...For office use only CANDIDATE NUMBER APPLICATION FOR AN ACADEMIC POST Application for the post of: Ref: Please complete this form in type or in black ink. If there is insufficient space for your information continue on a separate sheet of paper. YOUR DETAILS Surname: Forename(s): Title: Address: Postcode: Home Telephone: Work Telephone: Mobile: Email: When is the best time to contact you? REFERENCES Name, postal address, email address and position of three persons, including your existing or last employer, to whom reference may be made in support of your application concerning your professional ability and performance at work. Please indicate if we can take up references immediately. Refs 1. Name: Relationship No Address: Tel No: 2. Name: Email: Refs No Relationship Address: Tel No: 3. Name: Email: Refs No Relationship Address: Tel No: ACADEMIC APPLICATION Can we contact you at work? No Email: DECLARATION I confirm that the information provided is true and correct, and understand that providing false or misleading information will disqualify me from appointment, or if appointed, could lead to termination of appointment. Additionally, I understand that if I am applying for a post within the Brighton and Sussex Medical School (a joint venture between the Universities of Brighton and Sussex with the involvement of local NHS trusts) it may be necessary for the information I have supplied to be shared with these other organisations. Under the terms of the Data...
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...CONTACT INFORMATION Title: | English Academic Manager | | | | | | | | Candidate Information: | Full name: | Nguyễn Quốc Chỉnh | Experience: | 3 Years | | | Birthday: | 04/01/1985 | Degree: | Bachelor | | | Gender: | Male | Level: | Manager | | | Marital status: | Single | Foreign language: | English | | | | | Additional information: | - Being a great Academic Manager in English field is not merely a means of living but a deep indulgence and non-stop dedication. With 3 years of experience, I’m very self-confident that my skills and hard-working attitude will make a valuable contribution into profitability of the company. Besides, I’m always willing to encounter the challenging because I strongly believe: “There is nothing impossible for those who have strong will”. | | | | | Contact Information: | Address: | 93/37 Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, P4, Phú Nhuận, TPHCM | | | | Country: | Hồ Chí Minh - Việt Nam | Mobile: | 0903 325 531 | | | | Email: | quocchinh0401@yahoo.com | | | | | | | | | CAREER OBJECTIVE | The desired location: | English Academic Manager | | Industries: | Education/Training/Library | | Job status: | Full time, Part time, | | Type of employment: | Permanent | | | | | | | | | Career objective: | - Becoming a Great Academic Manager in English field to provide the best quality English courses as well as value-added services (soft skills, communication skills) to the students. |...
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...By the end of this short introduction, I hope that some of my personality would have been able to shine through. I want to show you that I am ready to take the next step in my education after secondary school and to me that is studying at Christ the King Sixth Form College. I would describe myself as a person with a lot of integrity and a willingness to go the extra mile to reach a certain goal. I previously studied my GCSE’s in Harris Peckham. Academically I believe that the school was very capable and one lesson that, that school has taught me is that responsibility and reliability were very important traits to have when representing a school. In my free time, I enjoy going out, socialising and reconnecting with previous and new found friends. I am currently living with my single mother and younger brother in a council flat. The main goal I wish to achieve by the end of the year is to perhaps gain as much knowledge as possible in my chosen subjects for preparation for the exams also, making as much friends as possible is a must for me, as not many students from my previous school enrolled to this sixth form. Some obstacles that may possibly draw me back from academic achievement this year include procrastinating, not being able to find common ground with teachers, staff members and my fellow classmates and being mildly depressed. Being able to keep on board with tasks, keeping up with set homework and prep work and maintaining a positive mind-set will allow me guaranteed success...
