1. Do you believe that an “identifying characteristic” should be protected by the tort of misappropriation, or do you believe that society has gone too far in recognizing property rights? A First Amendment exception exists for comedians who engage in satire and comedy (think of Saturday Night Live’s impersonations of the Trump-Clinton debates during the 2016 presidential campaign, for example). Does it make sense to you that comedians can make money through misappropriation, but other businesses cannot?

Tommy Teenager (TT) is an enthusiastic, new employee at a local grocery store, Food Fetch (FF). His boss is Mary Manager (MM). One day, while accepting a shipment of food from Dandy Distributor (DD), Mary tells the DD driver about TT. She exclaims in front of TT what a great job he is doing, and that she would not be surprised if he ended up running the place someday. One very busy Saturday, before a blizzard is forecast to hit the area, TT is the backroom working when DD pulls up with a delivery. DD is in a hurry to get unloaded and get on the road to beat the weather, and DD remembers what MM told him when he sees TT; DD asks TT to sign for the shipment. TT does not have any idea what he is doing. Still, he realizes how rushed MM is and how FF is running low on groceries on this busy, snowy Saturday. TT just wants to help, and signs for the shipment. TT puts the invoice on MM’s desk but forgets to tell her about it. Three months later, DD calls MM to ask when she is going to pay for the shipment. MM knew nothing about TT signing for it and did not see the invoice on her messy desk.

Respond as : explain why FF might be liable to pay.

Explain how numbers are sorted in consecutive numbering, terminal-digit numbering, and middle-digit numbering

Read the case study - "Do you really think we are so stupid?" A letter to the CEO of Deutsche Telekom (A)"

1. What are the major challenges at Deutsche Telekom and what is critical for its survival and future success?
2. What do the think the customers, general public, investors, and employees thought of the leaked letter?
3. Put yourselves in the shoes of a middle manager who is witnessing employees discussing the letter during the hours that they should be working. How would you handle that?

Discuss how the Metro-E can contribute with respects to both the POS and the company’s telephone systems for an inventory manager. Suggest ONE advantage for the POS and ONE advantage for the phones in perspective for an inventory manager.

Considering a macro project that aims to break down oxygen and water from the moon crest and bring the same to the earth surface along with focusing on creating a livable space station in moon for refueling the spaceships travelling from earth to moon & back to earth, Explain in detail

a) what could be some of the best marketing plan and

b) public relations strategies for the project

List and describe strategies for maintaining good governance practices at the project level and organizational level.

What are the potential impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic on engineering projects?

Four economic classifications of mergers are (1) horizontal, (2) vertical, (3) conglomerate, and (4) congeneric. Explain the significance of these terms in merger analysis with regard to (a) the likelihood of governmental intervention and (b) possibilities for operating synergy. Use a practical example for illustrative purposes.

Question 1:

You are the Inventory Manager. Being in this post, answer the following:

a) Discuss how the Metro-E can contribute with respects to both the POS and the company’s telephone systems.

b) Suggest ONE advantage for the POS and ONE advantage for the phones in the Inventory Department.

c) Request information from TWO other departments that could assist in your investigation. Please specify both the TYPE, and specific CONTENTS of the report you are requesting.

Question 1 (6pts)

Auto Clean, a full-service car wash company, is conducting a survey to address the following research objectives:

Objective 1. Assess the customer perceptions and evaluations of Auto Clean’s services.

Objective 2. Assess the effectiveness of Auto Clean’s promotional expenditures.

Objective 3. Identify demographic characteristics of Auto Clean’s customers.

Objective 4. Identify other relevant characteristics of Auto Clean’s customers.

This is the questionnaire they used for this research:

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To help us serve you better, please take a few minutes to fill out this short questionnaire. Thank you for your help.

