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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 …

Break Even Analysis: A Tool For Budget Planning (Revised), Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Applications of the tools of modern business and public management to human service administrative problems has become increasingly sophisticated. In this article, the author presents Break-Even Analysis (BEA) as one such management tool useful for financial planning in nonprofit and public human services organizations, particularly those with multiple sources of funding. The original article, published in 1976, was the first-ever presentation on this topic in human services, and the core of the author's 1980 first-ever book on financial management in nonprofit human services. In this revision of the original article, Break-Even Analysis is presented as a compact, easily administered “early …

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 …

Juxtaposing Impacts Of Social Media Interaction Experiences On E-Commerce Reputation, Xinchen Li, Qinyu Liao, Xin Luo, Yaoyu Wang

Information Systems Faculty Publications

E-commerce enterprises use different social media channels to build their online reputation through customers’ rich interaction experiences, but no study has differentiated the individual impact of consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer interaction features on e-commerce online reputations. This study investigates the linkage between five interaction characteristics, consumers’ perceived values, and e-commerce online reputations. The results of our study show that only the perceived hedonic value has a significant influence on e-commerce online reputations. Perceived control, reciprocity, and responsiveness have a positive and significant influence on both perceived utilitarian value and perceived hedonic value. Sociability only shows a significant and negative influence on …

Virginia Digital Shipbuilding Program (Vdsp): Building An Agile Modern Workforce To Improve Performance In The Shipbuilding And Ship Repair Industry, Joseph Peter Kosteczko, Katherine Smith, Jessica Johnson, Rafael Diaz

VMASC Publications

Industry 4.0 is the latest stage in the Industrial Revolution and is reflected in the digital transformation and use of emergent technologies including the Internet of Things, Big Data, Robotic automation of processes, 3D printing and additive manufacturing, drones and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the manufacturing industry. The implementation of these technologies in the Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Industry is currently in a nascent stage. Considering this, there is huge potential to increase cost savings, decrease production timelines, and drive down inefficiencies in Lifecyle management of ships. However, the implementation of these Industry 4.0 technologies is hindered by a noticeable …

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

Open Educational Resources

No abstract provided.

Clear-Sighted Statistics: Module 3: Where Do Data Come From?, Edward Volchok

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Clear-Sighted Statistics: Module 5: Statistical Measures, Edward Volchok

Open Educational Resources

The following files accompany this module:

• 05_BoxAndWhisker.xlsx
• 05_CV_BigMac_Data.xlsx
• 05_DescriptiveStat-ToolPak
• 05_EstimatingMeanSD.xlsx
• 05_Exercises.xlsx
• 05_GeometricMean.xlsx
• 05_MAD.xlsx
• 05_M&M_Colors.xlsx
• 05_Mean_Outlier.xlsx
• 05_Median_Outlier.xlsx
• 05_Mode.xlsx
• 05_Percentiles_Quartiles.xlsx
• 05_Range.xlsx
• 05_TrimmedMean.xlsx
• 05_VAR_SD.xlsx
• 05_WgtMean_Frappachinos.xlsx

Clear-Sighted Statistics: Module 4: 04_M&Ms_Colors.Xlsx, Edward Volchok

Open Educational Resources

This file is associated with Clear-Sighted Statistics: Module 4: Picturing Data With Tables and Charts.