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On April 9, 2003 the U.S. congressional Subcommittee on Health (part of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce) heard testimony from various witnesses on the topic "Strengthening and Improving Medicare." In this project you will research the hearing and its witnesses, and summarize the hearing and its role in policymaking. Part 1 (Group): Summarize and share witness testimony Each member of the group should visit the congressional website that documents the hearing, "Strengthening and Improving Medicare" (http://energycommerce.house.gov/reparchives/108/Hearings/04092003hearing868/hearing.htm). Use your Small Group Discussion Board to assign each student the name of one witness from the hearing witness list (see the section "Witness List & Prepared Testimony"). Each student should read the prepared testimony of his or her assigned witness and post a 1-2 paragraph summary of that witness's testimony on the Small Group Discussion Board. Part 2 (Individual): Summarize the hearing and its role in policymaking Using the information provided by your group mates, as well as other information on the hearing website or other sources, answer the following questions: What was the purpose of this hearing? Who were the interested parties? What were their interests? How does this hearing fit into the health policymaking process? OBJECTIVE: 1) Describe the impact of recent laws and regulations on the management of health care. 2) Explain the historic and contemporary involvement of government and politics in the organization, financing, and delivery of healthcare.

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Discuss the impact of health policies on the social factors that help determine health. Use the Library or other Web resources to find an example that illustrates your answer.

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Identify at least two medical management committees within an HCO and explain their roles. How can medical management committees influence the process of health policymaking outside of their HCO's? List some legal and ethical dilemmas to consider when creating new policies. OBJECTIVE: 1) Explain the historic and contemporary involvement of government and politics in the organization, financing, and delivery of healthcare. 2) Explain the purpose of medical management committees and identify several common types of medical management committees.

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In November 2003 the U.S. Congress passed a controversial health policy bill that President George W. Bush signed into law. The new legislation makes the most far-reaching changes to Medicare since the program was created in 1965. Please address the following questions: 1) Why were changes to Medicare deemed necessary? 2) What are the main provisions of the new legislation? Do you think they accomplish the desired goals? 3) Who was involved in setting the agenda for this policy change? Discuss the roles and interests of specific agenda setters and their influence on the development of the legislation. 4) Why was the legislation controversial? Discuss the claims of the law's supporters and detractors. Who will benefit from the changes? 5) Do you think having electronically stored data (such as costs and access to individual patient files) played a role in the decision-making process? ASSIGNMENT OBJECTIVE: A) Describe the impact of recent laws and regulations on the management of health care. B) Explain the historic and contemporary involvement of government and politics in the organization, financing, and delivery of healthcare. C) Assess the effect of changes in health policy on healthcare management.

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Please describe some major differences in health policy between the Military Health System, the Veterans Health Administration, and the private sector. Give an example of how policies in one system might influence policymaking in another system. What are some criteria for answering the question, "is the issue significant enough to spend political resources?" ASSIGNMENT OBJECTIVE: 1) Explain the historic and contemporary involvement of government and politics in the organization, financing, and delivery of healthcare. 2) Describe how the Military Health System and the Veterans Health Administration influence healthcare quality and cost in the private sector and vice versa. 4) Discuss the opportunities provided by technology for businesses.

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I'd like you give an example all of the the services that you consider, and /or purchase. Note where you think each service falls on the tangibility.intangibility continuum. Make note of the decision making processes you went through, and the outcomes. Lastly, make note on the quality of the service delivery, and your satisfaction with the entire experience!

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What can be entity(LLC) for opening a videogame company. (can you give some examples) Whats the reason for choosing that entity? Who can be the partners for opening a videogame company? What will be financial assistance for opening videogame company? What will marketting strategies for videogame business?

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One reason why firms might want to pursue a strategic alliance strategy is to exploit economies of scale. Exploiting economies of scale should reduce a firm?s costs. Does this mean that a firm pursuing an alliance strategy to exploit economies of scale is actually pursuing a cost leadership strategy? Why or why not? Please answer in about 600 words or if that is not possible, outline the argument of the answer to this question. The answer should have a good argument based on strategic management concepts.

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If adverse selection, moral hazard, and holdup are such significant problems for firms pursuing alliance strategies, why do firms even bother alliances? Why don?t they instead adopt an internal development strategy to replace strategic alliances? Please answer in about 600 words or if that is not possible, outline the argument of the answer to this question. The answer should have a good argument based on strategic management concepts.