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...company resource analysis in the drug store industry, I will select the CVS Caremark Corporation as my study company. Question 1: Whether the company's present strategy working? CVS pharmacy services business strategy centers on providing their customer and client high quality and innovative pharmaceutical solutions, while assisting their member managing overall health care costs by leveraging CVS expertise in core PBM services. (Form -10k) (1) Moreover, the retail pharmacy business strategy, base of the CVS pharmacy services model to maintain successful growth they focus on new store development by expanding the number of retail pharmacy stores and retail stores range in size in order to provide better service, help client lowers overall health care costs and improve health outcomes. (1) How these strategic working? Look into the financial performance in the Appendix 1, table 1. CVS compare well on these profitability ratios with industry averages. Most of ratios are better than the industry averages. Ventureline (2). Study the CVS’s financial report I found the company is “Solid and significant growth.” According to CVS Caremark Annual Report 2013 (3), the financial highlights show the company was significant growth during 2012 to 2013. For example, net revenues increased 3.0 percent to a record $127 billion, while adjusted earnings per share from continuing operations rose 23 percent to $4.00. CVS earned $4.4 billion in free cash flow in 2013, and returned more than...
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...The Leader as a Strategist Report Organization: CVS Caremark Pharmacy CVS Caremark is a pharmacy innovation company that is reinventing pharmacy for better health. Company continuously developing new ways to improve access for patients, promote better health outcomes and control payor costs in a way that no pharmacy retailer or PBM could do separately. In 2007, CVS Corporation and Caremark Rx, Inc. merged; CVS Caremark became an integrated provider of prescriptions and related health services with an unmatched breadth of capabilities (www.cvscaremark.com). Today CVS Caremark is the market leader in the United States in multiple categories; such as in mail order pharmacy, retail pharmacy, specialty pharmacy, and retail clinics, and is a leading provider of Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans. Purpose, vision, and values of CVS Caremark Pharmacy: Purpose: Helping people in their path to better health Strategy: Reinventing pharmacy Values: Innovation – Demonstrating openness, curiosity and creativity in the relentless pursuit of delivering excellence. Providing more relevant, caring, expert guidance, more cost-effective solutions and even more convenient access. Collaboration – Sharing and partnering with people to explore and create things. Caring – treating people with respect and compassion so they feel valued and appreciated. Accountability – Taking personal ownership for the actions and their results 1. An analysis of the strategic cascade of the organization...
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...out the rate at which accidents happen. This is a problem of a missing denominator. 2. (a) There are many more Camrys on the road than Escalades (b) Because the theft rate is higher, the Escalade is more likely to get stolen. 3. They should look at the complaint rate per hundred prescriptions -- not the total number of complaints. The reason most of the complaints are for CVS pharmacy could easily be because most of the prescriptions are written from CVS pharmacies. It could turn out that CVS pharmacies are doing better than other pharmacies. Practice Exercises 2 4. (a) observational (b) Prisoners who volunteer to take these courses are more likely to be interested in being rehabilitated than the ones who don’t volunteer. The confounding factor created here is the level of prisoner motivation to be rehabilitated: it influences whether or not they take the courses and also whether or not they commit crimes to return to prison. The education program may work well, but you can’t tell from this study because of this confounding factor. (c) A better way would be to choose a random sample of inmates and divide them into "treatment" and "control" groups. You then could offer the treatment group the option of attending counseling and compare the recidivism rate for this entire group -- not just the ones you actually go to counseling -- with the control group. This means you will compare everyone who was offered counseling to everyone who was not offered counseling. (Within...
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...1.1 create a plan for the collection of primary and secondary data for a given business problem. Primary Data Primary data can collect by using experiments, surveys, questionnaires, interviews, and observations. If you’ve already gathered this information, we can then analyze it and then come up with accurate results based on your needs. But if you haven’t already gotten this information together, no problem! We can also help with that step of data collection as well. (datacollectionservice.net, 2015) We make primary data collection easy * We create a questionnaire and interview * We design a survey * We choose the sample * We analyze the data Secondary Data Secondary data comes from resources that have already been published. You may have a running list of certain sources but there are so many published items in the world, it can be hard to find the one thing that will make a difference to your project. Collection of data from secondary sources is a treasure hunt and we are skilled researchers with an eye for diamonds. We have developed extensive lists of secondary sources of data collection and will utilize them for your project. Just because something is listed, as a secondary source for data collection doesn’t mean that it’s less important though. (datacollectionservice.net, 2015) Secondary data collection has never been easier * We define the values * We surf the webpages * We create a custom Table * We analyze and...
