...HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY FRANK G. ZARB SCHOOL OF BUSINESS "The Frank G. Zarb School of Business at Hofstra University provides a quality education that prepares professionals for a dynamic, globally oriented environment “ DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND GENERAL BUSINESS GBUS 180 - Business Policy and Strategy Spring 2013 (undergraduate course) All Students are responsible for reading this course syllabus carefully, and complying with all course requirements stated in it. INSTRUCTOR’S NAME Dr. Matthew Sonfield OFFICE HOURS Tues & Thurs 8:00 – 9:30 AM and by appointment LOCATION OF OFFICE 229 Weller Hall CAMPUS TELEPHONE 463-5728 E-MAIL ADDRESS Matthew.Sonfield@ hofstra.edu (e-mail messages will receive responses much faster than voice-mail messages) HOME PAGE http://people.hofstra.edu/hu/faculty/matthew_sonfield/ GENERAL INFORMATION Location of Department Office 228A Weller Hall Telephone of Department (516) 463-5726 Department Chairperson Dr. Li-Lian Gao HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN DESCRIPTION OF COURSE A capstone course enabling students to integrate functional area knowledge in order to effect managerial decisions and assume leadership roles in organizations. Theory and concepts are applied using both case analysis and a computer-based business simulation. Topics include: elements of the strategic planning process, such as strategy formulation and...
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...Grapes of Wrath The movie Grapes of Wrath is a film about a family that is affected in a very bad way by the Great Depression. The family is forced to leave their Oklahoma farm because they were stuck right in the middle of the Dust Bowl, The Dust Bowl was a drought that made it almost impossible for farmers to harvest there crop making every sharecropper set off for work, which was very hard to get. Tom Joad who was an ex- convict came home to a house that was being evicted do to the money shortage the Dust Bowl caused the family. It wasn’t long after Tom along with his family started to head west to look for work. The Joad family firmly believed that if they reached California they would find stable jobs and a home to live in, but what they didn’t know hundred of thousand of family’s were headed the same direction also looking for jobs to satisfy their needs. It wasn’t long after they set off for California Grandpa Joad dies which signals the start to the difficult passage they will have to endure to the west. After pulling over and burying him in the ground the Joad family parked their car at a camp where they meet a man that recently came back from California. The man thinks that Pa’s good thoughts about finding a better way of life are far from believable, the man tells the Joads about his failed trip to the west and how there was work. These remarks by the man would not stop the family from continuing their journey. The family continues to the border of Arizona...
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...1 Lionel Messi Forward Barcelona Argentina 25 2 Cristiano Ronaldo Forward Real Madrid Portugal 27 3 Xavi Midfielder Barcelona Spain 32 4 Andres Iniesta Midfielder Barcelona Spain 28 5 Zlatan Ibrahimovic Forward PSG Sweden 31 6 Radamel Falcao Forward Atletico Madrid Colombia 26 7 Robin van Persie Forward Man Utd Netherlands 29 8 Andrea Pirlo Midfielder Juventus Italy 33 9 Yaya Toure Midfielder Man City Ivory Coast 27 10 Edinson Cavani Forward Napoli Uruguay 25 11 Sergio Aguero Forward Man City Argentina 24 12 Iker Casillas Goalkeeper Real Madrid Spain 31 13 Neymar Forward Santos Brazil 20 14 Sergio Busquets Defender/midfielder Barcelona Spain 24 15 Xabi Alonso Midfielder Real Madrid Spain 31 16 Thiago Silva Defender PSG Brazil 28 17 Mesut Ozil Midfielder Real Madrid Germany 24 18 David Silva Midfielder/forward Man City Spain 26 19 Bastian Schweinsteiger Midfielder Bayern Munich Germany 28 20 Gianluigi Buffon Goalkeeper Juventus Italy 34 21 Luis Suarez Forward Liverpool Uruguay 25 22 Sergio Ramos Defender Real Madrid Spain 26 23 Vincent Kompany Defender Man City Belgium 26 24 Gerard Pique Defender Barcelona Spain 25 25 Philipp Lahm Defender Bayern Munich Germany 29 26 Willian Midfielder Shakhtar Donetsk Brazil 24 27 Marco Reus Forward Borussia Dortmund Germany 23 28...
