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Huey McDuck has received $70,000 from his rich uncle and wants to determine how much to...

Huey McDuck has received $70,000 from his rich uncle and wants to determine how much to invest in each of four different investments: municipal bonds expected to return 8.5%, CDs expected to return 5%, T-bills expected to return 6.5% and a stock fund expected to return 13%.

The following guidelines have been established to ensure that the portfolio is diversified for reduced risk.

  1. No more than 20% of the total investment should be in municipal bonds
  2. At least 30% of the investment should be in T-bills

Write the LP formulation

Set the problem up in Excel and solve using Excel Solver

Report the optimal solution and total expected return

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Scenario It is 2020, and General Foryota Company opens a plant in which to build a...

Scenario
It is 2020, and General Foryota Company opens a plant in which to build a new mass-produced hover-craft. This hover-craft will work using E-85 Ethanol, will travel up to 200 mph, and will reduce pollution worldwide at a rate of 10 percent per year. It is likely that when all automobiles in the industrial world have been changed over to hovercrafts, emission of greenhouse gasses may be so reduced that global warming may end and air quality will become completely refreshed.

However, the downside is that during the transition time, GFC's Hover-Vee (only available in red or black), will most likely put all transportation as we know it in major dissaray. Roadways will no longer be necessary, but new methods of controlling traffic will be required. Further, while the old version of cars are still being used, Hover-vee's will cause accidents, parking issues, and most likely class envy and warfare. The sticker price on the first two models will be about four times that of the average SUV (to about $200,000.) Even so, GFC's marketing futurists have let them know that they will be able to pre-sell their first three years of expected production, with a potential waiting list which will take between 15 and 20 years to fill.

The Chief Engineer (CE) of GFC commissions a study on potential liabilities for the Hover-vees. The preliminary result is that Hover-vees will likely kill or maim humans at an increased rate of double to triple over automobile travel because of collisions and crashes at high speeds -- projected annual death rates of 100,000 to 200,000. However, global warming will end, and the environment will flourish.

The U. S. Government gets wind of the plans. Congress begins to discuss the rules on who can own and operate Hover-vees. GFC's stock skyrockets. The Chief Engineer takes the results of the study to the Chief Legal Counsel (CLC), and together they agree to bury the study, going forward with the production plans. The Chief Project Manager (CPM), who has read the study and agreed to bury it, goes ahead and plans out the project for the company, with target dates and production deadlines.

Our class is a team of young lawyers, project managers, engineers, and congressional aides who are all part of the process of helping get this project off the ground. In fact, according to the first letter of your last name, you are the following team:

  • A-G: Attorney on the GFC team
  • H-N: Project Manager on the GFC team
  • 0-S: Engineer on the GFC team
  • T-Z: Congressional Aide

Somebody sent a secret copy of the report to you at your home address. It has no information in it at all, except for the report showing the proof of the increase in accidents and deaths. The report shows, on its face, that the CE, CLC, CPM, and your Congressional Representative have seen copies of this report. On the front there are these words typed in red: They knew — they buried this. Please save the world!

Each of you feel a very loyal tie to your boss and your company/country. You all have mortgages, and families to feed. It is likely if you blow the whistle on this report, you will lose your job and your livelihood. You're not even sure who wrote the study in your envelope or who actually sent it to you.

Upon studying the issue, you determine the source of the message that set you on the trail! The Source is Trace Velvet, a worker on the project that was fired for gross incompetence. As near as you can tell, the firing was deserved. This could be an act of revenge, or a demonstration of said incompetence. But you have no evidence that the information you have received was false. It may well point out a real problem. How does this change your responses?

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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sex, race,...

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin and religion. There are two cases currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court asking the court to interpret the meaning of "sex" in the context of employment discrimination. In R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Links to an external site.), the Court is asked to decide if discrimination based on a person's transgender status is addressed in the Act as discrimination based on "sex" as the law is intended to operate. Meanwhile, in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia (Links to an external site.), the Court is asked to decide whether sexual orientation is included under "sex" according to Title VII. In two or three paragraphs (minimum four sentences each), please give your opinion on the following: 1. Whether Congress could have intended the term "sex" to include sexual orientation and/or transgender status when the law was written; and 2. Whether the courts should now interpret the term "sex" to include sexual orientation and/or transgender status.

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An IT project requires 6 activities. The table below displays the expected time and budgeted cost...

  1. An IT project requires 6 activities. The table below displays the expected time and budgeted cost for each activity.

Activity

Expected time (weeks)

Budgeted

Cost

Immediate Predecessors

A

3

$3,000

None

B

4

$6,000

None

C

2

$7,000

A

D

5

$9,000

B

E

3

$3,000

C

F

6

$8,000

B,D

Develop a budget for the 15 weeks of the project using ES times.

  1. The following represents a project with four activities. All times are in weeks.

Activity

Immediate

Predecessor

Optimistic

Time

Most

Likely

Time

Pessimistic

Time

A

-

2

8

14

B

-

8

8

8

C

A

6

9

18

D

B

5

11

17

The critical path is BàD. The expected completion time is 19 days.   Assume the normal distribution is appropriate to use to determine the probability of finishing by a particular time. What is the probability that the project is finished in 22 weeks or more? (Round to two decimals.)

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Making reference to an organisation that you are familiar with: QUESTION 1.1 Provide a detailed explanation...

