Challenging Business Problems with Detailed Answers

Using an employee's manager for feedback is very useful because their own success depends so much on their employees' performance. t/f
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the purpose of supply chain design is to shape a firm's supply chain to meet the competitive priorities of its operations strategies. t/f
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ompany that needs its ads to be highly impactful with extensive reach, and is not concerned about cost, should likely use ____.Group of answer choicesO magazinesO televisionO outdoor advertisingO radioO newspapers
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Which of the CSR stages assumes no relations to core business?O Corporate citizenO Social MarketingO PhilanthropyO None of the above
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look at the below discription pages for two different companies. Based on P/E and dividend yield data alone, which of the following is most likely true about the nature of these stocks?
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An investor purchases a stock for $42 and a put for $0.70 with a strike price of $38. The investor sells a call for $0.70 with a strike price of $48. What is the maximum profit and loss for this position? (Loss amount should be indicated by a minus sign.) Maximum prolit Maximum loss
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A recent study conducted by the University of Nevada revealed that cyberloafing (wasting time online) costs U.S. businesses more than _____ annually.$25 billion$65 billion$85 billion$45 billionAnswer: $85 billion
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When I watch the new commercial for Cinnamon Toast crunch, I am often left wondering why they would choose such an odd strategy to promote their cereal, this instance, I have:A. Correctly encoded the message.B. Created a longer than normal communication channelC. Improperly decoded the messageD. Had no feedbackE. improperly encoded the message.
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the acquisition of rights to affiliate or directly associate with a product or event for the purpose of deriving benefits related to that affiliation or association.Sponsorship
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T/FEffective sourcing processes within a firm can improve profits for the firm and total supply chain surplus in a variety of ways.True
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A firm's decision to employ workers will affect the wage rate paid to those workers, because if a firm is ______, it will pay higher wages to attract labor away from other employment or from leisure.large in relation to the size of the labor market
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which of the following is an example of a negative externality? group of answer choices bae's company has a decrease in profits when the demand for its product falls. rita gains weight while she is on vacation because she eats more than normal. when fazio parks his big truck at the grocery store, people in the cars on each side of his parking space have a hard time opening their car doors. raul loses weight because he wants to feel better, but the weight loss means that he needs new clothes.
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Openlane and Yearin Technologies have together invested and created a new organization, Globex Corporation, to focus on developing diagnostic devices. Through this new firm, both companies are attempting to combine their core competencies to innovate and reduce their risks associated with transaction-specific investments. However, the new organization operates independent of Openlane and Yearin Technologies. Which of the following alternatives to integration does this scenario best illustrate? a licensing contract a franchisee a joint venture a corporate acquisition
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a researcher studying small town religiosity in the united states randomly selected 10 states. from these states, he randomly selected one tenth of all counties. from these counties, he randomly selected one tenth of cities with populations smaller than 10,000. from these towns, he obtained lists of all houses of worship and randomly selected three. from these, he selected ten practitioners to be interviewed. in this example, states and counties are examples of _____.
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Stanton Inc. is considering the purchase of a new machine, which will reduce manufacturing costs by $5,000 annually and increase earnings before depreciation and taxes by $6,000 annually. Stanton will use the MACRS method to depreciate the machine, and it has estimated the depreciation expense for the first year as $8,000. Which of the following is the supplemental operating cash flow for the first year if Stanton's marginal tax rate is 40 percent?a.$40,000b.$15,000c.$9,800d.$4,500e.$23,000
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(a) as(p100) (b) as(p125) (c) as(p75) p q p q p q 125 $ 560 125 $ 500 125 $ 620 100 500 100 440 100 560 75 440 75 380 75 500 suppose the full employment level of real output (q) for a hypothetical economy is $500, the price level (p) initially is 100, and prices and wages are flexible both upward and downward. refer to the accompanying short-run aggregate supply schedules. in the long run, a fall in the price level from 100 to 75 will
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Jack has a small retail business. He had a custom application developed for his inventory tracking. All of Jack's company computers have an operating system on them that will soon reach end of life because a newer version was released two years ago.Jack is afraid that his custom inventory application won't be compatible with the new version of the operating system.Which of the following is a risk that Jack is taking if he continues to use the operating system after its end of life?a. The custom application may no longer be compatible. b. The OS will become increasing vulnerable to cyberattacks.c. He may lose some of the OS's features that he relies on.d. He may lose sales during the migration process.
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oriental corporation has gathered the following data on a proposed investment project: investment in depreciable equipment $ 690,000 annual net cash flows $ 76,000 life of the equipment 16 years salvage value $ 0 discount rate 6% the company uses straight-line depreciation on all equipment. assume cash flows occur uniformly throughout a year except for the initial investment. the payback period for the investment would be: (round your answer to 1 decimal place.)
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clara barnett, a fixed income analyst, wishes to assign a value to an illiquid bond issued by celadon ceramics. the semiannual coupon bond has a coupon rate of 7.50% and exactly 3 years until maturity. barnett has identified two comparable bonds with recent transaction data: comparable bond maturity yield to maturity a 2 years 6.87% b 5 years 7.19% using matrix pricing, the value of the celadon bond per 100 of par value is closest to: group of answer choices 99.57. 101.39. 101.15.
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a company is evaluating 3 possible investments. each uses straight-line depreciation. see data below: project a project b project c investment $400,000 $20,000 $100,000 salvage value $0 $2,000 $5,000 net cash flows: year 1 $100,000 $10,000 $40,000 year 2 $100,000 $8,000 $25,000 year 3 $100,000 $5,000 $30,000 year 4 $100,000 $3,000 $10,000 year 5 $100,000 $0 $0
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Actual GDP in a country is estimated to be 10 percent below potential GDP. Prices are virtually unchanged from one year ago. Unemployment is 12 percent of the civilian work force, much higher than it has been in many years. Which of the following policies would be the most appropriate for improving these economic conditions?A) reductions in the federal debtB) decreases in interest rates by the central bankC) increases in personal and income taxesD) increases in reserve requirements on deposits at commercial banks to protect depositors
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a recent hurricane destroys half the orange crop. assuming that the demand for oranges is relatively inelastic the short-run impact of this change in economic circumstance would be to: group of answer choices decrease the demand for oranges. increase the demand of oranges. increase the price of oranges thus decreasing the total spending by consumers on oranges. increase the price of oranges thus increasing the total revenue received by orange growers.
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Suppose the total monetary value of all final goods and services produced in a particular country during 2010 is $600 billion, and the total monetary value of final goods and services sold is $450 billion. We can conclude that ___. real GDP in 2010 is $450 billion nominal GDP in 2010 is $600 billion inventories in 2010 fell by $50 billion nominal GDP in 2010 is $500 billion
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Destiny has three employees whose work habits she struggles to understand. Spencer likes to come in at noon and work until late in the evening. Lydia comes in early, creates a task list for the day, and only works on what is on the list. Miranda flits in and out of others' cubicles, and seems to always be off task, but when asked for a report, she has it handy. By applying the behavioral viewpoint, Destiny will be better able to Multiple Choice create, acquire, and transfer knowledge keep employees focused on achieving goals. make continuous improvements. create cross-functional synergy
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