MULTIPLE CHOICE (from a to c) WITH THE INFORMATION SHOWN ABOVE

A. Has your currency appreciated or depreciated against the dollar between March 10 and May 9, 2020? Choose from the answers above:

a. It has depreciated
b. It has stayed the same, has not changed in value
c. I have no idea
d. Other:

B. The Mushroom Kingdom currency, called Coin, has appreciated against the dollar in this period. Based on this information and your answer to the previous question, what should have happened with your currency regarding the Mushroom Kingdom Coin? Choose from the answers above:

a. Your currency must necessarily have appreciated against the Mushroom Kingdom Coin
b. Your currency must necessarily have depreciated against the Mushroom Kingdom Coin
c. We do not have enough information, it may have been appreciated, but it may also have depreciated
d. Other:

C. If interest rates in the United States rise and all other factors (inflation, interest rates in other countries, etc.) remain the same, will your currency appreciate or depreciate against the dollar? Choose from the answers above:

a. Will be appreciated
b. Will depreciate
c. Other:

D. Explain your answer to the previous question

E. Blue wants to expand its exports and since March 10 has been negotiating with beverage distributors in the country that has your currency. Is the evolution observed in the exchange rate in the last two months convenient or detrimental to Serrallés? (Note that his objective is to sell as many bottles as possible and that he always sells in dollars, he does not accept payments in another currency). Explain your answer

F. Imagine that tomorrow they will reach an agreement. However, in Blue they have a concern: they have never worked with this client, and sending the bottles before receiving payment is risky, but the client does not want to pay until they receive the order and verify that it is OK. What can they do?

cost control between Germany, Canada, The United Kingdom, and Japan varies and differs from one another. In Japan, costs controlled and the health care system is determine and relies on payroll taxes and thus requires a large employed population. But with a low birth rate and the longest life expectancy in the world, Japan’s population is aging faster than that of other developed nations. In contrast, in Canada, Canadians have found a way to deliver comprehensive care to their entire population at far less cost. In 1970, the year before Canada’s single-payer system was fully in place, Canada and the United States spent approximately the same proportion of their gross domestic products on health care—7.2% and 7.4%, respectively. On the other hand, in the United Kingdom, Two major factors allow the United Kingdom to keep its health care costs low: the power of the governmental single payer to limit budgets and the mode of payment of physicians. While Canada also has a single payer of health services, it had traditionally paid most physicians fee-for-service. In contrast, the United Kingdom relies chiefly on capitation and salary to pay physicians; payment can more easily be controlled by limiting increases in capitation payments and salaries. Moreover, because consultants (specialists) in the United Kingdom are NHS employees, the NHS can and does tightly restrict the number of consultant slots, including those for surgeons. Moreover, in Germany, German health care costs resumed an upward surge, paving the way for a 1993 cost-control law restricting the growth of sickness fund budgets. However, Germany’s health care expenditures as a percent of GDP have continued to rise, from 8.3% in 1990 to 11.3% in 2012. Germany has not fully solved the problem of rising health care expenditures.

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CASE #2 MISSED CALL (STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN ACTION SIXTH EDITION)

Do you remember your first or even second mobile phone? Chances are it might have been one made by Finnish company, Nokia Corporation. Mine was. It was a beautiful steel blue color and was, I thought, pretty slick. Nokia phones back then were quite popular with consumers and positioned the company as one of the leading mobile phone makers. In 1998, Nokia sold more than 40 million mobile phones to surpass Motorola as the world's #1 mobile phone company. During this time period, Nokia was light years ahead of its rivals with digital phones. However, "Nokia was caught sleeping in 2007 when Apple Inc.'s iPhone redefined the cellphone as a PC-like device with a touch screen and sleek software." Since that crucial time, Nokia has lost 75 percent of its market value and is struggling to catch up to Apple and Google Inc.'s Android.

Despite its failure to recognize the market-changing charac­teristics of Apple's iPhone, Nokia is still the world's largest hand­ set manufacturer by volume. Europe is the Company's largest combined market, with about a third of sales. Somewhat surpris­ ingly, China is Nokia's largest single-country market, accounting for nearly 20 percent of sales. And the United States accounts for only 4 percent of sales, and India (another important target) accounts for only 7 percent of sales. The company has been craft­ing strategies it hopes will help position it as a dominant force once again in this industry. New CEO Stephen Elop, the first non- Finnish leader and a former top Microsoft executive, pledged to turn around the struggling company.

