Dissertation on Project Management

This is a dissertation and requires primary data (survey or interviews).

Brief:
Topic: TBC in private chat
Word Count: The word count for the report is max. 12,000 words
Style: Arial or Times New Roman, 12pt, 1.5 line spacing
Proposed Structure (but not limited to):
The project report should follow the structure below. Please note that the report content/structure of the real projects may differ in contrast to academic research.
§ Title Page
§ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
§ ABBREVIATIONS
§ LIST OF TABLES
§ LIST OF FIGURES
§ ABSTRACT
§ TABLE OF CONTENTS

§ Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION – In this section, you should illustrate the background, motivation behind choosing the study, problem statement and/or gaps, research aim and objectives, theoretical rationales of the study together with structure of the report
§ Chapter 2: LITERATURE REVIEW – In this section, you should elaborate, critically compare, and contrast extant theoretical contributions related to your research topic/area, develop theoretical lens, and state any hypothesis and conceptual framework (If any).
§ Chapter 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY/DESIGN– In this section you should highlight your research philosophical underpinnings, research approach, your research methods, sampling techniques, your access/ethics issues, data analysis techniques and tool(s)/software used, and your considerations on validity and reliability and/or credibility/trustworthiness.
§ Chapter 4: DATA ANALYSIS AND/OR RESULTS
§ Chapter 5: DISCUSSIONS – the discussion should clearly indicate the empirical contributions of your study and discuss critically how they differ to extant theoretical literature (based on literature revia ew)
§ Chapter 6: CONCLUSIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS AND CHALLENGES/LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY– In this section, you should briefly elaborate your overall summary, your achievements (desired vs actual objectives), and how you fulfil the current problem/gaps, the theoretical contributions and practical implications of the study together with recommendations for future research and challenges faced during the course of project including lessons learnt.
§ REFERENCES
§ APPENDICES
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The first draft is required in 7-10 days, please, thank you.

Discussion post -Written assignment-Learing journal

Ther reading material for all 3 assignments is Chapter 14 from the PDF I have uploaded.

Discussion
post:
Review the principles of an elevator
pitch on pages 572-73 of the textbook. Create your own elevator pitch for a
product that you would like to see on the market or for a product that already
exists that you really believe in. Remember: create the
pitch as if you were standing next to the person you wanted to deliver it to
and were about to deliver it to verbally. The pitch should not appear as a
bunch of prompts written on queue cards ready to be recited.
Your post should be no less than 100
words. At the end of your post, please indicate the word count. If you are
using references, please use the proper citation rules.

Written
assignment:
Define and discuss
the 6 principles of persuasion. Next, describe a situation, either fictional or
real-life, where you were tasked with persuading an individual or group at your
place of work to do something that you wanted them to do or help you with.
Remember that this should not include a situation in which you, the boss are
telling your subordinates what to do; the communication should occur between
equals. Describe how you used thee 6 principles during the persuasion process.
Were all 6 of the principles applied to the process of persuasion? If not, what
was missing from your argument?
Your paper should be two pages (double-spaced). Cite references to
material that you use in preparing the essay, according to APA conventions.

Learning
journal:
Define the
differences between motivation and persuasion and describe a time where you
tried to do both. Remember to cite your sources for your definitions. If you
cannot think of examples, try to think of a time when you were motivated and/or
persuaded to do something. What was the outcome?
About 300 words.
Cite references to material that you use in preparing the essay, according to APA conventions.

Contemporary issues in finance homework

You will be submitting your Final Report to your Board of Directors this week. Review your results and your competitors. Pick one of your competitors and provide guidance on how they might improve their operation.

Oral component of your project. Using a narrated power point, video or the voice recorder in the menu above, please give us a 2 to 4 minute summary of your results and guidance for competitors.

Declaration of Independence Essay

Directions:
1. Read the entire Declaration of Independence on pages 568 and 569 (shown in files)
2. read the section on The Declaration of Independence found on pages 83 and 84 (shown in files)
3. find the archives.org website at: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration.html.Links to an external site. At this website, you will be able to see an image of the actual Declaration of Independence document signed in 1776.

The Declaration of Independence included these three major ideas:
People have certain Inalienable Rights including Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness
All Men are created equal
Individuals have a civic duty to defend these rights for themselves and others
* How were the founding fathers influenced by God in creating this document?
* How important do you think these principles are today?
* Do we still live by these principles today?
Think about these three questions above.

Contemporary issues in finance assignment

Final Executive Presentation
Please include a discussion of the items noted below in your final presentation:

1.Explain why you did or did not achieve your goals — what were the causes of your better or weaker than expected performance? (candidness here is very important)
2.Summarize how you have prepared your firm to compete in the future.
3.What were the lessons learned? How did you benefit from participating in the simulation? Are there any lessons that you can take into the business world?

Our Presence in Social Media

Straubhaar, J. D., LaRose, R., & Davenport, L. (2018). Media now: Understanding media, culture, and technology. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