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...Introduction Walgreen Co. and CVS/Caremark are two of the largest retail drugstore chains in the United States, offering consumers a variety of basic consumer goods including household products, convenience foods, personal care, beauty care, photofinishing, and seasonal items, as well as over-the-counter and prescription medication. In addition to their well-known retail pharmacies, both companies also operate a health services health and wellness division. Within the retail pharmacy industry CVS/Caremark and Walgreens continually battle for the retail position. This document will offer an overview and basic competitive analysis of the two companies. Background Location & Type of presence (brick and mortar, or internet) According to the CVS/Caremark 2011Annaul Report, page 23; as of December 31, 2011, the CVS/Caremark Retail Pharmacy segment operated 7,327 retail drugstores with 7,271of these retail stores operating a full service pharmacy. Their stores are located in 41 states and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Additionally, within these retail stores operate 657 health care clinics conducting business under the Minute Clinic name. The retail pharmacy stores operate primarily under the CVS/pharmacy or Longs Drugs names. In addition, the Pharmacy Services segment operates under the names CVS Caremark Pharmacy Services, Caremark, CVS Caremark, Care Plus CVS/pharmacy, Care Plus, and Rx America to providing pharmacy benefit management services to employers, insurance...
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...Ethics RES/351 Business Research Business Research Ethics Lawsuits were filed against CVS Caremark pharmacies for disclosing patient information in the interest of financial gain. The first lawsuit was filed on March 7, 2011, for “unauthorized disclosure of protected health information constituted an unfair trade practice (Hunton & Williams LLP, 2011, p. 1 p. 1).” The second lawsuit charged CVS Caremark pharmacy with “racketeering under the federal RICO law, trade secret misappropriation and violations of the HIPAA privacy Act (Goedert, 2010, p. 14 p. 3).” The following information will explain what unethical research behavior was involved, who the injured parties were, how the unethical behavior affected CVS Caremark pharmacy, and how the unethical behavior could have been avoided or resolved. The results of the information will demonstrate that moral judgment is skewed when combining ethical decisions with financial gain. CVS Caremark extracts personal patient and pharmacy data to isolate patient demographic information, drug history, medical providers, health behavior, health plan benefits and the patient preference of communication without obtaining patient permission (Goedert, 2010). This data provides CVS Caremark marketing department the ability to contact patients and physicians in effort to change their prescription habits to financially benefit CVS Caremark’s bottom-line. CVS Caremark sent letters to the patient’s physicians to encourage them to prescribe particular...
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...DECISION MAKING AND ITS EFFECT ON BUSINESS PROFICIENCY GM591 LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR May 26th, 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 3 Problem Statement----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 4 Literature Review------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 5 Analysis-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 7 Suggestive Solutions--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 8 Conclusion & Reflection --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 9 Work Cited------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 10 INTRODUCTION Walgreens is one of the fortune 500 companies and among the fastest growing retailers in the country. Walgreens as of April 30 operated 8307 location in all 50 states including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam. This includes 7855 drugstores, 146 more than a year ago, including 21 stores acquired over the last 12 months. The company also operates infusion and respiratory services facilities, specialty pharmacy and mail service...
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...Overview Founded in 1963 by Stanley Goldstein, Sid Goldstein, and Mark Steven in Lowell, Massachusetts, Consumer Value Store (CVS), has quickly grown to be the second largest pharmacy and convenience store with over 7,600 pharmacies and drugstores nationwide. Since the beginning, CVS has always strived to be the largest retail pharmacy-which led to the development of their growth strategy. Furthermore, CVS continually strives to “reinvent” the pharmacy and make healthy living a fundamental part of their customers’ lives. (Biesada, 2014) Initially, these strategies were influenced by the company’s mission statement and purpose. According to the CVS website, the company’s mission is to “provide expert care and innovative solutions in pharmacy and health care that are effective and easy for our customers” (CVS caremark corporation: History, 2014). Clearly, CVS is in business to provide expert care, although it would appear that not all of their individual pharmacists share the same feelings. Based on research conducted, it would appear that there is a general lack of customer service training as some pharmacists have allegedly been behaving rudely towards customers. Throughout the course of this initiative, we will be discussing the gaps that have been found and we will develop a training program that we hope will help alleviate these problems and allow CVS to fully realize their mission. Part II: Needs Assessment Pharmacy Prescription Practices As a result of organizational...
