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Clear-Sighted Statistics: Module 2: Types Of Data (Slides), Edward Volchok

Open Educational Resources

No abstract provided.

New Frontier In Technology: Smart Homes, Daria Domin

All Institute for Community Inclusion Publications

Third in a series of Innovative AT Practices briefs, New Frontier in Technology: Smart Homes describes an initiative by the Alaska Assistive Technology Program centered around adopting a range of technologies to develop “smart homes.” These homes are equipped with devices that allow for tasks, typically performed by humans, to be automated by voice, touch, and sensors. Smart home technology has shown a lot of promise to increase quality of life and independence for individuals with disabilities.

Learning Disability As An Influence On Entrepreneurial Calling And Success, Christopher James Stemple

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The phenomena identified as the relationship between learning disabilities, entrepreneurial calling, and entrepreneurial success or failure is a timely and relevant topic that necessitated exploration. To build upon this research, this qualitative case study was conducted. The goal of this case study research is to understand how learning disabilities affect the success or failure of entrepreneurs, while also exploring how the entrepreneur was called to be an entrepreneur. The first theme identified in this research study was individual entrepreneurial resilience. Entrepreneurial resilience, hardiness, and optimism were commonly found personality traits amongst research study participants. The second theme to emerge from …

Effective Strategic Decision-Making Strategies For Plant Managers In Pharmaceutical And Medical Device Manufacturing In Modern Day Puerto Rico: A Qualitative Case Study, Cherisa Irene Jerez

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This qualitative, collective case study covers the experience of strategic decision making in a pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing environment in Puerto Rico during the current economic crisis. The medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturing industry in Puerto Rico was selected because of the tax expirations targeting this specific industry and the predominance on the island this industry represents in the manufacturing environment. Despite Puerto Rico’s dominance in medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturing over the past 60 years, the current financial and government crisis poses a significant threat to executive level commitment toward maintaining operations on the island. Research questions focused …

Privacy Concerns And Benefits Of Engagement With Social Media-Enabled Apps: A Privacy Calculus Perspective, Mohsen Jozani, Emmanuel Wusuhon Yanibo Ayaburi, Myung Ko, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

Information Systems Faculty Publications

Privacy threats in a social media-enabled application (app) can originate from either the institution or other app users. Although privacy in social media is well studied, the role of social (peer) privacy concerns is largely unknown and most privacy studies on mobile apps focus on initial adoption and ignore long-term behavioral outcomes. Drawing on the privacy calculus theory, this study examines the impact of both institutional and social privacy concerns on long-term user engagement with social media-enabled apps. Findings from the analysis of 354 survey responses reveal that both institutional and social privacy concerns decrease engagement. Regarding the antecedents, the …

Building A Handmade Business, Jordan Khusnulgatin

Theses

The purpose of this project is to build a small scale handmade product and business from scratch with innovative ways to incorporate sustainable practices. There are many factors that make up a business. For this project in particular, the main concern will be centered around all aspects of the product and customer experience, including finding a niche, the aesthetic, branding, packaging, pricing, sustainable practices, conducting sales, marketing, and creating a business plan. This project will follow the steps described above to discover a niche and the basis upon which this handmade business will be 3 derived from, providing a physical …

Statistical Measurement Of Trees' Similarity, Sahar Sabbaghan, Cecil Eng Huang Chua, Lesley A. Gardner

Business and Information Technology Faculty Research & Creative Works

Diagnostic theories are fundamental to Information Systems practice and are represented in trees. One way of creating diagnostic trees is by employing independent experts to construct such trees and compare them. However, good measures of similarity to compare diagnostic trees have not been identified. This paper presents an analysis of the suitability of various measures of association to determine the similarity of two diagnostic trees using bootstrap simulations. We find that three measures of association, Goodman and Kruskal's Lambda, Cohen's Kappa, and Goodman and Kruskal's Gamma (J Am Stat Assoc 49(268):732-764, 1954) each behave differently depending on what is inconsistent …

Introduction To The Symposium On Soft And Hard Law On Business And Human Rights, Steven R. Ratner

Articles

This symposium turns to a major debate within a field of international law that has moved from the periphery to center stage in just a few decades—business and human rights, or BHR: Can and should international law's approach to the human rights impacts of business activity shift from today's mostly soft-law framework to a multilateral treaty regime? While advocates for and against such a treaty debate this point at the UN Human Rights Council and other venues, this symposium examines the problem from four theoretical perspectives. Each contribution offers insights for practitioners and scholars alike, but they suggest no easy …

A Proposal Digital Marketing Strategy For Marcheluzzo Srl: Training And Evaluating A Prediction Model For The Number Of Adv. Impressions, Charles Alves De Castro

Articles

This research aims to describe a digital marketing strategy elaborated to be deployed in the MarcheluzzoSrl Company located in Italy. In addition, it intends to give a wide range of information to the company about its customers, target, competitors, market, digital marketing strategy, and potential recommendations. It is also important to highlight that this strategy is focused on the Brazilian market. Most of the information collected for the situational analysis and many other components for this research were gathered through the author`s perception during his internship in the company. The methodology includes secondary data collected through field observation in the …

Konceptet E Menaxhimit Strategjik Rast Studimit: “Liftkos” Sh. P. K, Defrim Hajdaj

Theses and Dissertations

Vlerësimi i ndikimit të strategjive të mundshme mbi përformancen e kompanive është qëllimi i këtij studimi. Me përpjekjen për të marrë përgjigje sa më reale për këtë marrëdhënie, janë kontrolluar 4 hiptoeza. Kontributi në shkencë, ky punim do ta sjellë me rastin e rekomandimeve që do të jap në këtë studim lidhur me metodat më adekuate që duhet të përdoren nga bizneset dhe gjetjen e principeve më të përshtatshme që ngritin nivelin e shfrytëzimit efikas, efektiv të strategjive për ngritjen dhe maksimizimin e fitimit të kompanisë.

