...Research Paper on Client Criteria, Products and Services, Organization Structure and Personnel, Information and Communication of Social Fund Tran Thi Thanh Thuy Columbia Southern University Abstract The purpose of this research paper is to build a fund social developing sustainability and stability, achieving operational self-sufficiency and achieving social efficiency. This study analyze four problems such as client criteria, products and services, organization structure and personnel, information and communication of social fund. To understand better the characteristics of the client, social fund can build products and services which appropriate to the needs of target customers. Besides it also helps build organization structure and personnel of social fund to ensure operating efficiency and performance. The construction of information and communication is very important to help fund to manage social fund data efficient. The study of this subjects helps me to fulfill my current job also to complete the courses of Columbia Southern University. Table of contents Page I. Introduction……………………………………………………….. 4 II. Client criteria…………………………………. …………………… 4 III. Products and services ……………………………… . . . . . . . 5 A. Credit services ……………………………………………. . 5 1. Key criteria of credit services ………………………...
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...Case Study - Question 3 Ida Fort Columbia Southern University Case Study - Question 3 Crate and Barrel offers unique/original products and strives to set the trends. Their products are mostly marketed via catalogs and website. They have fewer brick and mortar stores than Williams Sonoma. They offer high style but at a lower price point than Williams Sonoma. Crate and Barrel focuses on furniture rather than kitchen products. The Company is in the process of changing its combination of online and brick and mortar stores, repositioning some of its stores in their current markets (Sweeny, 2014). Restoration hardware sells pricey vintage style furniture. They compete with William Sonoma in the direct to customer market. Restoration Hardware targets the wealthiest 10 %, Williams Sonoma targets wealthiest 20%. A former senior manager left Pottery Barn to work or restoration hardware (Rouse, 2010). This inside knowledge helps with Restorations’ positioning. Its strategy is to target fast growth. Pier one stores offer similar offerings to Williams Sonoma. Pier 1 aims to get the competitive advantage by offering a variety of products to fit various market. They offer an array of household, kitchen and specialty items. Bombay Company offers classic, traditional accessories and large furniture. The company also has outlet stores that targets those they desire high style at a lower price point. While targeting a group of consumers that have less disposable income, this strategy...
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...every international student should know about NYU Stern The New York University Stern School of Business was founded in 1900 by Charles Waldo Haskins, co-founder of Deloitte’s predecessor Haskins and Sells and a nephew of Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was then known as the School for Commerce, Finance, and Accounting, and prepared students for careers in the financial markets of New York City. In 1988, following a $30 million gift from alumnus Leonard N. Stern (MBA 1959), the school improved its facilities, and was renamed the Leonard N. Stern School of Business. Ten years later, in 1998, a $10 million gift from Henry Kaufman (PhD 1958) supported a major upgrade of Stern’s facilities. In 1999 came a similar gift from Kenneth Langone (MBA 1960). In 2000, Stern celebrated its centenary with the launch of a $100 million Centennial Campaign, which helped the school double its endowment, enhance the number of named professorships, and increase financial aid to students. Here are more facts about the school, with a focus on its full-time MBA program. Location: NYU Stern is located in the center of Greenwich Village, near Washington Square Park...
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...MBA 6053, Economics for Managers Course Syllabus Course Description Review of managerial economics and problems encountered in firm management. Examines changing economic environment, business trends and fluctuations, and introduces forecasting techniques. Prerequisites None Course Textbook Keat, P., & Young, P. (2009). Managerial economics (6th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Course Learning Objectives Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: 1. Discuss managerial economics and its relationship to microeconomics and other related fields of study such as finance, marketing, and statistics. 2. Decide economic goals for the firm and develop optimal decisions that will bring the firm closest to those goals. 3. Define supply, demand, and equilibrium price. 4. Apply the concepts of price elasticity, cross-elasticity, and income elasticity. 5. Specify the components of a regression model that can be used to estimate a demand equation. 6. Define production function, and explain the difference between a short-run and a long-run production function. 7. Distinguish between economic cost and accounting cost. 8. Describe the key characteristics of the four basic market types used in economic analysis. 9. Cite the main differences between monopolistic competition and oligopoly. 10. Analyze the practice of cartel pricing. 11. Illustrate game theory, and explain how it helps better understand mutually interdependent management decisions. 12. Define...