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...products made by Adidas, FILA, Nike, Gatorade, McDonalds and the Beijing Olympics. The Nike and FILA advertisements focus on shoes. Varieties of images Africa Americans are elite basket ballers and they are recognized around the world and NBA league is the top league in the world and all the young basketball player want to be like Michael Jordan and LeBron James. As the result, the Nike and FILA advertisements feature black American in the center of the ads to attract potential customers. People believe that if they buy Nike shoes they will be able to play very well. Each image is of a very strong, muscular, leaping athlete who looks...
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...tool to encourage the youth to make something out of themselves. I am not saying that other sports cannot impact someone’s life, but basketball has always highlighted most kids’ childhoods. There were always different types of ballers back in the day though. One of the fundamental divisions of sports is into team and individual activities. Basketball can be broken down into many different groups. That depends on a few factors such as, geography, culture, and skill. In the United States we have the highest level of basketball, the NBA. Now even in the pros there are a few levels that can be broken down. There are the greatest players, Jordan or LeBron, and then you have players that do not even make it a full year. There is the kind of ball player that practices every single day trying to perfect his craft, and maybe make it to the pros. He is the guy that does not have the newest sneakers or the most expensive gear. That stuff does not matter to him. He will never be able to attend one pro ball game, but will never miss a game on his local television channels. He will imitate every move, like the one Iverson crossed Jordan with, and he will dedicate his life to school because he knows that basketball is merely a dream. There is the kind of baller that just does one thing, shoot the ball. He does not care about running up and down the court, dunking, or even passing. This guy is what I call a three point camper. He will be the first person down the court to wait at the...
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...like its employees to feel valued and to care about the business more. By giving the employees a greater responsibility within the business they will have a larger interest in the business. Uber also emphasizes the idea, over the person. In other words, the company tries to “avoid politics” and “encourage toe-stepping” by encouraging employees at all levels to voice new ideas, and then supporting them if they seem doable, Atwood said. This culture has been implemented since the creation of the company and according to Uber is the key to such rapid growth. To begin with Uber was a taxi service of luxury cars which as Kalanick says“In the beginning, it was a lifestyle company. You push a button and a black car comes up. Who's the baller? It was a baller move to get a black car to arrive in 8 minutes." But what began in 2009 as a luxury car service in San Francisco is now valued at $3.76 billion and operates worldwide. Its transformation from luxury...
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...The truth is the athletes are the only ones effected by these negative comments about athletes, therefore we should help them create a stronger self-identity. Programs such as Scholar Baller are great ways to teach student athletes that their academic identity is just as important as their athletic one. Peer mentors can help athletes see themselves more in the academic field as well as branching their connection outside of athletics. Many athletes are isolated in the way that they are surrounded by only other athletes or coaches, which makes it harder for them to develop an academic identity. Peer mentors can help introduce athletes to the other side of the college experience and help them set goals for the future. Having someone outside of their athletic sphere is the first step to reaffirming their identity as being more than just an athlete. For some athletes a peer mentor and some self-affirmation exercises will not be entirely beneficial. It is important for colleges to branch out and find more ways to help motivate athletes to take a personal interest in academics. Take for example when Scholar Baller partnered with Jordan and the program began rewarding “high-achieving players with swag (gear) that was cobranded with both organizations” (Harrison and Rasmussen, p. 87). The Scholar Baller program found a new way to motivate students by rewarding their hard work and dedication in the academic world. This partnership shows athletes that academics are important and that big...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The IMC campaign title is “HONESTHESIA: Be the Cure” which came from the medicine drug “ANESTHESIA”. It aims to “inject” or to put into the mind and in the heart of the students the value and importance of honesty during elections in order to reduce “pain” or to reduce the dishonesties and lies to happen during election. Elections have been practiced a long time ago; it’s one way for people to exercise their suffrage to vote to appoint their desired leaders. Philippines as a democratic country used election to appoint officials like senators and president. But with every election, news about vote buying, malicious tampering of votes, fraud and other dishonest acts increases. These kinds of acts are a start of an impending problem called corruption. To prevent corruption to take place, we need to take action first on our elections and make it clean and honest. Our team has come up to a campaign called “HONESTHESIA: Be the Cure” which aims to increase honest individuals and young voters to stop dishonest acts during school and nationwide elections. Our goal is to: 1. To provide awareness about honesty to students within 6 months 2. To teach the true value and importance of honesty during elections within 6 months 3. To increase by 10% the students who will value and practice honesty during elections every year after the campaign is implemented 4. To decrease dishonesty and corruption by 10% every year after the campaign is implemented The major...