Qëllimi i menaxhimit strategjik në sektorin privat dhe publik ka një rol të vecant …

When Time Is Sales: The Impact Of Sales Manager Time Allocation Decisions On Sales Team Performance, Adam Rapp, J. Andrew Petersen, Douglas E. Hughes, Jessica Ogilvie

Marketing Faculty Research and Publications

Sales managers often take on the dual responsibilities of managing a sales team and selling to customers. This practice raises questions about how sales managers' time allocation to managing and selling activities affects sales team performance. Building on qualitative findings, this research first highlights and categorizes activities that are regularly competing for the limited time resources of today's sales managers. Our qualitative results reveal a prevalence of sales managers taking a "hybrid" approach to managing their sales teams by regularly allocating time toward both managing and selling activities. Through a resource allocation lens, we investigate how the time allocation decisions …

Learn, Adapt, And Move On: An Interview With Rajesh Lingappa, Rajesh Lingappa, Singapore Management University

Asian Management Insights

Rajesh Lingappa, co-founder and former chief technology officer of RedMart, talks about his entrepreneurial journey in the world of technology.

Emarketplaces: Strategic Challenges And Considerations, Sam Too

Asian Management Insights

Building scale and volume rapidly is key to surviving the roller-coaster journey and staying the course for a digital entrepreneur.

The Future Of Retailing: When The Artificial Becomes Real, Jagdish Sheth

Asian Management Insights

Digital technology, including e-commerce and e-market exchanges, has been the most significant disruptive force for the retail industry in the last two decades.

Ageing In Place: Sustainable Technology Solutions To Support The Elderly, Hwee-Pink Tan

Asian Management Insights

'Silver tech' allows for a scalable and sustainable solution for intelligent monitoring, detection and notification of anomalous events, and collaborative support for seniors living alone.

Starbucks In China: An Undisputed Leader?, Nirmalya Kumar, Sheetal Bhardwaj, Stephen Eryung Chu

Asian Management Insights

How Starbucks faces the emergence of ‘new retail’, or the seamless integration of offline and online retail.

Adaptive Mindset: An Effective Approach To Leadership In Cross-Cultural Contexts, Francis Lotzer

Asian Management Insights

Understanding cultural signals by exploring the ‘hidden part of the iceberg’ and communicating the benefits of change to team members.

Clear-Sighted Statistics: Module 1: An Introduction To Statistics, Edward Volchok

Open Educational Resources

No abstract provided.

Clear-Sighted Statistics: Module 5: 05_Trimmedmean.Xlsx, Edward Volchok

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This file is associated with Clear-Sighted Statistics, Module 5: Statistical Measures.

Clear-Sighted Statistics: Module 5: 05_Exercises.Xlsx, Edward Volchok

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This file is associated with Clear-Sighted Statistics, Module 5: Statistical Measures.

Clear-Sighted Statistics: Module 5: 05_Mode.Xlsx, Edward Volchok

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This file is associated with Clear-Sighted Statistics, Module 5: Statistical Measures.

Clear-Sighted Statistics: Module 7: 07_Exercises.Xlsx, Edward Volchok

Open Educational Resources

This file is associated with Clear-Sighted Statistics, Module 7: Basic Concepts of Probability.

Clear-Sighted Statistics: Module 12: 12_Estimating_N.Xlsx, Edward Volchok

Open Educational Resources

This file is associated with Clear-Sighted Statistics, Module 12: Estimating Sample Sizes.

Clear-Sighted Statistics: Z-Values_Criticalvalues_Z_P-Values.Xlsx, Edward Volchok

Open Educational Resources

This file is associated with Clear-Sighted Statistics, Module 14: One-Sample Null hypothesis Significance Tests.

Clear-Sighted Statistics: Module 14: 14_Nhst_Workbook.Xltx, Edward Volchok

Open Educational Resources

This file is associated with Clear-Sighted Statistics, Module 14: One-Sample Null hypothesis Significance Tests.

Clear-Sighted Statistics: Module 9: Normal Probability Distributions (Slides), Edward Volchok

Open Educational Resources

No abstract provided.

Clear-Sighted Statistics: Student-T_Tables.Pdf, Edward Volchok

Open Educational Resources

This file is associated with Clear-Sighted Statistics, Module 11: Confidence Intervals, Module 14: One-Sample Null hypothesis Significance Tests, and Module 15: Two-Sample Null Hypothesis Significance Tests.

Clear-Sighted Statistics: F_Curves.Pdf, Edward Volchok

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This file is associated with Clear-Sighted Statistics, Module 15: Two-Sample Null Hypothesis Significance Tests.

Clear-Sighted Statistics: T_Curves.Pdf, Edward Volchok

Open Educational Resources

This file is associated with Clear-Sighted Statistics, Module 15: Two-Sample Null Hypothesis Significance Tests.

The Governance Divide In Global Corporate Responsibility: The Global Structuration Of Reporting And Certification Frameworks, 1998-2017, Shawn Pope, Alwyn Lim

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

In recent decades, as worldwide attention to corporate responsibility increased, the global corporate responsibility (GCR) movement did not converge on a singular governance model nor hybridize into myriad country-specific models. The movement, rather, bifurcated into onerous certification frameworks and more lax reporting frameworks. We examine this ‘governance divide’ in the GCR movement by investigating the cross-national diffusion of seven core GCR frameworks. We adopt a glocalization perspective that conceptualizes a vertical nesting of local and global contexts. Our cross-national quantitative analyses suggest that, while linkages to global culture have encouraged business participation in all GCR frameworks, power dependencies related to …