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...Columbia Southern University Student name: Tai Huu Pham Student ID: 196479 Course: Human Resources Management – MBA 6451 Instructor: Dr. Ed Sherbert NETWORKING AFTER COLLEGE by Tony Lee Summary The article Networking after College by Tony Lee describes the job hunting after college. Lee argues that it is difficult to find a job if a person does not know any contact because the employer simply just ignores the applicant, certain with a polite manner. Lee provides data for his argument, “a survey of more than 1500 successful job hunters shows that 63% found new positions by tapping their networks of friends, family members, acquaintances and anyone else who would help. In comparison, only 11% found jobs by answering ads, and just 2% by sending unsolicited resumes to company recruiters, reports a New York-based career consulting firm” (Lee, p.10, 2013). When one knows that he needs to have connection in order to find a job, Lee recommends a way to start networking. There are 3 groups of people who can help one introduce a job or a contact: 1. Brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, and other helpful relatives; college friends and past professors; 2. Former bosses and co-workers; 3. Neighbors and family acquaintances. Among these people, one should choose the most potential ones to ask for a job or a contact. Lee also provides some instructions for talking to the contacts. According to Lee (p.11, 2013), “you need to be relentless in using your network contacts, but...
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...Unit IV Assessment: The Code of Ethics and Evaluation By, Adepitan Fasoro, Columbia Southern University, USA MBA 6301: Business Ethics 1. Fasco Group Inc. Code of Ethics and Evaluation is a written document that states the Group acceptable and unacceptable behaviors expected from all Group employees. 2. This code of Ethics represent the values and ethics with which Fasco Group Inc. conducts business and will continue to uphold the highest levels of business Ethics in all our business dealings. Fasco Group Inc. Code of Ethics encompasses all aspects of our business, including: Human resources, Production, Sales, Customer services, Purchasing, and Accounting. It also addressed the company’s ethical standards, what is expected from `every employees of Fasco Group Inc. which includes: Good communication, Honesty and Integrity, Fair Conduct, Compliance with rules and regulations, obeying all applicable laws, reporting violations, Competence and others. A. Human Resources: i. Fasco Group Inc. shall give equal employment opportunity to all applicants ii. Fairness in training, Promotion and disciplinary of all employees. B. Production: i. All Group employees must ensure that production function or activities are damaging to the final consumers or society. ii. Remove any defective product and service from going into circulation. C. Sales and Marketing: i. Unhealthy rivalry with competitors which might leads to any unethical conduct shall...
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...MBA 5401 Management Information Systems Lisa Thomas Case Study 111-5 Columbia Southern University With wanting to ‘Go Live” on December 30, 1997 NIBCO, Inc. had to put in a lot of hard work and man hours in order for this date to take off. NIBCO is a plant that produces valves and Pipes fittings and is located in Elkhart, Indiana. In 1996 NIBCO, had an annual estimated revenue of $461 million and 3000 on payroll. (Brown, DeHayes, Hoffer, Martin, & Perkins, 2012, p. 468). With a 15 month time frame for the project and a princely$ 17 million budget, NIBCO wanted to change to SAP R/3 at all of their plants including the four new North American distribution centers while endorsing the big bang approach (Brown et al., p. 468). NIBCOs decision to kick start an enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems where mainly contributed to an old outdated system the company could not move forward. The departments all had different systems, many that were alike and repeated some of the same functions, which was a waste of time and money. With the systems not communicating with one another it resulted in the distribution not seeing what the manufacturing was doing and manufacturing could not see what sales and distribution was doing (Brown, et al., p. 470). It was very timely to correct the issues from disconnects and building custom interfaces which would not meet the deadline to improve productivity. The system required a lot of maintenance and required a lot of preparation and...
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...MBA 6301, Business Ethics Course Syllabus Course Description Explores the role of individual, business, and government activities related to ethically responsible commerce and socially beneficial business activity. Prerequisites None Course Textbook Stanwick, P. A., & Stanwick, S. D. (2014). Understanding business ethics (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Course Learning Outcomes Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Analyze the concepts of business ethics from a personal and an organizational perspective. Assess the ethical issues facing business leaders. Evaluate and distinguish between the concepts of social responsibility, integrity, and business ethics. Explain the framework required to make ethical decisions in today's business environment and how it improves the business climate. Summarize how moral philosophies, on a corporate and individual level, influence ethical decision-making in business. Analyze the influence of corporate culture, including leadership, power, and motivation, on business ethics in the workplace. Explain the pressures that influence ethical decision making in the organization. Evaluate the need for ethical standards, codes of ethics and practices in business. Assess the auditing process to assure ethical practices are being followed. Analyze the role that culture plays in global business ethics. Credits Upon completion of this course, the students...
