Cooperative education

During my first cooperative education placement, I worked at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. (GMO), a global investment management firm that has its global corporate headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts. GMO provides a broad range of investment products, including equity and fixed income strategies across global developed and emerging markets, as well as absolute return strategies with a value orientation. Their clients are primarily large institutional investors, and as of December 31, 2014

Cooperative learning should be considered the natural progression of the American education system. Traditional education techniques place students in a competitive atmosphere. Cooperative learning requires students to work together to achieve success. A democratic method for a democratic society. Cooperative learning does not allow for a single winner, instead through group efforts, each student’s strengths help the collective achieve success. This paper will address the history of cooperative learning

Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables Summary 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Cooperative Education utilised as a form of experiential learning 2.1 Merits of Cooperative Education 2.2 Alternative models of experiential learning 2.3 Executive comparison of Cooperative Education to other models 3.0 Reflection of my experience with cooperative education 3.1 Amendment of opinion and expectations after my first coop experience 3.2 Insight for future careers gained as a result of reflection 3.3

Health Care Management Internship Experience Labovitz School of Business and Economics University of Minnesota Duluth Description of the Program The purpose of the internship program is to provide juniors and seniors with an opportunity to enhance and apply what they learn in their academic program while working in a health service organization. Students are pursuing a degree in business administration and are majoring in health care management. Those that enroll in the Labovitz School of Business

agricultural powerhouse, which it is, however, it was not always that way. Background      Farmland Industries Inc. was founded by Howard A. Cowden, who was born and raised in Southwestern Missouri. Cowden started young in the cooperative business by working for the Missouri Farmers Association (MFA). However; in October of 1927, he had resigned from the position of secretary for the MFA and started out on his own. Immediately following, Cowden

Cooperative A cooperative (also co-operative; often referred to as a co-op) is a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit. Cooperatives are defined by the International Co-operative Alliance's Statement on the Co-operative Identity as autonomous associations of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through jointly owned and democratically controlled enterprises. A cooperative may also

possible solution available. I propose to create a Housing agency at the federal level named “The People’s Housing Cooperative” which monitors and regulates the creation, operation and compliance of the housing industry, membership will be voluntary, it’s implied that all states and territories will comply, and bind to the agreement. To begin with, “The People’s Housing Cooperative” will be based on the following components for a typical house model: 1. Land: which is referring to the physical

What are the goals and objectives of cooperatives? The primary objective of every cooperative is to help improve the quality of life of its members. Towards this end, the cooperative shall aim to: (a) Provide goods and services to its members to enable them to attain increased income, savings, investments, productivity, and purchasing power, and promote among themselves equitable distribution of net surplus through maximum utilization of economies of scale, cost-sharing and risk-sharing; (b)

member stated that before he joined Guajilote, he was lucky to have made 2,000 lempiras in a year, whereas he made around 1,000 to 1,500 in month as a member of the cooperative" (Wheelen & Hunger, 2006. Case 8-3).

CHAPTER 3: THE EVOLUTION OF MICRO FINANCE IN NIGERIA 3.0. Introduction: In this section the need for Microfinance is discussed; the emergence and development of microfinance in Nigeria is also reviewed. Finally the chapter discuss the ownership and beneficiaries of microfinance in Nigeria. 3.1. The Need for Microfinance: The unwillingness or inability of the formal financial institutions to provide financial services to the urban and rural poor, coupled with the un-sustainability of government