Board College Essays Samples For Students

Introduction

John Harvey has written many books and articles that have contributed substantially to the thinking about governance of nonprofits. His first book, Boards that make a difference has been reprinted many times before going into the second edition. He produced the work after consulting in over 19 countries. He has also engaged in training of more than 150 consultants and other nonprofit leaders in his advanced Academy workshop, some of which participated in the formation of International Policy Governance Association. His book has profound influenced, particularly in Canada with many organizations holding debates whether to ‘Carver or not’ (Carver, 2011). ...

The President,

United States of America.
Introduction
The concept of corporate ethics is widely accepted today. In order to stabilize the growth and development of the overall U.S economy, industries regardless of their nature or size must be instructed to follow certain ethical guidelines. In the current corporate environment, it is advisable for the U.S government to introduce three key changes to its corporate governance framework. First, there should be a single body or statutory regime to deal with corporate governance affairs in the country. Second, corporate ethics is essential to distinguish the roles of chairman and chief executive officer in ...

SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT

Proper management is an important undertaking in a given firm. Generally, good management practices in the organization lead to better prospects for the firm. Goal achievement for the respective firm is made easier. Therefore, it is vital that companies adopt the best managerial practices available. In this paper, the one-tier management system is compared with the two-tier management system. The two systems of governance have both positive and negative attributes in regard to the benefits accrued or realized by the respective firm adopting either of them. In this paper, the two management systems will be analyzed critically. Their attributes and ...

The board directors of a company are constituted by members who are appointed by a higher authority of the organization so as to oversee the functions of the company. Hence, they play a stewardship role for the company owners to ensure that their desired objectives are achieved. Thus, the board directors play a very vital role in the organization especially in the absence of the company shareholders. However, the roles and responsibilities of the board directors are decided upon by the appointing authority but their function is purely a delegation for the owners of the organization. In the majority of companies, the board directors ...

Improving Board Performance

Improving Board Performance

Introduction

In a non-profit organization that has been in operation for a considerable amount of time now, it is required that the Board of Directors is compact and the primary driving force for the organization's relevance in its business. However, in our organization, the board has not performed as expected leading to stagnation and poor performance of the organization. After being appointed as the chairperson of the board, my vision is to improve the board performance during my tenure.

In my bid to improve the performance of the board, I will ensure that each board member is ...

Problem StatementAs chief legal officer of his company, Alistair is responsible for submitting advisory reports to the company’s board, mostly on request. When requested to conduct a price-fixing problem in the company’s European offices, Alistair finds out that the major problem in the company’s European offices is not price fixing. However, as he almost concludes his report on this issue, he finds out that there is an issue with the Bosnia contract. The company signed a contract with a major relief organization in Bosnia to supply over a million inexpensive kits of medicine for delivery into the war torn Bosnia ( ...

Corporate governance refers to a system in which companies in a given region are directed and controlled. It involves a set of relationships existing between the board, management, shareholders and any other stakeholders of the company. Corporate governance as well is instrumental in the provision of a structure of setting the objectives of a company, the means of attaining the set objectives and monitoring performance of the company. Corporate governance lies on four pillars which include accountability, transparency, fairness and responsibility (Sharar, 8). A corporate governance framework is necessary to safeguard the interest of the various stakeholders in any ...

Corporate governance refers to a system in which companies in a given region are directed and controlled. It involves a set of relationships existing between the board, management, shareholders and any other stakeholders of the company. Corporate governance as well is instrumental in the provision of a structure of setting the objectives of a company, the means of attaining the set objectives and monitoring performance of the company. Corporate governance lies on four pillars which include accountability, transparency, fairness and responsibility (Sharar, 8).
The Qatar Financial Market Authority (QFMA) was established in 2009 (Sharar, 8). After its establishment, QFMA ...

Impact of PCAOB on auditing profession and fraud prevention

US accounting profession was blotted with the whirlwinds of corporate scandals like Enron and Worldcom during 2002. Investors lost billions of dollars as they were duped by these companies through accounting fabrication, which deceptively showed the shallow side of the companies to the whole investment community. Accordingly, the financial markets were suffering from the tapered investor confidence and it was important for the US government to restore that confidence by bringing in some strict legislations for the corporate community, and this lead to the passing of landmark legislation, Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002 and one of the most important aspect ...

