Showing posts with label Consumer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Consumer. Show all posts

Monday, 10 February 2014

ASSIGNMENT 5-1

Explain the similarities and differences of Medicare and Medicaid managed care plans by comparing and contrasting the following three issues:
1.   Strengths, weaknesses and incentives between Medicare and Medicaid.2.   Commitment to access for both plans.  3.   Risks to the consumer associated with either plan.
Lastly, provide three recommendations for improvement of each medical plan and your justification for each.  Your paper must be three to four double-spaced pages (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.  In addition to the course text, utilize a minimum of three scholarly and/or peer-reviewed sources that were published within the last five years. All sources must be documented in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.


1.Select two (2) tech stock companies that attempted to make profits from rising consumer demand after the crash. Analyze how they attempted to make a profit after the crash and discuss any unethical practices.

2.Evaluate the change in consumer demand trends after the crash for each of the tech stock companies you researched. Provide examples with your evaluation and use graphics such as charts, when applicable

3.Discuss at least two (2) strategies that multinational corporations (MNCs) can undertake in order to make profit by leveraging the growing consumer demand.

4.Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources

Marketing question

Answer each portion with at least a paragraph response at graduate level standards.

A company’s marketing strategy can be customer-oriented (i.e., strategy designed by examining primarily customer needs) or competitor-oriented (i.e., strategy based on competitors’ actions). In reality, companies do both. For the following scenarios, identify which strategies to emphasize and why.

A market leader in pharmaceuticals
A market follower in a mature market
A market nicher (i.e., company focused on a small segment) in interior decoration of luxury homes
A a market challenger in a mature market with low margins and significant economies of scale effect

Sunday, 9 February 2014

Select an article from a consumer magazine or newspaper (must have been written in the last 30 days, provide link for all classmates to read article in full) on a topic related to the health of the skin, hair, or nails – a component of the integumentary system. Provide a summary of the article as well as a discussion of the associated anatomy and physiology. Teach the topic to your classmates by means of a 300 to 500-word post. Describe the topic to them as if you were the instructor teaching the class. Be sure to provide your opinion regarding the information noted in the article. What impressed you about the information, etc? Make a connection to the anatomy and physiology of the topic we covered this week.