1.How should McDonald’s respond when ads promoting healthy lifestyles featuring Ronald McDonald are equated with Joe Camel and cigarette ads? Should McDonald’s eliminate Ronald McDonald in its ads?

2. Discuss the merits of the law proposed by France that would require fast-food companies either to add a health message to commercials or pay a 1.5 percent tax on their ad budgets. Propose a strategy for McDonald’s to pay the tax or add health messages, and defend your recommendation.

3. If there is no evidence that obesity rates fall in those coun- tries that ban food advertising to children, why bother?

4. The broad issue facing McDonald’s U.K. is the current attitude toward rising obesity. The company seems to have tried many different approaches to deal with the problem, but the problem persists. List all the problems facing McDonald’s and critique its various approaches to solve the problems

define investigation techniques and their types to develop the new project?

Is Globalization in Decline or Not? What is the proper role for US based companies in their globalization efforts? Can US based companies afford to retreat from global markets? While competition in global markets has increased, and profitability has become difficult to maintain, can US based companies afford to retreat from their global footprint? Do you have any direct experience with this issue in your workplace that you could bring to the discussion?

The appraisal process is one step involved in identifying potential improvements on individual performances. What is the most difficult part in determining the dimensions to be appraised? What is most helpful on a job analysis for designing an appraisal tool?

Question 1. How many statements are true?

(A) 0   (B) 1   (C) 2   (D) 3   (E) 4

Statement 1. The P and C charts are for attributes and the M and R charts are for variables.

Statement 2. The upper control limit is three standard deviations of the mean above the center line and the lower control limit is three standard deviations of the mean below the mean of the quality characteristic.

Statement 3. The sample size for the experiment that determines the estimates of the parameters can be different than the sample size used to construct the M-chart, the R-chart, the P-chart, and the C-chart.

Statement 4. The P chart monitors the proportion of an attribute quality characteristic which the C chart monitors the count of an attribute quality characteristic.

Questions 2-3

The following experiment was carefully designed and performed on a process under control. A random sample of 80 is drawn for each sample and the number of attributes is recorded.

Questions 4-5

Destructive sampling was performed measuring the life of six batteries in hours.

Your company is nearing completion of the renovation project mentioned in question 1. Your customer only owns the one facility that you will be working in and they have asked you to provide a full 6D BIM as part of your required deliverables. Please identify at least one advantage your customer will find in receiving this deliverable and why it is an advantage. Also, please identify at least one disadvantage your customer will find in receiving this deliverable. Finally, your customer is considering using cloud based storage to receive and access this data. Please provide one reason why cloud based storage would not be in the interest of this specific customer.

(2 Points) Please identify at least one advantage your customer will find in receiving this deliverable and why it is an advantage.

(2 Points) Please identify at least one disadvantage your customer will find in receiving this deliverable.

(1 Point) Please provide one reason why cloud based storage would not be in the interest of this specific customer.

Discuss ways and means that Global Management Teams can assure workers and their families can prepare, adapt and repatriate after or during a work assignment.

Why do you think that HP offers domestic partner benefits to opposite-sex partners as well as to same-sex partners?

Your company has just been awarded a project to renovate part of an existing occupied building. Your customer has stated that prior to starting work, all existing conditions are to be reviewed and a plan is to be developed off what you discover for how the work will be conducted so as to not interrupt/disrupt any of the existing occupants and their on-going activities. You decide to look to technology to help accomplish and expedite this task. Identify a technological tool to enable the accomplishment of the task. Provide one advantage (include why this is so), one disadvantage (include why this is so) and how you will mitigate the identified disadvantage.

(1 Point) Identified technological tool:

(2 Points) Advantage (including why):

(2 Points) Disadvantage (including why):

LM.72 A potato processing company has four plants in Southeast Idaho and sources potatoes from three different farms. You need to help them develop a sourcing plan which minimizes transportation costs. The tables below show (1) how many tons of potatoes can be supplied be each farm, (2) the monthly demand for each plant, and (3) the cost per ton of shipping from each farm to each plant.

When assigning farms to plants, which of the following would be the best place to start? (In the answer field below write the number that corresponds to your selection. Do not put a period after the number.)

Farm 2 to Plant 4

Farm 3 to Plant 1

Farm 1 to Plant 1

Farm 3 to Plant 2

Which farm or farms will be required to supply potatoes to Plant 2? (In the answer field below write the number that corresponds to your selection. Do not put a period after the number.)

Farm 1

Farm 2

Farm 3

Farms 1 and 2

Farms 2 and 3

Farms 1 and 3

Farms 1, 2 and 3

After satisfying all the demand, which farm will have some unassigned potatoes? (In the answer field below write the number that corresponds to your selection. Do not put a period after the number.)

Farm 1

Farm 2

Farm 3

None. There is no excess supply of potatoes.

What is the lowest cost for transporting potatoes to the four plants while meeting all the demand requirements? (Display your answer as a whole number.)