Introduction

Derived from three topics reported in New York Times articles on 13 August 1991, this essay discusses those three unrelated events, how and why they came about, and the consequences of the events described.

The three events reported were: a merger between BankAmerica and a Californian rival; the (then) recent increased levels of drugs smuggled through Panama following the U.S. invasion to depose and capture General Noriega two years previously; and a squabble between the members of the Education Board of New York and their manager Mr J Fernandez. Throughout the essay those three events are dealt with in the above order.

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Introduction

“Debt markets are an integral part of the financial sector and effectively supplement the funds provided by the banking sector” (Tariq, 2004, p. 5). In developing markets, these marketplaces are nevertheless at a primary phase of their growth. Islamic rule (Shari’ah) forbids the charging and disbursing of interest. So, in nations anywhere Muslim populace establishes a significant section of the culture, customary debt marketplaces cannot succeed. Henceforth there is a great request and necessity for evolving options to current debt markets that can be satisfactory to the Islamic rule.

IDB Sukuk

According to (Anon., 2016), The Islamic Development Bank is ...

Exercise 46, Page 240

Ozark Furniture Company can obtain at most 3000 board feet of maple lumber for making its classic and modern maple rocking chairs. A classic maple rocker requires 15 board feet of maple, and a modern rocker requires 12 board feet of maple. Write an inequality that limits the possible number of maple rockers of each type that can be made, and graph the inequality in the first quadrant.

Solution:

The most maple lumber that Ozark Furniture Company can obtain is 3000 board feet. The company is making two types of maple rocking chairs – classic and modern maple rocking chairs. To begin ...

Introduction

Every nation has specific agencies and organizations that ensure that all the activities are not only smooth but also meet some specific criteria. United States of America has various organizations and agencies especially within the labor industry in a bid to ensuring that all the activities of production are not affected negatively. An example of such an agency is the National Labor Relations Board, which aims at providing a good working environment. The following discussion provides an overview of the board and its functions, jurisdiction, and the procedures through which the board attains its objectives, core values, and aims.

Overview of the Board and its functions

National Labor ...

The purpose of the paper is to answer the questions of the case study after having the analysis of the case study “Midwestern: Contemporary Art”. The case consists of two parts Part (A) and Part (B). Part (A) contains five questions and part B contains three questions. The paper answers all eight questions in sequential manners.

Part A

Conflicts are the part of the workplace and common in multiple organizations. There are two major types of conflicts include cognitive/task-related conflicts and affective/person-oriented conflicts. Cognitive/task-related conflicts deal with the differences in thoughts, ideas, and opinions. However, affective/person-oriented conflicts include the sense of ...

The U.S. Supreme Court gave its ruling for Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, 561 U. S. 477 in 2010. Free Enterprise Fund filed the case against PCOAB based on Title 1 of the SOX that limits the role of the President for appointment and removal of the board members. It is considered to be violating the Appointment Clause.
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) is a nonprofit organization that was originated by an Act, named, Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. It consists of five members, including Chairman of the Board, and Security Exchange Commission (SEC) ...

Building Relations in Higher Education Leadership Introduction The contemporary society is quite dynamic and highly interconnected. Consequently, there has been an increased need for interdependence and collaboration and every level of leadership. One individual cannot solve all the challenges facing an institution or an organization. Accordingly, an effective leader is one who promotes collaborative decision making rather than the individual intuition approach. One of the major characteristics of an effective leader is the ability to maintain collaborative relationships with all stakeholders. Collaboration comes with overwhelming benefits such as being a warranty of success. School leaders of higher education institutions are ...

This paper compares three state board of nursing namely Massachusetts, Maryland and New York. The functions and purposed of each of the three state board of nursing seem to be similar. The Massachusetts board of nursing serves the purpose of licensure, nursing education, and complaint resolution (Massachusetts State Board of Nursing, 2013). The New York state board of nursing is bestowed with the responsibility of licensing, nursing training, collection of consumer statistics & information, as well as consumer protection (New York State Board of Nursing, 2013). The Maryland board of nursing has the function of licensing, nursing education, consumer complaint ...

