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    U.S. Department of Education

    Examine the Department of Education and describe and analysis whether the department is successful or not in the areas of: 1) Competitive advantage 2) Organizational Climate. Please include citations.

    Calculate the value of a share of IBM after stock dividends

    Market prices following a stock split or stock dividend. Assume that IBM is selling for $180 per share. IBM implements one of the following stock splits, and no other change in the value of the firm occurs. What is the value of one share for each of the following? a. An 8% stock dividend b. A 50% stock dividend

    DRTV spot for a product

    Please write a paper explaining the followings, (use specific examples of ideas and concepts to demonstrate application.) You have been asked to develop a DRTV campaign for a product. Choose a specific product in the market today for illustration. a. What would you want to know about the product before developing that

    Market Strategy Questions for REI Customer Survey

    Imagine that you are the REI outdoor apparel marketing manager for a particular product category, such as outdoor apparel. You would like to improve market share in this category relative to the competitor you have chosen such as Dicks Sporting Goods, Eastern Mountain Sports. What would you need to know about REI customers who a

    Business Strategy Decisions

    1.What decisions making behavior is need in business strategy? 2.The Business Model of my employer, 3. How is business strategy assessed?

    Which Regression Produces the Strongest Correlation Coefficient and Why?

    Prepare a 3-page report using Excel as your processing tool to process 3 simple regression analyses. Create a graph with the trend line displayed for each of the 3 different regressions. First run a regression analysis using the BENEFITS column of all data points in the AIU data set as the independent variable and the INTRINS

    Building Good Strategy Execution

    Using Google Scholar or access to EBSCO, InfoTRac, or other online database of journal articles do a search for recent writings on self-directed or empowered work teams (at least 3 articles-Provide Names of the Articles and their authors). According to the articles you found in the various management journals, what conditions fo

    This posting addresses product development for Shamroll Inc.

    Shamroll inc. is a household products firm that is considering developing a new detergent. In evaluating whether to go ahead with the new detergent project, which of the following statements is most correct? A) The company will produce the detergent in a building that they already own. The cost of the building is therefore ze

    Walmart Relevant Technology Challenges and Opportunities

    Identify the relevant technology challenges and opportunities that exist within the industry and company. What core skills could be enhanced or created that could give the company a distinct advantage, while also reducing the overall resource footprint of the company? How could the company innovate and reposition itself, or ev

    Your company has developed a new educational electronic game. Your target market is 4-6 year old children. What research methods would you use to test this product concept? Choose at least three methods that you believe will provide valuable information, and describe your research strategy.

    Your company has developed a new educational electronic game. Your target market is 4-6 year old children. What research methods would you use to test this product concept? Choose at least three methods that you believe will provide valuable information, and describe your research strategy.

    Growth Trajectory for Walmart

    How is Walmart going to bring products and services to a larger world and shift its way of thinking about global social and environmental issues? How can the company reach out to serve under-served populations? How can the company grow within a sustainable framework?

    Walmart Sustainability Relevant Issues

    Identify relevant issues with respect to how Walmart interacts with the larger stakeholder base. (You can, and should relate this analysis back to the discussions/concepts from enterprise-level strategy and stakeholder value frameworks). In what ways could your company change in order to enhance its perceived legitimacy in the

    determinants of demand

    What are the determinants of demand and what happens to the demand curve when each of these determinants change? What is the difference between a change in demand and a change in the quantity demanded?

    Quantitative Analysis: PERT/CPM Analysis

    A construction project is broken down into the following 10 activities: Activity Immediate Predecessor Time (Weeks) 1 -- 4 2 1 2 3 1 4 4 1 3 5 2, 3 5 6 3 6 7 4 2 8 5 3 9 6, 7 5 10 8, 9 7

    Sample Estimate: Example Problem

    A partner company to American Intellectual Union (AIU), Universal Credit Inc., would like to examine the required sample size needed to be able to estimate the mean dollars that each card holder will spend each month. It would like to be within plus or minus $50 of the true mean with a 95% confidence level. The standard deviatio

