Unit 8 Assignment: Reflections in Time – Considering What You Have Learned (FIN401 Insurance and Risk Management)

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Discussion 2.1 - Zara

Fashion is highly perishable and quickly influenced by the latest thing seen on the catwalk or on the back of a celebrity. Zara’s designers follow fashion trends closely, but whereas a typical clothing company manufacturing in Asia could take six to nine months to get a new design into the shops, Zara completes the process in around five weeks.

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Optional Memo

Identify the topics from this course that you are mostly interested in discussing with the manager/entrepreneur ( I am interested on the topic Decision making, learning, creativity, and entrepreneurship) Explain why you chose those topics.  Explain the reason for interviewing that manager (perhaps you are interested in learning more from your boss or from someone operating in an industry you’d like to work in the future).  Briefly say whether you have already defined details for the meeting (date/time, location, in person, via skype, etc).  If you have already a draft of the questions you’d li...

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AD Critique 5

you will analyze one unique advertisement of your choosing. This may be print advertisement or commercials. For critique, include a screenshot of the print ad or a link to the commercial, and fully answer the questions here: How to Analyze an Advertisement.  Questions: http://www.medialit.org/reading-room/how-analyze-advertisement Please answer all the questions from the link Dont use following ADs 1.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BqjFOXuCpU  2. Nike Just Do it AD 3.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD6r53DWxwk&ab_channel=Heineken 4.   Coca-Cola- Turn Up Your Rhythm (https://www.youtube.c...

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Article - Great Recession of 2009 -words 300-apa

1.  Read the attached opinion piece where the author indicates that the Great Recession of 2009 was not caused by the Free Market, but was instead caused by US Government policies.   The word count must be a minimum of 300 words.

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Leadership/strategy 1

For this assignment, examine the reasons for strategic planning for your chosen company, and then identify the possible answers to the strategic questions. You may have more than one answer for each question, but limit yourself to the two most likely or promising answers. Although you may not have answers to all of your questions at this time, you will have the opportunity to add clarity and detail in future weekly assignments. For now, keep your answers realistic, but don’t be afraid to stretch for what might be possible!

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Future Threats and Challenges To The Maritime Transportation System

Throughout the past seven weeks, we have discussed a range of threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences that pose a risk to the security of the Maritime Transportation System. While cybersecurity remains the top threat, and the possibility of a “dirty bomb” or small boat attacks are mentioned frequently in the literature there remain other very viable threat vectors. Assuming cyber, WMD, and small boats pose threat #1, #2 and #3, what would be maritime threat number 4? Why did you pick this one and what can the on-going public-private security regime do to address it?

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Lipids

Do you think this food is a healthy choice with respect to the amounts and types of fats? If not, is there a healthier food that you could substitute? Please explain.

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writing

One of, if not the most important topic in training/development, and social science in general is validity. Validity is the idea for example, that the training system you are implementing actually predicts better performance. So if a system is valid, as an employee's score increases on a training measure, their performance score should be positively correlated with that score. The assignment this week is to watch the video below, and simply list out potential threats to the validity of this performance appraisal system. For example, the same questions are not asked of each employee, so it is d...

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Service effectiveness

Guidelines: Times New Roman 12-pt font, double-spaced, 1 inch margins and utilizing at least one outside scholarly or professional source related to organizational behavior. This does not mean blogs or websites. This source should be a published article in a scholarly journal. This source should provide substance and not just be mentioned briefly to fulfill this criteria. The textbook should also be utilized. Do not use quotes. Do not insert excess line spacing. APA formatting and citation should be used.