Background             The following conversation takes place in the future, with one of the most reputed founders of the American republic, James Madison Jnr. He not only served as the fourth president of the United States but also played an impeccable role in the drafting of the constitution, bringing amendments to it and conceptualizing the Bill of Rights. Together with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, […]

Typically, organizations work on their missions to identify various overall goals, which must be attained to accomplish the task. Each of these goals represents programs, which must be evaluated to assess if they are working, their effectiveness, and if necessary devise ways to improve them to make them better for the individuals they serve. Program evaluation encourages organizations to examine the operations of programs, the […]

Growth Mindset Essentially, the way students perceive their abilities play a significant role in their motivation and achievement. According to Dweck (2015), when students change their mindsets, it boosts their performance. In particular, for learners who believe that their intelligence is not stagnant and have a growth mindset, Dweck notes that they always performed better than their counterparts who thought their intelligence is fixed. As […]

Project evaluation is a participatory process where different levels of participators play various roles in ensuring successful project analysis outcome as well as oversee the decision-making process based on the evaluated findings (Young, 2013). Nonetheless, participation levels are not equal for everyone associated with the process. Rather, they differ depending on the degree of a stakeholder’s direct or indirect involvement. Similarly and as Patton (2008) […]

Blockbuster is a good example of an organization that failed due to lack of innovation. Blockbuster was established in 1985 and was known as the largest DVD rental company. The company had an intense customer loyalty and vast high street presence, meaning that it had become a household name. During that period, Blockbuster commanded lots of resources and was thereby thought that it would be […]

Introduction Change management has gained traction in contemporary businesses with the objective of preparing organizations for change, equipping their employees and building their capacity for change processes and eventually improving organizational outcomes. The practices of change management have become necessary due to the inevitability of change that has left organizations with the option of either capitalizing on it to unlock new opportunities or losing their […]

Essentially, program evaluators are individuals with diverse interests and the potential to embrace the evaluation of programs, services, products, technology, research, theory, and evaluation among others. According to Piccioto (2011), the disposition of programs evaluators is to work in the interests of the public and alongside the profession comes several distinguishing characteristics, professional principles, and standards. Ideally, when these particular standards and principles are employed, […]

Capital Budgeting: Risk Analysis and Discounted Cash Flows When carrying out capital budgeting analysis, a company must consider the various risks involved in the process such as investing shareholder funds into risky projects, collapsing of the investee company, extended periods with no payments of cash flows and so forth. Risk incorporation in capital budgeting minimizes these possibilities and can be achieved through payback period. This […]

Over the past decade, health care has been changing and with it comes along the ever-increasing medical costs that are affecting nearly all patients. Both the insured and uninsured individuals are facing prohibitive medical costs, with some being unable to finance their care. Even those covered with exceptional insurance premiums are faced with accelerating premiums and increased out-of-pocket expenses. At the middle of this, patients […]

Every year, more than 7.9 million children are born with a severe birth defect that is as a result of genetic contribution. According to Gyngell (2015), if these errors can be easily and corrected safely at the embryonic stage, then it is possible to eliminate the diseases. In essence, the ability to manipulate genes and the knowledge gained from the studies can be applied in […]