Ethan Hathaway Recently Graduated from an East Coast University and Has

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Multiple Choice

Ethan Hathaway recently graduated from an East Coast university and has joined a small start-up based in New York City. One of his first assignments is to work collaboratively with other members of the marketing team to draft the marketing plan for the next fiscal year. Ethan is highly skilled in conducting secondary research and, as an alumnus of his university, he continues to have complimentary access to the university's library resources. He's now realizing how important data analysis is to firms and is glad he took a marketing research course. Ethan is utilizing the library resources to uncover information about a variety of external factors that could provide opportunities or threats and is exploring such factors as competitive, economic, political, legal, regulatory, technological, and sociocultural. Which section of the marketing plan would be most appropriate for the information that Ethan is obtaining through secondary market research?

• A)Environmental analysis
• B)Executive summary
• C)Marketing objectives
• D)SWOT analysis

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Social Work Practice

A professional field that focuses on helping individuals, families, groups, and communities to enhance their collective well-being and social functioning.

Procedural Justice

The concept of fairness in the processes that resolve disputes and allocate resources, focusing on the transparency and neutrality of the processes involved.

Welfare of Individuals

The overall health, happiness, and well-being of a person.

Empirically Based Practice

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