    Extending A/R terms to customers

    In this equation below I we formed peer questions for our weekly brainteasers please help us solve. You have a sole-proprietorship merchandising business dealing with photography equipments. The business was established three years back, and it had an average annual turnover of $50,000. However, over the last six months, the

    US GDP Growth Rate: Define recession, is US in recession, policy tools available

    I am looking for some assistance with a few questions. The link below was the selected source of research. U.S. GDP Growth Rate. Retrieved November 15, 2010 from: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/economics/gdp-growth.aspx?Symbol=USD You have been selected as an advisor to President Obama. How is a recession defined? Is the

    GE is introducing a 52-inch big screen, satellite-ready HDTV with a built-in DVD player, picture-in-picture, and a feature that allows the viewer to simultaneously view frozen frames of the last signals received over 50 channels. What strategic recommendations would you make to GE regarding the initial target market for the new big screen HDTV?

    GE is introducing a 52-inch big screen, satellite-ready HDTV with a built-in DVD player, picture-in-picture, and a feature that allows the viewer to simultaneously view frozen frames of the last signals received over 50 channels. What strategic recommendations would you make to GE regarding the initial target market for the new

    Finding a Nash Equilibrium

    Assume two competitors, American International Group (AIG), Inc., and Axa, SA., are locked in a bitter pricing struggle in the reinsurance business. In the pricing payoff matrix, AIG can choose a given row of outcomes by offering a limit price ("up") or monopoly price ("down"). Axa can choose a given column of outcomes by choosi

    McDonald's Key Strategic Objectives

    Establish and define McDonald's (fast food restaurant) key strategic objectives and explain how quality, as a core principle, can help to achieve these objectives.

    Famous Albert prides himself on being the Cookie King of the West. Small, freshly baked cookies are the speciality of his shop. Famous Albert has asked for help to determine the number of cookies he should make each day. From an analysis of past demand he estimated demand for cookies as... Each dozen sells for $0.69 and costs $0.49, which includes handling and transportation. Cookies that are not sold at the end of the day are reduced to $0.29 and sold the following day as day-old merchandise. a. Construct a table showing the profits or losses for each possible quantity. b. What is the optimal number of cookies to make? c. Solve this problem by using marginal analysis.

    Famous Albert prides himself on being the Cookie King of the West. Small, freshly baked cookies are the speciality of his shop. Famous Albert has asked for help to determine the number of cookies he should make each day. From an analysis of past demand he estimated demand for cookies as DEMAND (dozen) Probability of Demand 1

    Operation management outline

    Research in operation management about General Electric Company. Discuss: -introduction -Brief description and history of the company -Strategic objectives and operation /process of the company -operation/process design -utilization of technology -planning and control of the operation/process -improvement ,failure an

    Social facilitation, Latan, Ringelmann effect, social loafing, group decisions

    Q: Using the studies of social facilitation make recommendations regarding how best to structure both simple and complicated tasks. Q: Describe the methods used and results obtained by Latan and his colleagues in their study of groups, pseudogroups, and social loafing. Q: You are the manager of a large group of people

    Trend lines and forecasts

    1. Data collected on the yearly demand for 50-pound bags of fertilizer at Wallace Garden Supply are shown in the following table. Develop a three-year moving average to forecast sales. Then estimate demand again with a weighted moving average in which sales in the most recent year are given a weight of 2 and sales in the other

    Operation Management

    Ski Boards, Inc., wants to enter the market quickly with a new finish on its ski boards. It has three choices: (a) refurbish the old equipment at a cost of $800, (b) make major modifications at the cost of $1,100, or (c) purchase new equipment at a net cost of $1,800. If the firm chooses to refurbish the equipment, materials and

    Value, main aspects, integration & effectiveness of internships

    Assume I am an intern such as a business assistant in a company while I am in school. I need to prepare a journal as below: 4 Questions: 1. Write a report about definition of internship and its values. 2. Write a report about the main aspects of the internship as a vehicle of learning in your job. You will look at your