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Ireland V. United States: Agricultural And Environmental Sustainability Policies, Lauryn O'Grady May 2023

Ireland V. United States: Agricultural And Environmental Sustainability Policies, Lauryn O'Grady

Accounting Undergraduate Honors Theses

The United States and Ireland have varying practices to achieve similar objectives in regard to environmental sustainability. While the European Union has maintained and updated a uniform policy throughout its existence--the Common Agricultural Policy--the United States instead created short-term solutions to a long-term problem. Not only does the United States tend to solve issues in the short-term, the policies between agricultural production and environmental sustainability are not necessarily aligned or remotely relative to the other. While the United States’ new Global Food Security Strategy implements parts of both agricultural and environmental sustainability, much of the history was not based off …


Propuesta De Un Modelo De Plan De Mercado. Caso De Estudio : Empresa La Hacienda Sopó S.A.S, Ubicada En El Municipio De Sopó Cundinamarca, Luisa Fernanda Miranda Flórez, Juan David Moreno Contreras Jan 2021

Propuesta De Un Modelo De Plan De Mercado. Caso De Estudio : Empresa La Hacienda Sopó S.A.S, Ubicada En El Municipio De Sopó Cundinamarca, Luisa Fernanda Miranda Flórez, Juan David Moreno Contreras

Administración de Agronegocios

La presente investigación tiene por objeto formular un plan de mercado para la empresa La Hacienda Sopó S.A.S. como mecanismo para determinar el grado de satisfacción de los clientes; partiendo del marco teórico que orienta desde su definición misma al cumplimiento de objetivos y metas definidas por la empresa, a través de acciones sinérgicas de planeación estratégica que llevan a navegar sobre una estructura diseñada, que sirve de herramienta para definir estrategias que permitan la focalización y fidelización de clientes y un plan de acción para su implementación. Para tal fin se realiza investigación cuantitativa, descriptiva, mediante la aplicación de …


A Strategic Audit Of Tesla, Inc., Cody Mccain Apr 2019

A Strategic Audit Of Tesla, Inc., Cody Mccain

Honors Theses

After Tesla completed its first every back to back profitable quarters at the end of 2018, sales started to decline in the first quarter of 2019 and many question if the company would every be profitable. Through a strategic audit of Tesla and the electric vehicle industry several key factors have been identified to help improve Tesla’s profitability. Analysis tools used to analyze the company and the industry include Porter’s Five Forces, SWOT Analysis, and PEST Analysis. At the conclusion of the audit there are three recommendations given to help improve Tesla’s strategy. First it is recommended that Tesla focuses …


Risk And Return Comparisons Of Pre-Harvest Marketing Strategies, John Leander Turner V Dec 2018

Risk And Return Comparisons Of Pre-Harvest Marketing Strategies, John Leander Turner V

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This paper analyzes risk and returns associated with pre-harvest corn grain marketing strategies for the state of Arkansas. Farming is characterized by a volatile environment. Numerous risks are taken by producers in order to provide commodities that are bought and sold by various parties in the supply chain. Price, yield, and production costs vary daily and can have large variation between years. Risk and Return Comparisons of Pre-harvest Marketing Strategies examines the effectiveness of using pre-harvest marketing strategies to enhance returns and to mitigate inherent price risk in the Memphis cash corn market. Thirteen strategies are compared to the October …


Strategic Risk Management In Agriculture, Steven Slezak Feb 2015

Strategic Risk Management In Agriculture, Steven Slezak

Steven Slezak

A presentation on the risk management issues that impact strategy in agribusiness and agriculture operations.


Strategic Management In Agriculture (Recording), Steven Slezak Nov 2014

Strategic Management In Agriculture (Recording), Steven Slezak

Steven Slezak

No abstract provided.


Strategic Planning: A Dynamic Process, Steven Slezak Jan 2013

Strategic Planning: A Dynamic Process, Steven Slezak

Steven Slezak

A presentation outlining the steps taken to produce a thorough strategic business plan, along with the supporting analysis.


What Is Strategy?, Steven Slezak Jan 2013

What Is Strategy?, Steven Slezak

Steven Slezak

A presentation outlining the nature of strategy, emphasizing its paradoxical nature, describing its structure, and describing competitive advantage and the value chain.


The Environment As A Multi-Dimensional System:, Murray Hunter Jan 2012

The Environment As A Multi-Dimensional System:, Murray Hunter

Murray Hunter

Traditional approaches to management have been mechanistic, grounded in the belief that one is in control within an environment that can be manipulated through a firm forming objectives, strategies, and actions through organizations. In addition strategic planning has viewed the environment in a very structured way, for example a situational audit and SWOT analysis2 and it wasn’t until Porter developed the competitive forces model that the environment became the centre of strategy. These kinetic metaphors portray an organization as one embedded with a belief that it has an internal locus of control with the ability to manipulate forces within the …


The Evolution Of Business Strategy, Murray Hunter Jan 2012

The Evolution Of Business Strategy, Murray Hunter

Murray Hunter

Before the 1960s, strategy was referred to as “generalship”, “the art of war” and being concerned about managing army campaigns1. Strategy was first used in the conduct of business in the early 1960s by Chandler2, who developed strategic concepts along the thoughts of the industrial economics school3, business policy, and into a prescriptive model with objectives set by the management group which utilized defined strategies to attempt achieving their goals in what was termed corporate strategy.