please each term needs a short paragraph to define. can find resources online but cannot copy or quote, need to use your own words, can revise.
4. Socially Efficient Output (Socially efficient level of production)
5. Marginal Private Benefit versus marginal external benefit
6. Pigouvian Subsidy to control a negative externality
7. Partial Public Good
8. Free Rider with respect to a Public Good
1.Recreate and Include the graph using the Importance/Performance grid in the text. The data needs to be plotted.
2.Include a chart with 4 columns. Attribute, Importance,Performance,Classification and fill it in once the data is plotted.
3.Analyze the data using the grid and provide Recommendations to the manager based on your data analysis..
only with you own thought
must be specific and detail
In the introduction to the research proposal – you will begin to contextualize the challenge, providing an overview of the organization, including its competition, customer base and overall situation. Introduce and describe the organization’s overall mission, and discuss the importance of the challenge, given the organization’s focus or strategy. At the end of your background and introduction, generate your research questions and hypotheses for the challenge.
You only need to write this part of proposal: Introduce and describe the organization’s overall mission, and discuss the importance of the challenge, given the organization’s focus or strategy. At the end of your background and introduction, generate your research questions and hypotheses for the challenge.
The Organization’s name is: AFP Habitat
Terrence Robinson is a newly hired associate engineer at Cascade Engineering. His role is to provide estimates for new products and programs as well as for customer-specific orders or modifications to current projects. In his position, Terrence played a key liaison role among the sales, engineering, and manufacturing teams. During the first town hall meeting since being hired, Terrence heard Cascade Engineerings president, Mark Miller, discuss the companys financial results, and executive vice president Kenyatta Brame discuss its social programs and B Corporation certification. Almost every slide, regardless of topic, displayed the triple bottom line of people, profit, and planet. Terrence was inspired and recalled a TedX talk that discussed the WaterWheel, a device that could provide access to clean water in the developing world.
Instruction
Purchase the HBSP case study on Cascade Engineering, which can be found here: https://hbsp.harvard.edu/import/742741 (Links to an external site.). Carefully read the case and answer the following questions:
Describe the vision, mission, and culture of Cascade Engineering (5 Points)
How does WaterWheel align with the mission, vision, and culture of Cascade Engineering? (10 points)
How does WaterWheel align with the strategy of Cascade Engineering? (10 points)
Who are the key stakeholders in Cascade and what were their roles? (10 points)
Who are the two most important stakeholders who might support Terrence Robinson the strongest, and what is motivating their support? (10 points)
Who might require more persuasion so they do not create roadblocks? (10 points)
What are the rational, i.e. fact-based, and emotional arguments for the WaterWheel that Terrence can use with his stakeholders? (15 points)
If you were Terrence, who would you look to first to discuss your idea? Why? What messages would you communicate to persuade this key stakeholder? (15 points)
How will you measure the impact of the WaterWheel program if it is approved? Define the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for measuring the efficacy of that program, how you would collect and verify the data needed for each KPI, and how you will report the performance of the program to internal and external stakeholders. (15 points)
Assessment
This activity was created to help you understand that organizational change can be driven from the bottom up, as well as the top down. You are assessed based on your ability to:
Describe the change situation in the context of the existing organization.
Comprehensively analyze and manage the stakeholders who are important to the change situation.
Describe how analytics can be used in the change process.
Timely, complete, and clear responses to all questions
In class we discussed the unique role played by Special Purpose Entities (SPEs, also sometimes called Special Purpose Vehicles or SPVs), and in particular within the context of the We Work IPO and the decision taken to postpone its equity offering. In the Files 1(in the attachment) you will find a publication issued by Price-Waterhouse-Coopers (PWC) on the topic of SPVs. Please read the publication and then answer the following questions. Please do not be concerned with how long or how short your answers may be simply answer in a concise way with what you believe to be appropriate responses. You may discuss possible answers with others in class if you wish to do so, but the work you submit must reflect your own personal views.
The title of the publication is The next chapter, Creating an understanding of Special Purpose Vehicles. Why the reference to The next chapter what was the previous chapter that is implied here?
Why do you think PWC is providing this publication?
Within the 398 pages of its S-1 filing for the SEC which provides information relating to its IPO, We Work mentions SPEs twice, and in one of those instances cites that the parent company is guaranteeing about 10% of $45B in lease obligations, which means that the remaining 90% of obligations will not be supported by the parent company in the event of a distress situation. Because of this level of risk unsupported by the parent company, leasing companies will charge We Work higher lease costs which We Work will hope to pass on to tenants it is able to find. Ultimately, We Work shareholders will bear the risk of whether the company is able to find tenants for the lease obligations it has created. Below are the two references in the S-1 related to the SPEs (and if you are interested you can find the full S-1 filing in the Files 2(in the attachment) but you are not required to review it):
From page 27: While our leases are often held by special purpose entities, our consolidated financial condition and results of operations depend on the ability of our subsidiaries to perform their obligations under these leases over time. Our business, reputation, financial condition and results of operations depend on our subsidiaries ongoing compliance with their leases. We may determine that it is necessary to fund the lease payments of our subsidiaries beyond the terms of our limited parent guarantees (if applicable), in which case any difficulty of our subsidiaries in performing their obligations under our leases could affect our liquidity.
