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Read: Tesla, Inc., McGraw Hill Education, by Frank Rothaemel, Rev. March 7, 2020, MH0067 (case)Prepare a Managerial Report (*) structured as follows:Task 1-1: Structure and present your paper in the form of a Managerial Report, with a cover page, table of content, executive summary, main body, appendices. Expected length of Assignment 1: up to 6 pages APA format, excluding cover page, table of contents, and appendicesTask 1-2: What is Tesla’s business model? How is Tesla’s business model different from traditional car manufacturers?Task 1-3: How was Tesla able to enter the automotive mass-market industry?Task 1-4: In which stage of industry life cycle is the electric vehicle industry? What core competences are the most important at this stage of the industry life cycle?Task 1-5: Evaluate Elon Musk’s “Master Plan, Part 2” and assess if Tesla can gain and sustain a competitive advantage.

Servant leadership is a term that often, as stated by Northouse, “seems contradictoryand challenges our traditional beliefs about leadership” (2019, p. 227). The literaldefinition of a leader is to point the direction for others to follow, and for a servant tofollow those they serve.That said, servant leadership has become a key philosophy within leadership. In thisdiscussion thread, assess how a leader can be both a leader and a servant at the sametime, and present two specific strategies a person can follow to ensure they become aleader and a servant that influences others to follow.Embed course material concepts, principles, and theories (including supportingcitations) along with at least one current, scholarly, peer-reviewed journal article. Youmay find that your discussion of leadership characteristics is easily supported with suchcurrent scholarly research, while the information about how your chosen leader exhibitsthose leadership characteristics is supported by popular research.ReferencesNorthouse, P. G. (2018). Leadership: Theory and practice (8th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA:Sage Publications.

Please write a short (limit 1000 words) essay on the United Nations Human Rights Council’s 2017 report on the financialization of housing (relevant links below). You may either agree or disagree with the report. Your grade should not depend on which side you take, just on how well argued your case is. Try to consider principles from this course about the functioning of financial markets, whose purposes they serve, and how they can solve fundamental economic problems, or, perversely, worsen them.

Judgement in Managerial Decision MakingBased on examples from one of the recommended articles selected by you, the lecture notes, the text, and other sources, discuss one or several of the themes: the nature of managerial decision making, the steps in the managerial decision making, organizational learning and creativity, judgmental heuristics, common biases in managerial decision making, bounds of human judgment, strategies for making better decisions.

The PMBOK Guide defines virtual teams as “groups of people with a shared goal who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting face to face” (PMI, 2017, p. 725).1) The latest edition of the PMBOK Guide describes “virtual teams/distributed teams” as one of the trends and emerging practices in project resource management for optimizing resource utilization (PMI, 2017, p. 310). Chapter 9 explains some of the potential benefits and challenges of virtual teams (pp. 311, 333, 340). Pick one of these benefits or challenges, and explain how it impacted your PMAN 638 group. Cite the PMBOK Guide in your response.2) Assume your global company is forming a new team, and several members with unique expertise for the team’s designated project are located in different countries. Your travel budget provides for one face-to-face meeting per year. After this first meeting, you must establish the “communications management plan” for this culturally diverse group. Identify 3 elements in your plan that would be different from the same elements in a “communications management plan” for a team composed of members who are all co-located in your project management office (PMO). Provide support from the “How to Manage Virtual Teams” article (see Week 10 Reading List) in your response.

At this point in the course, you have been introduced to the bounds of rationality and awareness, the pitfalls of overconfidence and other common biases, and the effects emotions have in decision-making.Write a 4–6-page paper that answers the following questions:? What is bounded awareness and bounded rationality? Provide example of each? How has overconfidence limited the success of business goals for companies and individuals? (Define, then answer through your definition)? How do emotions affect decision-making? Give a real-life example.? How should a manager approach be working with an employee who is perceived as “emotional”?? Research “Workplace Bullying” and determine how it can affect managerial decision-making.This paper will serve as the foundation for your final course project CLA 2 where you will finish analyzing some remaining topics and synthesize your new knowledge to create a plan of personal action

6 The identification and comparison of manufactured fibers consists of at least three examinations and comparisons. List and describe them.

Answer question No.4 only (750 words) and Introduction (250 words) with references.1- Based on the information given in the case, identify the challenges in managing an inventory of blood products.2- Using the data provided in the exhibits, compute the current level of shortage and wastage of platelets and type O positive (O+) blood at the MBB.3. What will you recommend to Joshi to improve the shortage and wastage performance at the MBB?4. What are the key leanings from this case?

Adequately and appropriately defining the problem is the key to the case analysis. A problem definition should be framed as a decision to be made. Therefore, “sales have fallen off” is not a properly defined problem. The problem should not be defined so narrowly that good alternative courses of action are not considered. Therefore, “should we increase advertising” is too narrowly defined to result in a thoughtfully considered decision. The problem definition should contain three key elements: decision objectives; success measures; and decision constraints. For example: how can we maintain our quality brand image (objective); and regain our lost market share (success measure); given limited funds for advertising and sales promotion (constraint)? This section should identify the alternative courses of action to be investigated. This section should also list the major dimensions, or states of nature in a decision theory framework, of the decision (i.e., those factors on which the choice of an alternative will largely depend). These states of nature are uncertain and, for the most part, are uncontrollable: competitor actions, consumer needs and response, and turns in the economy are examples. The potential payoff of any alternative depends on the “true” state of nature

Management Performance- PowerPoint slides-Creating a successful performance management communication plan is vital. There are six basic componentsassociated with a performance management communication plan, which can be reviewed in Figure 7-1, page 199in your textbook.For this assignment, create a PowerPoint presentation for an organization of your choice, which is located in theKingdom of Saudi Arabia. In this communication plan, which will be presented to new organizational employees(during orientation), address the following:? Provide information about your organization (specifically detailing its mission, vision, and values).? Explain the importance of performance management and why your organization valuesperformance management.? Explain how the performance management system utilized is aligned with your organization’sstrategy. Note: You can suggest a performance management system or use the one that thecompany currently has.? Explain what type of performance management system you believe is best for the organizationand justify why.? Explain the benefits of the performance management system to newly hired employees.Specifically, address the question, “What’s in it for me?”? Explain how the performance management system, for your selected organization, works.? Critique the organization’s performance management system (which is currently used by thecompany or the system that you selected). Note the benefits and drawbacks of this system andoffer recommendations for improvements.Your presentation should meet the following structural requirements:? Be 11 slides in length, with a minimum of eight content slides in addition to one title slide, anagenda slide, and at least one reference slide.? Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of four scholarlyarticles in the speaker’s notes as well as the reference slide. Two of these sources may be fromthe class readings, textbook, or lectures, but two must be external. The Saudi Digital Library is agood place to find these sources and should be your primary resource for conducting research.? Presentation notes are required for each slide and should be put in the speaker’s notessection to support the slide content. These can be part of the presentation or delivered as aseparate document. If you opt for the former, be aware that the presentation cannot besubmitted in PDF format, which does not make notes visible to the instructor.