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...Rough Draft Sociology is an important area of science. It is the study of people, their interactions and the actions of individuals. It helps solve conflict and problems it also helps to prevent issues from developing in the future. In other words sociology is the study of human beings and how they react to each other and their environment. Sports are a big part of human culture in all parts of the world. It transcends all races, ages, and social constructs. Sociology of Sports is the study of the relationships between sports and society. It is an important sub-field of sociology that examines the many interpersonal and group phenomena that arises in relationship to sports. It covers all area in which sports affect and is affected by. The sociology of sports examines how culture and values influence sports as well as how sports influence culture and values. One could say that it has no boundaries. Sociology of sports also examines the relationships between sports and the media, politics, economic, religion, race and gender, as well as social inequality and social mobility ( Crossman, 2013). The sport I chose to research is basketball. Basketball is a game that continually amazes. Its fast pace and high flying aerial display has made basketball one of the most popular games in America. Basketball is a court game played by two teams of 5 players each. The object of this court game is to put a ball through a hoop or basket, and score more points than the other...
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...kan. Fokuser på landingen, hold knæene i fast spænding udad. De må ikke slingre og falde indad. | Full body squat m. Vægt: | 3x8 | Hold en vægtskive med to hænder ca. 5 kg. Ret ryggen. Gå ned i squat/hug til skiven rammer jorden, kom tilbage på standart position men fortsæt bevægelsen i armene så skiven bliver løftet over hovedet. | Kettlebell swings: | 3x8 | Stil dig i let bøjede knæ med tæerne let pegende udad. spænd op i mave og ryg. Sving kettlen op og ned. Ryggen skal forblive ret, det er vigtigt at det ikke er armene som arbejder. Stop svinget når dine arme er vandret. | Sideliggende planke: | 20 sek. | Læg dig på siden. Spænd op i mave/baller/arme. Sørg for at ligge ret. Pres derfor hoften frem og skulderen tilbage. | Alm planke: | 20 sek. | Ned med røven og op med skulderbladende. Spænd i mave og baller. Husk kvalitet! | Sideløft: | 2-3x20 | Stå ret med en vægt i hånden. Hold din front fremad, men bøj kroppen til siden, ned over dig selv. spænd i maven. |...
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...2011 SHOW-ME STATE GAMES - BASKETBALL 3RD GRADE BOYS - DIVISION 1 A1 A2 A3 A4 Independence Patriots JC Ballers Celtics Springfield S.T.A.R.S. 2 GROUP A - Jake Clemons - Melvin Myers - Chris Andrasko - Brent Looney GROUP B - John Brooks - Moran / Lewis - Casey Walsh GROUP C - Julian Winfield - Kevin Conkright - Harold Berndt COURT SRC 4 SRC 5 SRC 6 SRC 5 SRC 6 SRC 4 SRC 5 SRC 4 SRC 5 SRC 6 SRC 4 SRC 4 SRC 5 SRC 6 SRC 6 H A1 A3 B1 B3 C1 A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 A1 A2 B2 B1 C2 V A2 A4 B2 C2 C2 A3 A4 B3 C2 C3 A4 A3 B3 C1 C3 Independence Jefferson City O' Fallon Springfield B1 Kansas City Keys B2 Rim Rockers B3 Jr. Hawks C1 STL Warriors C2 Blue Devils C3 Columbia Heat DATE Sat. July 30 Sat. July 30 Sat. July 30 Sat. July 30 Sat. July 30 Sat. July 30 Sat. July 30 Sat. July 30 Sat. July 30 Sat. July 30 Sat. July 30 Sat. July 30 Sat. July 30 Sat. July 30 Sat. July 30 TIME 9:10am 9:10am 9:10am 10:20am 10:20am 12:40pm 12:40pm 1:50pm 1:50pm 1:50pm 4:10pm 5:20pm 5:20pm 5:20pm 6:30pm - Kansas City - Centralia - St. Louis - Saint Louis - Ellington - Columbia SCORES FINALS All teams will advance to a single-elimination bracket. Sun. 8:00am SRC 6 Sun. 10:20am SRC 6 Sun. 1:50pm SRC 5 Sun. 11:30am SRC 4 Sun. 4:10pm SRC 6 Sun. 11:30am SRC 5 Sun. 1:50pm SRC 6 Sun. 11:30am SRC 6 Sun. 9:10am SRC 6...