You recently met with your client, Tripp, to discuss his insurance policies. Tripp was reading a book on contracts and wanted to know how his insurance contract related to the material he was reading and to his circumstances. During your conversation, Tripp made several statements to clarify that he understood insurance. Which of the following statements would you have told him was incorrect? An insurance contract is unilateral, where both parties agree to a legally enforceable promise. The insurance contract is aleatory, where unequal monetary values are exchanged. An insurance contract is based on the principal of indemnity, where the insured cannot make a profit from a claim on insurance. An insurance contract is a contract of adhesion, where the insured accepts the contract as written and is unable to negotiate the terms of the contract.

Instructions:

You must complete the questions below. All will be included in a SINGLE PDF file and turned into Blackboard or handed at the start of class. The due date is specified on the syllabus. Remember, late work is not accepted. You will need an Executive Summary, PowerPoint (one to page/color) and Excel spreadsheet. Be prepared to present your findings in class.

Purpose:

You must evaluate the various options to ship freight from Asia to the USA. You MUST find the overall lowest cost solution and evaluate other items that could affect your decision. At the end, you will have a better understanding of the challenges of international routing and costs.

Situation:

Henry Lee is the Vice President of Purchasing for the consumer electronics division of the Major Electric Corporation (MEC). The company recently introduced a new type of ditigal video camcorder that has taken the market by storm. While Henry is pleased with the strong demand for this product in the marketplace, it has been a challenge to keep up with MEC's distributors' orders of this camcorder. His current challenge is how to meet requests from MEC major distributors in Pittsburgh, Denver, Baltimore, and Houston who have placed orders of 15,000, 25,000, 35,000, and 25,000 units, respectively, for delivery in two months. (There is a one-month manufacturing and a one-month shipping lead-time for this product.)

MEC has contracts with companies in Hong Kong and Singapore who manufacture camcorders for the company under the MEC label. These contracts require MEC to order a specified minimum number of units each month at guaranteed per unit cost. The contracts also specify the maximum number of units that may he ordered at this price. The following table summarizes these contracts:

Monthly Purchasing Contract Provisions

MEC also has a standing contract with a shipping company to transport product from each of these suppliers to ports in San Francisco and San Diego. The cost of shipping from each supplier to each port is given in the following table along with the minimum required and maximum allowable number of shipping cartons each month: (see top of next page)

Under the terms of this contract, MEC guarantees it will send at least 20 but no more than 65 shipping containers to San Francisco each month and at least 30 but no more than 70 shipping containers to San Diego each month.

Monthly Shipping Contract Provisions

Each shipping container can hold 1,000 video cameras and will ultimately be trucked from the seaports to the distributors. Again, MEC has a standing contract with a trucking company to provide trucking services each month. The cost of trucking a shipping container from each port to each distributor is summarized on the next page.

Unit Shipping Cost per Container

As with the other contracts, to obtain the prices given above, MEC is required to use a certain minimum amount of trucking capacity on each route each month and may not exceed certain maximum shipping amounts without incurring cost penalties. These minimum and maximum shipping restrictions are summarized below:

Minimum Required and Maximum Allowable
Number of Shipping Containers per Month

So Henry is left with the task of sorting through all this information to determine the least costly purchasing and distribution plan to fill the distributors' requests. But because he and his wife have tickets to the symphony for this evening, he has asked you to take a look at this problem and give him your recommendations at 9:00 tomorrow morning.

What is the optimal solution that minimizes the total cost for the company? Be sure to show all your work. A suggestion is that you review your network modeling problems and use solver of the computer. You will work in your assigned groups to complete this assignment.

Also, be sure to identify other issues that may affect your solution!!

Requirements:

1.Identify the lowest cost solution that meets the requirements:

a.Turn in your PowerPoint and be sure to include a network flow diagram of the problem to include all lanes and costs (a map as part of the answer would be helpful to you and me)

b.Input all the data into Excel and find the lowest cost solution using Solver

c.Print out your “Solver Parameters” portion as part of your packet

d.Include an Executive Summary of the case.

e.NOTE: You are not required to recommend the lowest cost, but must demonstrate that you found it during the process

f.You will turn in ONE PAPER PACKET file with all three requirements. If you wish to attach an additional page for the specific questions or answer them in the above that is your choice.

2.Answer the following questions:

What is the lowest cost total solution?

What other factors would you consider beyond cost given this situation? Country political relationships, routes prone to natural disasters, areas where traffic is a problem

What other steps would you recommend long term to improve your solution?

Are there any unique solutions you might consider?

Compare leadership and management? Provide examples of the skills for both leaders and managers need to be successful? Can an individual be both a leader and a manager?

1.To what extent are Acuity’s and the Container Store’s approach toward motivation consistent with need theories of motivation? Discuss.

2.To what extent is The Container Store’s pay and reward system consistent with equity theory?

When and why might you choose to weight the selection criteria for solutions? Provide an example.