In addition to defining terms provide one real-life example that explains the definition.
transactional leaders
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In addition to defining terms provide one real-life example that explains the definition.
Leader-Follower Congruence
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how can small businesses deal with financial crisis?
how do they deal with Marketing and promotional cost
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Week 1 Discussion: Chapter 1- Opinion about Globalization
Do you like or dislike the trend of globalization? Support your statement with examples.
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Read the Case: Value Stream Mapping and answer the following questions:
a. Eliminating the queue of work dramatically quickens the time it takes a part to flow through the system. What are the disadvantages of removing those queues?
b. How do you think the machine operators would react to the change?
c. What would you do to ensure that the operators were kept busy?
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Business Law 19
1. What were some of the key components of early US corporate laws? What was the rationale behind these laws?
2. In your opinion, what are some of the liberal laws that attract corporations to Delaware?
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Identify and list each of Poter's five forces that determine
competition and the industrial profitability of the market eg
rivals, barriers to entry, suppliers, substitutes, and buyers. You
may want to do this using a visual aid, like a chart. Pick any
organization you are familiar with and describe its overall
competitive environment using each of the forces. Analyze how each
of The Five Forces affects the organization and how each force may
affect the ones. Evaluate which force is the strongest and why.
Which is the weakest?
Prepare a two page (double-spaced) essay. The paper should be
12-point font, Times
New Roman, be at least 500 words, and include a final source
list.
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Assume you invented a new plastic-shaping technology that allows plastic products to be manufactured much more cheaply. When you talk to manufacturers, though, they are skeptical because the new method is so radically different from any technology they have ever used before. What do you think the sales cycle for the technology would look like? What would the most important step of the sales cycle be? Why? What type of sales force would you utilize and why? What marketing activities could help you shorten the sales cycle and how?
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Fantastic Styling Salon is run by three stylists, Jenny Perez, Jill Sloan, and Jerry Tiller, each capable of serving five customers per hour, on average. Use POM for Windows or OM Explorer to answer the following questions:
Note: During busy periods of the day, when nine customers on average arrive per hour, all three stylists are on staff.
a. If all customers wait in a common line for the next available stylist, how long would a customer wait in line, on average, before being served?
b. Suppose that each customer wants to be served by a specificstylist, 1/3 want Perez, 1/3 want Sloan, 1/3 want Tiller. How long would a customer wait in line, on average, before beingserved?
c. If all customers wait in a common line for the next available stylist, how long would a customer wait in line, onaverage, before being served?
d. Suppose that each customer wants to be served by a specificstylist, 60% want Perez and 40% want Sloan. How long would a customer wait in line, on average, before being served by Perez? By Sloan? Overall?
I would really appreciate it if all work is shown! Thank you for your time.
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While an inventory policy includes two decisions, use an example to explain what the two decisions are:
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The marketing efforts for convenience and specialty goods are
essentially the same. |
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Shopping goods and services are purchased only after consumers
compare value, quality, style, and price of competing goods and
services. |
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Successful marketing of convenience and specialty goods require
different marketing mixes. |
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Most consumers view specialty goods as having a variety of
acceptable substitutes. |
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The classification of goods or services into a particular class
depends on the individual consumer. |
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A shopping good for one consumer could be a specialty good for
another consumer. |
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Organizations that assist in moving goods and services from
producers to business and consumer users are called supply-side
transition specialists. |
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Agents and brokers and wholesalers are types of marketing
intermediaries. |
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Wholesalers are marketing intermediaries who sell goods or
services to ultimate consumers. |
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A channel of distribution consists of the marketing
intermediaries who join together to transport and store goods in
their path from producers to consumers. |
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Brokers are marketing intermediaries that do not take title to
the goods they help distribute. |
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Retailers are marketing intermediaries who sell to ultimate
consumers. |
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Some manufacturers sell directly to consumers or businesses
rather than relying on marketing intermediaries.
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