CEO Elop's initial plans were aimed at streamlining its smart- phone operations costs and speeding delivery of new products. He said, "Nokia has been characterized as an organization where it is too hard to get things done." More than anything else, the changing market dynamics demand that we must improve our ability to aggressively lead through changes in our environ­ment." Getting its products to market faster would be a key failing that would have to be improved. In addition to the first round of 1,800 jobs cut, Elom eliminated several senior officials on the company's group executive board. He also sent a memo to Nokia employees that compared the Company's predicament in catching up to Apple and Google in smartphones to that of a man who was standing on a burning oil rig at sea. Standing there, he needed to make a choice and he decided to jump." He went on to say that "Nokia, too, had to jump metaphorically—to take bold action to make up for lost ground." And bold actions it has taken.

In February 2011, Jo Harlow, the head of smart devices at Nokia, "stood before a packed convention hall at the Mobile World Congress, the cellphone industry's most important trade show, to explain the Finnish company's new software alli­ance with Microsoft." That agreement had been announced in London only a few days earlier. But, "the need for the deal had been so urgent that Nokia and Microsoft, grasping for a foothold in a mobile computing industry that was quickly slip­ ping away from them, had gone public without a definitive legal agreement, just a handshake and a promise to work together, somehow." She told the audience that Nokia and Microsoft would produce their first phone using the Windows operating system by the end of the year—a pace two to three times faster than Nokia's past product introductions. Getting that done would "require an accelerated, effective collaboration with a completely different corporate culture in a creative endeavor so intimate that both would have to discard mutual distrust to make it work."

By mid-2011, Nokia had unveiled a new smartphone and three lower-priced handsets as initial steps in its transition to Microsoft software. Although analysts described the products as well-designed with an intuitive user interface, they also said the products would be unlikely to help improve the company's diffi­culties as there was no carrier support or apps developers. In early fall 2011, the company sold 2,000 wireless patents and patent applications to Ottawa, Canada-based Mosaid Technologies. Many technology companies are using this strategy to "essen­tially outsource the sometimes expensive process of squeezing revenue out of their patent holdings." In addition, the com­pany announced another 3,500 job cuts by closing a factory in Romania and transferring production to more efficient plants in Asia. Elop said, "We are seeing solid progress agains tour strat­egy, and with these planned changes we will emerge as a more dynamic, nimble and efficient challenger."

Now, it's do-or-die for Nokia. One year after the announce­ment of the Microsoft alliance, the company's Nokia Lumia 900 smartphone was introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in February 2012. "The high-end device marks per­ haps the company's last chance to re-establish itself as a serious player in the U.S." Will the market once again hang up on Nokia or will it take the call?

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. What international strategy advantages and drawbacks can you see in this case? Discuss.

2. What do you think are the difficulties in being a market- leading competitor trying to compete in so many different geographic areas? What resources and capabilities would such an organization need? What impact would the fact that the competitor's industry is a continually changing one have on its strategies?​​​​​​​

3. What steps has Nokia's CEO taken to turn around his struggling company? Be specific.​​​​​​​

4. One of the most interesting things to me about this story is the alliance between Nokia and Microsoft. How did this get done? What do you think that process entailed?

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As an entrepreneur startup you seek to lure expensive talent to work for you as the business starts and begins the growth phase. You really cannot afford many of these developers and other C-suite executives. What is the most attractive type of preferred stock along with their salaries to offer these potential highly talented employees and why? (4pts).

Do you think that a firm’s decision-making methods will evolve as it grows from a small startup into a mature company? If so, how and why? What effect is that likely to have on the company’s workforce? Its corporate culture? Is it likely to alter its effectiveness at product design? How might its emphasis change as the company matures?

