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Harley-Davidson: External and Internal Analysis

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Instructions for this assignment: Perform all of the elements listed below.

This assignment has you complete two parts of a strategic business plan. To see how those parts fit into a full business plan, click here for a strategic business plan outline.

Part I – Analysis of the External Environment

As part of the Strategic Business Plan, you have been asked to:

Identify and analyze the major driving forces for change in the external environment of the motorcycle industry.
Analyze the dynamics of competition using Porter’s Five Forces Model of Competition. Correctly assess the dynamics of competition.
Provide at least three statistics about the size of the motorcycle industry such as revenue, growth rate, number of units sold by manufacturer/country, etc.
Summarize the strategic issues firms in this industry face and identify their biggest threats.

This section should be titled “The Analysis of H-D’s External Environment.”

Part II – Internal Environment Analysis

Financial

Gather the financial information necessary to do a complete ratio analysis and the Balance Score Card (BSC) key metrics information.

If you were going to create a BSC, what would be the key metrics you would measure in each of the four BSC areas:

Financial
Customer
Internal Business Process
Learning and Growth

Perform a ratio analysis using H-D’s five-year financial performance. Interpret the meaning of the ratios and financial performance.

This section should be titled “The Analysis of H-D’s Current Strategy: Two Views.” Be sure to include the ratio analysis. You may also include other graphics to support your narrative.

Competitors

Based on your analysis, you must decide which two competitors present the biggest competitive threat to H-D.

Perform a financial ratio analysis for the competitors after looking at trends in financial performance over five years, and compare the trends to industry averages.

Be sure you have a clear ranking of the industries’ competitors.

This section should be titled “Competitor Analysis.” Be sure to include the financial ratio analysis. You may also include other graphics to support your narrative.

Write a 1-2 page paper in which you:

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Describe the key characteristics of a whistleblower, and briefly summarize one (1) researched instance of whistleblowing in one (1) publicly traded company within the last 12 months. Include the details of the issue that the whistleblower reported and the effect of the whistleblower’s actions on both the whistleblower himself and the company.
Decide whether or not the whistleblower was justified in reporting the company’s actions. Provide a rationale for your response.
Examine the extent to which the whistleblower would be protected under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Justify your response.
Use at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia is not an acceptable reference and proprietary Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Psychologists have developed many theories that attempt to capture how love grows, including the nature of attachment. Watch the brief video illustrating Harry Harlow’s studies on contact comfort and examine the emotional domain of human development (specifically, emotional attachment), and discuss individual differences in attachment. Your initial post should contain the following:

Explain why individual differences in attachment matter. What are their known sources?
Describe the influences that family, or lack thereof, and environment have on the development of infants.
Discuss the extent to which individual differences in attachment may be linked to care giving style.
Discuss the extent to which individual differences in attachment may be linked to infants’ temperament.

Your initial post must be at least 300 words

2nd Assignment

Before completing this discussion, be sure to review Chapter 10 in your text and the Factors that Influence Sexual Orientation and Gender Socialization, videos. After examining the research in human development presented in your required resources, complete the following discussion:

Ideas and perceptions of gender and sexuality are strongly dependent on cultural factors and influences. Define gender and sexuality. What is the difference between the two? Describe the influences of culture on these aspects of human development.

Psychologists have developed many theories that attempt to capture how love grows, including the nature of attachment. Watch the brief video illustrating Harry Harlow’s studies on contact comfort and examine the emotional domain of human development (specifically, emotional attachment), and discuss individual differences in attachment. Your initial post should contain the following:

Explain why individual differences in attachment matter. What are their known sources?
Describe the influences that family, or lack thereof, and environment have on the development of infants.
Discuss the extent to which individual differences in attachment may be linked to care giving style.
Discuss the extent to which individual differences in attachment may be linked to infants’ temperament.

Your initial post must be at least 300 words

2nd Assignment

Before completing this discussion, be sure to review Chapter 10 in your text and the Factors that Influence Sexual Orientation and Gender Socialization, videos. After examining the research in human development presented in your required resources, complete the following discussion:

Ideas and perceptions of gender and sexuality are strongly dependent on cultural factors and influences. Define gender and sexuality. What is the difference between the two? Describe the influences of culture on these aspects of human development.

