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    QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS and Decision Tables

    ALLEN YOUNG HAS ALWAYS BEEN PROUD OF HIS PERSONAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES AND HAS DONE VERY WELL OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS. HE INVESTS PRIMARILY IN THE STOCK MARKET. OVER THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS, HOWEVER ALLEN HAS NOT DONE WELL IN HIS INVESTMENTS. IN SOME CASES IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER FOR ALLEN TO HAVE HIS MONEY IN THE BANK TH

    Critical Thinking Techniques

    Can you give examples of how or when your training in critical thinking techniques has impacted your decision making process at work or in your personal life?

    Strategic thinking used to manage change

    How can strategic thinking be used to manage organizational change that results from changes in the organization's operating, industry, and remote environments?

    Foundations of Microeconomics: Consumers and Firms and Opportunity Cost

    We make choices as consumers every day. Opportunity cost is defined as a person's "next best alternative" or "the cost of what you give up when you make a choice." Think of a recent decision you made regarding your career. What was your opportunity cost for making that choice? What was your "next best alternative"?

    Business Management Need References for Scenario Analysis

    Scenario: Operations deals with how the company is performing. Operations may be refined into different manufacturing processes such as design, material acquisition, assembly, testing and so on. A VP of operations has asked you to make a presentation at the weekly status meeting on how to improve the efficiency and effectiv

    Business Operations Management - Markland Manufacturing

    1) Markland Manufacturing intends to increase capacity by overcoming a bottleneck operation by adding new equipment. Two vendors have presented proposals. The fixed costs for proposal A are $50,000, and for proposal B, $70,000. The variable cost for A is $12.00, and for B, $10.00. The revenue generated by each unit is $20.00

    Business Operations Management

    The three blood banks in Franklin County are coordinated through a central office that facilitates blood delivery to four hospitals in the region. The cost to ship a standard container of blood from each bank to each hospital is shown in the table below. Also given are the biweekly number of containers available at each bank a

    Key elements on conducting business presentations

    Wordplay Greeting Cards has retained your firm for one last project. Specifically, they would like you to create the materials and presentation for the results of your research (the research you summarized in the Unit 5 Individual Project) and present this to four separate groups as follows: *Corporate Office *Region Offic

    How did literature change in the 20th century?

    How did the more dynamic and complex view of the universe affect the literature, art, and composition of the early twentieth century? How did literature change from previous eras in the 20th century?

    Linear program

    Consider the following linear programming problem: Min x1 + 2x2 s.t. x1 + 4x2 ≤ 21 2x1 + x2 ≥ 7

    Annual Benefits Review

    Scenario: You are the Director of Compensation and Benefits for Lansing-Smith Corporation, a 6-month old sales and service organization that currently has a workforce of 150 employees. You recently joined the organization when the Vice President of Operations decided to move the Compensation and Benefits function out of the Acc

    Benefits of distance learning presentation

    Write an outline for a presentation on the benefits of distance learning from a student's perspective. The audience will be students and teachers with very little computer experience and may be somewhat fearful of the idea. Make sure to tailor the presentation outline with this audience in mind.

    OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES

    Operations Management Principles At the monthly meeting, one of your coworkers stated that "Using the right analysis tool will compensate for inexperienced managers." How would you reply to your coworker? Consider the following items in your discussion: 1. Do the tools help only in certain situations such as routine, da

    Average time spent in the waiting line.

    Problem 2 During registration at a university, students have their courses approved by the adviser. It takes the adviser an average of 2.8 minutes (exponentially distributed) to approve each schedule, and students arrive at the adviser's office at the rate of 20 per hour (Poisson distributed). You are required to answer the f

    Strategic initiative

    When working in the area of strategic management, you will often be asked to look at what appears to be a strategic initiative on the part of another company and speculate as to what the strategy behind the initiative really is. In other words, what is the company really trying to do and why? You will find that you have to use y

    The Exley Chemical Company Case

    Read The Exley Chemical Company Case in Chapter 11 of your text. (SEE ATTACHED) You are to act as an OD consulting team who has landed the Exley Chemical Company as a client. Collaborate on creating a case analysis using the Case Analysis Format as it appears on page 342 of your text. (SEE ATTACHED) You can add additional space

    Performance Appraisal Programs

    SCENARIO: You are the Director of Compensation and Benefits for Lansing-Smith Corporation, a 6-month old sales and service organization that currently has a workforce of 150 employees. You recently joined the organization when the Vice President of Operations decided to move the Compensation and Benefits function out of the Acc

    FTC and Price Fixing Case Example

    The organization you work for is under investigation for price fixing. You have been asked by your manager to gather some information on recent price fixing cases to help your company defend itself. Visit the website for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to get the facts on the most recent price fixing cases. Click on the Sea

    Communications through a business letter

    Writing a business letter about a high priced item that is rather complicated like a stove or stereo or a vacation in Europe, to the company or organization that's offering it and ask four questions that is important to you. Be sure to include enough background information, so the reader can answer your questions satisfactory.

    Case analysis of Luchetti

    Apply underlying theory to write a case analysis about Lucchetti, including recommendations in the report Lucchetti pp 171-183 Strategic Management 7th edition by Hill/Ireland Conclusions ? Businessmen in Peru tend to make decisions based more on business objectives rather than on ethical issues. ? Str

    Effective Presentation Skills for Various Audiences

    Imagine you have been asked to make FOUR presentations on "Effective Presentation Skills" for FOUR very different audiences. What would be your presentation objective for each group? Write a 1-sentence objective statement (also known as "purpose statement") for each of the following audiences (refer to page 15 of the Munter a