After reading Chapter 1: The Changing Media of the textbook, answer the following questions in at least 150 words or more.
Describe at least 3 different types of social media? Do you use any of these? If so, why do you? If you do not use social media, why have you decided not to use it?
What do you like most about social media? If you do not use social media, what are some benefits of social media that you know of?
What do you like the least about social media? If you do not use social media, what are some negative aspects of social media that you know of?
Is social media a new type of communication? Please explain

long term health effects of full time gaming

• Each group should present a single paper. (Times New Roman font, 12-point double-spaced). Do not change the default margins to fit more content. Instead, edit and proofread your paper.
• Turn in a 5-6 page group report outlining the news and research articles and how they connect to class content. Submit your paper through Canvas.
• The paper should include a clear introduction, body, and conclusion. The introduction must grab attention and introduce the main thesis/claims of the presentation (“How do people make moral choices in video games? Do people experience guilt or regret? According to X…”).
• Search terms, search strategy, and search database information should appear in the introduction.
• The body of the report should develop the main claims, introduce the articles, theories, and findings, and be able connect these two elements (popular press and research article claims).
• The news articles should be used to illustrate what people are thinking in regards to a specific issue (e.g., concerns, beliefs, stereotypes, current practices associated with playing video games). The research articles should
be discussed as empirical evidence related to the broader claims in the news articles.
• The conclusion should briefly restate your main points, outline future implications of the phenomenon in question, and close the argument effectively. Your conclusion should clearly state how you think this topic will develop in the next few years (i.e., future directions). These predictions should be related to the theory and news articles you discussed earlier. Future
directions should be a logical extension of the theory and article in question. Be logical and do not overstate your point. Simply extrapolate on what will likely happen based on gaming technologies that is recently available or under development.
• Include a reference section in APA 7th or any other formatting style. References are not included in the 5-page paper limit. References do not count against the page limit.

PS: Since there is no way to attach the lecture videos, I’ll give you a general introduction here. The writer only needs to connect the relevant concepts about game disorder with the attached three articles and explain the psychological and physiological disadvantages of long-term games. Also you need to introduce the search term which I already attached.

Macroeconomics homework

Please choose two topics of your choice from Chapters 32-34 and describe in your own words what you learned, providing an explanation of 200 words for each topic.
*Pose two questions on material that is not clear to you from Chapters 32-34. Let’s try to answer each other’s questions to test our own understanding. ( please come up 2 questions for each topic)

Question
1. Describe supply and demand in the market for loanable funds and in the market for foreign-currency exchange. How are these markets linked?
Why are budget deficits and trade deficits sometimes called the twin deficits?
2.What is the theory of liquidity preference? How does it help explain the downward slope of the aggregate-demand curve?
2. Use the theory of liquidity preference to explain how a decrease in the money supply affects the aggregate-demand curve.

International banking and finance homework

Please read the article “Mulinationals love India more than it loves them”.
Foreign firms in India
Multinationals love India more than it loves them

The Economist

July 3, 2020

By looking inward, Narendra Modi is missing a huge opportunity

If you look at the headline figures, foreign companies still appear to be piling into India even as its economy reels from the pandemic. Since the country went into lockdown in March some $20bn of cross-border deals have been announced, with the likes of Facebook and kkr, a private-equity giant, sticking cash into digital firms, solar parks and more. Optimists argue that India could soon become a place to build factories, as firms seek to diversify their supply chains away from China.

Yet look closely, and a different picture emerges (see article). Foreign firms are often on the wrong end of regulatory changes. Investors increasingly prefer to take minority stakes alongside local tycoons, rather than set out on their own. And Narendra Modi, the prime minister, is veering towards a policy of capricious self-reliance. This week India banned 59 Chinese-made apps, including TikTok. Unless things change, India and the firms that invest there will not reach their potential.

India was largely closed to foreign firms between independence in 1947 and liberalisation in 1991—it even kicked out Coca-Cola. Since then it has opened up, tentatively at first, and after 2000 more confidently. Cumulatively, multinational firms have invested over $500bn and some have won control of critically important assets. Vodafone took a majority stake in a big mobile network in 2007. The biggest carmaker is run by Suzuki, a Japanese firm. When Mr Modi was elected in 2014, he pledged to make India even more hospitable and to attract more factories. On paper the Sino-American trade war should make it easier to turn India into a global production hub.

How has Mr Modi done? Officials boast that India has moved swiftly up the “ease of doing business” rankings, from 142nd place in 2014 to 63rd place last year. But the reality is less impressive. India’s share of global foreign direct investment (fdi) flows has nudged up only slightly, from 2.5% in 2014 to 3.3% last year. Meanwhile, some troubling problems fester.

Foreign firms don’t always get fair treatment. True, some that have been active in India for many decades, such as Unilever, are treated like locals. But more recent arrivals can get beaten up. Vodafone poured over $20bn into India but found itself subject to a big retroactive tax claim, unfavourable regulation and, most recently, spectrum levies (some local firms got clobbered, too). Amazon and Walmart, which together have also invested over $20bn, faced a sharp change in the e-commerce rules in 2019 that made it harder for them to own or control inventory.

Because the playing field is not level, foreign firms seem to be shifting from owning their own subsidiaries to taking passive stakes in well-connected local firms instead. Ford has folded its business into a joint-venture. Aéroports de Paris has taken a non-controlling stake in an infrastructure firm. A who’s who of world business has bought small stakes in Jio, a mobile-phone and e-commerce firm run by Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, which competes with Amazon, Walmart and Vodafone. Of all the $57bn of cross-border deals announced in the past 12 months, 66% involved passive stakes and half involved partnerships with a tiny number of Indian tycoons. The economy is becoming dominated by a few local winners. According to Marcellus, an investment firm, 70% of corporate profits are made by the top 20 firms, only one of them foreign, up from 14% 30 years ago.

With the economy forecast to shrink by 4.5% this year and firms prowling for alternatives to China, you may think that Mr Modi would open the door. But his policies have turned inward, mirroring the lurch to protectionism in the West. On May 12th he made a speech which said that India should take part in global supply chains but also mentioned “self-reliance” 17 times. As military tensions with China rise (see article), a new crackdown has begun. As well as banning the Chinese apps, the government is prodding e-commerce firms to have “country of origin” labelling on goods they sell. Foreign firms bring cash, know-how and competition. Once the pandemic passes, India must show that it is still open for business.■

This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “Inside game”

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