#1. Some people believe that a great difference in age between parents and children is more beneficial. Do you agree or disagree with the statement?

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One of the worst of Bond’s acquisitions was the ailing American brewer G Heileman, for which he paid $1.26 billion in 1987, around three times what it was worth. Heileman, Bond figured, would be the perfect vehicle to launch his local brewing assets – Swan, Castlemaine and Tooheys – in the US market. It turned out to be merely another symptom of an incurable condition which caused Bond to do deals and then juggle his increasingly massive debt to pay for them.

In the same year he bought Heileman, Bond also made the most expensive art purchase the world had ever known. But the $US54 million he paid for Vincent van Gogh’s Irises was typical of his unusual deals, its purchase having been financed to the tune of around $US27 million by the auctioneer Sotheby’s. Bond never paid them back, and the painting never graced any of his homes. Bond meanwhile struck another deal during the same period that typified his doubtful business acumen and became part of Australian business folklore.

The purchase from Kerry Packer of the Nine Network for $1.05 billion, and its later sale back to Packer for $300 million was a dream transaction – but not for Bond. By 1989, the man who had marched boldly into boardrooms around the world found himself firmly on the back foot with Bond Corporation’s debt at astonishing levels and his once compliant bankers clamouring for repayment. More persistent than the bankers, however, was the English businessman Roland “Tiny” Rowland, in whose company Lonrho, Bond, using yet more borrowed money, had acquired a substantial holding. Rowland pulled Bond’s business empire apart in a 93-page document he published showing it to be insolvent and trading illegally. Rowland’s revelations made an already slippery slope ever more perilous. The first part of his father’s forecast came to pass in 1991 when Bond faced trial for theft over a deal to rescue the failed Rothwells merchant bank. It was a case that revealed much about how business was done Bond-style.

Bond allegedly talked a business colleague Brian Coppin into tipping a few million into a rescue of Rothwells while concealing that Bond Corp would receive a $16 million fee for organising the rescue. Bond served six months, only to be acquitted at a re-trial. That success proved fleeting as the world continued to crash down around the man who little more than a decade earlier had been named Australian of the Year. In 1996 Bond was committed to stand trial for defrauding the shareholders of Bell Resources, a company he had acquired from the late Robert Holmes a’Court, of more than $1 billion. He also stood trial and was jailed over a fraudulent art deal involving the Edouard Manet painting La Promenade which Bond’s public company, Bond Corp, sold to his private company Dallhold for $2.46 million. He got four years for stealing the money from Bell resources and three for the art deal. Together the guilty verdicts made him the biggest fraudster in Australian history.

Research the case of early corporate collapses in Australia mentioned in the textbook on page 11: Alan Bond. Prepare a brief report outlining the case. What was the underlying reason for the failure? Would today's corporate governance codes, rules and regulations have prevented these outcomes? (200 words)

Based on the information below, create a project schedule (Gantt Chart). Assign tasks to either Workgroup or Individual.

Project: Vacation
Team: "Workgroup 1", "Individual"
Start/End: February 19 - May 26