1. How often do you usually have your car washed?

__ Less than once a month

__ Once a month

__ Two times a month

__ Three times a month

__ Four or more times a month

2. How often do you usually have your car waxed?

__ Less than once a month

__ Once a month

__ Two times a month

__ Three times a month

__ Four or more times a month

3. How often do you usually wash and/or wax your car by yourself?

__ Less than once a month

__ Once a month

__ Two times a month

__ Three times a month

__ Four or more times a month

4. How long has it been since you last brought your car to Auto Clean?

__ Less than a week

__ One to less than two weeks

__ Two to less than three weeks

__ Three to less than four weeks

__ Four weeks or more

5. How far from Auto Clean do you live?

__ Less than a km

__ One to less than three kms

__ Three to less than five kms

__ Five kms or more

6. In the past three months, have you used any car wash other than Auto Clean?

__ Yes                    __ No

7. How long are you willing to wait to have your car professionally washed/waxed? ________min
8. Indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with the following statements about Auto Clean. For each statement, circle “1” if you strongly disagree and “7” if you strongly agree, or another appropriate number in between if your feeling are less strong.

9. What is your age? _______
10. What is your income? ___________$
11. What social network platforms do you use the most? ___________________________

Thank you very much!

Read the questionnaire above and answer the following questions:

1. Which questions in the questionnaire address each of Auto Clean’s research objectives (1 pts)? Indicate your answers in the table below.

2. Which question(s) in the questionnaire do(es) not address fully or do(es) in an appropriate way a specific research objective? For each of these questions, explain why and how you propose to solve this problem. (2 pts).

Indicate your answers in the table below.

3. Identify all other problems related to Auto Clean’s questionnaire’s design. Propose ways to solve each problem. For example, when the problem relates to a specific question wording, please propose a revised question. (3 pts).

Indicate your answers in the table below (add as many rows as necessary).

In readings and lectures from Ch. 5 & 7 we discussed leadership theories and key methods and factors in decision making. Choose two of today’s leaders and compare and contrast their two different and unique leadership styles. Be sure to discuss the theories of each style as well as the utility and limitations of how these influence people and the way decisions are made.

Where in your own experience do you see these approaches to leadership utilized? To what extent do you see these two theories as being appropriate/not appropriate for your own leadership philosophy? Why or why not?

You are trying to decide on the best mode of transportation for your company. You want to balance the cost of faster transportation with holding more inventory. This is because the amount of inventory you must hold is a function of lead time.

It costs $15 per unit per year to hold a product in inventory. The forecasted demand for this product is 10,000 units per year. The total amount of inventory is made up of two types of inventory: safety stock and in-transit. Calculations for determining the average amount of inventory for each type are given below.

Safety Stock Cost = 2 x Average Demand during Lead Time * Holding Cost per Unit per Year

In-Transit Inventory Cost = Total Annual Demand x (Lead Time / 365) * Holding Cost per Unit per Year

Total Cost = Safety Stock Cost + In-Transit Inventory Cost + Transportation Cost

The following is data related to your transportation options.

1. Build a spreadsheet model that calculates the total cost of transportation for Air, Truck, and Rail transportation. Based on your total cost calculations, what mode of transportation would you recommend? What is the total cost of your recommendation?

2. How much would the cost per unit of the other two modes have to change in order to make you change your recommendation?

3. What would the lead time of Rail have to change to in order to make it the best option?

4. Use a one-way data table to show how the total cost of Air transportation changes as demand varies between 2,000 to 20,000 units. For what demand levels is it better to recommend Air transportation over your recommendation to Problem #1?

5. Create a two-way data table showing the total costs at varying levels of transportation cost per unit and lead time for Truck transportation. What does this tell you?
   

6. How does changing the holding cost affect your recommendation to Problem #1?

7. You run a regression and find that your demand actually appears to be related to lead time according to the following equation:

Demand = 10,700 – 100*Lead Time

Assume that you sell this item for $45. Calculate Total Profit for each of the modes of transportation. Does this affect your recommendation to Problem #1? How sensitive is this decision?