From Harvard Business School HBX CORe 2020 Economics for Managers
Share a story or a link to a news article describing a government intervention in a market. Explain how the intervention changes the outcome of the market, and whether you think the intervention had a positive or negative effect.
In: Economics
What is the difference between making an argument to a particular audience in writing; and making the same argument to a particular audience in speech? What changes have to made to the argument in either case? What additional considerations do you have as a speaker that you might not have as a writer?
In: Psychology
. Describe with the aid of diagrams how the Baroreceptor Reflex System regulates cardiac output, heart rate and total peripheral resistance in order to restore changes in blood pressure
a) When mean arterial pressure is increased
b) When mean arterial pressure is decreased physiology
In: Biology
Answer the following questions.
(a) What is the implication of a correlation matric not being
positive-semidefinite?
(b) Why are the diagonal elements of a correlation matrix always
1?
(c) Making small changes to a positive-semidefinite matrix with 100
variables will have no effect on the matrix. Explain this
statement
In: Advanced Math
in a paragraph, List 4 major factors that lead to unsustainable outcomes. Describe each and explain how it impacts sustainability in general. Select one of these to explore in detail and postulate what specific real-world changes (not general but specific) would be needed to offset its impact.
In: Economics
What will happen to the money multiplier and monetary base during a rampant asset inflation period and then during the financial crisis triggered by the eventual bursting of the asset bubble? What will be the effect of the changes on the asset inflation in the first sub-period and on the post-crisis recession in the second subperiod?
In: Economics
Is pure competition a "desirable" market model for all industries? Should industries aspire for pure competition? Why or why not? Think of an industry that does not function in a purely competitive market currently. Describe the changes that would be required, if this industry wanted to function under pure competition.
In: Economics
Discuss the differences/similarities between antiporter, uniporter, and symporter carriers. Make sure your explanation discusses gradients of each solute and direction of flow. Be clear how structure allows for the mechanism of transfer. How do changes in structure impact transfer and binding to substrate?
In: Biology
Provide a synopsis of the economic, and financial market and financial instrument impacts of the Quantitative Easing in the Great Recession (Harvard Case Study) announcements, considering:
o The behavior of long-term and short-term rates,
o Changes to credit default swaps, and
o Inflation expectations.
In: Economics
For Barbiturates answer the following:
- Type of receptor it binds to. Ion channel recept or GPCRs, is it excitatory or inhibitory on postsynaptic cell.
- Identify the endogenous molecule that the drug is interacting with and how it changes its function.
-Discuss the changing synaptic transmission by drugs based on the neural circuits that are affected.
In: Anatomy and Physiology