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...people choose online courses for Master’s degree. Each person has a different way to be successful in online learning. While some people believe if they have intelligence and talent, they will get success in their study, but others claim that a important factor to contribute to the achievements of their performance is hard-working. For me, in my self-study experience, intelligence, talent or hard-working are not enough, the improvement of some modern-technology skills in looking for informaton leads student to be successful. The truth is that because of taking advantage of using organization, some abilities in time management and effective communication on online learning is the way to approach me to knowledge and get good achievements in my MBA online course. The role of organization Regarding organization, well organized materials, documents or files is one of the ways a person use to save his time and manage his work. Many people could not remember where they are put a hard copy document in, hence, they waste a lot of time to locate it with an exhausted and confused feeling. It also...
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...Unit V Case Study Corey Reed Columbia Southern University BBA 4951, Business Policy and Strategy Professor Don Jernigan, MBA McDonald’s Case Study V McDonald’s perceived product positioning maps in comparison to their corporate strategy do line up to what is expected. There are areas for improvement in relation to their direct competition in every town. In reference to EPS/EBIT, it is relevant to their strategy implementation. McDonald’s product positioning maps do line up with their corporate strategy. Their strategy or motto is “Plan to Win”. When I think of a fast food restaurant winning, I think of winning over the masses of customer traffic. They certainly do this well. What makes up this strategy is; continued growth in the US and abroad, being a sustainable company, new items, new designs of business models, and remaining very competitive (NMINM's University, "n.d."). There is nothing about being the best quality, friendliest customer service, healthiest option, or most comfortable atmosphere. In these categories, I feel that they want to just do better than they have in the past with continued improvements. When you take a look at these product positioning maps, they tend to fall on the lower ends and very conservative in many fields such as atmosphere, quality, healthy choices, and limited choices (NMINM's University, "n.d."). Areas they tend to do better than some of their competition is speed of service, taste, and price (NMINM's University, "n.d."). This...
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...Running head: Nike Case Study Nike Case Study Fulton Spriggs Columbia Southern University Organizational Research and Theory Marie Gould Harper MBA-6001-14J Nike Case Study Nike are undergoing change, after initial difficulties adapting to a changing environment, a strategy of acquisition, combined with decentralisation was implemented, facilitating specialised focus on different product lines. However, there is still the potential to increase the overall level of efficiency within the companies design processes. One approach may be the development of an entrepreneurship, a model that supports innovation and development associated with entrepreneurial processes in large organisations (Cowles, 2013). Within this approach, not only would there be the division of the various researchers, there will also be placed in divisions with the aim of emulating small organisations where entrepreneurial stretch would be required. The aim of this is to increase original thought and innovation stimulated by their environment (Cowles, 2013). The organisation could also adopt a Blue Ocean Strategy. This the company would need to examine the current marketplace, and identify markets which are currently not served (Kim & Mauborgne, 2015), this may be geographical sectors, but can also be consumer sectors. By identifying new markets, the organisation could gain a first mover advantage, which is a significant source of differentiation...
