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Report Detail and Expectations:

On an annual basis, Fortune magazine publishes a list of the top 500 US and this listing has become the ultimate scorecard that businesses use to determine if they are successful or not. This listing is ranked by total revenue for each company and it has become the gold standard for comparing companies in the market.

As a Marketing professional, the Fortune 500 listing, and the data that it provides on companies, can be a very valuable tool for you to use so our project this semester is designed to help you to get familiar with this listing and to give you a chance to work with this data and use in coordination with many of the Marketing concepts that are being taught in this course.

Part 1 Fortune 500 Top Performers & Research on Your Company

Assignment No. 1

For this section of the report, you need to identify both the top, and the bottom, (3) companies listed on the Fortune 500 List for 2020. For these (6) companies, you will need to collect the following data and build a spreadsheet to display this data.

– Fortune 500 Ranking Number
– Company Name
– Brief description of the products or services that this company sells
– Revenue
– Profit
– Profit as a % of Revenue

Assignment No. 2

For this part of your report you need to select one company from the 2020 version of the Fortune 500 list and this will be the company you will be using for the rest of your report.

The company that you pick will be one that you are familiar with meaning that it is a company whose products/services you, or someone that you know, has used in the past. This needs to be a company that you have heard of and that you have some kind of impression of them as a company. Youll will need to also have an opinion of how effective you feel that they are at providing you with a fair value for the products/services that you, or someone that you know, has bought from them in the past.

You will need to have this level of awareness of the company that you select so that you can complete some sections of this report as detailed out below.

For the company that youve selected, I need you to provide the following information.

– Fortune 500 Ranking Number
– Company Name
– Brief description of the products or services that this company sells
– Revenue
– Profit
– Profit as a % of Revenue
– Write a detailed explanation on what attracted you to this company and include a listing of the reasons why you chose it.

Assignment No. 3

For your company, I need you to research their website to provide the following information.

– Provide both their Vision Statement and the Mission Statement and then I want you to give me your impression on how well you feel that they are doing to achieve their Vision and their Mission. This response needs to include examples to back up your statements.

– Provide a detailed list of the different products, or product families, that this company offers to the market. For example, if you select CVS I do not need a detailed listing of all of the products that they currently sell but you would include a list that would include prescriptions, over the counter medical products, food items, magazines, etc.

– From researching either their website or the internet, provide a listing of the new product families that they are planning to offer for sale in the near future.

Assignment No. 4

For your company, I need you to research and find (2) of their competitors that compete with your company with most, or all, of the product families that they are selling.

– For each of the (2) competitors, provide both their Vision Statement and the Mission Statements.

– Provide a detailed list of the different products, or product families, that each of these (2) competitors offer and identify those product families that are different from the product families that your company offers, or is planning on offering to the market.

– From researching either the website or the internet, provide a listing of the new product families that each of your (2) competitors are planning to offer for sale in the near future.

D.B.A. PROGRAM STRUCTURE AND RESOURCES – CASE

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Required Reading
Academic Writing at the Doctoral Level

The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Tips and Tools. Resources available at http://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/

Murray, N. (2008). Writing up your university assignments and research projects: A practical handbook Open University Press. Chapter 6: What are the different components of a research project?.

Case Assignment

T M. (2016, August 7). Basic research and applied research definitions and differences video & lesson transcript study [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/3vyheXBPSsg

Applied Research

Banerjee, S. and Morley, C. (2013). Professional Doctorates in Management: Toward a Practice-Based Approach to Doctoral Education. Academy of Management Learning & Education. 12(2) 173-193. Available at http://www.grad.usf.edu/inc/linked-files/academics/Curriculum/Professional-Doctorates-article.pdf

Preston, J. C. (2014). Online Doctoral Programs: Can They Produce the Business Scientists and Leaders Needed for the 21st Century?. International Journal of Leadership and Change, 2(1), Article 5. Available at http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=ijlc

Optional Reading
How to Read Journal Articles

Cherry, K. (n.d.). How to read (and understand) a psychology journal article. About.com. Retrieved June 22, 2011, from http://psychology.about.com/od/psychologystudytips/p/read_articles.htm

Literature Review

School of Education, Indiana University Bloomington (2013). How to recognize plagiarism. Retrieved from https://www.indiana.edu/~istd/

