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Unit 4 Assignment: Case Study Part 1 of Target Corporations Shannon Mott Kaplan University Abstract Unit 4 Assignment: Case Study Part One of Target Corporations Preliminary Analysis US Securities and Exchange Commission The event that spurred the creation of the SEC was The Great Depression. The SEC was created to “restore investor confidence in our capital markets by providing investors and the markets with more reliable information and clear rules of honest dealing” (SEC.gov). The five divisions of the SEC are the Division of Corporate Finance, the Division of Enforcement, the Economic and Risk Analysis Division, the Investment Management Division, and the Trading and Markets Division. Each division has a specific area of study and responsibility to the SEC. The Division of Corporate Finance provides investors with the appropriate information to formally make the right decisions when it comes to investing. (website). They provide the information at the beginning and throughout the life of the investment. This department also provides other services, including interpretive services and recommendations to the commission. The Division of Enforcement was created to “consolidate enforcement activities” (SEC.gov) condensing the responsibilities of the operating divisions of the Commission’s headquarters. The division of enforcement’s focus is prosecuting the commission’s civil suits…

Gregg Steinhafel Chairman, President and CEO of Target. Steinhafel was born in Milwaukee. He worked with his grandfather and Austrian immigrant in his furniture store. Steinhafel received his bachelor’s degree from Carroll University in 1977 and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg school of management in 1979. He joined Target as a buyer and moved up the chain of command. Stenhafel was named President in 1999, joined the board of director in 2007, titled CEO in 2008, and appointed…

The founder of the Target Corporation is George Draper Dayton. Target was founded in 1902 in Minneapolis, MN. He chose Minneapolis because he thought it was the greatest location for business growth. He spent many years in the banking and real estate business and decide to venture out and search the Midwest for opportunities. He eventually settled on Nicollet Avenue for his first business opening (A Bullseye View, 1900s). Target is known for their dependable merchandise and wide variety of…

Jonathan Dayton was born in a little town in New Jersey known as Elizabethtown on October 16, 1760. His father Elias Dayton was a military officer in the French and Indian War and a merchant who was into local politics. Jonathan graduated from a local academy and then went to Princeton University a little while later. He then left Princeton in the year 1775, fought in the Revolution and would later receive an honorary degree in 1776. When the war ended Dayton began studying law, and eventually…

department store chain that was based in California called Mervyn. By doing so, they became the seventh largest retailer in the United States. At the end of the 1970s, Dayton’s revenue was over three billion and their chain of Target stores had passed Dayton’s department stores as the largest revenue producers in the company. In order to continue this growth in revenue, the company purchased fifty discount stores from a company called Ayr-Way and rebranded them as Target stores. The company…

“The women’s movement arrived in Dayton in September 1969” and attracted Cheryl Radican, a writer “…for Dayton’s recently established ‘underground’ newspaper…” who soon “…formed Dayton’s first consciousness-raising (CR) group” to raise awareness of their program (Sealander & Smith, 1986, 323-324). The CR group made it possible for the emergence of “Dayton Women’s Liberation” that made it possible for the “Women’s Center and Dayton Women Working” to join them by 1975 (Sealander & Smith, 1986,…

There are two reasons for this diverging scholarship; first, the time periods being written about only marginally line up, if at all. While Koehler and Hemphill focus on the seventeenth century, Dayton’s “Taking the Trade” article examines the eighteenth century, with the other three works occupying various times encompassing sections of both centuries. For a topic where change over a relatively short period of time is highlighted in all but Koehler’s work, minimal differences in settings can…

attend the class in observation, Communications 100 (CMM100). My observations were performed clandestinely on two separate occasions consisting of notes on: teacher to student and student to student interactions, delivery of materiel, and use of genre (textbooks, handouts, digital programs, etc.). The interviews were facilitated through a series of prefixed questions including a broad set directed towards both international and domestic students, and two separate sets dedicated to each…

Nicollet Avenue and formed the Dayton Dry Goods Company. After a period of rapid growth, Dayton Dry Goods Company was renamed the Dayton Company to better reflect its wide collection of goods and services. As time passed, the business became known as Dayton's Department Store. We currently, know it as the Target Corporation. Target has a history of putting the best interest of their customers first. Over the years, the company has definitely shown that they respect the values stated in their…

not having the time or the resources to play an active role in engaging their children academically. As an aside, this is how this plan relates to family policy, implicit family policy to be exact. With this plan, families in urban areas would have the opportunity to engage in their children’s education. Also providing early childhood education in urban areas is beneficial to working families who struggle to get daycare. Through making early childhood education more available to these students…