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Overview
The United Nations has continued to retain you as a consultant for a project that deals with climate and the environment. Most developed countries see the dangers of releasing too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and are committed to climate policies that attain a carbon-free future in the next 30 years. They already see the damaging effects that this gas alone is having on the living conditions of crops, wildlife, and humans. As a result, many member states are dissatisfied with the progress of the eight Millennium Development Goals for international development that they established in 2000. The member states see a substantial disconnect between several issues that developed and developing countries believe are priorities. For example, Burundi wants one of the goals to focus on food security, while Austria is adamant that a major global issue should be the negotiation of ceasefires in countries in the midst of civil wars. The UN wants you to work from the list below and prioritize two of the global community’s threats that it deems the most serious to environmental stability.
Instructions
Step 1
Select two threats. Listed below are eight issues that the UN feels pose the most significant threats to global security. Some of these apply to the Earth’s 7.7 billion people, while others are limited primarily to developing countries. Regardless of where these threats are concentrated, your job as a consultant is to identify two of them that you consider the most critical to the globe’s population.
Issue Options
The use of fossil fuels as an energy source.
Globalization.
Insufficient educational opportunities in developing countries.
A lack of access to technology.
Civil war (NOT the U.S. Civil War).
The rise in oceans’ levels.
Covid-19 and the global pandemic.
The dangers of poor countries remaining poor.
Step 2
Write a minimum of an 8 page persuasive paper about your two threats.
Write an introduction paragraph of at least one-half page in length identifying the two threats you have selected and the purpose of the paper. Then, for the two threats you chose:
Identify the factors that make it such a serious risk to the global environment that you would choose to present it to the UN.
Analyze the role that humans have played in aggravating this threat to the Earth’s environment.
Suggest initiatives that the global community can take to mitigate the worst effects of this environmental threat.
Write a conclusion paragraph of at least one-half page in length that summarizes your impressions of these risks for global stability.
Instructions
Review the motivational ideas or theories addressed in the readings for Unit III. Using yourself as an example, do you feel that one or more of the ideas or theories are particularly effective in motivating you, or is there a better way you can be motivated?
Engage the reader in the topic with some form of creative “hook” (such as a story, quote, or example).
Provide an example of a situation in which a leader used one of these theories to successfully motivate you.
Next, provide an example of a situation where an attempted motivational tool did not work.
What was it about the second example that did not work? Explain your answer.
The question is required to be a local company, so I would like Aramco to be
Learning Outcomes:
Demonstrate a solid understanding of overall marketing concepts, goals and strategies within the context of organizations goals and strategies.(Lo 1.1)
Ability to carry out objective and scientific analysis of consumers’ needs and wants (Lo 2.3 & 2.6).
Explain issues pertaining to marketing environment both internally and externally (Lo 1.2)
Build a strong understanding of the social, economic, ethical and technological challenges facing marketers (Lo 3.1)
Assignment Questions:
There are four macro strategies to create and deliver value to customers and that can help a firm to develop a sustainable competitive advantage. Think of companies from the local market who you are very loyal to in many categories like (food, electronics, personal care etc.).Is it the product, location, operational, or customer excellence that you are loyal to that firm? Critically examine.
You have read about the 4E Framework for Digital Marketing. You are required to choose a product category from your local market and critically examine how it uses the 4E framework for that product with the help of best social media elements.
1) What is a Use Case Model? Review the following diagram:
Use Case Diagram (Links to an external site.)http://www.utm.mx/~caff/doc/OpenUPWeb/openup/guidances/concepts/resources/atm_uc_diagram.GIF
What information can you obtain from the diagram? Be specific. What differences do you see between a business process model and a use case diagram?
2) In a minimum of 100 words, discuss what is the difference between the COUNT aggregate function and the SUM aggregate function? Give an example.
PROBLEM 1
In India, both average clearing time and the variance of clearing times are large (“clearing time” is time for funds to be transferred when a payment is authorized). You are a consultant who has been hired by India to improve efficiency of the banking system by reducing both the average and the variance. You install new hardware and software, and reorganize work flows.
Before your reforms, mean clearing time between any pair of large or medium-sized cities was 3.9 days, and the population standard deviation of check-clearing times was 1.5 days. (These values were known.)
Now you want to demonstrate the impact of your reforms on average clearing time. You take a random sample of 41 clearing times since your reforms were implemented. In this sample, the mean clearing time is 3.5 days, and the sample standard deviation of clearing times is 1.1 days.
A normal plot indicates that clearing times are approximately normally distributed.
CQ1. Which are the appropriate null and alternative hypotheses?
7.15 Given a normal distribution with and
if you select a sample of what is the probability m=100 Q = 10 n = 25
that is x is
a. less than 95?
b. between 95 and 97.5?
7.27 You plan to conduct a marketing experiment in which
students are to taste one of two different brands of soft
drink. Their task is to correctly identify the brand tasted.