1. The Substance Abuse Screening Test (SAST) is designed to screen out survey respondents who do not have a substance abuse problem (The Board of Regents, 2014). More specifically, the test is designed to be administered to teenagers and young adults, from 13 years old to 30 years old (The Board of Regents, 2014). Published in 1993, The SAST is authored by Terry Hibpshman, and Sue Larson (The Board of Regents, 2014). According to The Board of Regents (2014), the test takes five minutes to administer. In addition, as of 2002, its price is $56 per kit (which includes ...

What are some of the unique responsibility of board of directors? Comment on whether one or more group is important to another in fundraising.
The primary responsibility of the board, is to ensure the success of the organization and to ensure that it achieves its mission. For an organization to function and meet its mission, it requires money. Thus, the board has a crucial role in fundraising. This role in particularly important in a nonprofit organization. In most instances, the executive director of the board is the primary fundraiser. He is likely to raise more fund in terms of ...

Abstract

Two options are discussed in the paper in relation to mitigation strategy of economic downturn. One strategy was the cutting of jobs i.e. mass layoffs and other option was to cut salaries. It is observed that in the U.S. (individualist culture), the norm is to adopt mass layoffs strategy and in Japan the strategy of pay cuts is used. However, in the U.S. some big companies used the strategy of pay cuts. Mass layoffs help the companies to increase productivity and morale with high profits by not cutting the salaries and terminating the employees. On the other hand, pays ...

Final Project

The nurse workforce has been growing substantially for the past two decades necessitated by the demand for quality care, an ever increasing population, increased complexity of illnesses as well as a new found passion by the current generation to seek career growth in nursing and healthcare. However, the role of education and nursing curriculum in facilitating the increasing number of nurses trained in various ways and for different roles cannot be assumed. The nursing curriculum has been redefined to accommodate many roles which traverse across direct care roles and indirect care roles (Lowe et al., 2012). On the other ...

The fourteenth amendment of the United States Constitution safeguards the right of the people for equal recognition and protection under the law. Specifically, the 14th Amendment states,“no State shall make or enforce any law that shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
However, this particular provision had been open to interpretation for such a long time. Thus, cases like Plessy vs. Fergusson ...

The Brown vs. Board of Education case was a colossal influence on desegregation of schools in the United States of America. It created a milestone of equal opportunities in schools among the blacks and whites. The ruling of this case took place in 1954 and it ruled in favor of Mr. Brown. It is among one of the important cases ever heard on racial prejudice in the American history.
The Brown vs. Board of Education case is about a young third grader girl in Kansas, Topeka city named Linda Brown (Dudley 48). Linda was subjected to trekking one mile through a railway ...

Performance Measurement and Control

Company Profile
Heineken International, a Dutch brewing company founded in 1864 and its headquarters are located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Since its inception, the company has grown and expanded its business to over seventy countries with 125 brewing companies’ worldwide. Heineken International is the third largest brewer world wide in the beverage industry. It deals with beers and lagers ranging from Tiger Beer, Zagorka, Birra Moretti, Murphy’s, Star, kingfisher, Strongbow, Newcastle brown Ale, and Heineken Pilsener. The company is famed for its brewing recipe, which gives its products a distinctive taste and a competitive edge in the beverage industry.
Heineken ...

L Brands: Corporate Governance
L Brands: Corporate Governance

Overview

L Brands is a world-renowned lingerie, personal care and beauty products company ("About Us," n.d.). Offering flagship brands including, primarily, Victoria's Secret, PINK, Bath & Body Works, La Senza and Henri Bendel, L Brands has U.S., Canada and U.K. as focal operation markets and extends her global presence in around 700 locations by franchised partnerships ("About Us"). The company's central message is personal branding and sexy lifestyle. The business lines, functions and activities, based on brand offerings of L Brands, are reported by specific corporate governance structure and mechanisms detailed below.

The ...

Q.1. Before providing assessment of the case, whether or not there is a ground for legal action, the main problem has to be determined first to be able to construct a sound judgement. The main issue is that Cotton Limited, which happens to hold 89.5% of Satin Co. Limited's shares is pushing the minority shareholders including Silk to sell their own shares to Cotton Limited. The decision to buy-back the minority shares was made by Satin's board members themselves. Therefore, the idea of making the company a wholly owned subsidiary constitutes validity because the agreement was made by the majority of the ...

