8 – 23 MERRILL FINCH INC. RISK AND RETURN a. (1) Why is T-bill’s return independent of the state of the economy? Do T-bill’s promise a completely risk-free return? Explain (2) Why are High Tech’s returns expected to move with the economy‚ whereas‚ Collections’ are expected to move counter to the economy? 1. The 5.5% T-bill return does not depend on the state of the economy because the Treasury must redeem the bills at par regardless of the state of the economy; therefore‚ T-bills are
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Report: Profile of Yahoo! Inc Student name: Undral Erdenebayar Student number: 200901320 Module: FC088 Introduction to Business Tutor: Andrew Nummey Submission date: November 19‚ 2012 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Part1: Jerry Yang‚ entrepreneur and co-founder of Yahoo! 3 Part2: Yahoo! Inc 4 Marketing Mix 4 Organizational Culture 6 Motivation 7 Conclusion 7 References 8 Introduction During dot-com boom in Silicon Valley‚ many companies wiped out‚ but some of the remaining
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Elektra Product Inc. I. Case problem Elektra Product Inc facing a crisis in the company since their market share was declining among the competition‚ limited idea to create new innovative products‚ lack of communication between the department and all of sudden most of the workers feel uncertain about their future in the company. Lack of leadership and management causing many problems inside the company and reflected to the company profit in the last few years. At the moment company realize
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Case study 3.1: HY DAIRIES‚ INC. 1. Apply your knowledge of stereotyping and social identity theory to explain what went wrong here. Stereotyping is the process of assigning traits to people on the basis of their membership in a social category. Stereotypes generally have some inaccuracies‚ some overestimation or underestimation of real differences‚ and some degree of accuracy. One problem with stereotyping is that stereotypes under certain conditions‚ such as the degree to which
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step is to define system specifications. PSI should identify the features that can be done through the website which comprises of the ordering features for the goods sold by the company. PSI should also specify business requirements which are as follows: customer may change or cancel their order one week from the required delivery date of the equipment after which the order is said to be final‚ the allowed mode of payments will also be identified‚ the maximum and minimum orders needed for a certain
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Toy World‚ Inc. is a fairly healthy toy manufacturing business that is looking at a cross roads in it ’s main operating procedure. Jack McClintock is President and partial owner of Toy World. His new production manager‚ Dan Hoffman‚ has been on the job through one business cycle (about one year). This toy business is a seasonal business with most of the sales coming between August and December. Since its inception Toy World has followed a seasonal production schedule to match customer demand
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Allison Armentrout Response 2 17 Sept 2013 Did You Know? Is it hard to believe that there is a battle going on about food before it goes to the store? Or even before it goes to the processing plant? Which is also involved. Well after watching Food Inc.‚ that was narrated by Michael Pollen‚ you will find out how that burger started‚ from the industrial farm to the processing plant to the restaurant and supermarket. From the way the cow‚ chicken‚ and pig is raised‚ fed‚ and housed. To how the condition
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Team of Pleasure Craft INC. From: Group A+ Subject: Expanding Production Date: September 29‚ 2010 Since beginning 40 years ago‚ Pleasure Craft INC. has been successful in both the domestic and international marketplace. Currently producing two products‚ snowmobiles and personal watercraft‚ both of which have become mature markets and thus giving little room to grow‚ two options have been determined to further the growth of Pleasure Craft INC.. First being to start production
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PANCAKE HOUSE‚ INC. I. BACKGROUND Pancake House‚ Inc. is the largest‚ homegrown casual dining business in the Philippines. It engages in the acquisition‚ development‚ management‚ and franchising of the Company’s restaurants under numerous institutional and established brands. Over the years‚ the Company has acquired and developed restaurant brands that have manifested the potential to grow. Subsequently‚ these brands grew to establish their loyal customer bases with increasing repeat transactions
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Caselet 1: Elektra Products‚ Inc. Questions: 1. How might top management have done better job changing Elektra products into a new kind of organization? What might they do now to get the empowerment process back on track? The top management of Elektra Products‚ Inc. introduces a new era of involvement and empowerment in their organization. They only assigned selected managers to work on several problem-solving teams to come up on ideas on how to implement empowerment campaign. With this
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