Psychologists have developed many theories that attempt to capture how love grows, including the nature of attachment. Watch the brief video illustrating Harry Harlow’s studies on contact comfort and examine the emotional domain of human development (specifically, emotional attachment), and discuss individual differences in attachment. Your initial post should contain the following:

Explain why individual differences in attachment matter. What are their known sources?
Describe the influences that family, or lack thereof, and environment have on the development of infants.
Discuss the extent to which individual differences in attachment may be linked to care giving style.
Discuss the extent to which individual differences in attachment may be linked to infants’ temperament.

Your initial post must be at least 300 words

2nd Assignment

Before completing this discussion, be sure to review Chapter 10 in your text and the Factors that Influence Sexual Orientation and Gender Socialization, videos. After examining the research in human development presented in your required resources, complete the following discussion:

Ideas and perceptions of gender and sexuality are strongly dependent on cultural factors and influences. Define gender and sexuality. What is the difference between the two? Describe the influences of culture on these aspects of human development.

Psychologists have developed many theories that attempt to capture how love grows, including the nature of attachment. Watch the brief video illustrating Harry Harlow’s studies on contact comfort and examine the emotional domain of human development (specifically, emotional attachment), and discuss individual differences in attachment. Your initial post should contain the following:

Explain why individual differences in attachment matter. What are their known sources?
Describe the influences that family, or lack thereof, and environment have on the development of infants.
Discuss the extent to which individual differences in attachment may be linked to care giving style.
Discuss the extent to which individual differences in attachment may be linked to infants’ temperament.

Your initial post must be at least 300 words

2nd Assignment

Before completing this discussion, be sure to review Chapter 10 in your text and the Factors that Influence Sexual Orientation and Gender Socialization, videos. After examining the research in human development presented in your required resources, complete the following discussion:

Ideas and perceptions of gender and sexuality are strongly dependent on cultural factors and influences. Define gender and sexuality. What is the difference between the two? Describe the influences of culture on these aspects of human development.

Application: Career Goals and Intentions Related to Developmentally Appropriate Practice

You have learned that developmentally appropriate practice is not an activity or a strategy but a complex decision-making process, an approach to care and education, and even an underlying philosophy of programs and policies. It is a foundation of every quality program for young children.

How will developmentally appropriate practice influence your career as an early childhood professional? What are your goals and intentions with regard to incorporating developmentally appropriate practice in your work and to further your professional growth?

To complete this Application, do the following:

Review and Reflect

Consider your response to the following multi-part question:

As an early childhood professional, how will what you have learned about developmentally appropriate practice influence your career in relation to:

working with children;
working with families;
working with the community (where you live and where you work);
working with other professionals; and
your professional growth?

To help you answer each part, review the readings for this week and the video presentation on developmentally appropriate practice. Take notes on ideas, insights, perspectives, and professional objectives that have meaning to you.

When you are ready, complete the written assignment below.

State Your Intentions

Summarize your thoughts, plans, and goals with regard to the ways you believe developmentally appropriate practice will influence your career in relation to working with children, families, the local community (where you live and work in the future), and other professionals, as well as your own professional development.

Application: Career Goals and Intentions Related to Developmentally Appropriate Practice

You have learned that developmentally appropriate practice is not an activity or a strategy but a complex decision-making process, an approach to care and education, and even an underlying philosophy of programs and policies. It is a foundation of every quality program for young children.

How will developmentally appropriate practice influence your career as an early childhood professional? What are your goals and intentions with regard to incorporating developmentally appropriate practice in your work and to further your professional growth?

To complete this Application, do the following:

Review and Reflect

Consider your response to the following multi-part question:

As an early childhood professional, how will what you have learned about developmentally appropriate practice influence your career in relation to:

working with children;
working with families;
working with the community (where you live and where you work);
working with other professionals; and
your professional growth?

To help you answer each part, review the readings for this week and the video presentation on developmentally appropriate practice. Take notes on ideas, insights, perspectives, and professional objectives that have meaning to you.

