you will need to take the information and reflect upon the challenges and the rewards of being an entrepreneur.

• What type of person becomes this type of risk taker?
• What challenges did he or she face and overcome?
• What failures did this person have?
• How many companies has he or she started?
• How successful is he or she?
• Why is this person successful?
• Why did he or she become an entrepreneur?
• What is this person's measure of success?
• What did you learn about entrepreneurship from this interview?

This paper should focus on these types of questions but should not be limited to just the ones listed above. Get creative and get into the idea that you need to learn from this person so that you can better understand the challenges this business choice offers.

Guidelines

• The biography paper must be no more than one page; you will turn this in at the end of Week 3.
• You must follow APA formatting guidelines.
• Although this is not a scientific-type writing assignment and is mostly creative in nature, references are still very important. You must reference your interviewee. Be sure to look up how to cite an interview in APA style.

The Public Health Department is planning to develop an adolescent substance abuse prevention program.

Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research about the stages of research synthesis. Based on your research, respond to the following:

• Using meta-analysis, apply and explain the stages of research synthesis that you would propose to address adolescent substance abuse.
• Identify the best practices that will form the basis of service delivery.
• Analyze and explain whether evidence-based practice would prove to be the best choice for this program.
• Explain which steps should be followed when using evidence-based practice for this program. Provide at least two examples of evidence-based practice that can be referred to for the program.
• Analyze and explain which of the summative evaluation methods is the most effective in accessing a research program's outcomes or effects. Describe the pros and cons of using each method.

Respond to Peers: Review your classmates’ responses. Respond to at least two of your classmates. In each response •Address your classmate’s description of revising and editing. •Agree or disagree with your classmate’s description of each. •Offer examples of an editing or revising task to support your agreement/disagreement. •You may also respond to your classmate’s questions.  Make sure you support your comments with insights from your own reading. Response posts must be 125 to 200 words in length