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In the semiconductor industry, Moore?s law suggests that the power and computational speed of microprocessors will double about every 19 months. Assuming that Moore?s law is correct, is R&D in the microprocessor industry uncertain or risky? Justify your answer. This question pertains to flexibility and real options strategy. Please answer in about 600 words or outline the argument on which I can build my answer. The answer should be theoretical in nature, and what is important is the basic argument based on the strategic concept. not a news article. Please keep this in mid when you answer the question. I have previously posted three questions, and they seem to have been answered, but I did not receive the answers perhaps because the spam filter caught them and I couldn't find it. If whoever is answering this question has also answered the following questions, posted April 23, could you please send the answers to these questions again? 1. One reason why firms might want to pursue a strategic alliance strategy is to exploit economies of scale. Exploiting economies of scale should reduce a firm?s costs. Does this mean that a firm pursuing an alliance strategy to exploit economies of scale is actually pursuing a cost leadership strategy? Why or why not?

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Over the last couple of years, several large U.S. technology-based firms have begun to create venture capital funds. Usually these venture capital funds are not as profitable as independent venture capital funds. In your view, does this mean that the technology-based firms should abandon their venture capital efforts? Why or why not? This question pertains to flexibility and real options strategy. Please answer in about 600 words or outline the argument on which I can build my answer. The answer should be theoretical in nature, and what is important is the basic argument based on the strategic concept. Please keep this in mid when you answer the question.

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One simple way to think about relatedness is to look at the products or services a firm manufactures. The more similar these products or services are, the more related is the firm?s diversification strategy. However, will firms that exploit core competencies in their diversification strategies always produce products or services that are similar to each other? Why or why not? This question pertains to corporate diversification strategy. Please answer in about 600 words or outline the argument on which I can build my answer. The answer should be theoretical in nature, and what is important is the basic argument based on the strategic concept. Please keep this in mid when you answer the question.

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One of the reasons why internal capital markets may be more efficient than external capital markets is that firms may not want to reveal full information about their sources of competitive advantage to external capital markets, in order to reduce the threat of competitive imitation. This suggests that external capital markets may systematically undervalue firms with competitive advantages that are subject to imitation. Do you agree with this analysis? If yes, how could you trade on this information in your own investment activities? if no, why not? This question pertains to corporate diversification strategy. Please answer in about 600 words or outline the argument on which I can build my answer. The answer should be theoretical in nature, and what is important is the basic argument based on the strategic concept. Please keep this in mid when you answer the question.

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What is the "boiled frog phenomenon"? How does it apply to business and, particularly, strategic management? Provide a business example of a situation where the boiled frog phenomenon has occurred. What could the business have done to avoid the effects of the phenomenon? OBJECTIVE: 1) Apply critical thinking skills to analyze business situations. 2) Identify examples of good and bad business practices in the use of strategy design components. 3) Recognize situations that present potential legal and ethical issues and develop solutions for those issues.

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What can be entity(LLC) for opening a videogame company. (can you give some examples) Whats the reason for choosing that entity? Who can be the partners for opening a videogame company? What will be financial assistance for opening videogame company? What will marketting strategies for videogame business?

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The managers of your company are deciding whether to develop a brand new product not yet seen in the marketplace or a version of a competitor's product that has already been launched into the marketplace. Management has called a meeting to discuss which way to go. They want to know if they should follow the "first-mover" or "late-mover" theory. You have been assigned the task to develop a presentation for this meeting that will give evidence that describes and discusses either supports or disagrees with these theories. You may use the Library or other Web resources to find more information on these terms as well as examples to support your position. In the speaker's notes of the PowerPoint slides, elaborate on the bullet points you placed in your presentation and provide information to support your presentation. As a new consultant, you really don't know much about the company involved, the potential products that the managers want to discuss in their meeting, nor the personalities of the managers who will be attending the meeting. The very best that you can really do within the given scenario is to thoroughly and factually explore both of these theories in your presentation as input for their discussion during the remainder of the meeting. OBJECTIVE: In the speaker's notes of the PowerPoint slides, elaborate on the bullet points you placed in your presentation and provide information to support your presentation.

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You have been given the BCG matrix on two divisions of your company ? the appliance and electronics divisions. It appears that the electronics division can be located in the upper right quadrant of the matrix and the appliance division appears in the lower left quadrant of the matrix. You need to offer a strategic recommendation based on these findings. Include an opinion on how much reliance the company should have on these findings, what these findings suggest, what recommendations you would make, and what other measurements should be used to help reinforce or negate these findings. Support your answer. OBJECTIVE: Please provide a fresh new concept, as I do not wish to obtain any information that has already been published by another instructor. 1) Use effective communication techniques. 2) Identify examples of good and bad business practices in the use of strategy design components. 3) Research and discuss some of the changes occurring in the way that organizations structure themselves and their work. 4) Develop plans to improve business operations.

