This writing assignment requires you to write a paper identifying all apparent and real conflicts of interest related to the Case Study in the attached articles and make recommendations for managing, eliminating, or reducing the conflicts of interest.
This assignment must be 3 to 5 pages in length, single-spaced, 12 point font, and 1 inch margins. References are to be listed in a separate final page of the assignment.
a) Summarize the business of Visa Inc. and identify the strategy it is pursuing. Consider relevant competitive forces and use SWOT Analysis to analyze the company. Identify, describe and evaluate the key strategic risks(2-3 risks) the company is facing as well as their potential upside/downside implications.
(b) Recommend approaches to mitigate the risks you identified. Identify one strategic risk that is common to both companies. (Mastercard and Visa) Contrast the different ways both companies address this risk.
(c) Determine which company’s strategy is more likely to be successful, and state the rationale for your decision.
(d) Based on your overall assessment in this memo, focusing on the strategy and the strategic risk posture of the firms, should the Pierre Group complete the acquisition of Mastercard, Visa, acquire both companies or neither. Why?
Paper should respond to the following items:
Personal Career Path
Discuss the influences and interrelationships among and between work, family, and other life roles and factors, including the role of multicultural issues in career development as you see it throughout your own life.
Career and educational planning, placement, follow-up, and evaluation.
Discuss the role that career and educational planning, placement, follow-up and evaluation have played in your own life. Discuss how intentional and unintentional events in your life have influenced where you are today. Was there a school or college counselor, relative, friend, employer, etc. who helped guide you? If not, this is ok, but share how this impacted you.
Assessments and Activities
Discuss assessment instruments and techniques relevant to career planning and decision making (Discuss in depth the instruments that you took and interpreted in class which include: the RIASEC, Myers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI), and CDMSE. In addition, you are to discuss any classroom activities (genogram, card sort, My Career Story, etc.) we completed in class. How do you see these instruments to be useful in personal or professional use? In other words, how do these assessments work for you? Do the results fit with what you expected? Be sure to use and cite references for your work in this section.
Theories
Discuss in depth how you see your life and your assessment results through the lenses of one of the career theories that we have discussed in depth this semester. Identify specific models or concepts that you identify in your personal career path and how you see them manifesting themselves (i.e., self-concept, Super’s developmental stages, self-efficacy, Holland’s hexagon, etc.) Be sure to use and cite references for your work in this section.
Credit will be deducted for misspellings, poor grammar, sloppy formats, etc.
Further instructions in attachment uploaded below.
You are required to answer the following questions. You should save your answers in a Word document for submission. Please do not repeat the questions on your answer sheet. Instead, please list the answers numerically/sequentially by simply utilizing 1, 2, 3, and 4. Each assignment must have a cover page listing your name, the name of the assignment, and the date. The cover page does not count towards the word count. For each assignment, you are expected to answer the assigned questions in your own words. Each assignment paper should be at least 250 words. Papers less than the required 250 words will get zero. This does not mean each question requires a 250-word response; rather, the total number of words for answering the questions must total more than 250 words.
1. Explain the attraction of gaming entertainment to the destination of a tourist.
2. How are hotel operations in a gaming entertainment business different from hotel operations in a nongaming environment?
3. List the duties of CVBs.
4. Describe the main types of meeting setups.
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Your paper must be at least three pages in length (not counting the title and reference pages), and you must use at least two resources. Be sure to cite all sources used in APA format, and format your essay in APA style.