Cornell University Library (2013). Distinguishing scholarly from non-scholarly periodicals: A checklist of criteria. Retrieved from http://guides.library.cornell.edu/content.php?pid=318840&sid=2609009

CQ University Library (2013). Evaluating books, journals, journal articles and websites. Retrieved from http://libguides.library.cqu.edu.au/content.php?pid=88010&sid=654786

Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries (2017). Evaluating information found on the Internet. Retrieved from http://guides.library.jhu.edu/c.php?g=202581&p=1334997

Cummings, S. R., Browner, W. S., & Hulley, S. B. (n.d.). Conceiving the research question. Retrieved from http://www.cii.org.ar/epidemiology/Conceiving%20the%20Research%20Question.pdf

Mongan-Rallis, H. (2014) Guidelines for writing a literature review. Retrieved from http://www.duluth.umn.edu/~hrallis/guides/researching/litreview.html

University of North Carolina (2017). Literature Reviews. Retrieved from http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/literature-reviews/

University of Saint Mary 92019). Tools for Effective Writing. Retrieved July 2019 from https://stmary.libguides.com/c.php?g=437282&p=2984219

Assignment Overview
In this assignment we will discuss the similarities and differences between Doctor of Philosophy program in Business Administration and the Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.) which is the program you are pursuing.

In order to complete this assignment, view this applied research video from Study.com on comparing and contrasting:

Mi, T. (2016, August 7). Basic research and applied research definitions and differences video & lesson transcript study [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/3vyheXBPSsg.

Here you have an example adapted from Saunders, M., Lewis, P. & Thornhill, A. (2012). Research Methods for Business Students 6th edition, Pearson Education Limited.

    Fundamental/Theoretical research    Applied research
Purpose
Expand knowledge of phenomena related to business and management.
Results in universal principles relating to the process and its relationship to outcomes.
Findings of significance and value to society in general.
Improve understanding of particular business or management problem.
Results in solution to problem.
New knowledge limited to problem.
Findings of practical relevance and value to manager(s) in organization(s).
Context
Undertaken by people based in universities.
Choice of topic and objectives determined by the researcher.
Flexible time scales.
Undertaken by people based in a variety of settings including organizations and universities.
Objectives negotiated with originator.
Tight time scales.
Sample table: Differences between fundamental and applied research

Case Assignment
After reading the required background material and finding at least two other resources on your own, write a 5- to 7-page paper discussing the topic:

Applied Research in Business

In your paper, you should answer the following questions using your own evaluation and critical thinking.

Compare and contrast theoretical (fundamental) research and applied research.
Discuss in more detail the characteristics of Applied Research in the context of a D.B.A. program.
Assignment Expectations
Length: The written component of this assignment should be 5-7 pages long (double-spaced) without counting the cover page and reference page.

Organization: Subheadings should be used to organize your paper according to the questions.

Grammar and Spelling: While no points are deducted for minor errors, assignments are expected to adhere to standard guidelines of grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence syntax. Points may be deducted if grammar and spelling impact clarity. We encourage you to use tools such as grammarly.com and proofread your paper before submission.

When you write your paper, make sure you do the following:

Answer the assignment questions directly.
Stay focused on the precise assignment questions. Do not go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials.
Use evidence from your readings to justify your conclusions.
Be sure to cite at least five credible resources.
Make sure to reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 11-14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the Writing Style Guide, which is found under My Resources in the TLC Portal.
Your assignment will be graded using the following criteria:

Assignment-driven Criteria: Student demonstrates mastery covering all key elements of the assignment.
Critical Thinking/Application to Professional Practice: Student demonstrates mastery conceptualizing the problem, and analyzing information. Conclusions are logically presented and applied to professional practice in an exceptional manner.
Business Writing and Quality of References: Student demonstrates mastery and proficiency in written communication and use of appropriate and relevant literature at the doctoral level.
Citing Sources: Student demonstrates mastery applying APA formatting standards to both in text citations and the reference list.
Professionalism and Timeliness: Assignments are submitted on time.

Dickinson Essay

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no need to be too fancy but fewer grammar mistakes will be great. The last time your essay got an A for me, but this time another writer messed up…. I just want you to write another essay and I will provide the previous one maybe you can tell the reason. I will also provide you my work from before.

