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In the Final Research Paper, you will examine your own culture from an etic (outsider’s) perspective and another culture from an emic (insider’s) perspective to demonstrate your understanding of cultural relativism and examine misconceptions and ethnocentric beliefs concerning each of these cultures. In doing so, you will demonstrate a culturally relativistic perspective, in order to understand why different groups of people do what they do, without expressing a positive or negative opinion of their cultural practices. Keep the distinction between cultural relativism and moral relativism in mind as you write your final paper. Even if you do not personally agree with a cultural practice, demonstrate your understanding of the practice in its cultural context. Avoid opinionated or judgmental language in your paper.

Your Final Research Paper will consist of two main parts, framed by an Introduction and a Conclusion. See the flow chart for a quick overview of the assignment.

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Intellectual property refers to the rights of intangible property (IP) such as copyright, trademark, patents, and trade secrets. Explain the rights and responsibilities a company has in protecting its IP and the employees’ responsibilities in protecting IP. Provide at least two (2) suggestions to enhance a company’s protection of intellectual property.

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Suppose you have a friend (Jack) who has been involved in a dispute with a landlord. Jack wants to discuss the case with you to determine the rights that are available to renters. He believes the tenant has no duties to the landlord. Write an email to your friend Jack explaining in laymen’s terms some of the duties each party has, based on the specifics discussed in Chapter 29. Be sure to maintain a friendly and knowledgeable tone throughout.

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Anticipate what business law may look like 20 years from now and give your opinion on what you believe students will need to know in order to be successful in the field. Provide a rationale for your response.

1. Create a visual aid that illustrates a problem.

2. Using this visual aid, write a brief report that includes the data, the significance, and the cause of the problem. Include a suggestion for eliminating the problem.

3. Make a Gantt chart that illustrates a series of actions that are necessary to implement your suggestion. Provide a description of each action.

Write a set of instructions for a common process or activity either at home or at work. Choose an appropriate format as shown in the text. Include a visual aid that illustrates the process.

The narrative portion of this paper should be about three to four pages (900-1200 words). Use as many pages for visual aids as you deem necessary to ensure a naive reader could take your instructions and successfully complete the process without endangering him/herself or anyone else

Describe and define different types of Networks, telecommunications, and mobile technology with the application of a company of your choice and how they are in reverse logistics of recalls and recycling. This is a tracking and tracing process. So, first, diagram what the flow process might be from a starting point. You get to define that starting point. This is not that easy. Be careful to think where a product starts and where it ends in the flow.

Write a 3 to 5 page paper on what you find. And a picture of chart of the flow is part of that page count. So, draw something. Save words; but clearly explain what you show.

Explain what customer relationship management is and what the correlation of customer relationship management and information technology is as part of reverse logistics concept of the supply chain.
Use one of the four management philosophies to help frame your answer.

Find an example from a real company and include some policy from them; show a product picture of the activity if you can find one.

calculate this estimate:

1. Most publicly traded corporations are required to submit 10Q (quarterly) and 10K (annual) reports to the SEC detailing their financial operations over the previous quarter or year, respectively. These corporate filings are available on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Go to the SEC website, follow the “Search for Company Filings” link and the “Companies & Other Filers” link, enter “Dell Computer,” and search for SEC filings made by Dell. Find the most recent 10Q and 10K and download the forms. Look on the balance sheet to find the book value of debt and the book value of equity. If you look further down the report, you should find a section titled either “Long-Term Debt” or “Long-Term Debt and Interest Rate Risk Management” that will list a breakdown of Dell’s long-term debt.

2. To estimate the cost of equity for Dell, go to finance.yahoo.com and enter the ticker symbol “DELL.” Follow the various links to find answers to the following questions:

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What is the most recent stock price listed for Dell? What is the market value of equity, or market capitalization? How many shares of stock does Dell have outstanding? What is the beta for Dell? Now go back to finance.yahoo.com and follow the “Bonds” link. What is the yield on 3-month Treasury bills? Using a 7 percent market risk premium, what is the cost of equity for Dell using the CAPM?

3. Go to www.reuters.com and find the list of competitors in the industry. Find the beta for each of these competitors, and then calculate the industry average beta. Using the industry average beta, what is the cost of equity? Does it matter if you use the beta for Dell or the beta for the industry in this case?

4. You now need to calculate the cost of debt for Dell. Go to cxa.marketwatch.com/finra/BondCenter/Default.aspx, enter Dell as the company, and find the yield to maturity for each of Dell’s bonds. What is the weighted average cost of debt for Dell using the book value weights and the market value weights? Does it make a difference in this case if you use book value weights or market value weights?

5. You now have all the necessary information to calculate the weighted average cost of capital for Dell. Calculate the weighted average cost of capital for Dell using book value weights and market value weights assuming Dell has a 35 percent marginal tax rate. Which cost of capital number is more relevant?

6. You used Dell as a representative company to estimate the cost of capital for GCI. What are some of the potential problems with this approach in this situation? What improvements might you suggest?

1John R. Graham and Campbell R. Harvey, “The Theory and Practice of Corporate Finance: Evidence from the Field,” Journal of Financial Economics (2001), report in their Table 3 that 73.49 percent of the companies in their sample use the CAPM for capital budgeting.

2Another approach is to select a U.S. Treasury security whose maturity matches the maturity of a particular project. The match would need to be exactly correct because while U.S. Treasury securities are probably close to default-free, they have interest rate risk (and so longer term U.S. Treasury securities are not necessarily risk free). Our approach attempts to separate the default risk and interest rate risk elements. In practice both approaches can be used.

3For example, see Jay Ritter, “The Biggest Mistakes We Teach,” Journal of Financial Research (Summer 2002); Eugene Fama and Kenneth French, “The Equity Premium,” Journal of Finance (2002); and R. Jagannathan, E. R. McGrattan, and A. Scherbina, “The Declining U.S. Equity Premium,” Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review (2000).

4More precisely, we can say that the beta coefficients over the four periods are not statistically different from each other.

5Actually, one should adjust for leverage before averaging betas, though not much is gained unless leverage ratios differ significantly. Adjustment for leverage will be discussed in later chapters.

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Write a short research report explaining a recent innovation in your area of interest or expertise. Your goal is develop a recommendation whether your company should become committed to this innovation, or to explain why not.

Consult at least five recent sources, providing appropriate citations for each source you use. Use quotations and paraphrases appropriately. Use either the APA or MLA method, as described in Appendix B. Do not use other citation styles.

If a quotation exceeds three printed lines, you must indent it. The number of words in indented quotations will be deducted from the word count for grading the assignment.

Organize your report into sections that have headings that give the reader a good sense of the dimensions of the topic and the outline. Information you might present includes:

Problems in the development of the innovation and potential solutions.

Issues debated in the topic area.

Effects of the innovation on your field and on the industry in general.

Methods of implementing the innovation.

Write a memo in which you discuss an issue or problem at work from the perspective of an employee. This issue or problem may be real or hypothetical. Include your recommendations or suggestions for handling the issue or problem.

2. Write a second memo in reply to the first memo from the perspective of the manager. Reject the employee’s suggestion or proposed solution in a professional manner. Give several important reasons for your rejection, including at least one key item the employee overlooked. Ensure that your tone is neither confrontational nor demeaning.