Robin Tires, Inc. makes two types of tires, one for SUVs and the other for Hatchbacks.

The firm has the following limits—500 hours for production, 250 hours for packaging, and 150 hours for shipping.

The times required per tire type is given in the following table.

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Assuming that the company is interested in maximizing the total profit contribution, answer the following:

a. What are the variables

b. Write all necessary constraints , solve by SOLVER

c. How many tires of each model should Robin manufacture?
d. What is the total profit contribution Robin can earn with the optimal production quantities?

What is location-based services?

What are two specific applications one that uses LBS in the restaurant/fast food industry and one that uses LBS as a retailer. What are two reasons why companies or organizations want to use LBS? What is a reason consumers should be wary of LBS?

Answer all 4 of the questions/topics:

Each response must be at least 200-300 words.

1. Communication

Describe and explain the importance of a good integrated information & communication system. What is the importance of communication between departments and what negative impact can a poor system of communication have for a hotel? Discuss 2 important forms of integrated PMS/Communication systems or examples of data information.

2. Future of Hotels

Imagine the hotel room of the future (10 years from now). What does the room look like? What technologies exist in the room? How does it improve the guest experience? What needs and expectations will the future guest have for Accommodation properties? In light of recent health issues what steps will the Accommodations Industry need to address to gain consumer confidence? What will the long term outcome of the industry be after crisis is cleared?

3. Housekeeping

Discuss the importance of the Housekeeping Department. Why is the Rooms Division the greatest asset of the owners? How will you deal with staffing due to lower occupancy? What steps will housekeeping need to take in order to protect our guests and our staff moving forward after the current health crisis?

4. Guest Service

Describe/Explain the following Service Recovery Model and provide an example from the Accommodation Industry for each section. Remember: As discussed in class we have to assess the Fault & Severity. Following this chart answer the following question: -How will you drive business to your hotel once crisis is over?

How will you attract business to your hotel once crisis is over?

The company president has noted a constant increase of reports passed on to her, many of them through the mail, and others through the company’s Intranet. Most of these reports remain unread, although the company president when traveling for business does find time to browse through some of the reports while on the airplane. It has clearly become difficult for her to keep track of all projects due to information overload. However, she does not want to abandon her personal objective of being constantly informed, and she does not want to query her vice presidents for summaries of major developments. What are the alternatives available to the company president?

How is Paypal likely to generate revenue through the acquisition of honey science? What is the basis of its profitability? Please explain its business model.

Use appropriate methods to review the current leadership and management within the organisation in relation to the skills that they may require for future situations or challenges that the organisation could face.

. What role can marketing play in turning the economy around during the coronavirus?

How can small businesses utilize this time to better market their business

1. Assignment/Research:

a. Preparation of bids for a project

b. Contracts of projects or other works

The califonia Raisin Advisory Board used to run ads featuring "The California Raisins" a fictitious R&B musical group composed of dancing rains that boogied to the song "I Heard it through the grapevine" The ads, which were hugely popular and which gave rise to a line of raisin themed merchandise, were designed to encourage raisin consumption. This campaign was an example of

A) product - focused advertising

B) consumer-generated advertising

C) public service announcments

D) institutional advertising

E) Push strategies

Which of the following statements about writing bad-news messages is true?

Question 14 options:

Congratulations! You have just been hired as a senior IT portfolio and project manager at a traditional large finance company. The company is looking to invest in new financial products and services. You are now in charge of all new strategic IT projects to enable and support these new products and services. In your team, you have many subject matter experts, analysts, product and project managers, either directly or indirectly working for you .
(a) Describe all areas of the company that you believe to be relevant and pertinent to your new role, using a holistic view and organizational perspectives. Also, describe how these areas would provide very valuable and actionable information for you and your team.

(b) Explain why these areas would have an impact(s), positive or negative, on your ability to do your job efficiently and effectively, to help achieve the company’s short and long term project/portfolio goals.


(2) All organizations have to operate under limitations and your company is not an exception. Even though many groups in your company are exited about their potential new projects, with limited resources, your company can only take on projects that are most appropriate and beneficial.

(a) What approaches and/or methods would you use to decide on which projects to select so that the selection process is strategic, structural and data-driven?

(b) There are 3 projects that are very similar in nature except some financial considerations. Which one of the projects would bring the best financial values and why? (The company uses the discount rate of 7%.)

- Project A: Initial cost $1 Million with the projected cash flows of Year1: $500,000, Year2: $1 Million, Year3: $1.5 Million - Project B: Initial cost $250,000 with the projected cash flows of Year1: $200,000, Year2: $800,000, Year3: $1.25 Million - Project C: Initial cost $500,000 with the projected cash flows of Year1: $1.5 Million, Year2: $750,000, Year3: $250,000


(3) You have decided to personally project manage one of the most important projects. It's a very large and complex project that deals with the alternate asset investments including cryptocurrencies. You will have a team of 20 people. This is first time ever that the company is taking on the alternative investments project and the risks are very high.

(a) What would you do to comprehensively prepare for starting this project so that you do not miss any important areas and all relevant processes.

(b) What Best Practices, Standards, and/or Methodologies would you use for this project and why?

(c) Describe, in details, about the methodology that you have chosen and how do you make sure it works effectively from beginning to the end of the project?

(d) What would you do to make sure that the areas of project Integration, Scope and Time are well planned, executed, and controlled & monitored?

(e) What would you do to make sure that the project is on track while dealing with a pandemic outbreak?

A visiting American executive finds that a foreign subsidiary that produces cigarettes in a less-developed country has hired a 12-year-old girl to work on a factory floor making cigarettes, in violation of the company’s prohibition of child labor. He tells the local manager to replace the child and send her back to school. The local manager tells the American executive that the child is an orphan with no other means of support, and she will probably become a street child if she is denied work. What should the American executive do?

A brand hierarchy is a useful means of graphically portraying a firm’s branding strategy by displaying the number and nature of common and distinctive brand elements across the firm’s products, revealing their explicit ordering.

Pick a company.

As completely as possible, characterize its brand portfolio and brand hierarchy.

How would you improve the company’s branding strategies? ( Brand strategy involves decisions regarding the number of levels to use, how brand elements at different levels will be combined for a given product, and how brand elements will be linked to multiple products.)

You do not need the book pages just found out what brand hierarchy and brand portfolio is and then go from there! No need to sound super smart or anything I just need to use this for a discussion. Thank you so much!

Jacob works for a large US corporation that has operations in more than 30 countries. Currently there is conflict among the international managers, as they feel that they are not being compensated fairly and claim that US managers like Jacob are paid more because the y come from countries with a higher cost of living. The firm is deciding whether to not to equalize the pay for all managers regardless of country of origin. What type of staffing policy does this company have in place?

a) polycentric

b) geocentric

c) ethnocentric

d) domestic

e) regional