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Accounting Standard Setting under the Australian Conceptual Framework and Application in Business Practices

Introduction
A conceptual framework establishes the concepts and provides the guidelines that underlie financial reporting. As a coherent system of notions that flow from an objective, which in turn serve to identify the purpose of financial reporting, a conceptual framework also provides guidance on the identification of the boundaries of financial reporting. Its concepts further provide guidance on the selection of transactions, related events, and circumstances to be presented, and how such elements should be summarized and ultimately reported (Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB], 2008). One such conceptual ...

The Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) was passed to provide a free and appropriate education for children with disabilities. IDEA is constructed from six pillars that ensure educational opportunity for children with all types of disabilities: cognitive; physical, mental and emotional. The six pillars are: zero reject; nondiscriminatory identification and evaluation; least restrictive environment; free and appropriate education; due process safeguards and parent and student participation and shared decision making (Heward 2006).
IDEA was first passed by the Congress in 1975 as PL 94-142, Education for All Handicapped Children and signed into law by President Gerald Ford (Office of ...

Final Field Notes

Observation: A Little Dynasty Chinese School, Miss. J’s beginner-level classroom.
This is the basic Zhuyin class and so Miss. J teaches the students the Chinese Alphabet. The beginner-level class is very spacious and colorfully decorated with student writing projects, stickers, posters and Chinese-themed learning charts. Brightly inviting colors have been used for the interior design of the classroom. There is also a language arts wall displaying different aspects of the Chinese language (grammar, spelling, punctuation and numerals). There are a number of book shelves that are filled with Chinese literature. The two huge windows at the back of the ...

Brown vs. Board of Education

Introduction
Education is key to success. With no doubt, very few or even none of children can succeed in life if they are denied an opportunity to be educated. Education in today’s world is the most crucial factor that does not only determine the level of success but also the level of knowhow. Thus, every child is deemed to receive a proper education without seclusion. As a result, the Supreme Court in 1954 ruled out that separate but an equal public school for both the white and the black are against the constitution which is commonly known as ...

BON-APN Prescription Case Analysis

Identification of the appropriate statements from Rule 221.13 Core Standards for Advanced Practice that relate to this case
221.13 (a)
221.13 (c)
221.13 (2) (A)
221.13 (2) (B)
221.13 (2) (E)
221.13 (e)
(Texas Board of Nursing, 2016)

Identification of the appropriate statements from Rule 222.4 Minimum Standards for Carrying Out or Signing Prescriptions that relate to this case

222.4 (a) (1) (A)
222.4 (a) (1) (B)
222.4 (a) (2)
222.4 (a) (3) (b)
222.4 (e) (1)
(Texas Board of Nursing, 2016)

Identification of the appropriate statements from Rule 217.12 Unprofessional Conduct that relate to this case

217.12 (1) (B)
217.12 (1) (D)
217.12 (1) (E)
217.12 (3)
217.12 (4)
217.12 (5)
217.12 (6) (A)
217.12 (6) (G)
217.12 (6) (H)
217.12 (8)
217.12 (10) (A)
217.12 (10) (B)
217.12 (10) (E)
217.12 (11) (B)
( ...

Introduction

Before submitting a research study to the Institutional Review Board, it is important, to consider the level at which the review is appropriate as this determines the type of application that the organization will have to submit. The Institutional Review Board levels are generally based on the risk levels of the studies. When an application is submitted, the IRB is responsible for making the final decision to verify the level of review that the entity or organization has applied for. Depending on the subjects, demographics and the risks to be involved proposal fall either under the expedited review, full ...

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Introduction. Interpreting financial statements (FS) requires a thorough understanding of basic principles of accounting and reporting. This paper discusses such concepts as accounting equation and basic formats of FS, role of international financial reporting standards (IFRS), US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) and The U.S.Securities and Exchange Comission (SEC) in the reporting process.
Principal financial concepts. US GAAP are a set of accounting standards used by US companies for financial reporting. They are introduced by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in compliance with SEC regulations and FASB mission of setting and improving principles of accounting and reporting which ...

Editorial article chosen:

The Editorial Board. (2014). India and America, Beginning Again. New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/opinion/india-and-america-beginning-again.html

Introduction

The editorial discusses about the political environment change in India. In May 2014, India elected its new Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In September 2014, Narendra Modi and US President Obama had their first talks focused on improving the bilateral relationships in terms of political aspects and business aspects. The article is based on evaluating the bilateral relationships between the two countries and which issues were focused on in the meeting.

