Identify a non-tech brand that appears to follow the product-quality leadership pricing objective. Support your selection.
Please answer in paragraph form
PRODUCT QUALITY LEADERSHIP – is where a company aims to provide the best quality product in the market, and therefore charges more than its competitors. These companies are usually market leaders. Pricing objectives for particular products or services can also vary according to the stage in the product life cycle.
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Which of Porter's general business strategies does Hertz Corporation follow?
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1. It is common for stakeholders to essentially ask, “How can you prove that our program had an effect?” What would be your standard, simple, “sound bite” response to this question?
2. If you had a very limited budget but were committed to
collecting and using some type of qualitative data to get at the
perceptions of program participants, what might be your best
option? Explain.
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I am about to start my graduation thesis, I need an interesting topic related to business Administration. I would like to have any recommendations, preferably something with Marketing and organizational behavior. And how will be my method of research to accomplish?
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Getting franchises to adopt the online ordering system is a major challenge. What techniques would you use to encourage adoption?
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Explore the MacOSX Console app or the Windows 10 Event Viewer. Discus the role that logs play in security and how IT professionals should use them in both proactive and reactive manners.
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write a few paragraphs about the ethical issues in social media research for public health
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IBM 150 Winter 2020 – Communication and Writing Reports for Global managers
4 - In what ways does a scannable résumé differ from the traditional format?
425-450 word answer
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Describe PERT and Wideband Delphi methods of estimating project returns
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Agosin( Always living in Spanish) and Dumas( The F word) explain about how language is used as part of identify formation. In fact, Agosin writes, “To write in Spanish is for me a gesture of survival”.
How do these writers support such a claim?
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In 2007, Clorox Corporation, a company best known for its bleach and Hidden Valley Ranch salad dressing, acquired Burt’s Bees, a small North Carolina-based maker of lip balms and honey-infused creams and cosmetics for $925 million. The decision to acquire Burt’s Bees is best described as a(n) ___________________________.
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Alliance |
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Greenfield investment |
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Corporate-level strategy decision |
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Vertical integration |
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Business-level strategy decision |
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Identify a limitation of the Boston Consulting Group’s growth share matrix.
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It is complex and difficult to understand |
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It fails to help executives make informed decisions about how to reinvest in the corporation |
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It is not based on quantifiable criteria |
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It fails to provide insight into whether a business unit will help the corporation exploit or expand a company’s resources and capabilities |
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It fails to help executives identify structurally attractive industries to invest in |
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Which of the following is an important assumption underpinning Transaction Cost Economics?
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People may be opportunistic |
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Resource immobility |
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Resource heterogeneity |
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Perfect rationality |
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All of the above are assumptions |
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The Hamilton Company manufactures two products: X and Y. Contribution margin per unit is determined as follows:
Product X Product Y
Revenue........................................... $130................. $80
Variable Costs................................... .$70................. $38
Contribution margin............................ $60................. $42
Total demand for X is 16,000 units and for Y is 8,000 units. Machine hours are a scarce resource. 42,000 machine hours are available during the year. Product X requires 6 machine hours per unit, while Product Y requires 3 machine hours per unit. How many units of X and Y should Hamilton Company produce?
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After the current COVID19 health emergency subsides in the future, every level of government in Canada and abroad will be forming teams to examine `lessons learned’ from this worldwide pandemic and to recommend new policy guidelines and legislation.
As a successful graduate of HRM 3410 [?], you have been hired as a training & development expert to help develop training programs for provincial, as well as regional, teams in Ontario comprised of senior executives from business [corporations & small business], the public sector including education, health care and emergency management, not-for-profit and community volunteer groups, as well as first responders (fire, police, emergency medical services) and public servants, etc.
Based upon your knowledge of course training and development theories/concepts/ frameworks, your task is to develop realistic and specific recommendations addressing the following issues:
A brief overview of the `W5H’ aspects of your training
design
One (1) appropriate training method drawn from each of the three
(3) different types/categories of training methods
Guidelines/tips for effective `team’/group formation and
functioning
How you would conduct `orientation/induction’ training for the
teams?
How should `leaders’ be selected for these regional and provincial
teams?
Ensure that you provide a supporting rationale for your
recommendations/answers.
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Adidas is launching a new v-neck “Dynamic Response Short Sleeve Tee” this spring and will be running a promotion in conjunction with the launch. Your buyer has to come to you, the planner to discuss this to make sure their delivery arrives in time for the promotion of all Adidas tops beginning on March 14th. in order to make sure we know when to place the order, our company has been monitoring the Lead Time Variance.
(10 points) Calculate The Vendor’s Lead Time Variance from the table below.
You have the following information: Vendor’s Lead Time Forecast 30 days
Vendor’s Shipping History
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Period |
Planned Receipt Date |
Actual Receipt Date |
Variance in Days |
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1 |
15-Oct |
30-Oct |
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2 |
30-Oct |
31-Oct |
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3 |
15-Nov |
22-Nov |
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4 |
30-Nov |
7-Dec |
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5 |
15-Dec |
18-Dec |
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6 |
30-Dec |
5-Jan |
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7 |
15-Jan |
19-Jan |
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8 |
30-Jan |
6-Feb |
Vendor’s Lead Time Variance in Days ___________
Vendor’s LTV as a % _____________
To ensure on-time delivery, place order ____________
The earliest date to expect receipt ________________
Place order_______ Earliest Receipt Date __________ Start date of promo___________
G) Explain why it is important to take LTV into consideration when creating planned orders? use all three dates from your timeline above in your answer as well as the variance in days for the first shipment listed in the table. Imagine that you are expecting this to someone who is unfamiliar to this concept. Your answer must be clear
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