From page 122: The future undiscounted fixed minimum lease cost payment obligations under operating and finance leases signed as of June 30, 2019 were $47.2 billion. A majority of our leases are held by individual special purpose entities. As of June 30, 2019, we provided credit support in respect of leases in the form of corporate guarantees of $4.5 billion, outstanding standby letters of credit of $1.1 billion, cash security deposits to landlords in the amount of $268.3 million, and surety bonds issued of $183.9 million, although we may be obligated to make all required rental payments. In addition, individual property lease security obligations on any given lease typically decrease over the life of the lease, although we continually enter into new leases in the ordinary course of our business.
With reference to pages 8 and 9 of the PWC publication, what do you think are the top Key Risks and Key Benefits with respect to the We Works proposed use of SPEs in relation to its lease obligations? Do you think these were adequately explained in the We Work S-1? The initial market discussion of where We Works IPO might trade was at about $40 per share, and today it is thought to perhaps be closer to $20 per share do you think that this fluctuation may be due to the way We Work disclosed information related to the SPEs?
To recap, these are the questions you are being asked to address
The title of the publication is The next chapter, Creating an understanding of Special Purpose Vehicles. Why the reference to The next chapter what was the previous chapter that is implied here?
Why do you think PWC is providing this publication?
a. With reference to pages 8 and 9 of the PWC publication, what do you think are the top Key Risks and Key Benefits with respect to the We Works proposed use of SPEs in relation to its lease obligations?
Do you think these were adequately explained in the We Work S-1?
The initial market discussion of where We Works IPO might trade was at about $40 per share, and today it is thought to perhaps be closer to $20 per share do you think that this fluctuation may be due to the way We Work disclosed information related to the SPEs?
Using FinViz.com (Links to an external site.), or another website if you prefer, select an industry that is of interest to you, and then pick two companies within that industry having a comparable market capitalization (market cap); if possible a difference in market cap of not more than 5%. Next, identify three financial ratios that are similar in value between the two companies you have picked, and three financial ratios that are not similar in value between the two companies you have picked. Discuss what you believe to be of significance in relation to the three ratios that are similar, as well as what you believe to be of significance in relation to the three ratios that are not similar. For example, if the book value to price value ratio is similar for the two companies, do you think that this is attributable to norms for that industry, or is it attributable to something else? Or, if the Price to Earnings ratio is not similar for the two companies, what do you see as influencing the difference?
To help you with your answers you may use any online resources, including rating agency reports, corporate filings, blogs (e.g., Seeking Alpha or others), company press releases, or news stories.
The assignment must be a minimum of 250 words not counting your bibliography, and needs to be printed out and submitted at the start of our next class.
Using FinViz.com (Links to an external site.), or another website if you prefer, select an industry that is of interest to you, and then pick two companies within that industry having a comparable market capitalization (market cap); if possible a difference in market cap of not more than 5%. Next, identify three financial ratios that are similar in value between the two companies you have picked, and three financial ratios that are not similar in value between the two companies you have picked. Discuss what you believe to be of significance in relation to the three ratios that are similar, as well as what you believe to be of significance in relation to the three ratios that are not similar. For example, if the book value to price value ratio is similar for the two companies, do you think that this is attributable to norms for that industry, or is it attributable to something else? Or, if the Price to Earnings ratio is not similar for the two companies, what do you see as influencing the difference?
To help you with your answers you may use any online resources, including rating agency reports, corporate filings, blogs (e.g., Seeking Alpha or others), company press releases, or news stories.
The assignment must be a minimum of 250 words not counting your bibliography, and needs to be printed out and submitted at the start of our next class.
The Beauty of the Common.
That must be the title of your essay, but you can write it however you would like. In “Nature,” Emerson writes, “It will not need, when the mind is prepared to study, to search for objects. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” So I want you to use that as your guide. Write an essay (at least three pages, Times New Roman 12 pt. font, 1″ margins all around, double-spaced) that does two things: it should present a thesis about the beauty of the common as you see it, and the beauty of the common as Emerson saw it. Use Emerson and Carlyle to help you through it, and try to find some common ground between them and yourself, between their world and yours. The Transcendentalists were brilliant at finding beauty in the most common of things (a rock for example, or a leaf), and they truly believed it. Not necessarily in the sunset, but in the way a certain tree looked when the sun was setting. They then found a way to make sense of that beauty as it represented the men and women looking at, and studying, that beauty. The beauty, in other words, meant something. So for this assignment, discuss that. Discuss the beauty in the everyday, not necessarily in the profound, but in the simple. Be creative, be thorough, and be true to these essays. Quote them, but don’t quote them that extensively. I want this to come from a place of originality.