Prince Among Slaves

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Prince Among Slaves responded to a whisper from across the centuries which seemed to say, Remember me. My efforts will have met my expectations if they fulfill the promise of the Hadith: Whosoever records historical facts concerning a believer has, as it were, brought him back to life. —

Terry Alford, Prince Among Slaves, 206.

In Prince Among Slaves, Terry Alford reconstructs the story of Abd al-Rahman Ibrahima, the Muslim son of a West African king who was captured, enslaved, and lived most of his life on a plantation outside of Natchez, Mississippi, before gaining his freedom and returning to Africa shortly before his death in 1829. As remarkable as Ibrahimas story doubtless remains, the Slave Journeys database reminds us it was part of a larger whole; he was one of 12.5 million documented African men and women who were enslaved and taken aboard slave ships to cross the Atlantic to labor in plantations and mines in the Americas (in 1820, there were four times as many Africans who had crossed the Atlantic as Europeans). Dehumanization was central to the slave system what the scholar Orlando Patterson has called social death. Using examples from Alfords work, discuss at least two significant ways that slave traders and/or plantation owners and their allies tried to take away Ibrahimas humanity. Conversely, what are two aspects of Ibrahimas identity that he was able to maintain? How did he manage to do so? Finally, Id like each of you to conclude your essay with a brief consideration of Alfords concluding statement (quoted above): what does he mean by this? why is it such an important issue for him?

Assignment 4: Explain why the switch from IPv4 to IPv6 is so difficult? Describe how key principles, discussed in prior chapters and your supplemental reading are slowing migration to the new standard?

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Assignment: (Taken from the text Chapter 12)

Explain why the switch from IPv4 to IPv6 is so difficult? Describe how key principles, discussed in prior chapters and your supplemental reading are slowing migration to the new standard?

Instructions:

Using the attached template and based on your text and supplemental reading, please address the question. Your response should have 3 to 5 properly constructed paragraphs with 3 to 5 properly constructed sentences per paragraph.

Remember spelling and grammar count as much as adequately addressing the question!

Upon completion, please name your assignment Yourname Unit 4 Assignment and submit to the Unit 4 Assignment dropbox.

List and briefly discuss the types of total ownership costs (TCO) associated with creating and supporting an organizations information systems.

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Assignment: (Taken from the text Chapter 9)

List and briefly discuss the types of total ownership costs (TCO) associated with creating and supporting an organizations information systems.

Instructions:

Remember spelling and grammar count as much as adequately addressing the question!

Upon completion, please name your assignment Yourname Unit 3 Assignment and submit to the Unit 3 Assignment dropbox.

Any topic (writer’s choice)

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Web Sites
Learn more about the depth and breadth of the higher education enterprise by exploring the following professional associations Web sites:
Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) http://www.aacu.org/
American College Personnel Association (ACPA) http://www.myacpa.org/
National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) http://www.naspa.org
League for Innovation in the Community College http://www.league.org
American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) – http://www.aacc.nche.edu/Pages/default.aspx
Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) – http://www.acteonline.org/
Additionally, explore the resources available from the following private foundations that support work in higher education:
Lumina Foundation http://www.luminafoundation.org
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching http://www.carnegiefoundation.org

Now that you have explored the Web sites of a number of professional associations and foundations that support the work of higher education professionals, share your findings with your colleagues and determine “what’s on the agenda” of these organizations. In your Discussion this week, address the following questions:

Are there common themes that you see running through the issues and topics addressed by several associations? Are there some associations whose agenda seems to be very different from those of others? How do the agendas of these organizations overlap with the issues we’ve been investigating in this course so far? Are the associations working on issues that truly concern the majority of higher education professionals, and is their work likely to provide resources that will help us with our key challenges? Do you see any gaps?

Be sure and identify the names of at least three of the organizations, foundations, and/or associations that you studied.

Information Security

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Please answer the following question separately (300 words each) in regards to computer security and cite all scholarly references used.

1. Explain the difference between public, private, and community clouds. What are some of the factors to consider when choosing which of the three to use?

2. In your opinion, what is the most important ethical issue concerning information security management facing the nation?

Textbook
Pfleeger, Charles P. / Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence, and Marguiles, Jonathan, (2015). Security in Computing, Fifth, Prentice Hall.