GMAC Gregg Schoenfeld ® Work-Life Balance: An MBA Alumni Report GMAC ® Research Reports • RR-05-09 • October 13‚ 2005 Introduction The issue of work-life balance has permeated the business community for decades (Carruthers‚ 2005; Spinks‚ 2004; Parsons‚ 2002)‚ and companies have responded with work-life programs to address the issues raised by their employees (Roberts‚ 2005). MBA students‚ as current and future members of the business community‚ are also aware of the issue. According to
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London Games gives Singapore hoteliers a boost Singapore based hoteliers are doing brisk business in London‚ for the period of the upcoming London Olympic Games. This article was published on 25 June‚ 2012 written by Yasmine Yahya on The Straits Times newspaper. Which 95% of the rooms of The Ascott‚ Millennium & Copthorne Hotels (M&C) and Frasers Hospitality were booked. The games had actually started on 27 July‚ 2012. In addition‚ GuocoLeisure will also have benefit like for example 5
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Supply and Demand Shopping for a personal computer these days involves more than comparing hard drive size‚ physical memory‚ and price. A couple of years ago‚ when I was in the market for a new computer‚ I knew I wanted a laptop‚ and that’s about all I knew. I researched the internet looking for the type of laptop I would need as an adult online student. The details I needed to consider were use‚ size‚ weight‚ battery life‚ warranty‚ and operating system. This was at the time when tablet computers
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public does not directly hold any cash. Also‚ suppose all banks hold excess reserves equal to 4% of deposits and the required reserve ratio is 5%. a. (5 pts.) Calculate the money multiplier. b. (5 pts.) What is the total money supply (or money stock)? c. (10 pts.) Bank of America (BOA) has $300 million in deposits and $10 million in net worth. Draw a balance sheet for BOA. Now suppose that all banks in the economy decide to reduce excess reserves to just 1%. d
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is defined as the process of determining the needs and wants of consumers and being able to deliver products that satisfy those needs and wants‚ through an exchange process. A demand is a want for which the consumer is prepared to pay a price. A want is anything or service the consumer desires or seeks. Wants become demands when backed by purchasing power. A need is anything the consumer feels to keep himself alive and healthy. A transaction consists of a value between two parties. Marketing is
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the three methods used to calculate it. National Income is the aggregate money value of goods and services produced by the factors of production over a given period of time in a country. It is the annual report and as a result it is referred as the real income‚ that is‚ income measured in terms of goods and services. When there is income generated it is the result of output being produced and the output will be purchased from the expenditures of both private and public sectors. In other words the
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1. Suppose there are 100 consumers with identical individual demand curves. When the price of a movie ticket is $8‚ the quantity demanded for each person is 5. When the price is $4‚ the quantity demanded for each person is 9. Assuming the law of demand holds‚ which of the following choices is the most likely quantity demanded in the market when the price is $6? Explain and show calculations‚ While the question asks of the choices given what the quantity demanded will be‚ there are no choices
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exchange rates are determined 2. The scarcity principle implies that A. people will never be satisfied with what they have B. as wealth increases‚ making choices becomes less necessary C. the prices of scarce goods must rise due to excess demand D. choices must be made and tradeoffs will occur 3. The ’no-free-lunch’ principle is another name for the A. cost-benefit principle B. the scarcity principle C. the ceteris paribus principle D. the marginal (not average) principle
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rate of 3%? Answer: P = $40/(0.05 - 0.03) = $40/0.02 = $2‚000 Topic 2: Supply and Demand 1) Suppose that the demand for oranges increase. Explain the long -run effects of the guiding function of price in this scenario. Answer: In the long run‚ the higher price of oranges will signal more firms to enter the orange market‚ as it will seem more profitable than some other markets. As firms enter‚ supply increases‚ causing the price to fall relative to the short-run price and quantity
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Examples 6.3‚ 6.4‚ and 6.5 (page 338) – Large Sample Hypothesis Test of a Mean Example 6.3 A manufacturer of cereal wants to test the performance of one of its filling machines. The machine is designed to discharge a mean amount of 12 ounces per box‚ and the manufacturer wants to detect any departure from this setting. This quality study calls for randomly sampling 100 boxes from today’s production run and determining whether the mean fill for the run is 12 ounces per box. Set up a test of
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