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Write up on the Netflix Film “The Social Dilemma”.The Social Dilemma is a 2020 American docudrama film directed by Jeff Orlowski and written by Orlowski, Davis Coombe, and Vickie Curtis. It explores the rise of social media and the damage it has caused to society, focusing on its exploitation and manipulation of its users for financial gain through surveillance capitalism and data mining.To watch you will need a Netflix subscription. If you do not have an account make a free trial account to complete the assignment.This assignment will be submitted on Canvas and should be a one page (11-inch font double spaced) write up answering the following questions:According to the film, who should be held accountable for the effects of social media? (Not your opinion of who should be held accountable) Do you agree with this approach?What are two examples in the film of social media mass spreading false news?In your opinion, how should data mining be handled? How do you think this will affect marketing?Make sure your write up is professionally written and free of grammatical and spelling errors

Strategy planning- 5 pages- apa –Critical Thinking: Corporate Strategy and Diversification (105 points)Corporate diversification strategies raise a wide range of strategic management issues.For this week’s critical thinking assignment, read the case study found in your textbook(Case 19): Google Is Now Alphabet—But What’s the Corporate Strategy?Remember, a case study is a puzzle to be solved, so before reading and answering thespecific case and study questions, develop your proposed solution by following thesefive steps:1. Read the case study to identify the key issues and underlying issues. These issues are theprinciples and concepts of the course area which apply to the situation described in the casestudy.2. Record the facts from the case study which are relevant to the principles and concepts of thecourse area issues. The case may have extraneous information not relevant to the current coursearea. Your ability to differentiate between relevant and irrelevant information is an importantaspect of case analysis, as it will inform the focus of your answers.3. Describe in some detail the actions that would address or correct the situation.4. Consider how you would support your solution with examples from experience or current real-lifeexamples or cases from textbooks.5. Complete this initial analysis and then read the discussion questions. Typically, you will alreadyhave the answers to the questions but with a broader consideration. At this point, you can add thedetails and/or analytical tools required to solve the case.Case Study Questions:1. What is Google’s corporate strategy? Does Google have a clear vision of what it wants tobecome?2. Use Porter’s Essentials Test (Chapter 12) to determine if this strategy creates competitiveadvantage. If so, how? If not, why not?3. Look beyond the conventional sources of synergy and consider complementarities, bargainingpower, and rivals. What threats does Google face?4. Does Google need to refocus? How should Google delineate its corporate boundaries and whichbusinesses, or products would you recommend abandoning or divesting

SCHOOL OF CONTINUING AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIESSpring 2021Introduction to MicroeconomicsECON1-UC 302 300Assignment 4This homework is due by 8 am on Saturday April 3. Please upload your 3-4 page paper (in .doc or .docx but not PDF format) to me on the course website at NYU Classes.Explain how the insights of Friedrich Hayek, Joseph Schumpeter, and Adam Smith regarding business competition can be used to critique both perfect and monopolistic competition. What is problematic about the MR = MC pricing formula deployed in neoclassical theory? A good essay will highlight the key theoretical aspects of each of these models of competition drawing on the above authors.Explain in what sense actual business enterprises differ from the textbook neoclassical models as discussed in Dean, Erik et al. 2016. Principles of Microeconomics: Scarcity and Social Provisioning. OpenStax Economics, Principles of Economics. OpenStax CNX. May 18, 2016.Consider a new business that invests $20 million into a plant to manufacture loaves of bread. The market for bread is say around 100 million loaves and the new firm expects that it will be able to obtain a market share of around 5%. At that level of production, the total cost of production is $10 million. Let us say that it targets a 20% return on its investment. What should the price of a loaf of bread be? Use the principle of target rate of return pricing. If the mark-up rate is 10% what will the full-cost price be?

What is the relationship between weekly expenditures of video rentals and dining out?Q2: If you were to reach out to these households, what other data would you be interested in collecting in order to understand their consumption behavior?Q3: What other types of products do you think these families would be interested in?