START

A. February 19: Vacation participation must be confirmed
Time allotted: 7 days

i. Confirm participation
Time needed: 1 day

ii. Research vacation deals
Time needed: 1 days

iii. Decide on destination
Time needed: 2 days

iv. Create travel list
Time needed: 1 day

Slack available: 2 days

B. February 26: Lodging and excursion reservations must be made
Time allotted: 18 days

i. Research lodging options
Time needed: 3 days

ii. Make lodging reservation
Time needed: 1 Day

iii. Research and reserve excursions
Time needed: 5 days

iv. Make payment
Time needed: 1 days

Slack available: 8 days

C. March 16: All travel must be booked and confirmed
Time allotted: 57 days

i. Payment Status
Time needed: 3 days

ii. Reservation Status
Time needed: 1 day

iii. Pack
Time needed: 3 days

Slack available: 50 days

D. May 11: Check in to flights early
Time allotted: 1 day

i. Check into airport online
Time needed: 2 hours

ii. Receive itinerary/tickets
Time needed: 2 hours

iii. Call and reserve cab to airport
Time needed: 1 hour

Slack available: 20 hours, 30 minutes

E. May 12: Travel, Arrive at hotel (no later than 6:00 PM)
Time allotted: 18 hours

i. Board plane and fly to destination
Time needed: 6 hours

ii. Arrive at destination and grab luggage
Time needed: 2 hours

iii. Take shuttle to hotel and check in
Time needed: 3 hours

Slack available: 7 hours

F. May 12- May 25: Arrive at destination (Relax!)
Time allotted: 12 days

i. Unpack and get acquainted with hotel and surroundings
Time needed: 3 hours

ii. Relax, eat, dance, shop, explore
Time needed: 4-12 days

iii. Excursions
Time needed: 4-12 days

Slack available: 0-4 days

G. May 26th: Travel, Shuttle departs to airport at 11:00 AM (G)
Time allotted: 11 hours

i. Pack up all belongings and check out of hotel
Time needed: 3 hours

ii. Board shuttle at 11am at designated area
Time needed: less than 5 minutes

Slack time: 7 hours and 55 minutes

H. Arrive at airport and fly home

END

1. What is mental availability (also referred to as brand salience) and how does it relate to buying situations?

2. Describe the process of a brand being stored into memory?

We all currently or in the future will participate or be impacted by the stockmarket with our retirement, the companies we work for or frequent with our purchases or those companies that bring us the latest technology to help us live a more comfortable life. Since I have been watching the stockmarket over 40 years ago, I've seen companies sadly leave but others have also arrived. Some of the largest companies in the US that no one would have ever thought would no longer exist or much smaller than it once was is an indication of how the returns of a company can impact its sustainability. If the company whether stocks or bonds cannot provide the returns investors require, the company will lose needed capital to help it sustain itself.

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1. How do IHG’s multiple brands enable the company to address the needs of specific consumer and business markets?

2. In which stage(s) of the consumer buying decision process would IHG’s digital marketing and social media activities likely have a significant influence? Explain your answer.

3. Why would IHG create a separate hotel brand specifically for China?

4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each IHG brand having its own social network accounts?

Select a service at your wokplace.Apply the Value Stream Mapping concept discussed to baseline the current service and system. Discuss how to redesign and improve it.

: Pam Tarver just opened an information technology consulting company and has thought for a long time about what to name it. She finally settled on the fictitious name Infoxx. Search the USPTO database to determine if the name Infoxx is available. Is it? If it is available, describe how Pam would go about obtaining a trademark on Infoxx or any other name.

In 200 words or more, Explain the difference between competency-based and traditional pay plans?

A Strategic Plan is a document that establishes the direction of a company. The process of developing a plan helps the manager and team examine where they are, where they want to go, and how to get there. Develop a Strategic Plan for your Business. It should include these 7 Elements: Vision Statement, Mission Statement, Core Values, SWOT Analysis, Long-Term Goals, Yearly Objectives and Action Plan.

CARLILL V CARBOLIC SMOKE BALL CO [1893]

IN THE 1890S, ENGLAND WAS PLAGUED BY TWO RELATED PHENOMENA: AN INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC AND QUACK MEDICINE. THE CARBOLIC SMOKE BALL CO WAS ONE OF MANY COMPANIES THAT TRIED TO CAPITALIZE ON THE COUNTRY’S ILL HEALTH. IT PRODUCED A HAND-HELD GADGET THAT, WHEN SQUEEZED, EMITTED A SMALL CLOUD OF CARBOLIC ACID DUST. THE COMPANY CLAIMED THAT IF ONE INHALED THE DUST REGULARLY, IT WOULD PREVENT A LONG LIST OF AILMENTS RANGING FROM DIPHTHERIA AND BRONCHITIS TO SNORING AND SORE EYES. AS PART OF ITS MARKETING PLOY, THE COMPANY PUBLISHED AN ADVERTISEMENT THAT OFFERED TO PAY £100 TO ANY PERSON WHO CONTRACTED INFLUENZA WHILE USING THE CARBOLIC SMOKE BALL. MRS CARLILL SAW THE AD, BOUGHT THE PRODUCT, AND USED IT AS DIRECTED. WHEN SHE LATER CAME DOWN WITH THE FLU, SHE CLAIMED TO BE ENTITLED TO £100. THE COMPANY REFUSED TO PAY. IT SAID THAT THERE WAS NO CONTRACT BECAUSE SHE HAD NOT TOLD THEM THAT SHE HAD ACCEPTED THEIR OFFER AND WAS USING THEIR PRODUCT.

think critically about what you know of the nature of offer and acceptance. Has Mack committed a crime? What argument should Mack's lawyer make to absolve him?

A table is assembled using three components, as shown in the accompanying product structure tree. The company that makes the table wants to ship 100 units at the beginning of day 4, 150 units at the beginning of day 5, and 200 units at the beginning of day 7. Receipts of 100 wood sections are scheduled at the beginning of day 2. There are 120 legs on hand. An additional 10 percent of the order size on legs is added for safety stock. There are 60 braces on hand with no safety stock requirement for braces. Lead times (in days) for all items are shown in the following table. Prepare a material requirements plan using lot-for-lot ordering.

Can someone verify the data for the legs for me?

The strategic management process is key to the leadership of a company. What is involved in the leadership of this process and how it differs from the day-to-day management of the company?