Analysis

Political environment of a country and bilateral relationships between countries play an import role in ...

1. Why is executive compensation important? How does it relate to a company’s values?
It is important that managers have the skills and knowledge to deal with issues of corporate governance, ethics, economy, taxation, legal and financial needs of a company. The values of a company are unable to be successfully managed without expertise. Executive compensation must reflect high expertise to ensure that the values of a company are met. The best and brightest managers can lead a company in a more profitable direction.
2. What is “Say on Pay”?
The general meaning of “Say on Pay” comes from corporate ...

Business

Summary of the analysis essay
Arguably, Netflix has had its fair share of roller coaster conditions and battles for the past few years. They include posting losses in 2012, the CEO Hastings Reed posting enormous salary increase, which do not match the company’s financial conditions, and fluctuating stock among others. Among all these, arguably company-wrecking troubles, Netflix has managed to remain afloat and even post profits in the last quarters of 2012 onwards. However, according to Merced (2014) the Netflix shareholders want to vote on June 9, 2014 about a proposal to separate the roles of the chairman ...

Corporate Ethics; Dynegy Case

Ethical practices and behavior play a crucial role in any organization. The ability to distinguish the right act from the wrong activities enables individuals in a firm to improve themselves both personally and professionally. Companies today invest the huge amount of resources on developing corporate ethics; this measure increases their ability to achieve the set organizational goals. Corporate ethics entail the effort to create a healthy relationship with the company’s stakeholders to enhance efficiency. An analysis on the Dynegy Inc case of 2012 reveals the importance of upholding effective corporate ethics. The company faced losses once the stakeholders sued the corporate ...

Introduction

Institutional review boards have the responsibility of ensuring that the welfare and rights of the people in a given institution are observed. The institutional review board also has the task of planning and overseeing research conducted in their respective institutions. The board must always review any research study that is funded by the federal government regardless of the objective of the study. The Institutional Review Boards in higher education institutions are responsible for the formulation of good policies on how to research in these institutions. They are also tasked with ensuring that discipline and success are paramount. The students must ...

Introduction

David Foster Wallace was an American writer whose work includes novels, essays, and short stories. He is a professor of creative writing. His most famous work was his novel Infinite Jest, and The Pale Cream. He has been recognized by various institutions and persons for his elaborate work in the development of English literature. Wallace work include both fiction and non-fiction work. His work is mostly concerned in moving beyond the metafiction and the irony that is associated with postmodernism. Some of his other nonfiction works include the John McCain 2000 presidential bid and the September 11 attacks. We ...

Introduction

I agree that the case study propagates unwarranted myths and buzzword by minimizing firms for such reasons as neglecting to have a retirement age for chiefs and neglecting to discrete the administrator and CEO roles. They guarantee that the defeat of numerous organizations has developed about as of the lack of monetary mastery on the board. Different purposes behind poor appraisals are neglecting to oblige that chiefs and executives have a legal set measure of value possessions. The earlier history of administration on sheets of firms enduring the monetary pain; disappointment to have a formal retirement age, board size, and implicit rules. ...

The AASB sets a Benefits costs precedent on all evaluations and expenditures. Article 7.1 of the standards requires that an organization’s accounting when dealing with exploration and evaluation must base their expenditures on the interest returns of the process of exploration. The costs must also reflect the expenses as incurred in the exploration either partially or fully capitalised on the investment. Further, the board outlines that entities must decide on the projected costs by basing the expenses on each separate area of interest without treating the whole process of exploration as a whole single unit. The board underlines the importance ...

Corporations are entities created artificially by state statute, and are granted legally enforceable rights and under the law. They are treated as individuals, where they possess the ability to pay out profits, taxes or acquire debts, sue or be sued, enter into contracts, and lastly can hold or transfer property. Therefore, from such information an investor to be in a publicly listed company trading on the stock market has many factors to consider before investing in it. For starters, an investor has to consider the previous performance of such a firm so as to gauge the return an investment will bring. ...

