Investment Project: Describe
Describe the investment project. Be sure to provide sufficient detail to give the loan committee a firm sense of the parameters of the activity, the need for it, and what financial metrics are relevant for determining success. In other words, what do you propose to do, where, what marketplace need will it fill, and how will you measure success?

Feedback from Instructor:
Good discussion of your proposed project. What specific metrics are you going to use to measure success? You did not provide a detailed list or rationale for your metrics.

Investment Project: Resources
Specify the resources the project will require and where these resources will come from. In addition to noting the amount of the loan you are requesting, you should also consider human resources, facilities, government approvals, intellectual property, access to natural resources, and other resources that might be required to carry out the project.

Feedback from Instructor:
You did not provide any budget to discuss your investment amount. You needed to provide specific dollar costs or estimates of costs. Upon what did you base your investment amount? You provided limited analysis to support how you derived the required amount. You really need more financial analysis.

Investment Project: Time Frame
Time frame. When will the project start, what is the anticipated economic life of the proposed expansion, and how will you decide if, when, or how to exit? Justify your choices with appropriate financial metrics.

Feedback from Instructor:
This section lacks real specifics. You need a more precise timeline, supported with specific detail derived from cited research. When will it finish? What are your specific metrics to measure success? Exit strategy? How did you come up with $1 billion in sales? That is significant.

Justification: Why Now
Why is now a good time for this investment given the global context? Justify your response, citing specific external factors such as trade regulations, foreign currency considerations, or trends in foreign direct investment that might affect business financial decisions.

Feedback from Instructor:
Is China appropriate now given the current economic and political situation?

Justification: Strategic Fit: Priorities
How does the investment align with the companys organizational and financial priorities? Support your argument with evidence from company reports and financial statement analysis designed to persuade the lender that the investment is a good strategic fit for your company.

Feedback from Instructor:
You really needed to go into greater depth here describing how the proposed expansion fits Nordstrom’s strategy. You start well, but need more research-supported analysis and discussion, especially involving the companys reports and financial statement analysis.

Justification: Strategic Fit: Microeconomic
How does the project fit within the global microeconomic environment? Support your response with evidence. For example, would the expansion tap unmet demand for the companys key products or services or fill a new niche? How do you know?

Feedback from Instructor:
You do not address specific microeconomic factors like supply and demand for your product which is key elements for any product when reviewing the microeconomics involved. You need greater use of accurate application of economic concepts.

Justification: Strategic Fit: Comparative Advantage
How does the project build on the organizations core competencies and comparative advantage? For example, does the company have a strategic advantage from intellectual property, regional expertise, suppliers, or organizational structure?

Feedback from Instructor:
This section starts satisfactorily, but needs more discussion of Nordstrom’s comparative advantage versus competitors, especially when it some to the new market that you are proposing. What specifically does Nordstrom do better than its competitors?

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I want you to help me reply to discussion prompt in the photo I uploaded to the additional materials, the instructions are also in that photo

This is a link to the handout, tips and video in the photo you have to use and do the discussion https://clarkcollege.instructure.com/courses/1897643/files/136957639/download?wrap=1
https://clarkcollege.instructure.com/courses/1897643/files/136957705/download?wrap=1
https://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend?language=en

This is a link to the textbook
http://dept.clcillinois.edu/psy/LifespanDevelopment.pdf

Thank you,

Write a paper on a current event article that discusses restrictions on freedoms by a totalitarian state or an article on ethnic conflict within a nation. Summarize the article and explain why this issue is important to the global community. What outside influences might help change this issue? How? Is the article neutral? Why or why not?

Be sure to include a scanned copy of the article in your submission in addition to citations. Articles may not be more than one month old.

Writing Requirements (APA format). Refer to the APA manual.

Length: 3 full pages (not including the title or references page)
1-inch margins
Double-Spaced
12-point Times New Roman font
Title and Reference page required
APA cite article with link
Scan copy of article required

Please read the Harvard Business Case about Resilience and prepare the following:
    Provide a 1 page reflection (single space) paper total on what this means to you from two perspectives:
    1) as a student during the Covid 19 pandemic who will be entering the construction industry soon  (1/2 page)
    2) as a construction leader running a multi-million dollar firm  (1/2 page)

Design a research experiment that addresses a major topic in the field of cognitive psychology. To motivate your paper, use three to ten peer-reviewed research articles as primary sources. Design all aspects of the study as though you were going to collect the data yourself. Manufacture and present data that provide support or refute your hypothesis. Submit a fully written research article. Please submit an electronic copy of assignments to me via Blackboard. Rather than sending me full research articles for step #2 below, send a single page of references in APA format. Additionally, your project:

1. Must be an original contribution to the scientific literature.

2. Must benefit society

3. Must be something that genuinely interests you.

4. Must relate to a cognitive process.

Investment Project: Describe
Describe the investment project. Be sure to provide sufficient detail to give the loan committee a firm sense of the parameters of the activity, the need for it, and what financial metrics are relevant for determining success. In other words, what do you propose to do, where, what marketplace need will it fill, and how will you measure success?
Feedback from Instructor:
Good discussion of your proposed project. What specific metrics are you going to use to measure success? You did not provide a detailed list or rationale for your metrics.

