I’m working on a management case study and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

Read the case given and answer the questions:

Nawal was the first of her family to go to college and, after working in a reputed organization for a few years, she got into her first-choice graduate program. During her first semester, Nawal was seen as mature, professional, and well-organized. Concerns emerged during the spring semester; she seemed distracted when on campus and was absent from organization more days than she was present. She was working on a paper, but progress was slow, and in March  Nawal failed to turn in a draft on the date promised. Her advisor Dr. Hamed assumed that more structure was needed, so she began to set very explicit expectations for products with specific deadlines attached. During their meetings, Nawal was enthusiastic about her projects and eagerly promised to get the work done. However, the pattern of failing to deliver kept repeating itself. Finally, after an extended stretch when Nawal was absent from the organization  and had missed a deadline for a draft, Dr. Hamed called her in to ask if she was serious about her work. Nawal teared up and revealed that her mother was seriously ill, and she had been driving the three  hours back home every weekend for the last several months to help her family. She had thought it inappropriate to mention her family crisis, not wanting to acknowledge that her personal life was interfering with her graduate studies. She asked Dr. Hamed if she should withdraw from the program.

t Questions:                                                                             

Q1. What are the main themes raised in this case?

Q2. What is the best course of action for this student for the immediate future?

Q3. How can organization develop successful mentoring programs to help its work force? 

Q4. What policy changes might the department implement to avoid a repeat of the situation in the future, with another student

In this Capital Budgeting Activity, you will be evaluating whether you should purchase a hybrid car or its gasoline-engine counterpart.  Select two car models that are similar, with one being a hybrid model and one being the non-hybrid model.  For example, the Honda Civic is available as a hybrid or a gasoline-engine model. Use the Federal Reserve Bank Prime Loan rateLinks to an external site. for your discount interest rate.  Assume that you plan on keeping your car for 10 years and that the resale value of both models will be negligible. Assume the loan period is for 10 years as well.

Research the cost of each model (include estimated taxes and title costs). Also, obtain an estimate of the miles-per-gallon fuel efficiency of each model.

Estimate the number of miles you drive each year. Also, estimate the costs of a gallon of fuel.

Given your previous estimate from 1 and 2, estimate the total cost of driving the hybrid model for one year. Also, estimate the total cost of driving the non-hybrid model for one year.  Calculate the savings offered by the hybrid model over the non-hybrid model.

Calculate the NPV of the hybrid model, using the annual fuel savings as the annual cash inflow for the 10 years you would own the car.

Compare the NPV of the hybrid model with cost of the cost of the gasoline-engine model. Which model has the lowest NPV?  From a financial standpoint, does the hybrid model make sense?

Now look at the payback period of the hybrid model. Use the difference between the cost of the hybrid model and the gasoline-engine model as the investment.  Use the annual fuel savings as the expected annual net cash inflow.  Ignoring the time value of money, how long does it take for the additional cost of the hybrid model to pay for itself through fuel savings?

What qualitative factors might affect your decision about which model to purchase?

1a. Create a table or spreadsheet that lists 10 or more possible career areas—including estimated annual salaries and brief job descriptions. Rate how much you think you would like each potential career area on a scale from 1 (“don’t like”) to 10 (“like the most”). You can use Word or Excel for this part of the assignment.

1b. Highlight roles that you feel pertain to information systems. Add a column to briefly describe where this role fits within the umbrella of information systems. Save as doc or xls depending on which application you’ve used.

2. Use presentation software to create a set of three slides that identifies the top three things you hope to learn from this course and why each is important to you. Save as a PPT file.( powerpoint)

Each week you will be adding to a cumulative project.  Using the template attached you will add in each weeks work in the appropriate spots in the template. 

Determine a business or organization in need of information systems. This can be a business startup or changes in an existing business. If an existing business belonging to you (now or in the future), treat it as if you will be upgrading technology beyond a single computer, software integration, or system.

You’ll be using this concept throughout the course so give it some thought.

In this lab:

Project Definition

1. Define your IS project and determine what information systems and personnel will be necessary to meet needs and requirements.

2. Is this a startup or a business converting to or making significant changes to its business model and systems?

Data

3. What types of data do you think you will be working with?

Organizational Changes

4. How big a staff do you think will be needed and in what capacity? Will new people need to be hired and trained? Will existing staff need training?

Initial Concerns

5. What initial security, ethical, or legal concerns might you have?

Week 1 Cummulative Project Template

Case Study:1(5 Points)

Please read the case “Money and Prices during Four Hyperinflations” from Chapter 17 “Money Growth and Inflation” Page: – 652 – Chapter 30 given in your textbook –“Principles of Macroeconomics”.The case study presented in the chapter discussed the government can pay for some of its spending simply by printing money. When countries rely heavily on this “inflation tax,” the result is hyperinflation. and Answer the following Questions:

Questions: 

1.1. Suppose a country’s inflation rate increases sharply. What happens to the inflation tax on the holders of the money? Why is wealth that is held in savings accounts not subject to a change in the inflation tax? Can you think of any way holders of savings accounts are hurt by the increase in the inflation rate? (2.5 points)  

1.2. It is sometimes suggested that the Federal Reserve should try to achieve zero inflation. If we assume that velocity is constant, does this zero-inflation goal require that the rate of money growth equal zero? If yes, explain why? If no, explain what the rate of money growth should equal? (2.5 points)   

Important Note: – Support your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook and at least two scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles.

Case Study:2 (5 Points)

Please read the case “Oil and the Economy” from Chapter 20 “Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply” Page: – 750 – Chapter 33 given in your textbook –“Principles of Macroeconomics”. A case study discussesthe model of aggregate demand and aggregate supply explains the economic fluctuations.

Questions: 

2.1. Explain the short-run and long-run impacts of oil price increase on output and price level in the U.S. during 1973-1975 periods using the model of aggregate demand and aggregate supply. (2.5 points)  

2.2. Explain the short-run and long-run impacts of oil price fall on output and price level in the U.S. in 1986, using the model of aggregate demand and aggregate supply (2.5 points)  

You are a Graduate Business Analyst working for Styl4U plc (Styl4U). An organogram and business description of Styl4U is provided in Appendix B (pages 9-10). The President – Finance, Prerana Singh, has been asked by the Board of Directors to give a letter of advice as per the attached memo, Appendix A, on page 8 of this brief.

Prerana has tasked you to draft a reply that she can send, under her own name, with no amendment by her.

Your response should draw on reputable and reliable sources only (to be clear that means no unattributed internet sources quickly googled, so no ‘Anon’ references please). Academic articles, company or institutional sources, and professional sources are required following academic referencing conventions for this work. No marks will be given for sourcing your work from lecture slides or lecturer or tutor opinions or material, so please don’t do that. This is meant to be based on your independent research. The flip side is that credit will be given for genuine insight and communication skill, as would be required in a real exercise of this nature. A Director or Executive Manager would reject unreliable sources.

Your letter should cover as a minimum:

Answering the direct questions asked by Styl4U’s Board of Directors in their memo, replying in terms that an ‘informed non expert’ might understand. It should not be written using any technical or academic ‘jargon’ type language copied from your sources that is not phrased in the way you would normally speak to this type of forum. Rather you should use your sources to help you put things into your own words that communicate well to a busy executive and superior. The markers’ subjective informed judgements on the quality of the work in meeting client needs, using their extensive business experience of such projects, will form a key part of the marking process.