https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_tilson_thomas_music_and_emotion_through_time (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Listen to the Ted Talk, then answer the questions below.

1. Have you listened to Ted Talks before? (Keep in mind that Ted and TedX are different series, with Ted being more authoritative. TedX has good material, but sometimes some of the talks have questionable material.)

2. Who is Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT)? What do you think music means to MTT?

3. Share something that this Ted Talk by MTT helped change or enrich your understanding of western classical music.

4. Listen again to 03:44. “It’s so simple, so evocative. So many emotions seem to be inside of it. Yet, of course, like all music, it’s essentially not about anything. It’s just a design of pitches and silence and time.”

a.) How does the performed excerpt reflect the quote?
b.) How do you explain the paradox, that music is “just a design of pitches and silence and time,” yet can stir so many emotions within us?

5. Listen again to 08:25. “Now inspired moves of improvisation could be recorded, saved, considered, prioritized, made into intricate designs. And from this moment, classical music became what it most essentially is, a dialogue between the two powerful sides of our nature: instinct and intelligence.”

a.) Reflect on this dialogue between “instinct and intelligence.”
b.) Drawing from the other genres of music that you enjoy and are familiar with (rock, jazz, pop, rap, folk music, etc.), pick 2 songs, provide a link, and discuss how each of those songs is a dialogue between “instinct and intelligence.”
c.) Finally, compare each song with your understanding of western classical music.

6. Listen again to 14:32. “… when the musicians stopped playing, the music stopped. What happens when the music stops? Where does it go? What’s left? What sticks with people in the audience at the end of a performance? Is it a melody or a rhythm or a mood or an attitude? And how might that change their lives?”

a.) What does music mean to you?
b.) Has music changed your life before?
c.) Share an experience when the effect of a piece of music has had an effect on you after it stopped playing.
d.) What does “music appreciation” mean to you?

https://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passion (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

1. Who is Benjamin Zander? What do you think music means to Zander?

2. Share something that this Ted Talk by Zander helped change or enrich your understanding of western classical music.

3. Zander performs a Prelude by Chopin. Why did he pick this piano prelude?

4. He repeats the phrase, “shining eyes,” several times in his talk. Recount a time when your eyes shined? Who was it? What was it from? Was anyone else there to share the moment with you?

5. Zander is a man with confidence and charisma. However, the same Google search you used to answer the first question would have also provided you with this very dark article (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. You can not judge a person from one Ted Talk, and it is also unfair to make conclusions based on one article, but how to square these two very different portraits of the same man?

OVERVIEW: Write a two-part document that addresses challenges of global financial management and ways of improving ethics in finance and corporate governance.

RESOURCES:

• Brigham, E. F., & Houston, J. F. (2013). Fundamentals of financial management (13th ed.). Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning.
• Nelson, J., & Below, S. (2012). A penny saved is a penny earned: Avoiding investment losses through the early detection of financial shenanigans. Journal of Applied Finance, 22(1), 118–144.
• Kohlbeck, M. J., Krische, S. D., Mangold, N. R., & Ryan, S. G. (2012). Financial market regulation and opportunities for accounting research. Accounting Horizons, 26(3), 563–581.
• Kroszner, R. S., & Strahan, P. E. (2011). Financial regulatory reform: Challenges ahead. American Economic Review, 101(3), 242–246.
• Downes, J., & Goodman, J. E. (2014). Dictionary of finance and investment terms (9th ed.). Hauppague, NY: Barron’s.

INSTRUCTIONS:

This assessment consists of two parts that you should combine into one document to submit.

Part 1. Challenges of Financial Management in a Global Work Environment (2–3 pages)

• Describe six major factors that distinguish financial management in firms operating entirely within a single country from those that operate in several different countries.
• Describe some of the common barriers to entry for a firm entering a new country for business.
• Discuss how financial management varies from country to country.

• Use at least three research resources to support your ideas.

Part 2. Improving Ethics (4–6 pages)

• What can be done to improve ethics in finance?
• What can be done to improve ethics in corporate governance?

• Use at least three research resources to support your ideas.

Additional Requirements

• Length: 6–9 typed, double-spaced pages. In addition, include a title page and references page.
• Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• Style and Formatting: Your document should be formatted according to APA style and formatting to cite your references.
• Resources: You must use at least three references to support each part of your assessment.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Option #2: e-Procurement Auctions

Read the following article, which is one of your recommended readings this week:

Huang, H., Kauffman, R. J., Xu, H., & Zhao, L. (2011). Mechanism design for e-procurement auctions: On the efficacy of post-auction negotiation and quality effort incentives. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 10(6), 650-672. Retrieved from http://blog.ub.ac.id/iralailatulmaghfiroh/files/2012/04/Mechanism-design-for-e-procurement-auctions-On-the-efficacy-of-post-auction.pdf.

In a three- to four-page paper (in addition to the cover and reference pages that you must include), write a summary of this study and its findings. Analyze and discuss the importance of negotiations for the purpose of procuring goods and services.

Utilize the textbook and at least two outside professional/scholarly articles. Be sure to cite your sources in a reference page. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find these references. Your paper should conform to CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements

Compare two of the following approaches towards liberty: Plato, Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, John Loche, Thomas Hobbes, John Stuart Mill, Isaiah Berlin, Alexis de Tocqueville, Erich Fromm, Adam Smith, Herbert Spencer, Jean Jacque Russeau ,Friedrich Nietzsche, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, Immanuel Kant

The essay should have 3000-3500 words and have appropriate structure and content, with proper referencing and bibliography.

Harvard reference style.

Plagiarism: >90% of uniqueness. Do not copy without indicating the source.

Requirements relating to a scholarly paper, such as providing evidence that supports your theses, statements and claims, as well as proper referencing. Bibliography should have a sufficient number of academic sources

Editing rules: title page; font, Times New Roman 12; margins, 2,5 cm; double space between verses; italics for book/periodical titles; single quotation marks, etc. The paper must be logically structured ( introduction; the main body subdivided into paragraphs; conclusions) and meet the minimum language standards.

The purpose of this assignment is to introduce the student to the idea that while change may be an important part of a project or initiative, an organization must be able to accept the change. Specifically, this assignment requires you to prepare a real-world visual presentation that identifies, more than one of each, internal and external factors that can assist a leadership and organization to be ready to accept change. You should have a well-thought out argument and discussion that culminates with the opportunity for a Board of Directors, or other leadership team, to be informed about the need for a change-agile organization, and sufficiently influenced to want to become change-agile

As a leader in your organization, you have the opportunity to make a presentation to the Board of Directors to explain what it would take to create an ‘agile’ organization; an organization that can readily adopt changes.

Develop a 15- to 20-slide visual presentation (not counting the title or reference page in that count) that identifies specifically what the organization would look like.

Incorporate internal and external factors, as well as specific examples of the structure required.

Use speaker notes to expound on your discussion just as you would in a real presentation.

Use a minimum of two peer-reviewed sources.