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...Global MBA Rankings 2012 FT.com Business School Rankings - Custom PDF download Weighted salary (US$) 192,179 178,249 172,353 152,981 166,497 144,355 157,337 156,658 133,888 127,600 175,076 152,585 144,045 146,811 139,405 145,834 134,093 121,061 151,182 129,512 142,455 134,805 97,625 123,058 141,727 132,758 118,151 100,408 129,649 103,628 117,016 136,331 114,988 102,350 132,325 125,196 106,720 111,552 134,936 124,832 118,943 102,854 123,290 94,255 118,617 104,619 110,701 113,217 109,114 112,992 110,103 108,606 121,170 79,914 141,490 118,959 105,726 109,375 88,283 103,304 106,668 114,265 121,060 89,623 100,631 100,779 105,426 100,738 109,440 94,661 97,124 108,994 109,088 110,118 108,990 84,411 98,784 106,762 104,814 108,737 99,333 80,898 88,783 97,733 106,171 93,824 87,274 102,026 100,803 92,978 79,809 83,286 91,106 91,718 93,053 90,900 87,228 101,189 101,286 106,506 3 year average rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 20 20 23 24 24 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 38 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 46 46 49 49 51 51 51 54 54 56 57 58 59 59 61 61 61 61 65 66 66 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 74 76 77 77 79 80 81 82 83 83 85 86 86 86 89 90 91 91 93 94 95 95 95 98 98 100 3 3 2 2 6 5 8 7 10 8 11 14 22 18 20 15 18 17 15 17 21 21 30 24 42 27 30 33 32 24 31 37 32 37 37 37 37 36 40 45 44 38 54 59 50 50 51 68 55 52 47 54 62 56 61 71 73 68 54 63 71 45 79 68 69 79 69 81 87 79 76 87 75 73 74 81 84 91 91 94 94 Stanford Graduate School of Business Harvard Business School University...
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...Unit V Case Study: “Google: Don’t Be Evil Unless…. By: Fasoro Adepitan, Columbia Southern University, USA MBA 6301, Business Ethics Assessment. The article focus on the evolution of Google from starting operations in a garage in Silicon Valley in 1998 to become one of the most powerful technology-driven companies in the world. Google’s philosophy is to offer everyone in the world free access to all information around the world; however, various ethical issues were raised from different quarters against Google’s operations. The first issue raised is the privacy of Gmail provided by Google. Customers complained of Google searching the contents of e-mails and design “customized” ads based on the contents. Another concern is the legal use of keeping information that is sent through Gmail without user being protected by the right given by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.(Stanwick, P.A. & Stanwick S.D. 2014). The Privacy of Individuals, is the second issue raised against Google, a reporter from CNETNews.com in just 30 minutes obtained and published as much relevant background information on Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt and leads to Google sanctioning CNET for a year, this reaction contradict the goal of Google to organize information in the World. Google and the Chinese government is another major issue raised, where Google censored internet search results in China to suit the Communist government in China , by filtered out and restricted Chinese populace from having access...
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...[pic] Kimberly-Clark Andean Region: Creating a Winning Culture SUMMARY Kimberly Clark has hired Sergio Nacach to be the manager in the Andean Region. Andean region is consisted of five countries that are Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, and Columbia. Andean region is known much about their bad economic in that time. Kimberly Clark wants to aim at their people. The culture different in Kimberly Clark is somewhat differentiated. They come from many places and they are all different on the individual. Kimberly Clark run by their newly hired from Uniliver’s management, Sergio Nacach, have gone up in the rank in the business. Kimberly Clark have successful not only the business result, despite of the situation of the economic in the Andean region, they also awarded as the Great Place to Work Institute. In Ecuador and Peru 2007, Kimberly-Clark was ranked number one on the best place to work list, and number four in Columbia. Sergio Nacach implements a very attractive way of management style. He closes the gap between the employee and him. He is not the type to go away with the power. Employees of any rank can walk in his office and discuss. He will drop everything he worked on and talk. This type of the management style encourages the employees to come up with the ideas that somehow never showed up in the business world. This method also greatly reduces tension in the work. Getting scolded by the boss is an old scheme...
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...Project Scheduling why is it so Important? Cecelia Williams Columbia Southern University MBA 6941, Managing Project Teams Professor Jim Marion 26 June 2012 Managing any type of project big or small is no easy task. Is a powerful communication tool for scheduling? During my career and personal life I didn’t realize how many projects that I dealt on a daily basis because anything that you do regardless if it is related to each other and directed toward a common goal or output needs some type of scheduling to be successful. For example going to my niece wedding if my daughter would have had a schedule on what she was going to do instead waiting until the last minute which interferes with my scheduling. So, that is why communication in scheduling is such a powerful tool. Having an accurate schedule can be a great tool for a project manager” without good schedules, project team members can find themselves working in chaos because they have not purposefully considered sequential task relationship and priorities” (Brown & Hyer, 2010, pg 200). “Whether you are presenting project status updates to senior management, your customer, or reviewing upcoming work with team members, an accurate project schedule provides an objective method of communicating schedule progress, as well as highlighting the potential impacts of project issues (Bondale, 2010)”, everyone has to be on board having an accurate schedule keeps everyone in the link and if there is some issues...
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