Lobos International Scenario:

Over the past few years, you and Cindy have been on the fast track at Lobos International, a multinational company providing Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) solutions to companies operating in the Pacific Rim. You were just informed that you have been promoted as Senior VP of Global Affairs, a position that, for the foreseeable future, has Cindy reporting directly to you.

You received a text message from a colleague congratulating you on the promotion, but she also alerted you that Cindy and several of her team members were upset and resentful that she failed to receive the position. She had, after all, been with Lobos a couple years longer than you.

The first project on the table requires you to increase the number of clients in the region by 10% over the next 12 months. To do that, you will need Cindy’s help because she heads the sales and marketing team. Given that you are new to this position, it is imperative that you demonstrate your ability to lead, regardless of personality differences.

Please provide a response to the following questions:

 Please discuss how you will approach Cindy to ensure she is on board with the project objectives?

 How will you get the team to the performing stage (stages forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning)?

 How will you manage the potential conflict?

 How will you handle the situation in which some of Cindy’s team members are sabotaging the success of the project?

 If Cindy steps up to the plate and performs admirably, will you seek for her to be promoted? Explain.

Identify your own thoughts, and answer each question in detail. Your response should be a minimum of two pages in length written in standard essay form according to APA style guidelines.

Watch the video case study “Geek Squad: A New Business for a New Environment.”

Read the case study discussion on pp. 88-89 of the Marketing text. Keep this case study in mind as you complete this assignment.

Write a 1,050-word report using your company or one with which you are familiar (if you prefer, your facilitator can assign one to you). Answer the following questions for your chosen organization.

• Explain what the specific key environmental forces are that created an opportunity for your company.
• Identify if there have been changes in the purchasing patterns of your organization’s target market in recent years.
• Conduct an environmental scan for your chosen company to identify key trends. For each of the five environmental forces (social, economic, technological, competitive, and regulatory), identify trends likely to influence your company’s marketing efforts and product offering in the future.
• Explain what differentiation strategy your company should undertake to encourage their target market to choose them over other competitors.
• Analyze what lessons you might learn from the Geek Squad case study.

Include at least three references, at least one of which must come from the University Library.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Analysis of Option Strategies

This project provides an opportunity to get some hands-on experience applying corporate finance theory and models to real firms.

You purchased 10,000 shares of Wal-Mart. You expect the stock price to change significantly in the next month, but you are unsure whether it will increase or decrease. Your broker recommends a protective put. You realize that a protective put will protect you from the downside risk, but you think a straddle may offer similar downside protection, while increasing the upside potential. You decide to analyze both strategies and the resulting profits and returns you could face from each.

1.  Download option quotes on options that expire in approximately one month on Wal-Mart from the Chicago Board Options Exchange (www.cboe.com) into an Excel spreadsheet (click the Quotes & Data tab at the top left portion of the screen and then select “Delayed Quotes”). If you choose to download “near term at-the-money” options, you will get a range of options expiring in about a month. Note: You can only get active quotes while the exchange is open; bid or ask prices are not available when it is closed.

2.  Determine your profit and return using the protective put.

a. Identify the expiring put with an exercise price closest to, but not below, the current stock price. Determine the investment required to protect all 10,000 shares.

b. Determine the put price at expiration for each stock price at $5 increments within a range of $40 of Wal-Mart’s current price.

c. Compute the profit (or loss) on the put for each stock price used in part (b).

d. Compute the profit on the stock from the current price for each stock price used in part (b).

e. Compute his overall profit (or loss) of the protective put, that is, combining the put and your stock for each price used in parts (c) and (d).

f. Plot the profit-and-loss diagram for the protective put.

g. Compute the overall return of the protective put.

3.  Determine your profit and return using the straddle.

a. Compute the investment you would have to make to purchase the call and put with the same exercise price and expiration as the put option in Question 2, to cover all 10,000 of your shares.

b. Determine the value at expiration of the call and the put options at each $5 increment of stock prices within a range of $40 of Wal-Mart’s current price.

c. Determine the profit (or loss) on the options at each stock price used in part (b).

d. Plot the profit-and-loss diagram for the straddle.

e. Determine the profit (or loss) on the stock from the current price for each stock price used in part (b).

f. Compute his overall profit (or loss) of the stock plus straddle, that is, combining the position in both options and your stock for each price used in parts (c) and (d).

g. Compute the overall return of this position.

4.  Was the broker correct that the protective put would prevent you from losing if there was a large decrease in the stock value? What is your maximum possible loss using the protective put?

5.  What is the maximum possible loss you could experience using the straddle?

6.  Which strategy, the protective put or the straddle, provides the maximum upside potential? Why does this occur?

First, you need read the attachment slide I provide for you, and to select only one step of 6 Marketing Research Processes (for example, Collection information)

Second, you need to find a marketing article according to the one step you choose

Third. You have one single-spaced page using New Times Roman 12 font to (1)introduce me to the organization (2)the marketing concept, and to (3)convince me that company’s actions illustrate the marketing concept well. Just three paragraph. The first two should be short (two or three sentences)

(1) The organization – This should include the organization’s name, location, goods/services it provides, and something that indicates organizational size, like sales/revenue/# employees.

(2) The marketing concept – This should communicate the key information about the marketing concept. In your own words, introduce the marketing concept in such a way that it may be understood by a person entirely unfamiliar with it. Present the marketing concept, a mental tool, as you would a physical tool. You may include(1) in what situation it would generally be of use; and, (2)how it would help a manager make better strategic decisions.

(3) The example- This should clearly explain how the attached resource material (for example: news article) about the organization clearly illustrate the marketing concept; justify that this organization’s actions realty meet the definition of that marketing concept; and, explain how the reader will the marketing concept specifically illustrated in the PPT slide you attach. (This is where the use of color for emphasis in your figure will be indicated.)

 The PPT slide is in the attachment.

Business Law I

Eminent Domain

Read the following article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062300783.html. Do you think the government has too much power to seize property under the doctrine of eminent domain?

Note: this is for a discussion forum. a minimum of 150 words are needed.