Making reference to an organisation that you are familiar with:

QUESTION 1.1 Provide a detailed explanation with examples of the market/task environment of the organisation you selected.

QUESTION 1.2 Identify and detail the activities and initiatives of the following functional areas of management in the organisation you chose.

 The Human Resources Function

 The Marketing Function

 Purchasing Function

 Operations function

QUESTION 1.3 Provide a detailed discussion of FIVE (5) management challenges faced by the selected organisation.

it must not exceed 3500 words The length of your answers to each question should be in line with the mark allocation. Your assignment must include a Table of Contents page. All text must be justified at each margin. References- At least 8 academic sources of reference must be used. (These include textbooks, journal articles and internet sources that are relevant to your field of study. Academic sources do not include Wikipedia and blogs). You must include Reference list at the end of your assignment. Information quoted/paraphrased from sources listed in your Reference list must be referenced in-text. The Harvard system of referencing must be used.

Please note that this is 1 assignment made up of 3 questions. So i cannot ask the questions separately.

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You just won the $100 million Ultimate Lotto jackpot. Your winnings will be paid as $4,000,000...


You just won the $100 million Ultimate Lotto jackpot. Your winnings will be paid as $4,000,000 per year for the next 25 years. If the appropriate interest rate is 7.3 percent, what is the value of your windfall?

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CASE STUDY Financial incentives play a key role in improving employee performance, so the company manager...

CASE STUDY

Financial incentives play a key role in improving employee performance, so the company manager must be committed to developing appropriate incentive plans that will encourage employees to be more targeted and improve their performance. Managers should also pay full attention to their employees and their work process. It must motivate its employees towards tasks. Financial incentives are highly effective in changing short-term behavior but are much less effective in changing longer-term behavior. In Australia Government is committed to assisting women and their families to make well informed choices about work. Women’s economic participation has a positive effect on economic growth which is good for all Australians.

Direction: Read the below questions and answers accordingly
a.    Managements compensation plan can motivate and retain their employees. Explain on the various compensation policies that has to be followed by the organization to motivate the employees. Give examples.
b.    As Women’s economic participation has a positive effect on economic growth , point out the justified factors on why the women employees get lower paid in organizations with examples.  
c.    Do you agree the financial incentives motivate the employees more than the non- financial incentive? Examine with reasons types of incentive that could motivate on the employees.
d.    If an organization in Bahrain recruit a candidate from Australia, what are the factors should the managment consider in fixing the compensation package for the employee.
e. If the employees from Australia is being relocated, list the current trends in having expatriate training for the candidate to fit with the organization work culture.

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What are the negative impacts of globalization on Dell company?

What are the negative impacts of globalization on Dell company?

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Explain how innovation and new products would influence the valuation of Apple.

Explain how innovation and new products would influence the valuation of Apple.

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Please give me your ideas about;       Investigate and use the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) to...

Please give me your ideas about;

      Investigate and use the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) to resolve the some sources of divergent goals in organizations?

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Define concepts of efficiency, effectiveness and productivity respectively, and explain their interrelationships

Define concepts of efficiency, effectiveness and productivity respectively, and explain their interrelationships

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Consider the two variables service quality and customer satisfaction. Service quality is independent variable and customer...

Consider the two variables service quality and customer satisfaction. Service quality is independent variable and customer satisfaction is dependent variable. Perform regression analysis using SPSS and explain the results. PLEASE USE SPSS ONLY AND PASTE THE OUTPUT OF SPSS. DO NOT USE EXCEL OR ANY OTHER SOFTWARE. SPSS ONLY PLEASE. SERVICE QUALITY CUSTOMER SATISFACTION

SERVICE QUALITY

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION

11

13

34

21

41

45

35

75

61

67

72

76

57

95

62

114

61

94

41

54

55

44

64

76

23

36

10

115

87

54

98

62

119

24

111

45

133

86

24

81

45

83

36

94

13

16

24

26

27

36

19

43

23

53

45

53

53

67

66

39

71

40

22

42

25

53

26

64

17

45

48

45

134

115

125

111

13

23

24

24

45

44

45

45

67

67

74

56

35

45

16

23

31

34

43

55

64

66

72

72

22

24

32

35

17

47

55

44

54

13

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Question 5: Explain the behavioural theory and mention the Stages of behavioural safety.

Question 5: Explain the behavioural theory and mention the Stages of behavioural safety.

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Question One: Much debate exists within the literature about leadership and management. Kotter (1990:103) argues that...

Question One:

Much debate exists within the literature about leadership and management. Kotter (1990:103) argues that management and leadership are “two distinctive and complementary systems of action” and that the former involves coping with complexity, while the latter involves coping with change.

1.1 Discuss in detail, with the use of examples, the fundamental differences between the concept of leadership versus management. (20 marks

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Start-up Business Plan of the food truck, 4. Products and Services a. Describe in depth your...

Start-up Business Plan of the food truck,

4. Products and Services a. Describe in depth your products or services. (Technical specifications) b. What factors will give you competitive advantages or disadvantages? Examples include level of quality or unique or proprietary features.

5. Marketing Plan a. Market Research- Why? b. Market Research- How? Primary or Secondary Data? c. In your marketing plan, be as specific as possible; give statistics, numbers, and sources. The marketing plan will be the basis, later on, of the all‐important sales projection.

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