You select a random sample of 200 students and assume that
the students have no ability to distinguish between the two
brands. (Hint: If an individual has no ability to distinguish
between the two soft drinks, then the two brands are equally
likely to be selected.)
a. What is the probability that the sample will have between
50% and 60% of the identifications correct?
b.The probability is 90% that the sample percentage is contained
within what symmetrical limits of the population
percentage?
c. What is the probability that the sample percentage of correct
identifications is greater than 65%?
d. Which is more likely to occur—more than 60% correct
identifications in the sample of 200 or more than 55%
correct identifications in a sample of 1,000? Explain.
8.1 If x = 85, o = 8and n = 64 construct a 95% confidence
interval estimate for the population mean, m
8.13 Assuming that the population is normally distributed,
construct a 95% confidence interval estimate for the population
mean for each of the following samples:
Sample A:1o, 1o, 1o, 1o, 8o ,8o, 8o, 8o
Sample B:1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Explain why these two samples produce different confidence
intervals even though they have the same mean and range.
8.17 The U.S. Department of Transportation requires tire
manufacturers to provide tire performance information on
the sidewall of a tire to better inform prospective customers
as they make purchasing decisions. One very important
measure of tire performance is the tread wear index, which
indicates the tire’s resistance to tread wear compared with a
tire graded with a base of 100. A tire with a grade of 200
should last twice as long, on average, as a tire graded with a
base of 100. A consumer organization wants to estimate the
actual tread wear index of a brand name of tires that claims
“graded 200” on the sidewall of the tire. A random sample of
N = 18 indicates a sample mean tread wear index of 195.3
and a sample standard deviation of 21.4.
a. Assuming that the population of tread wear indexes is
normally distributed, construct a 95% confidence interval
estimate for the population mean tread wear index
for tires produced by this manufacturer under this
brand name.
b. Do you think that the consumer organization should accuse
the manufacturer of producing tires that do not meet
the performance information provided on the sidewall of
the tire? Explain.
8.29 In a survey of 1,200 social media users, 76% said it is
okay to friend co-workers, but 56% said it is not okay to
friend your boss. (Data extracted from “Facebook Etiquette
at Work,” USA Today, March 24, 2010, p. 1B.)
a. Construct a 95% confidence interval estimate for the
population proportion of social media users who would
say it is okay to friend co-workers.
b. Construct a 95% confidence interval estimate for the
population proportion of social media users who would
say it is not okay to friend their boss.
8.35 If you want to be 99% confident of estimating the
population mean to within a sampling error of = or – 20and the
standard deviation is assumed to be 100, what sample size
is required?
8.39 If the manager of a paint supply store wants to estimate,
with 95% confidence, the mean amount of paint in a
1-gallon can to within = or – .004 gallon and also assumes that
the standard deviation is 0.02 gallon, what sample size is needed?
Assume the sample is taken from a normally distributed population and construct the indicated confidence intervals for (a) the population variance and (b) the population standard deviation. Interpret the results:
A magazine includes a report of the prices of subcompact digital cameras. The article states that 11 randomly selected subcompact digital cameras have a sample standard deviation of $109. Use an 80% level of confidence.
A population has a mean of 200 and a standard deviation of 50. Suppose a simple random sample of size 100 is selected and x¯ is used to estimate μ . What is the probability that the sample mean will be within +/- 5 of the population mean (to 4 decimals)? What is the probability that the sample mean will be within +/- 10 of the population mean (to 4 decimals)?
BusinessWeek conducted a survey of graduates from 30 top MBA programs (BusinessWeek, September 22, 2003). On the basis of the survey, assume that the mean annual salary for male and female graduates 10 years after graduation is $168,000 and $117,000, respectively. Assume the standard deviation for the male graduates is $40,000, and for the female graduates it is $25,000. What is the probability that a simple random sample of 40 male graduates will provide a sample mean within $10,000 of the population mean, $168,000 (to 4 decimals)? What is the probability that a simple random sample of 40 female graduates will provide a sample mean within $10,000 of the population mean, $117,000 (to 4 decimals)? What is the probability that a simple random sample of 100 male graduates will provide a sample mean more than $4,000 below the population mean (to 4 decimals)?
This is a discussion post not a paper, however need two citations.
Context:
For this week’s discussion, the focus will be on examining Porter’s Five Forces as a tool for looking at the pressure on profits. Specifically, how does Porter’s analysis examine the stress on profits from all directions and all dimensions of a firm’s environment? You will be applying this tool by specifically looking at the market structure in which a firm completes. You will need to be able to distinguish an oligopoly from a monopolistic competitive market structure.
Instructions:
There are two groups of firms below.
Group 1: firms in the retail sector (e.g. Amazon; Wal-Mart; Target; Kohl’s; Sears; Macy’s)
Group 2: firms in the wireless services industry (e.g. Verizon; AT & T; Sprint/T-Mobile) (this about telecommunication services, not about the sale of phones)
For each group determine and explain if the group is monopolistic competitive or an oligopoly. You need to specific for both in which market structure the firms operate.
Then choose one of the firms from one group. Using a Porter’s analysis what are the threat to profitability? This would be a great time to expand your research skills by checking out the firm’s investor relations page. Use the Research Hub. Go to the ECO550 Library landing page and if you need help, Ask the Librarian to help you find the investor relations page.
Must use two citations.