In 2001, British-Dutch corporation Unilever attempted to purchase the assets of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream. The Board of Directors of Ben & Jerry’s refused the offer. Unilever’s offer was very generous and would have resulted in a major windfall for the shareholders of Ben & Jerry’s.

The Shareholders threatened to sue the Board of Directors for a breach of fiduciary duty arguing the Board of Directors had a duty for care to make good decisions on behalf of the Corporation. And denying the purchase offer violated that duty.

In fear of the lawsuit, the Board agreed to the sell terms. Do you believe the Board of Directors had a duty to accept the buyout offer? And did their failure to accept it amount to a breach of the fiduciary duties owned to the shareholders?

Please follow these tips to find the solution. It will help you to understand what’s exactly the requirements. 

The answer requires a careful and deeply reading of Chapter 8 from the book below, and an understanding of many terms, the most important of it which must talk about it are:

– Duty of care

– Malfeasance 

– Business judgment rule

I’m working on a business writing question and need support to help me learn.

Adaptive leaders are follower-centered. The main objective of adaptive leaders is to help employees change and adjust to new circumstances in the organization (Northouse, 2022, p. 286). In the image below, we can see the Model of Adaptive Leadership (Northouse, 2022, p. 288):

Source: Northouse, P. G. (2022). Leadership: Theory and practice (8th ed., p. 288). Sage Publications. 

Organization XYZ is a call center which helps clients solve issues with their internet connections. The organization opened 10 years ago and has 250 employees working in the facilities as customer service technicians 24 hours a day, seven days a week. After COVID-19, leadership has been rethinking the way that the organization conducts business. Therefore, it has been determined that all 250 employees would work remotely.

Think about what adaptive leadership is, the Model of Adaptive Leadership presented above, and the case, then address the following: 

1. Describe what the adaptive leader’s behavioral approach would be in this case. 
2. Explain the effectiveness of the adaptive leadership approach and how this leadership approach is similar to or different than your selected leadership style.

We reviewed several different web analytics platforms in this module. For this assignment, review each platform by reading through the reports or visiting their websites. Feel free to use other resources for your essay as well. You may also use reviews posted on YouTube (just be sure to cite them in your report). To refresh your memory, the sites include Google Analytics, AWStats, and Clicky. You may include additional analysis packages if you like.

1. Analyze each tool, providing a list of pros and cons as well as a comparison of the platforms. Additionally, what one thing does each tool do very well?
2. After reviewing each of the tools, describe at least three KPI’s that your client (the one you picked at the start of the semester) could use from the data made available by the website analysis tools. Include which of the tools you reviewed makes this data available. Remember, these KPI’s should be related to data reported by the web analytics tools you reviewed.
3. Conclude with which tool you recommend to your client as well as the reasons why.

Your report should be between 500 and 750 words.

Managing the multi-business corporation to meet high performance expectations is problematic. Research a company in KSA that manages multiple businesses:

Questions:

1. Explain the corporate structure and provide a review of its business portfolio.
2. What advice would you provide on the use of portfolio matrices and which portfolio matrix would you recommend: the GE McKinsey, BCG, or Ashridge matrix? Why?
3. Apply your recommended portfolio matrix and provide a portfolio analysis.
4. How does diversification create value through the linkages between businesses?

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be 6-7 pages in length, which does not include the title page or required reference page, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements.
• Use Saudi Electronic University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines.
• Support your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook and at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles unless the assignment calls for more.
• It is strongly encouraged that you submit all assignments into the Turnitin Originality Check before submitting it to your instructor for grading. If you are unsure how to submit an assignment into the Originality Check tool, review the Turnitin Originality Check—Student Guide for step-by-step instructions.

1. Prepare the journal entry to establish the petty cash fund.

2. Prepare a petty cash payments report for April with these categories: delivery expense, ­mileage expense, postage expense, merchandise inventory (for transportation-in), and office ­supplies expense.

3. Prepare the journal entries for part 2 to both (a) reimburse and (b) increase the fund amount.

Stanley Marks had the following petty cash transactions in April of the current year.