Arnold Harberger Econ 490 Fall 2019

I have experienced participating in a successful team within an organization on campus when I had been part of a consulting team. I will try to give background information, however I may be limited in how specific I can be out of respect for the non-disclosure agreement I had signed for the project. The basis of the project was that the client had been a college in a large university and they wanted help on creating strategy in order to generate revenue for the college outside of tuition due to a low amount of revenue coming in from the usual expected sources. They also wanted to figure out strategy on how to heighten the quality as well as quantity of their application pool, since awareness of the college had been relatively low. I believe the effectiveness of the team had come from both how the hierarchy had been set up as well as how well members adhered to those roles.  In terms of the team structure there had been about 8 people in total. When discussing the hierarchy in te...

Within my internship over the summer, there had been a manager who had been let go due to something that had gone wrong within some of the marketing campaigns that had been delivered to potential leads. The job of the manager had been to set up and overview the logistics of the marketing campaign and confirm that everything had been set up so when it comes time to go live the process is fluid and the only worry thing to worry about the content. This needs to be done consistently because the only way to know whether or not the performance indicators can be compared to each other is if all factors other than content in the delivery are equal. What had gone wrong within multiple campaigns had been that the campaigns would be sent out to the wrong lead lists as well as the leads were not pre-emptively set up to be uploaded to the customer relationship management software, meaning once someone had found that out the leads received in the campaign would have to be manually entered significa...

I have not been in an RSO that has merged with another RSO, but I have experienced being in an RSO that had become affiliates of the college of business. The RSO that I am a part of provides consulting services to start-up companies in virtually any industry, with the goal of providing solutions to business problems that bring results. The structure of the organization goes from the student leadership team, to partners who manage multiple projects, to project managers, to senior consultants, and finally consultants. When the RSO had become partners with the business school, the biggest difference was the availability of resources. The events had become higher quality, as well as budgets approved for team social events. The added benefit of higher quality events lead to better informed members, which meant higher quality of work and increased productivity when it came to deliverables. Social events also helped increase productivity since it helped out with positive relationships among ...

Arnold Harberger is a well known American economist who was born in 1924, and is still alive today at the age of 95 years old. He had received an undergraduate education at John Hopkins University and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He has taught as a professor at UCLA and has completed visiting professorships at Harvard, MIT, Princeton, and the University of Paris, but is most well known for his experience doing research and curating papers. One thing he is well known for are Harberger triangles, which are used to calculate the efficiency costs of things such as taxes, practices that resemble monopolies, regulations within the government, as well as other distortions within the market. He has also been a consultant for many corporations, government ministries, as well as international organizations. In 1997 he had been appointed as the president of the American Economic Association.  Sources:  http://www.econ.ucla.edu/harberger/ https://www.nber.org...