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Let's look two of Able Corporation's two major competitors: Smith & White Corporation (S&W), a very large and aggressive domestic manufacturer, and Makatume, a Japanese powerhouse. Smith & White markets a full line of moderate quality professional and consumer tools. It also markets such products as lawn and garden, hobby tools, and kitchen appliances, all under the same brand name as its power tools. It is a multi-national conglomerate that has dominant shares in all the markets in which it operates. Its strength lies in a unified strategy across all its product lines, power tool and non-power tool, of building and maintaining brand equity through massive amounts of national media advertising. The leverage gained through strong brand equity compels retailers, particularly the Big Boxes, to stock many of the S&W's products because of high end-user demand. This demand-pull marketing strategy also has the synergistic effects of obtaining relatively higher prices, advanced placement, co-op advertising, high profile self space, and cross promotion. S&W does have some significant weaknesses. These include high costs due to old manufacturing plants located in high labor cost urban areas, market confusion between its professional and consumer tools, and negative feelings on the part of its distributors stemming from a perceived abuse of their dominant market position. It also doesn't have much of a presence in the fast growing cordless segment. In addition, a major hidden weakness is S&W's huge size, which makes it unwieldy in reacting to market phenomena during periods of rapid change. Makatume markets only professional tools, which are highly regarded by tradesmen for their quality, robustness, and durability. It controls over 50% of the Japanese market and has leveraged that position to become the second biggest player in the U.S. market. For the past several years their sales in the U.S. have been aided by favorable exchange rates, although many economists now forecast a reversal of this advantage over the next two years. Makatume has an extremely strong cost position due to its relatively new manufacturing plants in Japan. Makatume's greatest product strength is in the fast growing cordless segment. It controls a dominant 70% market share of the professional cordless market. Makatume's early entry into this segment, is both a blessing and a curse. By entering the market early, Makatume has been able to obtain its dominant market share, but it is now locked in to lower voltages due to wide acceptance of its interchangeable battery system. As the technology of battery efficiency progresses, Makatume is faced with a dilemma: Does it introduce its own higher voltages, thus legitimizing that market for others to enter, or does it wait until it has to respond to being outflanked by its competitors when and if they introduce their higher voltages? The rest of the market is made up of several domestic and foreign niche competitors, none of which has greater than a 5% share of the total market. A phenomenon to watch, however, is the growing strength of Far East imports from China, which are beginning to make their impact on consumer tools because of their low price and good value. The yuan is the relevant currency affecting Chinese imports. We can often better see ourselves when reflected through the perspectives of others. In this exercise you are to take the vantage point of the industry leaders, S&W and Makatume. This has the advantage of helping to anticipate competitive positioning that may effect the successful execution of Able's strategy. Based on the narrative above, please answer the following questions from the perspective of being their Director of Strategic Planning and Analysis. (For real world situations always keep in mind that the status and plans of competitors can almost never be known except through an analysis of their actions, and even then almost never with certainty. Dealing with imperfect information is one of the essential aspects of the economic problem.) Please respond to the following: Take the perspective of S&W's Director of Strategic Planning and discuss S&W's weaknesses and what you would do about them. Take the perspective of Makatume's Director of Strategic Planning and discuss Makatume's weaknesses and what you would do about them. If you were Makatume, what would you do about higher voltages issue? OBJECTIVE: 1) Take the perspective of S&W's Director of Strategic Planning and discuss S&W's weaknesses and what you would do about them. 2) Take the perspective of Makatume's Director of Strategic Planning and discuss Makatume's weaknesses and what you would do about them. 3) If you were Makatume, what would you do about higher voltages issue?

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How changes in medicine are a reflection of changes in society?s belief about the elimination of pain and suffering. One idea that lead to this is requiring that medical facilities have full time ortho technician and/or physician on board at all times to prevent pain and suffering, and ultimatley reduce surgeries.

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One concept that comes to mind about social change is the theory of "Divide and Conquer". I am most interested in what impact the type of healthcare coverage that an individual has on the level of care that he/she receives, including their families, different ethnic groups, and patients?, to name a few.) Can someone assist me with information to support this theory?

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How does changes in medicine are a reflection of changes in society?s belief about the elimination of pain and suffering?

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I am in the process of developing a depth for my KAM. The topic that I have chosen to discuss is organizational leadership change in public administration, and how public influence organizational and societal change within healthcare facilities. Some of the regulations that I will be discussing to support my theory includes the following: 1) The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA); 2) The Sarbanes-Oxley Act; 3) The State Children?s Health Insurance Program; 4) The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) Can you please assist me with researching or perhaps researching additional compliance legislation and federal laws that I need to address in this depth. hide problem

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What amendments to the Bill of Rights have had the most impact on business? What would business life be like without them?

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Given: Organizations often try to develop an entrepreneurial culture through a strong orientation toward entrepreneurship. Task: Prepare a brief summary listing and defining at least 4 reasons why entrepreneurial organizations seek opportunities for innovation.