“Before there was Paris Hilton, there was Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan – a Gilded Age heiress and socialite, renowned for her beauty and wealth. Now Ms. Balsan’s onetime Hamptons home is slated to hit the market priced at $28 million with Tim Davis of the Corcoran Group.Located on Ox Pasture Road in Southampton, the shingle-style home was built around 1900 and is known as “Gardenside” or “Cara-Mia”. Ms. Balsan, the great-granddaughter of railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, owned the house until her death in 1964.According to public records, the estate is owned by Robert G. Goldstein, executive vice president and president of global gaming operations at Las Vegas Sands Corp, and his wife Sheryl, who purchased the house in 2007 for $17.4 million.” (The Wall Street Journal, August 1, 2014, M2)NOTE; All periods are at the end of the year and the end date is 2014, when the article was published.Calculate the annual compound growth rate of the house price during the period when the house was owned by Robert G. Goldstein (since 2007). (Round the number of years to the whole number).Assume that the growth rate you calculated in question #1 remains the same for the next 20 years. Calculate the price of the house in 20 years.Assume the growth rate that you calculated in #1 prevailed since 1900. Calculate the price of the house in 1900.Assume the growth rate that you calculated in #1 prevailed since 1900. Which price was paid for the house in 1964?You were using the time value of money concept to answer the question #3. What is the time point 0 is this problem?

You were recently hired at Trader Joe’s. Your boss has asked you to do an strategic analysis for Trader Joe’s and to make a recommendation based on your research/analysis of how they can increase their competitive advantage. She would like you to give them a very specific idea, not a broad general one. And she wants you to support the idea with your findings from the strategic tool you used for your analysis.You must only use 1 of the following tools: Competitor Analysis (if you choose this one, only use two other grocery store chains), VRIO or SWOT.Be sure to use and reference the Trader Joe’s Case for your research/data.ASSIGNMENTYou will write a two page report (1.5 spaced, 11 point font) and also provide a chart/graph of the strategic tool you are using.Use 1 Tool, either Competitor Analysis (if you choose this one, only use two other grocery store chains), VRIO or SWOT and analyze the current situation of the company and explain what you discovered, how that impacts the company and what opportunity it offers to the company.Provide a Well-Resoned Recommendation of a strategic action the company should take based on your analysis and explain why that is a good action for the company.Create a Chart/Graph of the tool used with the information you researched and attach it to the end of the report.NOTE: Written report is two pages in length. The chart/graph of the tool does not count toward the two page requirement. The chart/graph of the tool is attached at the end of the report as a 3rd page.

It is fairly common today to read of professional athletes refusing to sign contracts with their teams until they are given higher salaries. These demands, which can be for millions of dollars, are regarded by team owners as a form of blackmail. The players, however, believe that their skills are a salable commodity and that they are justified in getting as high a salary as they can bargain for. Are such demands justifiable? Are they so only in certain circumstances? Explain.

What is your understanding of opportunity cost? Why is it important to know it?

Within the Discussion Board area, write 200-300 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.The line managers in the production department have heard a lot of good things about value chain management. They heard that you have done considerable research on this topic. They have come to your office today to discuss value chain management with you. Complete the following:Summarize 3 examples of how value chain helps companies become more competitive. You are presenting these to the administrative team from the production department.Discuss how value chain management helps companies create and build value for their clients and partnering organizations by answering the following questions:How do you believe value chain management works?How do you think value chain management can help companies be more competitive?How do you think value chain management helps companies create and build value?Be sure to include your required references, and format your submission in APA format.

Effective leadership requires the leader to have a way with people. This is not necessarily the same as being a people person. The leader must, at least, have a way with people because ultimately the people should want to follow.Week 2 examines how leaders can develop their way with the people they lead. In this week, you will also learn how to cultivate the skills required to improve your leadership people skills.Your Learning Objectives for the Week:Critique communication styles in healthcare leadership settings.Develop strategies to provide mentoring and professional development in people.Contrast team-building processes to building trust and cohesiveness among team members.