Kevin M. Murphy

Throughout the years, many people have come to love J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. This is evident in the fact that there have been multiple renditions of it over the past century. Some of these include stage productions, ballets, and motion pictures. Audiences around the world are fascinated with the mystery and magic involved with Neverland. However, what most people fail to consider, is where the idea for the enchanting storyline developed. Most readers would be surprised to discover that a large…

Problem Overview HealthSouth’s former leadership engaged in unethical behavior has placed the company and its stakeholders in a position that has impacted the company’s future viability. The following analysis will provide an understanding of the negative behavior that caused the issues currently faced by HealthSouth and recommendations on the changes necessary to correct the course of the company. Analysis Idealized Influence The leadership by HealthSouth’s founder and former leader, Richard…

How to Read a Paper August 2, 2013 S. Keshav David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON, Canada keshav@uwaterloo.ca ABSTRACT Researchers spend a great deal of time reading research papers. However, this skill is rarely taught, leading to much wasted effort. This article outlines a practical and efficient three-pass method for reading research papers. I also describe how to use this method to do a literature survey. 4. Read the conclusions 5. Glance over…

The Goal, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox, centers on Alex Rogo who receives a visit by the division’s vice president, Bill Peach, in relations to some severely late orders. The division vice president also advises him of the state of the company he has been entrusted with. The company is losing money and Alex Rogo has a deadline of three months to fix whatever issues it has and turn a profit or close the facility. In reading The Goal, as with any business, the goal is to make a profit now…

Does Diversity Equal the Success of Xerox? Xerox is a Fortune 500 company with a reported annual revenue of $22 Billion. They are one of the most admired companies with the world’s largest technology and Service Company in the computer world which specializes in document management. Along with technology and service the company expresses diversity as equal success. According to Schermerhorn, Osborne, Uhl-Bien, and Hunt (2012), Anne Mulcahy, Xerox Chairman and former CEO states, “Diversity is…

Organizations lack diversity in there higher ranks of leadership. Women make up 24 of the 500 CEOs on the fortune 500 hundred companies. While most statistics state that women make up a substantial portion of the workforce and even middle management, they fail to reach the highest ranks of an organization. There are several barriers which prevent women from moving into higher management. Some of this may be due to men who are intimidated by women and do not believe they should be in high…

(A) -1 - Case Summery Roy Jackson has quite recently been moved on from business college and is currently at his first occupation as an area deals chief. He has an issue with one his top associates, a senior deals delegate, who has come to office inebriated for the third time this month. Roy is not certain what to do but rather gets direction from an intranet application on his PC, which conveys him to a short meeting between a worker and his administrator on medication/liquor misuse.…

Signs, a movie written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan focuses on the loss of faith within the protagonist, Graham Hess and how he is brought back to it. Although, it seems as if there are two separate storylines, the two eventually intersect to help Graham become a believer again. The movie opens with the serene farmhouse where Graham Hess, his two children Bo and Morgan, and his brother Merrill live. A picture sitting by the bedside shows his family, wife included, but she is nowhere to…

While Wendy, as a mother, is respected as an authority, she is shut away from the adventure, separated from the boy’s adventures in Barrie’s book. She is underground, and rarely sees the outside; a literal placement of Wendy beneath the boys of the island to express her subordinate nature to the dominant patriarch: “Really there were whole weeks when, except perhaps with a stocking in the evening, she was never above ground,” (Barrie 41). Barrie’s emphasis on Wendy being the mother figure who is…

I did not trust him alone with our son and likely never will. I witnessed him engage in questionable sexual conduct with our infant. I saw him shout in our son’s face for what was often accidental scratching, poking or pinching. I saw him punch our younger dog in the head to the degree that the dog urinated instantly. Our young son saw him punch a hole in the wall, smack the dogs for little to no reason. I was instructed to punch our un-neutered young dog in the testicles if he tried to mount…