Describe the competitive strategies used by the company’s main competitors.

In this unit, you will complete the case study of the company that you chose in Unit II and have been researching throughout the course. Respond to the four writing prompts below. Your responses must include information from academic and scholarly research, including at least two resources from the CSU Online Library and at least two other online sources.

1. Create a case study summary of the company you have chosen, including a general overview of the company, its external environment, and a list of its current strategies and objectives.
2. If the company continues with its present strategies and objectives, where will it be in five years?
3. If you were the CEO of the company, what strategies would you recommend, and why?
4. Describe the competitive strategies used by the company’s main competitors. Which of these strategies are the most effective? How can your company combat these strategies? Support your answers.

Is it possible to construct a portfolio of real-world stocks that has a required return equal to the risk-free rate? Explain.

a) Is it possible to construct a portfolio of real-world stocks that has a required return equal to the risk-free rate? Explain.

b) How do you determine the appropriate cost of debt for a company? Does it make a difference if the company’s debt is privately placed as opposed to being publicly traded? How would you estimate the cost of debt for a firm whose only debt issues are privately held by institutional investors?

c) There are several celebrated investors and stock pickers frequently mentioned in the financial press who have recorded huge returns on their investments over the past two decades. Is the success of these particular investors an invalidation of the EMH? Explain.

Describe what IoT is; what are some of the security risks and issues with IoT devices; what steps can be taken to mitigate these risks?

Your paper will cover a brief discussion on the security of the Internet of Things (IoT).

Describe what IoT is; what are some of the security risks and issues with IoT devices; what steps can be taken to mitigate these risks?

Identify a problem about language and/or translation that the text seeks to address.

  1. Identify a problem about language and/or translation that the text seeks to address. (For example:
    “Why do people speak different languages?” or “How do we deal with a single word that has multiple
    meanings”? This problem should provide the title to your response paper.
  2. Quote from the text to show how the author addresses that problem, making sure to explain what
    the quote means in your own words (paraphrase). Find a second example if you can, and do the same.
  3. Apply the author’s position to a present-day example. This should be your own idea.
  4. Offer a counter-example, a challenge, or a counter-argument against the author’s position. Does
    a later quote in the text undermine the position you identified in step 3? If so, your counter-argument can be found within the text, so give another quote and explain it in your own words, as above. The best papers will engage with at least two substantial quotes from the text (see assessment rubric).
  5. End with a question that your discussion of this problem has left you with. “If so, then what?” Keep your questions open-ended: that is, not answerable with fact, or by direct and immediate reference to the text. You are not expected to answer this question. Just show that the process of thinking through an idea and its counter-arguments has brought you somewhere.

Identify three elements of the Affordable Care Act that have been implemented to date (2015).

Identify three elements of the Affordable Care Act that have been implemented to date (2015).

Describe each element and indicate how the change has impacted this group of individuals.

Please support your posts with reference and citations within content of post.

Explain the idea that society should be based on virtue by discussing Confucius, Plato, and /or Aristotle

 

  • Explain the idea that society should be based on virtue by discussing Confucius, Plato, and /or Aristotle
  • Explain at least one version of social contract theory
  • Illustrate your understanding of the classical and social contract approaches to justice with illustrative examples from contemporary political life.
  • Remember to explain specific theories with supporting citations from the textbook and online lectures.

 

Discuss what role end-users typically play in incident reporting?

Search “scholar.google.com” or your textbook. Discuss what role end-users typically play in incident reporting? Should end users be encouraged to report suspicious occurrences? If so, why; if not, why not. What factors typically influence the end-user decision to report (or not report) a potential incident?

Compare and contrast qualitative data vs quantitative data.

Quantitative data can be measured and documented with numbers. Additionally, quantitative data can be represented as quantities. On the other hand, qualitative data is not measured with numbers, but it is represented by qualities. For example, I use quantitative methods to conduct my PhD research because I like working with counts and measures.

Assignment: Write a research paper the contains the following:

  • Discuss Quantitative Methodology
  • Discuss Qualitative Methodology
  • Compare and contrast qualitative data vs quantitative data

Your research paper should be at least 3 pages (800 words), double-spaced, have at least 4 APA references, and typed in an easy-to-read font in MS Word (other word processors are fine to use but save it in MS Word format). Your cover page should contain the following: Title, Student’s name, University’s name, Course name, Course number, Professor’s name, and Date.