Background

Tricia is CEO of Able Again, which is a non-profit organization: it partners with a for-profit organization for the manufacture of low-cost adapted motorized scooters for the disabled. She as requested advice from her ethics consultant regarding issues facing her company.
She has heard about ethical theories, which typically provide conflicting opinion. She wants her ethics consultant to compare and contrast them, with examples and in the context of her company’s issues. Her chief concern is to persuade her board about the advantages of being ethical in business practices. Secondly, she wants to learn a lesson from Ford Pinto case. ...

Introduction

The landlord and tenant board based in Ontario has been in operation since 2007. This was made to take the place of the Ontario Rental Housing Tribunal which resolved diverse issues relating to the area tenants and landlords. It is part of the RTA which has been operating lawfully in Canada since 2006. It has been viewed as one sided as many complain that it favors tenants especially when information concealment is concerned. Legally, dispute resolution is referred to when either the tenant or landlord has broken a contract, and acted in a torturous manner thus causing injury to the other ...

Abstract

The Enron collapsed will probably remain one of the most shocking and extensively studied corporate failures in the history of the business world. Enron had set an ambitious target of becoming the world’s largest company and it had held the capacity to fulfill this objective. However, its sudden collapse revealed major lapses in management and corporate governance, especially in the areas of accounting, communications, business ethics, leadership, and organizational structure. This paper aims to evaluate the leadership of the corporation a year before its collapse and recommend a strategy to prevent the eminent disaster.
1 Enron – Overview
In ...

Every state has its own licensing board that is responsible for developing its set of requirements which nursing students are required to abide by in order to be BSN graduates from their respective institutions. The establishment of these requirements is a means of ensuring nursing students are endowed with the ideal and recommended set of qualities and qualifications required to undertake their roles as Registered Nurses in the best way possible.
As a Chamberlain College of Nursing student, I am bound by certain requirements established by the institution as discussed below, which I am required to fulfill in order ...

Abstract

This paper explores the challenges faced by women in management positions in international organizations. In order to appropriately discuss the issue, background information on current related problems in the workplace environment is initially discussed. This establishes the context upon which women find themselves in a corporate world ‘built by men, for men’. Women are in a disadvantaged position since they need to maintain a balance between managing the business and taking care of the family; this is in contrast to their male counterparts who can allocate more time for their career. Within such a scenario, organizational as well as ...

Management Control

1. What is the CSS mission and Vision ? How can we transform the vision to outcome ?
The CSS mission involves being in a position to apply both scientific alongside technological advancements with a role to create a healthy, safe and a future that is environmentally sustainable. Its vision lies in the fundamentals of the continually in fostering development, both of an innovative, economically healthy alongside a company driven by quality. Such that it is in a position to offer a rather comprehensive environmental and safety, health alongside support scientifically in its services. To achieve this vision to ...

Volkswagen vs Ford

Introduction
Volkswagen and Ford are both family businesses working in the global automotive industry. In 2015 worldwide 73.9 million of passenger cars were sold in the global automobile markets along with the 86.56 cars produced. The biggest automotive markets can be found in China and in the United States. The biggest automotive suppliers in the industry are from Asia and Europe and include Bosch with steering systems, Continental in the area of tire manufacturing, Denso and Magna. The size of automotive supplier market worldwide is estimated at €620bn (The Statistics Portal, 2016). Those suppliers are currently faced with the ...

Business Plan

Executive Summary 3
1.0 Introduction 4
2.0 Operations plan 5
2.1 Location and facilities 5
2.2 Business processes 6
2.3 Distribution and outsourcing 9
3.0 Organizational plan 10
3.1 Management 11
3.2 Mission 12
3.3 Purpose 13
3.4 Vision 13
3.5 Legal structure 13
3.6 Organizational chart 14
4.0 Marketing plan 16
4.1 Price 16
4.2 Product 17
4.3 Place 19
4.4 Promotion 20
5.0 Financial plan 21
6.0 Growth plan 22
7.0 Contingency and harvest strategy 23
8.0 Timeline to launch the plan 25
9.0 References 28
10.0 Appendices 29

Executive summary

Don’t we all enjoy the experience of ...

The Impact of Brown vs Board of Education Declaration in the History of U.S. Citizenship and Civil Rights since 1954

Introduction

As the Second World War ended, Americans breathed a sigh of relief since the Great Depression also ended. However, the end of the two marked the beginning of a new struggle for a specific population of the United States. After risking their lives in the war alongside other American citizens, the African Americans were rudely welcomed to the reality of segregation.
Fighting for the American nation was not enough to warrant them equal treatment by the white American population. ...

