Essays on Blooms

Problem: Hope Blooms is an organization that sells dressings from products grown in their own garden. Once the company developed a registered charity, the main focus of the organization shifted towards earning enough to build their charity and invest in a low-income neighborhood. Hope Blooms has a new distribution deal with a local grocery chain, which increased profits, but since the stores keep selling out the growth of the company is being stifled. Other problems facing Hope Blooms was finding a way to provide stable employment for their youth members, and the need to increase their profits to continue ...

The deterioration in political and economic environment in Brazil is a cause of worry as the portfolio holds 10% of Brazilian bonds denominated in USD. If the situation degrades further, it could result in increased credit risk due of two types, either due to downgrade of credit rating by the credit rating agencies or default on the payment. Either of the situations would lead to decline in value of the bonds and affect the whole portfolio. A downgrade in bond rating would lead to increase in the yield, resulting in decline in bond value. On the other hand, there ...

The issues faced by the Indian River Lagoon is quite similar to that of many rivers, lakes, and even oceans from various locations of the world. The steady decline in the marine population of the lagoon escalated to alarming rates by the end of the last decade. A few legislations that were passed in the early nineties to limit trawling in the estuarine region and as well as the direct dumping of untreated sewage wastes, had proved effective in the past. But later into the decade, the rescue efforts to salvage the lagoon and the ecosystem associated with it, ...