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Given: One can identify the impact of service-learning on an organization's goal accomplishment by using a social responsiveness scale. The four approaches identified in the social responsiveness scale are: a. reactive b. defensive c. accommodative d. proactive Task: Write a brief essay (1-2 pages) defining each of these four approaches and identifying how firms using each approach respond to issues of social responsibility.

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Given: There are four key barriers to communication: process barriers, personal barriers, physical barriers, and semantic barriers. Task: Write an essay describing how you, as a manager, would overcome each of these four barriers. In your essay, identify and describe the guidelines, tools, practices, or procedures that you would use to overcome each type of communication barrier.

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Apply network analysis to a project you have to do. Develop a (1) task list and show precedence. Then (2) prepare a network diagram of the tasks leading to completion. (3) Develop times for each task. (4) Estimate times for (5) a beta-derived expected activity time, and complete the network evaluation.thanks

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I have a long paper to write and need someone to write an intro/brief about the attached case. Please keep in mind that the intro/brief will be prefacing the following questions (you do not have to do these questions, but please keep them in mind when writing this part): As Doug Friesen, what would you do to address the seat problem? Where would you focus your attention and solution efforts? What options exists? What would you recommend? Why? Where, if at all, does the current routine for handling effective seats deviate from the principles of Toyota Production System? What is the real problem facing Doug Friesen? Please note that the writing should be VERY professional (hence the large amount of credits given for the assignment). If you have ANY questions please contact me as soon as possible.

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Please describe some major differences in health policy between the Military Health System, the Veterans Health Administration, and the private sector. Give an example of how policies in one system might influence policymaking in another system. What are some criteria for answering the question, "is the issue significant enough to spend political resources?"

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I need some help writing a 700 to 1,000 word report or memo using infomation I already have.

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Reoganizing for a New Era at Newell Rubbermaid Analyze the Reoganizing for a New Era at Newell Rubbermaid case on page 247,248 and answer the questions posed.

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Analyze the Pfizer Puts the Emphasis on People case on page 295,296 and answer the questions posed.

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Suppose your supervisor asks you to use the transportation method or rearrange the desks of everyone in the office. How would you do it? What other factors are important but will not be considered in the solution of the transportation table?

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Your company produces and sells widgets with annual sales of $100 million. A recent quality audit revealed that 15% of the widgets manufactured were defective. The following are estimates of the costs associated with passing defective widgets: Replacements $1,500,000 Lost Business 2,000,000 Productivity 500,000 Liability Claims 6,000,000 Total Costs $10,000,000 The executive team feels that the costs of passing defective widgets are much too high and that costs associated with defects should not exceed 1% of total sales. To attain this goal, the team wants to implement a quality assurance program using inspections. They have determined that inspections of raw materials, manufacturing processes, and finished products are necessary. The cost of inspecting each production lot at all three of these stages is $500 per lot. Two million widgets are to be produced in lots of 100 widgets each. Given the cost of inspection the executive team feels that it is not practical to inspect every lot during each phase. Task: A. Determine the predicted number of inspections that would be necessary to reach the cost of passing defective widgets not exceeding 1% of total sales. Explain the approach you used to arrive at your answer. B. Recommend, with rationale, the quality management policy that the company should adopt. Your rationale should include an appropriate application of cost-benefit analysis that fits this situation.

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When is a web page creator subject to a state's jurisdiction? Creating and maintaining a web page that is accessible from anywhere in the world poses new jurisdictional issues. In his article, Christopher Wolf, an attorney at a Washington D.C. law firm, explains the evolving law on jurisdiction on the internet. The question is whether a court has personal jurisdiction of an individual just because the individual posts a website. Mr. Wolf summarizes the law relating to that issue. Part 1: After reading this article, select a Web site and analyze whether the website creator would be subject to jurisdiction in the examples given. Part 2: Look at Mr. Wolf's article titled Standards for Internet Jurisdiction. Read all sections of the article including the conclusion. Answer the following questions: ?Why is personal jurisdiction an issue for those who post websites? ?What are some reasons that a website owner might be concerned with whether a court is able to obtain personal jurisdiction over him or her? ?What is normally required for a court to have personal jurisdiction? ?When is a court required to use long-arm jurisdiction? ?Why is long-arm jurisdiction an issue for those who create or post web pages? ?According to the Wolf article, the courts have imposed an "interactive-passive" test of jurisdiction. Explain that distinction. ?According to the Wolf article, is advertising on the web alone enough to confer personal jurisdiction?

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A company produces tangible products and sell them a consuming populace that is not affected by place, income, sex, race, age, or any environmental concerns. The products are acquired and used across the spectrum of consumers. I need a one page "MEMO" to the CEO covering: Four potential costs of customer dissatisfaction by the type of cost. Explain each of the costs Compare and evaluate the cost of preventing poor quality vs. costs incurred through customer dissatisfaction.