When you are ready, complete the written assignment below.

State Your Intentions

Summarize your thoughts, plans, and goals with regard to the ways you believe developmentally appropriate practice will influence your career in relation to working with children, families, the local community (where you live and work in the future), and other professionals, as well as your own professional development.

Proseminar Crminal justice

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The United States criminal justice system has a court system that is modulated in different parts. The Supreme Court is the highest authoritative court in the United States, and for cases to arrive at this court, they must pass through a variety of courts and have a legitimate consequence toward the nation.

You also have state, appellate, and local courts that serve jurisdictions where criminal cases are initially held and decided by a jury or a judge. It is vital to understand that certain crimes like fraud can be tried in the criminal sections of the criminal justice system, but there is also a civil justice system where parties seek civil relief for injustices that may or may not result from criminal activities. The civil courts, another set of courts, provide judgments over the civil cases. Judges decide if the plaintiff’s claim of harm by the defendant is justified.

Criminal cases are heard in criminal courts where, at the conclusion of the trial, the defendant may receive sentences of incarceration or fines as a result of being convicted at the criminal trial.

In a civil court, a person (plaintiff) pursues a civil action against another person (defendant), which may result from damages resulting from a criminal action of the defendant, an accidental action by the defendant, or a disagreement between the plaintiff and the defendant.

Please answer the following questions. As you answer each question, you must provide support or evidence that will enhance and empirically prove your answers. Academic criminal justice articles or real-life criminal justice findings that are not found in journals or other academic sources must be used in supporting your answers. Please use APA style for all cited sources, including your References page.

What is the dual-court system?
Why does America have a dual-court system?
Could the drive toward court unification eventually lead to a monolithic court system?
Would such a system be effective?

Judges have specific philosophical rationales and sentencing guidelines when providing a judgment over presented facts.

If you were a judge, what would be your sentencing goals and philosophical rationales? Why?
Can you envision any circumstances that might make your guidelines or sentencing goals change? Why?
Provide an example of a situation that might be extremely difficult to judge that could put you as a judge in a situation to change your sentencing goals or philosophical rationales.

You must reference at least 4 outside sources for all IPs in this class. Please make sure your sources are reputable

Proseminar Crminal justice

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The United States criminal justice system has a court system that is modulated in different parts. The Supreme Court is the highest authoritative court in the United States, and for cases to arrive at this court, they must pass through a variety of courts and have a legitimate consequence toward the nation.

You also have state, appellate, and local courts that serve jurisdictions where criminal cases are initially held and decided by a jury or a judge. It is vital to understand that certain crimes like fraud can be tried in the criminal sections of the criminal justice system, but there is also a civil justice system where parties seek civil relief for injustices that may or may not result from criminal activities. The civil courts, another set of courts, provide judgments over the civil cases. Judges decide if the plaintiff’s claim of harm by the defendant is justified.

Criminal cases are heard in criminal courts where, at the conclusion of the trial, the defendant may receive sentences of incarceration or fines as a result of being convicted at the criminal trial.

In a civil court, a person (plaintiff) pursues a civil action against another person (defendant), which may result from damages resulting from a criminal action of the defendant, an accidental action by the defendant, or a disagreement between the plaintiff and the defendant.

Please answer the following questions. As you answer each question, you must provide support or evidence that will enhance and empirically prove your answers. Academic criminal justice articles or real-life criminal justice findings that are not found in journals or other academic sources must be used in supporting your answers. Please use APA style for all cited sources, including your References page.

What is the dual-court system?
Why does America have a dual-court system?
Could the drive toward court unification eventually lead to a monolithic court system?
Would such a system be effective?

Judges have specific philosophical rationales and sentencing guidelines when providing a judgment over presented facts.

If you were a judge, what would be your sentencing goals and philosophical rationales? Why?
Can you envision any circumstances that might make your guidelines or sentencing goals change? Why?
Provide an example of a situation that might be extremely difficult to judge that could put you as a judge in a situation to change your sentencing goals or philosophical rationales.

You must reference at least 4 outside sources for all IPs in this class. Please make sure your sources are reputable