People are the key to success for your business. Complete the management section of your business plan, and share it here. It should include: your key personnel, line of authority, management style, and organization plan. Also share: What management strengths and weak points did you find? Why? How can you capitalize on your strengths? How can you improve upon your weak points? Why is this a challenge for todays entrepreneur?

1.    Please explain what the environmental costs of intensive farming (conventional agriculture) are. In your answer, explain the connection to the Green Revolution, chemical fertilizers and the common conventional agriculture. Additionally, in your explanation, use at least 5 terms from the following list and use them to further develop your argument. Please note Your answer should be written as a narrative with a beginning, middle and end. The reader of the text must understand what the environmental costs in the narrative are.

Organic matter
Earth worms
Eutrophication
Loss of seed Biodiversity
CCD
Deforestation
GMO
Roundup
Deforestations
Tragedy of the commons
Your answer should not exceed over 1.5 pages.

2. You are asked to write a position piece for the United Nations with recommendations to address an issue we studied in our course. Pick an issue from the course's units, explain it and let us know - what would your recomme

Assignment Prompt:
This week you will develop an Exit or Harvesting Plan for the company you built a business model for in Week 6. There are many scenarios where a business owner would want (or need) to exit or downsize segments or product lines in his or her business, or possibly exit the entire business. Retirements, deaths, competitive changes, consumer needs, economic downturns, and loss of interest are only a few of the possible reasons for having an "exit or harvesting" plan roughed out and ready to implement. Before getting started on the exit plan portion of your model, make sure you review the resources in the Reading & Resources section of week eight's lesson.

Assignment Instructions:
For this project, you will be creating a 15 to 20 slide PowerPoint program you will submit by this Sunday midnight. In your presentation, you will develop an exit strategy for your business model utilizing five different scenarios:

Scenario 1: A Major downturn in the econ

In previous weeks, you went into the New York Times Small Business Case Study file and chose either an e-commerce or service related business to report on.  This week you will head back into the extensive list of small businesses case studies provided by the New York times and choose a product-oriented small business to describe the that business must plan for in order to assure continued viability.  Start this discussion the same way you did in week 2, by noting the business name, owner, and type of business the entrepreneur is in.  Then review the challenges this business found itself in and what solutions it applied.  Finally, recommend one additional solution to the challenge the entrepreneur could have considered.

https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=Case+Studies

In previous weeks, you went into the New York Times Small Business Case Study file and chose either an e-commerce or service related business to report on.  This week you will head back into the extensive list of small businesses case studies provided by the New York times and choose a product-oriented small business to describe the that business must plan for in order to assure continued viability.  Start this discussion the same way you did in week 2, by noting the business name, owner, and type of business the entrepreneur is in.  Then review the challenges this business found itself in and what solutions it applied.  Finally, recommend one additional solution to the challenge the entrepreneur could have considered.

https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=Case+Studies

For this week's assignment, you will be developing a Business Model for a business opportunity of interest to you.  Your discussion assignment this week is to describe your initial thinking about the business for which you have chosen to Model. To the extent you can, introduce your fellow learners regarding: (a) the products and/or services offered; the facilities, equipment, inventory, and other assets needed; the target market and customer demographics on which you will focus; and what expertise you, as the entrepreneur, bring to the business.

Assignment Prompt:
This week your assignment is to begin researching a small business of interest to you and then start the process of organizing and writing of a formal business model. You will want to select a small business or franchise for which you have some expertise, knowledge, experience, and (most importantly) considerable interest. Before you attempt this Model, please review some of the resources listed in the Reading & Resources section of the Week 6 Lesson.

Once you have reviewed the resources in the lesson, the next step in this process is to watch the video hyperlinked below. We will be using the model design that is covered in this short 9-minute video. Before you start the video, download and print out a copy of the Outline sheet that has been inserted below, it will help you in your note taking as you watch this video.

The Business Model Canvas - 9 Steps to Creating a Successful Business Model - Startup Tips

Now that you have a good feel fo

Answer these Questions

1.    You are given the following variables age (scale), blood pressure (scale), sex (nominal), degree level (ordinal).  Using some (not all) of these variables, create an example of one independent variable - one dependent variable research question and two independent variables one dependent variable research question. This second one should have both independent variables impacting the same dependent variable.

2.    Why is a between-groups variance explainable and a within-group variance unexplainable?

3.    Why is knowledge of within-group variance in each group necessary to make a decision about reliable differences between two groups mean performances?

Topic:  Chi-Square Analysis
QUESTION

It is frequently presumed that as individuals get older, they become more politically conservative. A political science student wants to verify this postulate. Using secondary data, the student ran a Chi-Square analysis of the age group (1835, 3655, 5680) and self-described political affiliation (liberal, moderate, or conservative). The results of his analysis are provided in the tables below, but the student is having difficultly explaining the results.


    Describe the overall findings of the Chi-Square in the output, including the cell contributions, based upon the standardized residuals.

    What conclusions can the student make concerning this postulate?

You are a Consultant Recruiter with XYZ Recruitment, Inc. You have been contacted by "State University" to conduct a search to fill a critical position (management level).

explains your recruitment strategy, process, and procedures, and what makes your recruitment agency the right choice for this assignment.
include the role of the recruiting agency and the role of the university HR team in the recruitment and selection process.