Ferrari S.p.A: Case Study

Introduction

The Ferrari S.p.A is an Italian super sports car manufacturer established in 1939 by Enzo Ferrari. Norway has a record of having the highest percentage of women members on company boards. The high percentage is attributed to the law that was set forth by the Norway government requiring that all companies should have at least 40% women as board members or else they would face delisting("Official Ferrari website", n.d.). The regulations put in place in 2003 saw numerous companies adapt to the changes within the two year grace period that was provided. As a ...

- Governance and Board Relations

In governing an organization and in inducing change, it is important to consider the different factors that may positively or negatively affect the organization in reaching its goals. That way, the entire team or from a larger perspective, the entire organization would be able to make the necessary contingency plans in case something goes wrong because if there is even the slightest chance that something would go wrong, then something probably will. The main or key question that will be answered in this memorandum is how the organization can redesign a new nonprofit resource development strategy. Clearly, the previously implemented strategy ...

There are six main categories of corporate failure causes: poor strategic decisions, overexpansion, dominance of CEOs, greed, pride and power, failure of internal controls, and ineffective board of directors (Hamilton and Micklethwait, 2006).
Business collapse can happen in cases where companies do not fully comprehend the relevant business drivers when they decide to expand to new lines of products and services, or meet the demands of additional geographic markets. These lead to poor strategic decisions because they fail to recognize the importance of risk management in their respective industries. They should be able to determine the overall impact ...

Introduction

K-12 education system is the building block of the total education system of any country. Secondary school and high school education are the responsibilities of states in most of the nations around the world. The United States of America is no exception. Pennsylvania is one of the states in USA that has been pioneer in many fields including education reforms. Pennsylvania has a robust education system with 501 public school districts, many publicly funded colleges and thousands of private schools and colleges (PSSD, 2010). As per the state law of Pennsylvania, school attendance for children between the age group of ...

Executive summary

The global nature of multinational firms indicates that they must adopt proper managerial policies in order to ensure they cope with increased costs and competition levels that prevail in global markets. It is necessary for multinationals to evaluate their operational structures so that they achieve their goals and objectives. There are multinationals that aim at maximizing shareholder value as opposed to others that target maximizing stakeholder value. Most of the firms that aim at maximizing shareholder value appreciate the role of the shareholder as being central to their capital structures and hence a key stakeholder for realization of targets. Those ...

Organization and management of a healthcare facility

Summary of hospital organization structure
Most hospitals usually take up a vertical organization structure. This structure is usually suitable for organizations that require the provision of precise and high quality services. The lives and wellbeing of patients are entrusted to the hospital and the organization structure has to ensure that the services are provided precisely. The vertical organization structure usually has many management levels, with the functions of each level decreasing as you move down the organizational structure. The reason for having multiple management levels is to ensure that the functions narrow down as you go down the structure. ...

As the top health administrator for Well Care Hospital in Happy Town, USA, I place a great deal of importance on professional conduct within my particular health care setting. Because of the often life-and-death ramifications of the actions of health care professionals in all aspects of the profession, it is doubly important that these officials operate at the highest standards of ethics and professionalism. Allowing hospital misconduct to flourish under my administration would reflect poorly on myself as well as the rest of the staff, and diminish patient confidence and faith in our ability to do our jobs. Consequently, maintaining ...

Introduction

The actions taken by the Reserve Bank of Australia to influence the cost and supply of money in the economy are referred to as the monetary policy. The main tools through which the monetary policy influences the market operations is the interest rate that is paid on the loans from the money market. Manipulating the interest rate is the main tool of RBA to influence its monetary policy. RBA is the central bank of Australia; and it is the role of the central bank to ensure price stability by controlling the supply of money. So, a stabilizing role is played ...

Rights of the shareholders

While the shareholders are the most important stakeholders of the company, however, very few control the day to day running of the company’s business activities. Therefore, in order to safeguard their interest, the company range multiple rights of the shareholders and provide them the eventual power to influence the company’s decisions. Below we have discussed the rights of the shareholders:
a) Right to attend the general meeting and cast their vote
All the shareholders of the company have the right to receive notice of the general meeting, including, Annual General Meeting(AGM) and Extraordinary General Meetings(EGM). ...