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...E. Jackson Mr. James O'donoghue Sept 27, 2013 English Comp 101-Sec 103 Water Ad Analyzination Everyday many thoughts are placed in Ads to promote new ideas and new products to obtain different audiences’ attention . Ads have been around for many of years . The importance of advertisement is to promote the sales and products to seem more valuable than what they really are. Ads are used to give messages to different audience to make sells . By convincing the audience , the ad is trying to show why they are the best choice . By enhancing image , creating new logos and new catch phrases . Sidehustlenation.com says ,“SmartWater is vapor distilled water. From what I can understand, pretty much all water is vapor distilled, meaning it originally came from clouds.According to their website, most SmartWater is procured from municipal water systems. Read, “tap water.”Then the Smart Water goes through Glaceau’s proprietary filtration process, that removes just about everything from the water except two H’s and an O. SmartWater then adds back in the electrolytes calcium chloride, magnesium chloride, and potassium bicarbonate for taste. I think the for taste part is important because the nutrition label still reads 0 mg of sodium, and the amounts of electrolytes added have essentially zero gatorade-effect. In fact, the amount of electrolytes found in SmartWater is less than in other brands of non-electrolyte-added” bottled waters. The reason why it is called Smartwater...
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...body know Ill get what I need,so I plead to get these pigs off of me, hot boy,an I love it,if you se da cops you better start runnin,they all after me cuz I stay stuntin,an it aint nothin, cuz you gotta stay thugggin,if you aint you better start rerunning,or they guna start gunnin down,lead like rain,just storm of pain,memories burnt in my brain,smoke so many blunts its insane,all the way from CT to MAINE,maybe even to the urkraine,an ill leave a stain in the game,or even have my name in fame,an then ill truly make it rain, Moneys everything me, with me cash is the only thing you see,benjamins is whatcha you read,if you aint down then you can leave,then I can proceed,to lead a team of starters,and I feel like a million dollars,cuz we all ballers,maybe ima scoller,helpin niggaz finda doller,cbs crazy an aint no boddy wilder,some say I got a crazy team,especially when we sippin on the lean,an smoking ounces of the green, thats about 18 Gs just for me,hot headed when I drop ur boys like submarines,leave ur whole crew dead like a pack of sardines, ima shark and yous fishes,like yousa bounch of bitches doin my dishes,ima G hard headed theres a plan inbeaded in my head,make money,make money , No one can tell me nothing ,cuz I got my cash right,an I re uped last night,every single day like procedure,ima dope boy dealer,an keep that understood,cuz all nigghas wish they fuckin could. I snort more lines than a...
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...FLOPS Document FLOPS ASSIGNMET The whole world is a potential lucrative market place in which international companies can succed if they do it right. Some of them are very fortunate when it comes to expanding in countries abroud, others less. Most of the times the failure is caused by not choosing the right marketing strategy. Firms can suffer a lot by not adapting to the foreign countries needs. They are either being perceived as redundant, they are not noticed at all or getting a lot of criticism and dishonor. In all three situations the companies get confronted with failure and huge losses. This essay will show a well example of an outstanding american company who did not satisfy the public opinion and failed partly while expanding in France. The above mentioned company is Uber Technologies Inc. Uber is the most popular mobile ride hail company in the world. It was founded by Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp in 2009 in San Francisco. and now operates worldwide. The service of Uber is divided into three divisions: Uber Black, UberPop and Uber Taxi. There are different rates for the different services. Uber Black was the first offered service and it was concentrated primarly to have professional drivers in middle and upper class cars driving the customers. The company then soon expanded their service and offered an inexpensive service where people can offer their own cars and driving customers (Uber Pop). In some cities Uber has regular Taxis and Taxi drivers (Uber Taxi)...
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...Popovich uncharacteristically opened up about Duncan at a retirement gathering that Duncan himself had not shown up for. "I'm trying to wrap my head around why I'm standing here and he's not. And we all know why. It's not Tim Duncan. We've been saying it for 19 years and he really only cared about doing the best job he could basketball-wise and being who he was for his teammates and being somebody who loved his family. That's really who he is.......he is the most real, consistent, true person I have ever met in my life. He was so genuine, it blows your mind......And he led by example. He had a vision. Everybody bought into his vision. He was accepting. He was not judgmental of people." Tim Duncan is one of the All-Time Greats, not only as a baller, but as a leader and visionary. He went out with the same class he carried throughout his long...
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