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...According to CVS.com, CVS is the 2nd largest pharmacy chain in the United States. “The CVS store provides all pharmacy services, popular beauty products, photo labs, and a wide selection of general merchandise. CVS pharmacists dispense medication, give vaccinations, and offer advice on prescription and non-prescription drugs and supplements. You can update your prescription, shop national sales ads, sign up for their ExtraCare card and receive coupons and rewards all from their website. CVS offers CVS Store Brands exclusively which are high quality alternatives to national brands with a 100% satisfaction guarantee”. The CVS pharmacy store locator will allow you to find the CVS closest to you so that you can receive your prescription with the...
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...CVS CAREMARK November 25, 2013 Belinda Merritt Michael Curtis Introduction CVS was founded in 1963 by Stanley and Sidney Goldstein and Ralph Hoagland. The first CVS store was opened in Lowell, MA. CVS stands for Consumer Value Stores. CVS Caremark is headquartered in Woonsocket, RI and the pharmacy services are currently headquartered in Nashville, TN. Within one year, the CV chain grew from one store to seventeen stores. By 1967, CVS opened its first pharmacy location. These locations were opened in Warwick and Cumberland, Rhode Island. CVS pharmacy provides services through the 7,000 retail stores within the United States. CVS has also expanded its business to include pharmacy benefit management, mail order as well as specialty pharmacy division, Caremark Pharmacy Services, a health clinic that is retail based, the Minute Clinic and an online pharmacy. CVS is the largest company that has its operation solely in the United States. In 2013 CVS Caremark was number thirteen on the Fortune 500 list of largest companies in the United States. Internal and External Factors that influenced the organization As with many organizations, there are several external and internal factors that affect the business. An internal factor can be defined as the internal communications of the business. The internal communications of the business forms the culture of the business. The culture of the organization includes the interpersonal relationships, training materials, newsletters...
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...– 002 February 25, 2014 Essay 2 CVS Caremark Steven Graham 1834-5319 Background and Introduction of CVS Caremark Decision On February 5th CVS Caremark announced that they would cease the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products in its stores. This measure is scheduled to begin by October 1, 2014. Once this action is taken, CVS Caremark will be the first national pharmacy chain to drop the sale of tobacco products. The President and CEO of CVS Caremark, Larry Merlo, stated the following, "Ending the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products at CVS/pharmacy is the right thing for us to do for our customers and our company to help people on their path to better health." Tobacco sales represent $2 billion in annual revenue for CVS Caremark. This is causing many to question if this is a good move for CVS Caremark. Analyzing this Decision with Respect to Key Stakeholders It seems crucial to analyze the aforementioned decision with respect to three key stakeholders. The stakeholders that will be analyzed are CVS Caremark employees, shareholders, and customers. This is not an exhaustive list of stakeholders, but it represents fundamental primary stakeholders. Employees of CVS Caremark have a significant stake in the company’s decision to drop the sale of tobacco products. Some employees may fear the significant profit loss that this decision represents. This fear would likely be compounded by the lack of details that CVS Caremark has provided on how they will...
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...CVS Caremark Business Analysis Part I University of Phoenix CVS Caremark Business Analysis Part I Investing mutual funds involves many aspects of confidence and knowledge when considering potential companies. One must know a company from the inside and out so they know exactly what their money is being used for. Having this knowledge means investors will not think twice about investing because they will feel confident that the company will provide a return on their investment. By performing a SWOT Analysis and examining how a company will fulfill the needs of internal and external stakeholders, investors will see what the current state of company is and what the foreseeable future holds. SWOT Analysis A SWOT Analysis is a planning tool used to analyze an organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (Nickels, McHugh, & McHugh, 2010). CVS Caremark is the potential client that this SWOT Analysis will be conducted on in order to determine if they are the proper suitor for investors. Company Overview CVS was founded in 1963 as a company that specialized in health and beauty products. Over time pharmacies were added, and CVS quickly grew in store locations over the next 4 decades by buying smaller pharmacy chains (“Our Company,” 2012). The big change in CVS occurred in 1997 with the purchase of the Revco pharmaceutical chain. Revco and its 2,500 store chain was now a part of the CVS brand and this quickly established CVS as a powerhouse in...
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