Scenario: Imagine you are a business consultant to a firm of your choice. You have been asked to analyze, advise, and create recommendations on how the firm can ensure its future success in its current market.

Prepare a minimum 1,050-word analysis of economic data and business data to explain how the core economic principles impact the sustainability of the firm and what actions the firm can take to ensure success. A publicly-traded company operating in the U.S. market. Note: A publicly-traded company is a private-sector firm owned by its shareholders/stock holders.

The purpose of this assignment is the creation of a research analysis. Every day, consumers make millions of decisions that impact the marketplace and influence firms’ decisions. Firms use economic concepts, models, and other “tools” of economics to help determine pricing, output, and profit maximization. As an MBA student of economics, you can apply the “tools” of economics to microeconomic and macroeconomic data to create recommendations for how firms can maximize revenue, profit and market share.

Address the following:

• Identify the market structure your chosen firm operates in, analyze your chosen firm’s current market share, and identify the firm’s local/global competitors. Analyze the barriers to entry in this market to illustrate the potential for new competition and its impact on your firm’s future in the market. Hints: Be sure you review the barriers to entry discussed in the course text. You might consider presenting the data graphically.
• Identify and explain trends in current macroeconomic indicators for last three years including:
  • Current stage of the business cycle.
  • Real gross domestic product (GDP).
  • Inflation as measured by the consumer price index (CPI).
  • Unemployment rate.
  • Federal funds rate.
  • Current rate for borrowing funds such as the so-called “prime rate.” Note: A requirement of the Week 1 Influence of Economics on Household Decision Making report was to gather data on the CPI, GDP, and interest rates, so you should consider reviewing the feedback you received on the Week 1 report.
• Evaluate trends in demand over last three years and explain their impact on the industry and the firm. Include quarterly (last two quarters) and annual sales (last three years) figures for the product your firm sells. Create business strategies by analyzing information and data related to the demand for and supply of your firm’s product(s) to support your recommendation for the firm’s actions. Remember to include a graphical representation of the data and information used in your analysis.
• Examine available, current data and information, such as pricing and the availability of substitutes, and explain how you could determine the price elasticity of demand for your firm’s product. Assess how the price elasticity of demand impacts the firm’s pricing decisions and revenue growth.
• Apply the concepts of variable and fixed costs to your firm for informing its output decisions. For instance, analyze how different kinds of costs (labor, research and development, raw materials) affect the firm’s level of output.
• Based on the data gathered and analysis performed for this report write a conclusion in which you:
  • Create business strategies, including price and non-price strategies, based on your market structure to ensure the market share and potential market expansions and explore global opportunities for your business in a dynamic business environment and provide recommendations.
  • Develop a recommendation for how the firm can manage its future production by synthesizing the macroeconomic and microeconomic data presented.
  • Propose how the firm’s position within the market and among its competitors will allow it to take your recommended action.
  • Recommend strategies for the firm to sustain its success going forward by evaluating the findings from demand trends, price elasticity, current stage of the business cycle, and government policies.

Cite a minimum of three peer-reviewed references and a minimum of two government economic data sources/references.

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

All question must be answered in 4-5 paragraphs with work cites as well. No cover pages needed.

1. Take one African American leader whom we have studied and carefully construct an argument for why that person was successful in reaching his or her goals. Include what the person’s goals were and make sure to have loads of context and appropriate detail.

2. Compare and contrast the writings, speeches, and work of Dubois and Washington. Be sure to include context and appropriate detail.

3. Choose one aspect of African American art or literature that we have studied or that is in your text. Explain what the historical context for this art or literature was, why it was important, and what its lasting impact is.

4. Give 2 examples for when and why the federal government and executive branch intervened with the civil rights movement of the 50’s, 60’s and possibly beyond. Include examples from school desegregation and other examples. Be sure to specify what time period you are talking about and who the key people were.

This assignment requires students to develop an argument in response to ONE of the following
prompts focusing on key concepts and theories presented in the first half of the course. Essays that
address more than one prompt will receive 0/100, with no option for resubmission.

1. 1) Which of the three major theories of international relations introduced in this class—realism,
   liberalism, or constructivism—best accounts for the extended period of relative peace (i.e.
   the absence of major interstate war) between the great powers since the end of World War
   II?
2. 2) How useful is Samuel Huntington’s “clash of civilizations” thesis for explaining the current
   conflict in the Middle East involving ISIS?
3. 3) How useful are the “rationalist explanations for war” developed by Fearon for
   understanding the causes of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, as compared to explanations
   stressing domestic politics and/or identity?
4. 4) To what extent are difference feminists correct in arguing that the world would be more
   peaceful if more states were led by women?

Text : International Relations 11th edition by Jon C. Pevehouse , Joshua S. Goldstein

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Instructions:

Please answer both question thoroughly and provide at least 1 example for each.

Question 1:

Current U.S. military doctrine recognizes four categories of power available to a nation: diplomatic, informational, military, and economic. Upon examination, it is apparent that only a nation/state can wield these elements of power; they would be beyond the reach of weaker powers or organizations. How then, can these lesser entities influence the powerful? Five “underdog” strategies are outlined as alternative sources of power for the weak (please read the attached document titled “UNDERDOG STRATEGIES”. If you are trying to influence the national policy of the United States, which of these five strategies do you feel would be the most effective? Why? (answer should be based on 1 of the strategies in the document)

Question 2:

The official declared national strategy for the US military is the two Major Theater of War (MTW) strategy. The central tenet of this strategy is that the United States must be prepared to fight two simultaneous MTWs. Is it possible to execute such a strategy today? Why or why not?

Requirements:

Each question response should be a min of 350 words

APA format

Each question should have a min of 2 references cited