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What is Six Sigma? • Statistical measure and a management philosophy • Used to symbolise standard deviation • A measure to determine how good or bad the performance of the process is i.e. how many mistakes the company commits while carrying out the process. The dabbawalas were awarded the six sigma certificate by the Forbes Magazine as part of the quality assurance study carried out by the magazine n their operations. What it meant was that the dabbawalas made one mistake in 6 million…

Stocktrak Debrief Report Over the course of this semester, students in Finance 354 were given an opportunity to manage a practice portfolio. We were given $1,000,000 and a maximum of 400 trades. We were also able to short sale which allowed the excess of $1,000,000. The types of securities allowed to be traded included stocks, options, futures, bonds, mutual funds, international stocks, and commodities. With the choice of many securities, it seemed overwhelming to decide where to start. The…

anything there has been a complete opposite movement in society. Thirteen have de-criminized the possession of a small amount of marijuana and fourteen states as well as Washington DC have passed laws to allow Marijuana to be used for medical purposes (CNBC). As more and more states start legalizing marijuana in these ways it begins to send a message across the nation that marijuana is not as bad as prohibition had proposed it to…

Technology is Distancing Humans from Reality Nowadays people are consumed by technology which forces them to stray away from normal one-on-one human interaction. As seen in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, the protagonist, Guy Montag, lives in a society where people are expected to rely on technology and banned from reading books. Once Montag meets a teenager named Clarisse, his eyes are opened and he begins to realize that he is unhappy. When he returns home he asks his wife, Mildred, if she…

published twenty books and eighty articles, and has papers featured in: the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, Business Week, the London Times, Toronto Globe and Mail, Inc, Fast Company, and CNBC, and is a regular columnist for the BBC, his article is a…

1.0 Introduction Casino development in the last few years to create, in the tourism industry has made an important contribution. These figures and casinos are capable of rapid growth of the Asia Pacific region, including Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Kampuchea, Burma, Philippines, Macao, and Singapore. Therefore, the development of the casino has become a highly profitable industry in these regions. Singapore has been to and the future market of the online games industry: first of all, it…

In the United Kingdom, Islam is the second largest religious, and between 2001 and 2009 was the highest growth religious. Even though there was increase in Muslim over the years, they still share the same fate of discrimination, similar to the Muslims in the United States. “The majority of British Muslims say they have witnessed discrimination against followers of the Islamic faith and that a climate of hate is being driven by politicians and media, a study has found,” (Dodd). According to the…

If it were true that violent video games cause violent behavior, then the question would be, how are young children getting ahold of these M-Rated games? The blame would therefor be on either the children’s parents for buying them these games or stores, for failing to enforce the rules of minors not being allowed to buy M games without being eighteen years or older. A lot of kids or teenagers tend to get caught up in the games they are playing. They start to believe that they can portray the…

Regional trade agreements are defined as reciprocal trade agreements between two or more partners. Regional Trade Agreements are a large topic with the upcoming 2016 presidential debate. In particular, trade agreements with China have gone under extensive review in order to establish a stronger American economy. There have been many jobs revoked from American citizens due to trade agreements set up with China to outsource both items as well as materials. Through decisions made by American…

My internship provided me with a crash course on how the market operates. I worked as a credit analyst in our leveraged finance office. My supervisor encouraged me to watch a weekly telecast online called Commodities Countdown on Stocksharts.com. This is where my interest in commodities and the risk associated with them began. I watched how certain positions traded throughout the summer, but I mainly focused in on Gold and Silver. At the start of the game the first few stocks I invested in were…