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8 Wastes of Lean Manufacturing in a Services Context
Identify one of the 8 wastes listed in the article and provide an example from a service industry company that illustrates the waste.  Explain the potential negative impacts on the company.  
https://www.processexcellencenetwork.com/lean-six-sigma-business-performance/columns/8-wastes-of-lean-manufacturing-in-a-services-conte. 

 
Q1)
In introducing the third tenet of Conscious Capitalism, authors Mackey and Sisodia (2014) posit the following: “Conscious leadership is perhaps the most important element in Conscious Capitalism.  Without conscious leadership, little else matters.  The finest, most conscious corporation can be led badly astray and even destroyed if it hires or promotes the wrong kind of leaders” (p. 178).
For your initial post this week, offer your thoughts and perspective on the quotation above.  Develop your post by addressing the following aspects:
1.  Describe the qualities that you think are most important for someone to be recognized as a conscious leader.
2.  Offer your advice on how to develop the qualities you described above.
3.  Give an example of someone who you believe is a good role model or coach as a conscious leader, and explain your reasoning.
Q2)give comments to the below 2 posts(1-2 paragraphs)
Post 1: Taylor Garvin
This week I am checking in at a -1. I am feeling unmotivated and tired. Last week was a long week and this week will also be long. 
Conscious leaders love to serve, lead, and help. They lead with high integrity and have a great capacity for love and care. “Great leadership is authentic leadership. Authenticity is not a characteristic: it is who you are. It means knowing who you are and what your purpose is” (Mackey & Sisodia, p. 183). Concious leaders need to have multiple types of intelligence: emotional intelligence, spiritual intelligence, and systems intelligence. I think the most important qualities a conscious leader must have are: love, care, the multiple types of intelligence, authenticity, and self-awareness. 
Ways that someone can develop these concious leadership qualities include following their heart and finding their purpose, having positive role models, having a good coach or mentor, cultivating the higher virtues, developing their higher emotional intelligence, developing their systems intelligence, and creating higher levels of consciousness. Chapter 14 does a great job laying each of these out and goes deeper into them.
One of my current managers is a good model of a conscious leader. She does an excellent job serving not only the business but also her community, she leads with poise, confidence, and appreciation. She knows that each employee is important to the operations. Helping is second nature for her, she is always more than willing to help with anything she can. Her emotional and spiritual intelligence is high but could be improved upon. However, her systems intelligence is amazing she gets to the root of the problem and begins solving it. Authenticity and self-awareness are two of her many concious leadership qualities I admire most. She always says true to herself and the employees. Her self-awareness allows her to grow as a leader but it also encourages team growth. 
Post 2: Jasmine 
 I am checking in a +2 feeling hopefull, excited and happy that I am starting to settle in to class and work ahead or get my work done at a reasonable time frame.  I often feel sometimes I am doing 27 things at one time and lose track of most things because I take on too much or being a mom of 3 can be overwhelming.
My idea of a conscious leader is one who listens to their team of people prior to decision making, and one who can handle conflict or face adversity.  A conscious leader also is an adaptive leader.  The world as we know it changes often and a conscious leader needs to be able to adjust when necessary.
The biggest advice I could possibly give outside of involving others on your team or going back to what has worked before or not worked in the past, I would say being self aware is the key.  When you have self awareness you know how to respond in different situations and pressure does not alter how you operate.  I would also suggest at times, when necessary, allowing a facilitator to come in.  This can help a leader be conscious or show others just how conscious you are.
My current prinicipal is a good example of this.  There have been a few controversal things happening over the last few months and he has recognized that the entire staff needs an updated Diversity training so we can understand the population we work with and how to handle different situations.  The principal has gotten better at involving others in some decision makings where it is necessary.

