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An Opportunity to Learn and Earn Researching, Selecting Material, Organizing, & Writing Topic: Walmart’s failure to establish stores in New York City. Implications for small business, social, economic, and political environment. Implications for Walmart. Select any article related to this situation. Sources of articles: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, Business Week, Harvard Business Review, Economic Times, etc. Topics: General management and decision making. Dealing with local small businesses, political leaders, and government. Implications for consumers. Cost of Walmart’s failure. Assignment: Individual (voluntary) assignment (not a team project). Summarize the article; length of summary: 2.5 to 3 pages (excluding title page); double spacing (between the headings, between the lines); 1’ margin all around. it must be typewritten; no exhibits, tables, or charts; just the text. Date due: November 11, 2015. Extra credit: Worth 4 questions credit (10 points). Guidelines for summarizing: Prepare a Title page: Follow the format for preparing the title page as presented on the next page. Provide page numbers on the top. First text page: Repeat the article title and your name at the top. State the purpose of the article (3-4 lines; it is the original author’s purpose). Each page should have 2-3 paragraphs; each paragraph should have a heading. Headings help in organizing material; avoiding repetition, etc. Last text page, last paragraph (3-6 lines): Write down what did you learn from the operations of the company; from the way you were asked to summarize this article; any suggestions you may have for the original author; and any suggestions you may have for me for such future assignments for extra credit.  (sample) Walmart Failure in Opening New Stores in New York1 A summary of the Article Prepared by (student’s name) MGT 315-CRN Fall 2015 For extra credit assignment Presented to Prof. Narendra C. Bhandari, Ph.D. Pace University New York, NY 10038 November, 2015 (Sample) (Sample) Table of Contents Item Page No. Heading 1 1 Heading 2 1 Heading 3 1 Heading 4 2 Heading 5 2 Heading 6 2 Heading 7 3 Heading 8 3 Heading 9 3 Notes 1. For CRN, you should write your course’s CRN number. 2. For the headings in the above Table of Contents, you should reproduce the headings you have used in the article with their corresponding page numbers.