Ben Bates graduated from college six years ago with a finance undergraduate degree. Although he is satisfied with his current job, his goal is to become an investment banker. He feels that an MBA degree would allow him to achieve this goal. After examining schools, he has narrowed his choice to either Wilton University or Mount Perry College. Although internships are encouraged by both schools, to get class credit for the internship, no salary can be paid. Other than internships, neither school will allow its students to work while enrolled in its MBA program. Ben currently works at the money management firm of Dewey and Louis. His annual salary at the firm is $65,000 per year, and his salary is expected to increase at 3 percent per year until retirement. He is currently 28 years old and expects to work for 40 more years. His current job includes a fully paid health insurance plan, and his current average tax rate is 26 percent. Ben has a savings account with enough money to cover the entire cost of his MBA program. The Ritter College of Business at Wilton University is one of the top MBA programs in the country. The MBA degree requires two years of full-time enrollment at the university. The annual tuition is $70,000, payable at the beginning of each school year. Books and other supplies are estimated to cost $3,000 per year. Ben expects that after graduation from Wilton, he will receive a job offer for about $110,000 per year, with a $20,000 signing bonus. The salary at this job will increase at 4 percent per year. Because of the higher salary, his average income tax rate will increase to 31 percent. The Bradley School of Business at Mount Perry College began its MBA program 16 years ago. The Bradley School is smaller and less well known than the Ritter College. Bradley offers an accelerated, one-year program, with a tuition cost of $85,000 to be paid upon matriculation. Books and other supplies for the program are expected to cost $4,500. Ben thinks that he will receive an offer of $92,000 per year upon graduation, with an $18,000 signing bonus. The salary at this job will increase at 3.5 percent per year. His average tax rate at this level of income will be 29 percent. Both schools offer a health insurance plan that will cost $3,000 per year, payable at the beginning of the year. Ben also estimates that room and board expenses will cost $2,000 more per year at both schools than his current expenses, payable at the beginning of each year. The appropriate discount rate is 6.3 percent.

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) In the mid-1990s, Colgate-Palmolive developed a new toothpaste for the U.S. market, Colgate Total, with an antibacterial ingredient that was already being successfully sold overseas. At that time, the word antibacterial was not allowed for such products by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In response, the name “Total” was given to the product in the United States. The one word would convey that the toothpaste is the “total” package of various benefits. Young & Rubicam developed several commercials illustrating Total’s benefits and tested the commercials with focus groups. One commercial touting Total’s long-lasting benefits was particularly successful. The product was launched in the United States in January of 1998 using commercials that were designed from the more successful ideas of the focus group tests. Suppose 32% of all people in the United States saw the Total commercials. Of those who saw the commercials, 40% purchased Total at least once in the first 10 months of its introduction. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, approximately 20% of all Americans were in the 45-64 age category. Suppose 24% of the consumers who purchased Total for the first time during the initial 10-month period were in the 45-64 age category. Within three months of the Total launch, Colgate-Palmolive grabbed the number one market share for toothpaste. Ten months later, 21% of all U.S. households had purchased Total for the first time. The commercials and the new product were considered a success. During the first 10 months of its introduction, 43% of those who initially tried Total purchased it again. a) What percentage of U.S. households purchased Total at least twice in the first 10 months of its release? b) Can you conclude the initial purchase of Total was independent of age? Use a quantitative argument to justify your answer. c) Calculate the probability that a randomly selected U.S. consumer is either in the 45-64 age category or purchased Total during the initial 10-month period. d) What is the probability that a randomly selected person purchased Total in the first 10 months given that the person is in the 45-64 age category? e) What percentage of people who did not see the commercials purchased Total at least once in the first 10 months of its introduction?

American customer satisfaction index: Starbucks in the U.S. 2006-2016

ABOUT THIS STATISTIC: This statistic shows the American customer satisfaction index scores of Starbucks in the United States from 2006 to 2016. Starbucks had an ACSI score of 75 in 2016.

Starbucks

The Starbucks Corporation is a coffeehouse chain based in Seattle which operates more than 25 thousand stores worldwide (as of 2016). Just over 50 percent (around 7,880) of all Starbucks stores were company-operated stores, from which Starbucks generates around 79 percent of its revenue. Around 5,292 stores are licensed stores. Starbucks, which became a publicly traded company on June 26, 1992, generated around 21.32 billion U.S. dollars in revenue in the 2016 fiscal year.

In its company-operated stores Starbucks generates 74 percent of revenue from the sale of beverages, 19 percent from food sales and three percent from the sale of packaged and single serve coffees. Another four percent of retail sales are attributable to coffee-making equipment and other merchandise.

The United States is Starbucks’ biggest and most important market. In 2016, revenues from Starbucks Americas segment amounted to more than 14 billion U.S. dollars. The

Americas segment comprises over 13,000 stores in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Brazil Chile and other American countries with around 86 percent of those stores located in the United States. 2

13. Plot this set of data as a scatterplot in excel. Insert excel graph here:

14. Find the correlation coefficient.
15. Is it positive or negative?
16. What does the sign tell us?
17. What does the correlation imply about the relationship between the time and the satisfaction?

18. Is the correlation significant? Why or why not? (Answer in 1-2 complete sentences.) (Use the Pearson calculator).

20) Draw the trendline in excel. Can the regression line be used for prediction? No, it is too weak. Insert excel graph here:

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