Kevin Seawright: Business Analysis

Horisons is a Christian faith based provider of outpatient healthcare services and healthcare education to the underserved communities in the Central Joaquin Valley in California. It is organized as a 501(c)(3) California nonprofit public benefit corporation and is headquartered in Merced, California. Horisons operates seven healthcare clinics in the cities of Merced, Mariposa, Livingston, Chowchilla, Newman, Patterson, and Los Banos.

Texas, Nov. 18, 2015 /-- To help underprivileged school students combat poverty, Back to School Roundup provides supplies and back to school needs to Tarrant County residents.

“ They have over 678 stores in the United States.The person who first started it his name is

Jerome Kerviel was facing the pressure to gain higher profit for the company because he wanted to earn larger bonus. Annual income earned by Jerome Kerviel was $ 1,470,000. It is far smaller amount than the millions earn when compared with other traders. So as to increase his bonus, he need to increase the trading returns in order to make the company’s profit. Thus, he started to make fictitious transactions which allowed him to over the limitation for trading.

The financial professional that I interviewed was Jasmine McGlashan, who is a realtor with United Real Estate North Jersey. She is a young and upcoming relator that specializes in residential real estate throughout the Central and North New Jersey area. Ms. McGlashan originally attended Michigan State University and then transferred back to her native state of New Jersey to attend Montclair State University. In 2015 she received her real estate license after watching her mother throughout her life flourish in real estate market.

There are many adjectives to describe this organization: “fun”, “coco”, “silly”, or even “confusing.” There is, however, not one perfect word that can really describe this group. The only word that comes close to perfect in describing The Whatever is “different”. The Whatever is one of the 300+ organizations at Baylor University. Despite the vast number of organizations, The Whatever is unlike any other organization on campus because of its challenging and welcoming atmosphere, in addition, its diverse list of events leaves a place for everyone in this unique group.

As one recent article on the West Valley database noted, venture capitalist investor, Tim Draper, is proposing a voter initiative on Congress to split California into 6 states. Today, researchers have been observing areas of California that place either greater or lesser importance on decisions about laws, taxes, and public policy, thus some counties are lacking in affordable housing and quality infrastructure. The fact that our state lies between the top ten worst governments to do business with was sufficient reason for Tim Draper’s plan to balance California’s resources by dividing it into 6 sovereign states. According to Draper, since California demonstrates many subjects of interest different from other states, it could be a solution to

Arin Adkins is the director of Mississippi Children’s Home Services or Canopy. I choose to interview her, one because she is my mom and easy to interview. Two, she is a high level manager, she will never admit it but she basically is directly beneath the corporate bosses. I thought it would be good to interview her because of her high position and extensive knowledge. I also really liked the idea of interviewing someone who works for a non-profit organization. We study very typical organizations and companies in class that deal with business in a more or less similar way. I thought it would be interesting to look at an organization that does not make money like normal organizations do and have to conduct strategies in a different manner.

After listening to the LP5 Seminar, there were three key subject areas that I learned about. First of all, I learned the difference between Individualism and Collectivism. An individualistic society such as the United States will depend on the values of independence and freedom; whereas, a society that is collectivistic will depend on group consensus and harmony. Each type of society will have values that play an important role in developing the communication styles used in a business message that is targeted to each specific audience. Even though the United States is broadly an individualistic country, there are smaller collectivistic communities

There are multiple similarities between Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and Robertson Davies’ Fifth Business. The theme of taking a road that is less common is present in both texts. The narrator in “The Road Not Taken” had chosen a path “… less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.” (Frost 19-20).

W.W. Grainger, Inc. is a business-to-business distributor of products used to maintain, repair, and operate facilities across the globe. Institutions worldwide rely on Grainger for products such as safety equipment, janitorial supplies, valves, and various electrical components, along with services such as technical support and inventory management. These customers consist of industries including hospitality, manufacturing, healthcare, and government. (Grainger Company Snapshot, 2015)

La-Z-Boy had approximately 15,500 shareholders as of June 9, 2015. A very upbeat photo filled section giving an overview of how the company did during the year, it includes upcoming strategies and how they plan to run the business in the future. Many graphs are included for easier viewing to the shareholder. People looking to invest in La-Z-Boy would find this introduction to be a visually appealing.

The mission of T & T Real Estate, LLC is to establish a portfolio of income producing real estate assets over the next 15-20 year that will produce supplemental income for retirement to the two principal owners. The principals of T & T Real Estate, LLC will manage the company in a conservative approach that will allow them to maintain their current full time employment. The company will seek to invest in one to two properties per year. To acquire the capital needed for reinvestment T & T Real Estate, LLC will seek to purchase residential properties that have the potential to generate an immediate return on investment after rehabilitation and will be resold. Those proceeds will then be used to supplement the investment of a second property that be rented as an income producing asset all the while

3.) Strong presence in high margin health services business. In addition to UnitedHealth Group’s leadership position in the health benefits market segment, UnitedHealth Group has strong information and technology based health services platform through its business segments which is Ingenix, OptumHealth and PrescriptionSolutions. The “CNN MONEY” (2012) website states Ingenix is one of the largest health information, technology and consulting companies in the world. The UnitedHealth Group derived $2.3 billion of revenues from Ingenix which contributed $284 million (excluding $200 million in goodwill impairment and business line deposition charges) of operating profit, and an operating margin of 12.1% during FY2010.

During the Gilded Age (1870- 1900), a period in which things were fraudulent and deceitful, the surface was clinquant while underneath that lustrous coat laid corruption. Although, entrepreneurs such as Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and Cornelius Vanderbilt also known as “Captains of Industry” are recognized for economic prosperity in America after the Civil War, in 1873 and 1893 the United States suffered from a grave economic depression due to the perfidious methods the “Captain of Industry” utilized. Techniques that involved corruption in the government resulting in monopolies dominating the industry, and increasing their wealth by exploiting workers often by extended hours and exceedingly low wages. Eventually,