INSTRUCTIONS
Valuation homework is 20 points.  Get to know your company, the business lines, owners2) Using the excel template we created in class, forecast the next 10 years of the company. Change the assumptions as you wish. Make them more appropriate to your company’s past and your personal belief as to what would happen in the future. Clearly state your new assumptions.3) Provide a table of your assumptions and resulting FCFs.4) Provide a DCF analysis including your WACC assumptions.5) Provide a sensitivity analysis table. Choose variables that have changed more than others in the past. Make sure to provide both upsides and downsides.6) Using PE of 8 and EV/EBITDA of 6 as peer multiples, perform a peer multiple valuation.7) Using subjective weights combine DCF and peer analyses and reach to a 12 month target price.8) Conclude your valuation and provide a recommendation.
Since you will not have the chance to talk to company management and ask questions, and you have limited time, please do not lose time in trying to forecast the future with great accuracy. The only thing I want is consistency.  (e.g. lots of growth with no capex is inconsistent)

  
Complete the “References List Worksheet,” by accurately formatting the following nine references. These references should be formatted according to APA requirements within the chart and in the reference list below. Please be mindful of capitalization, italics, and punctuation. These references must all be from the past 5 years. Do not include topic Resources or Class Resources in your references. Include all of the following types of references:
Four peer-reviewed journal articles (include at       least one article for each of the three pillars: servant leadership,       ethics, and entrepreneurism and one for free market principles)
One book
One webpage
One dissertation/thesis from a database
One edited book chapter
Then, create a title page and a references list for the above resources. Submit the completed “References List Worksheet” to the dropbox.
Download and review the “References List Worksheet” found directly below the assignment instructions under “Attachments” for guidance on completing this assignment. Note: You must download this document, “References List Worksheet,” not just view it in your browser, in order to view all of the information in the document
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. 

 
Chapter 3 should include:
Research design and Model
Internal and External Validity
Research questions and hypotheses
Population and sample
Instrumentation
Data Collection
Data Analysis
You must submit a document with a title page with honor code statement and digital signature,  about 10-15 pages of content and at least 10 credible academic sources. 90% of the sources must be academic peer-reviewed journals.
Submit this assignment no later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT.
Late assignments will be assessed 5 points per day including weekends.

In this assignment, you will create a project which includes the following:
 Summarize a practitioner- or real-world-oriented book related to international finance
 Evaluate the quality of the content
Relate to course content
 Provide a well thought out opinion
Instructions
This is an individual assignment due by 5:00pm on Thursday April 25th. Throughout the semester, you will read a book of your choice and prepare a book report. The book must be related to the topic of international finance. Here are two book suggestions:
The Silver Way, by Peter Gordon and Juan Jose MoralesLinks to an external site.
Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump, by Joseph E. StiglitzLinks to an external site.
In your report, you need to:
Convince me that you have read the book (e.g., the summary must be accurate and appropriate, and the writing must be yours, etc.)
Be able to explicitly make connections between concepts discussed in the book and concepts learned in the course; and mention the connections in your summary of the specific chapter in which that connection is relevant (i.e., do not explain the connections in a separate section or paragraph at the end of the report)
Offer a well-written, well thought-out personal opinion about what you have read.
Should you choose to read a book different from the ones shown above, please check with me first to make sure it is an acceptable book for the assignment.
The report should be about 10 pages (double-spaced, 12 letter font).
You will submit your work to this Canvas assignment page, and the report will be checked for plagiarism using Turnitin. This assignment will close at the stated due date and time. Late submissions will not be possible.
Book Link

For grading details, see below.

DUE TONIGHT 12AM ! 

