The project is about airline revenue and the factors that impact it. All the knowledge you obtain in chapter 4, is enough to do the project.

Revenue of an airline is influenced by several factors, including fuel cost, employees’ salary, operating expenses, maintenance costs, fleet size, available seats. This project aims to find out the influence of some of these factors on revenue for U.S. airline industry for the period of 11 years.

In airline industry one of the variables that represent revenue is “Revenue Passenger mile”.

Attached is the data (revenue passenger mile, fuel cost, salary cost and seat available” of some U.S. airlines for the period of 2005 till 2015. Data has been collected from The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) database.

Each team should use regression tool to interpret the relation between revenue of airlines and the above mention factors for each year.

Each team should run a regression for each year separately, write the regression equations for each year and compare in which year each of these three factors impacts revenue the most and the least.

Finally, run the regression for whole the period and write the equation line for all observation and interpret the result in terms of the positive/negative influence of factors on revenue.

The Rakhsh Stable feeds and houses the horses used to pull tourist-filled carriages through the streets of Charleston’s historic waterfront area. The stable owner, an ex-racehorse trainer, recognizes the need to set a nutritional diet for the horses in his care. At the same time, he would like to keep the overall daily cost of feed to a minimum.

The feed mixes available for the horses’ diet are an oat product, a highly enriched grain, and a mineral product. Each of these mixes contains a certain amount of five ingredients needed daily to keep the average horse healthy.

The below table shows these minimum requirements, units of each ingredient per pound of feed mix, and costs for the three mixes.

In addition, the stable owner is aware that an overfed horse is a sluggish worker.

Consequently, he determines that 6 pounds of feed per day are the most that any horse needs to function properly.

Formulate this LP problem

Solve for the optimal daily mix of the three feeds (In excel)

The SEC 10-K assignment will consist of research and the completion of a paper on select areas of an annual SEC 10-K report filed by a public company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The focus of this assignment is on the disclosure issues related to the segment information in the SEC 10-K.

Question and instructions ---- I selected a company Intel. Please write a 3 pages report on the recent SEC 10-K report. You will have to go on https://www.sec.gov and check the most recent repot of Intel. You can write it in 3 days.

Question Two: (Word count 200 words)

“A system”

Name and explain any system that you deal with in real life, in your explanation use all what you have learned about the characteristics of a system, where all parts must be clear and applied.

Industrial Management

How would you distinguish between engineering management and management in
general?

discuss teamwork and conflict that might surface in such teams.

Blend your business model for a new restaurant called (that focus's on shorter wait time on seating and service) with the blue ocean strategy framework. What do you need to eliminate, reduce, raise, and create? Explain.

Please try to meet 300 words if possible. Thanky you so much!

Please post your example to the class (roughly 250+ words) and if using a reference, please cite them.

Explain and define Marketing and describe the four P’s of marketing.

Supplemental Case Week 5

Read the case and answer the following question at the end. 200 words total for your response.

In the 1990’s, Mr. Arzberger worked for 37 years at a Kroger store in Pittsburgh. He lost his job when Kroger closed 43 Pittsburgh-area supermarkets because their 2850 employees refused to accept pay cuts, benefit reductions, and other contract changes. With wage rates as high as they were, Kroger was simply not competitive with the other food chains. A competing food chain paid $2 an hour less, and independent supermarkets were paying $3 to $4 less per hour. Kathy Koch was the head cashier at a Kroger store in Plymouth, Michigan. She experienced the closing of her store as Kroger closed 70 of its 82 Michigan stores. Operating costs were simply too high and unionized employees refused to accept contract concessions. The Michigan closing cost Kroger $10 million in severance pay and other benefits for more than 4000 employees. The Pittsburgh stores were purchased by Wetterau Inc., a food wholesaler that sold the stores to independent operators, who operate them with lower-paid help. Other companies—Greyhound, USX, and Goodyear Tire and Rubber, to name just a few—have said to workers: your wages are too high. Either accept cutbacks or we may have to go out of business. The city of Dayton, Ohio, is still recovering from him closing of NCR facilities there when union workers did not accept pay cuts years ago. Greyhound worked through many of its labor concession by means of an old strikebreaking effort. It hired replacements for 12,000 striking drivers and resumed limited operations. Trans World Airlines farmed out some of its maintenance work to nonunion concerns. Some 3500 employees have to work for the new firm for less pay or quit. United Auto Workers, faced with the choice of closing plants or taking pay cuts, chose the pay cuts but put job security clauses into new contracts. Ford has threatened to move production facilities overseas unless labor concedes to cuts in pay.

Now, most of these companies are prospering again. Were the decisions and sacrifices made by management and unions the correct ones? Explain your answer.

which do you believe is harder to work in, a joint venture or an acquisition?

Explain the principal agent theory in negotiation.

CH 7: Entrepreneurship Case BBG 101 -- Hart

One of the biggest challenges for entrepreneurs is getting the word out about their new venture. Perhaps that's why entrepreneurs have embraced social media as a communication tool.

If used skillfully, many believe, social media can help level the playing field between small businesses and their giant competitors. David avRutick, co-owner of Folbot, a small kayak retailer, claims that without Twitter, he wouldn't have as many sales as he does. “You can't buy that kind of exposure,” avRutick says.

Folbot competes against such household names as L.L. Bean and Cabela's—there's no way the smaller company could challenge the larger ones without widespread interactive communication. However, critics point out that social media sites vary widely in their value to small businesses. “The hype right now exceeds the reality,” observes Larry Chiagouris, a professor of marketing at Pace University's Lubin School of Business.

Despite the fact that the use of social media by firms with fewer than 100 employees doubled in one recent year, only 22 percent of those who responded to a separate survey reported a direct increase in profits as a result of social media use, while half said they broke even on the investment. Others caution that social media networking eats up valuable time, particularly for entrepreneurs whose day is chock-full of tasks ranging from design to distribution and manufacturing to marketing.

Most entrepreneurs support the use of social media, but with moderation. Chris Lindland, owner of Cordarounds.com, an online clothing retailer, advises patience. “My business has been visited millions of times, but I haven't made millions of sales,” he comments. But he believes patience pays off.

Questions for Critical Thinking

How will social networking change the business environment for entrepreneurs?

How might entrepreneurs use social media to secure financing?