Select three (3) of the five questions to answer. You must type your answers and your responses to each question should be no more than 500 words per question (1,500 total). Reference/cite the content in the relevant modules to support your answers/argument - no external sources or group work.

1. Protest movements can have an illusion of victory. Sometimes they maintain a state of balance between opposing forces or actions, an equilibrium (i.e., gained something here, but lost something there). Use examples to either agree or disagree with this claim that the demise of protest movements can lead to the return of the status quo. (From Module 1: Origins of Social Movements (SM) & The Structuring of a Protest (PPM).

2. Identify and describe the six (6) preconditions necessary for collective behavior to occur according to Neil Smelser’s Value Added Theory (From Module 2: Theories of Social Movements and Collective Action (SM).

3. Summarize how superbrands control public life via consumer capitalism with reference to Naomi Klein’s No Logo (From Module 3: Issues in the Study of Social Movements and Collective Action (SM).

4. The New Deal served both as a “successful” solution to the Great Depression and a lesser concession to what the American public wanted. With that said, identify some of the ways the New Deal and its programs/agencies transformed the 1930s (From Module 4: The Unemployed Workers’ Movement (PPM).

5. Workers were waiting for unions, “pounding on their doors” long before unions were ready for them. Give examples of how people mobilized insurgency, not organizations (From Module 5: The Industrial Workers’ Movement (PPM).

Think of an example of an innovation you have studied at work or school. How would you characterize it on the dimensions described as incremental innovation vs radical iinovation, product versus process innovation, architectural versus component innovation.

Please answer in word format only and more than 350 words

Thanks

Subject: Management of Technological Innovation

What is the impact of the financial crisis 2008-2010 on McDonald’s in micro and macro level? what are the decisions taken after the recession was ended?

Assume you work as budget analyst for City of Blue Ridge and you are preparing the budget for Fiscal Year 2020-2021. The data of tax revenue of past 10 years have been obtained as following. You are using two of the three different forecast models - 3-year moving average (with the alpha 0.4), linear regression trend project, and exponential smoothing.

(1) What would be your forecasted revenue for 2020-2021based on your forecasting models, respectively?

(2) Which model gives you the better estimate? In other words, which model would you choose? Provide a justification for your choice.

a. Before, lockdown due to COVID-19, the market for Mobile phones and Headphones in Karachi are at equilibrium with an equilibrium price of Rs. 50,000 and equilibrium quantity of 20,000 in the mobile phone market, and equilibrium price of Rs.1500 and equilibrium quantity of 12,000 in Headphone market. After the reopening the markets, and business in Karachi, the price of cell phones has increased from Rs.50, 000 to Rs. 70,000. What will be the impact of the increase in the price of cell phones in both the markets? Explain by using graphs. Draw the graphs for both the markets separately, labeling everything clearly. (2 Marks, 50-150 words)

Consider a market for ice cream a normal good in Pakistan. You are supposed to analyze and discuss the effect on the equilibrium output and the price in the ice cream market in Pakistan for May, 2020 after the following changes (Other things held constant). In each case, explain your answer using supply and demand diagram. (4 Marks, 50-250 words) There has been a decrease in people’s income and a rise in the price of sugar (an input for making ice cream) in Pakistan during 2020 due to COVID-19 crisis simultaneously. News reports on May 5, 2020 claim that the consumption of ice cream is good for the health of patients with coronavirus. An improvement in technology that allows ice cream to be built at half the cost in Pakistan during 2020. The weather has changed suddenly and the temperature reached 40 °C in May 2020 in Pakistan

The following stock quotation for McDonald reported on Friday, May 8, 2020 when

      market closed at 4:00 PM Eastern time

McDonald's Corp. (MCD) -NYSE

182.66 -4.90 (-2.61%) At close: May 8 4:00PM EDT

1. What was May 8th close price of McDonald stock? How did it change from previous day (May 7th )?

2. If you purchased McDonald stock at the 52 weeks low and sold it at close price on May 8, 2020. You have received dividend during this holding period. Calculate your holding period rate of return

3. Show how the 2.74% yield is calculated.

4. Currently, the 3-month T-bill interest rate is 0.5%, and required return for the stock market is 12%. Calculate required rate of return for McDonald stock using the CAPM model.   

5. Assume the dividend growth rate is 5%, calculate the true value and annual rate of

  return of McDonald stock using Gordon model.  

6. Draw a security market line (SML) using the data above. Determine the intercept

  and slope of the SML

1. According to the CAPM model, will you buy McDonald stock or not? Why?

Write about Collective Bargaining with examples in companies and its benefits.

1) As mentioned in this chapter, C++ predefined identifiers such as cout and cin can be redefined by the programmer. However, why is it not wise to do so?

2) The text mentioned that the char data type can be cast into an int. What are some possible uses of this functionality?

3) Introduce the C++ data type string, which is a programmer-defined data type available in the C++ library. Define a string as a sequence of zero or more characters.

Please explain in detail.

On December 31, 2010, Harris Co. leased a machine from Catt, Inc. for a five-year period. Equal annual payments under the lease are 630,000 (including 30,000 annual executory costs) and are due on December 31 of each year. The first payment was made on December 31, 2010, and the second payment was made on December 31, 2011. The five lease payments are discounted at 10% over the lease term. The, present value of minimum lease payments at the inception of the lease and before the first annual payment was $2,502,000. The lease is appropriately accounted for as a finance lease by Harris. In its December 31, 2010. balance sheet, Harris should report a current lease liability of:

A. 600,000.
B. 630,000.
C. 409,800.
D. 1,902,000