Watch this video for an overview of consideration and a great explanation of legal detriment and legal benefit. Then complete the IRAC assignment below.
This assignment is an opportunity to practice the IRAC method of case analysis. First, review the IRAC method if you need a refresher. You can find it under Course Resources.
Read the fact pattern below, then answer the questions that follow.
Hamer v. Sidway[1]
Facts:  William Story wanted his nephew to grow up healthy and prosperous.  In 1869, he promised the 15-year-old boy $5,000 if the lad would refrain from drinking liquor, using tobacco, swearing and playing cards or billiards for money, until his twenty-first birthday.  The nephew had a legal right to do those things.  The nephew agreed and kept his word.  When he reached his twenty-first birthday, the nephew notified his uncle that he had honored the agreement.  The uncle congratulated the young man and promised to give him the money, but said he would wait a few more years before handing over the cash, until the nephew was more mature.  The uncle died and his estate refused to pay.  Hamer, to whom the nephew had transferred his rights, sued.  The estate argued that the nephew had given no consideration for the uncle’s promise.  The trial court found for the plaintiff and the uncle’s estate appealed.
What is the issue in this case? What question does the court need to answer to resolve this case?
What is the rule of law in this case? Remember, the rule of law is the legal principle the court relies upon to resolve the issue.
Which specific element of the rule is in question in this case?
Next, read the Holding of the case below, then complete the exercise that follows.
Holding: Judgment for plaintiff affirmed.  The nephew gave valid consideration by refraining from doing things he was legally entitled to do.  The estate argued that there was no consideration because the nephew benefited from avoiding the proscribed actions, but the court was unpersuaded:  “Courts will not ask whether the thing which forms the consideration does in fact benefit the promisee or a third party, or is of any substantial value to anyone.  It is enough that something is promised, done, forborne, or suffered by the party to whom the promise is made as consideration for the promise made to him.”
Underline the text that illustrates the rule of law in this case.
Highlight the text that illustrates the court’s analysis of the case in a color of your choice.
What was the court’s conclusion in this case?

 DUE TONIGHT 12AM !! 
Topic: When is there an Agreement? 
But I Want That Pickup Truck
A local car dealer advertised a late model full-size pickup truck which it had taken as a trade-in on a new vehicle purchase in the newspaper for $21,000.00.  However, a salesman learned of a man who was seeking that particular model of truck and arranged for him to come and look at the truck the next day.  In the meantime, another person, having seen the advertisement came to the dealership and offered to pay the advertised price.  The salesman refused to sell the truck for $21,000.00 because he believed that the other person would pay at least $22,000.00.  As explained in chapters 11 and 12, legally the dealership could do this because an advertisement is not an offer.  Ads sure look like offers. 
Why do you think the law has the doctrine that ads are not offers? 
What arguments could you make in support of it?  
Do you think this long-existing legal doctrine should be changed?  Why or why not?  

1) Get to know your company, the business lines, owners
2) Using the excel template we created in class, forecast the next 10 years of the company. Change the assumptions as you wish. Make them more appropriate to your company’s past and your personal belief as to what would happen in the future. Clearly state your new assumptions.
3) Provide a table of your assumptions and resulting FCFs.
4) Provide a DCF analysis including your WACC assumptions.
5) Provide a sensitivity analysis table. Choose variables that have changed more than others in the past. Make sure to provide both upsides and downsides.
6) Using PE of 8 and EV/EBITDA of 6 as peer multiples, perform a peer multiple valuation.
7) Using subjective weights combine DCF and peer analyses and reach to a 12 month target price.
8) Conclude your valuation and provide a recommendation.
Since you will not have the chance to talk to company management and ask questions, and you have limited time, please do not lose time in trying to forecast the future with great accuracy. The only thing I want is consistency.  (e.g. lots of growth with no capex is inconsistent)

 At the end of each chapter in the textbook is “A Kiplinger Approach”, an article that is geared toward helping to bring the topics in the chapter to life. The article at the of Chapter 4 is entitled If You’re Using Cash Less Often, You’re Part of a Trend by Sandra Block. Requirement 1: Read If You’re Using Cash Less Often, You’re Part of a Trend,  found on page 118 in the hardcopy textbook. Requirement 2: Answer the following questions:
Since the onset of the COVID pandemic, have you noticed yourself using cashless forms of payment more frequently than cash? What are some of the more popular forms of cashless payment that you use?
Do you think that the cashless trend will continue, or do you think we will revert back to a cash-based society?
What are your thoughts on the United States developing its own digital currency? Is this a good idea? Why or why not?
KEEP IN MIND THE FOLLOWING:
Post your INITIAL RESPONSE to the prompt early in the assignment period so that others have time to respond to you. You must use a minimum of at least 200 words.