Investment Project: Resources
Specify the resources the project will require and where these resources will come from. In addition to noting the amount of the loan you are requesting, you should also consider human resources, facilities, government approvals, intellectual property, access to natural resources, and other resources that might be required to carry out the project.
Feedback from Instructor:
You did not provide any budget to discuss your investment amount. You needed to provide specific dollar costs or estimates of costs. Upon what did you base your investment amount? You provided limited analysis to support how you derived the required amount. You really need more financial analysis.
Investment Project: Time Frame
Time frame. When will the project start, what is the anticipated economic life of the proposed expansion, and how will you decide if, when, or how to exit? Justify your choices with appropriate financial metrics.
Feedback from Instructor:
This section lacks real specifics. You need a more precise timeline, supported with specific detail derived from cited research. When will it finish? What are your specific metrics to measure success? Exit strategy? How did you come up with $1 billion in sales? That is significant.
Justification: Why Now
Why is now a good time for this investment given the global context? Justify your response, citing specific external factors such as trade regulations, foreign currency considerations, or trends in foreign direct investment that might affect business financial decisions.
Feedback from Instructor:
Is China appropriate now given the current economic and political situation?
Justification: Strategic Fit: Priorities
How does the investment align with the companys organizational and financial priorities? Support your argument with evidence from company reports and financial statement analysis designed to persuade the lender that the investment is a good strategic fit for your company.
Feedback from Instructor:
You really needed to go into greater depth here describing how the proposed expansion fits Nordstrom’s strategy. You start well, but need more research-supported analysis and discussion, especially involving the companys reports and financial statement analysis.
Justification: Strategic Fit: Microeconomic
How does the project fit within the global microeconomic environment? Support your response with evidence. For example, would the expansion tap unmet demand for the companys key products or services or fill a new niche? How do you know?
Feedback from Instructor:
You do not address specific microeconomic factors like supply and demand for your product which is key elements for any product when reviewing the microeconomics involved. You need greater use of accurate application of economic concepts.
Justification: Strategic Fit: Comparative Advantage
How does the project build on the organizations core competencies and comparative advantage? For example, does the company have a strategic advantage from intellectual property, regional expertise, suppliers, or organizational structure?

Feedback from Instructor:
This section starts satisfactorily, but needs more discussion of Nordstrom’s comparative advantage versus competitors, especially when it some to the new market that you are proposing. What specifically does Nordstrom do better than its competitors?

recognize and explain how the scientific method is used to solve problems
weigh evidence and make decisions based on strengths and limitations of scientific knowledge and the scientific method
Before starting this assignment you might want to revisit the Scientific Method Tutorial
Please review the provided Science Daily article https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171019143012.htm

Identify and describe the steps of the scientific method. Which observations do you think the scientists made leading up to this research study? Given your understanding of the experimental design, formulate a specific hypothesis that is being tested in this experiment. If a hypothesis is stated, please rewrite it IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Describe the experimental design including control and treatment group(s), and dependent and independent variables. Summarize the results and the conclusion (50 points)
Criticize the research described. Things to consider: Were the test subjects and treatments relevant and appropriate? Was the sample size large enough? Were the methods used appropriate? Can you think of a potential bias in a research study like this? What are the limitations of the conclusions made in this research study? Address at least two of these questions in your critique of the research study (20 points).
Discuss the relevance of this type of research, both for the world in general andfor you personally (20 points). Proper grammar will count for 10 points.
Write a paper with title page, introduction, paragraphs addressing the questions, conclusion and references. Your paper should consist of less than 10% direct quotes. Your paper should be 550 600 words, excluding references and title page

Imagine that you are the UK bicycle producer Raleigh and you decide to go into Myanmar (Burma).

1. Discuss the opportunities and risks facing Raleigh in this market (50% of grade).

2. Discuss which entry mode and market strategy you would recommend to enter Myanmar (50% of grade).

Please incorporate the readings and the lessons from the many cases/discussions over the 3 days of the course into your answer as appropriate.

Your final project is to complete a 4-5 page paper (1000 to 1250 words) which uses proper citations and has a bibliography (not included in word count). The paper will provide the student’s answer to the question “Who Governs” ? Does pluralist, elite, bureaucratic, or social movement theory best explain where power lies in American politics?

The paper will focus on only one of these topics (which the writer will choose):

1) Voting rights (including racial discrimination, restoration of voting rights for felons, voter registration requirements, and ease or difficulty of voting)

2) The second amendment (including both efforts to limit the sale and ownership of firearms, as well as efforts to reduce barriers to use of guns)

3) Freedom of speech and the role of a free press in upholding or enabling people in the U.S. to uphold their ideals (see pages 10-14 chapter 1). Issues such as ownership of media, access to local news, influence of social media, and the role of SuperPACs and the Citizens United Supreme Court decision are examples of aspects to consider.

Strong papers will look at each issue and consider how each theory does or does not seem to explain the issue at present. For example, what legislation has been passed (or not), what role did mass demonstrations or civil disobedience play (now or in the past), how are interest groups important, and what is the current state of the issue compared to earlier eras.

Students should use their textbooks to understand the various theories, and to learn about background information on their chosen topic.