Q1. In what ways is the purchase of a hammer or of labor services by the military different from the purchase of a missile system? How does this affect government procurement policies in these two areas?

Q2. Should military officers and Defense Department officials by proscribed from working for private defense contractors for a period of several years after termination of their government service?

Q3. Imagine that Congress is considering a bill to reduce the current seventeen-year life of patents to eight years. What negative effects might this change have on the rate of innovation? What positive effect might it have for the economy?

Q4. Members of the poorest fifth of U.S. households have a much smaller share of total U.S. income than is typical in other developed countries. Does this mean that the poorest fifth of U.S. households are worse off in the United States than are the poorest fifth of households elsewhere? Why or why not?

1- Statistically controlled variation of processes is also called

2- True or False? An example of an XmR chart would be one showing the average daily time to bring a patient from an ambulance into the ER plotted against the date, over a period of 3 months.

True

False

3- True or False? A stressor which only affects a diabetic patient's blood sugar about once a month would be a special cause of variation.

True

False

4- True or False? A control chart and a process behavior chart are diametrically different things.

True

False

5-

If a group of physicians together study literature on reducing hospital-acquired bacterial infections, which part of a PDSA cycle is this?

Consider a region with two cities and a total workforce 24 = A+B, where A is the workforce
in city 1 and B is the workforce in city 2. For the negatively sloped portion of the utility
curves,

u(A) = 480 / A
; u(B) = 240 / B

1. Calculate the regional equilibrium values of the population for each city and regional utility.
Recall the conditions required for regional equilibrium: equalized utility (no one has
an incentive to move) and fixed population at a regional level.
2. Now, suppose technological innovation in the first city shifts the utility curve upward,
so along the negatively sloped portion u(A) = 720/A. Calculate the new equilibrium
populations and regional utility.
3. One more worker wanders into this region and chooses City B at random. What is
the resulting difference in utility between the two cities? Describe the process of these
cities trying to find a new equilibrium (and whether they will).

****** Section B only b. How many IRRs does this investment opportunity have? Please show how you find IRRs********************

Innovation Company is thinking about marketing a new software product. Upfront costs to market and develop the product are $ 5,200,000. The product is expected to generate profits of $ 1,300,000 per year for ten years. The company will have to provide product support expected to cost $ 95,000 per year in perpetuity. Assume all income and expenses occur at the end of each year. a. What is the NPV of this investment if the cost of capital is 5.92 % ? Should the firm undertake the project? Repeat the analysis for discount rates of 1.37 % and 18.66 % , respectively. b. How many IRRs does this investment opportunity have? (Hint: Consider the two alternative discount rates we used in our analysis in part a.) c. Can the IRR rule be used to evaluate this investment? Explain.

*** Must be 2 pages long apa format***

Company NewCo has hired you to advise its senior management on how to communicate a strategy for unleashing the firm’s creativity. You have eight weeks to put your recommendations together, which will be on the agenda of the company’s next Leadership Retreat.

Fortunately for NewCo, you have just completed a course on this very subject. After thinking about it for a while, you thought you should structure your project using material from the course you just completed, augmented by some additional research.

Your assignment this week is to define the ways that teams can be used to foster innovation at NewCo. How will teams be selected and structured? What leadership methods will be used to guide these teams? Base your use of teams on the work you have completed for previous components of the project.

In an attempt to strengthen the health system and improve health-service delivery, Zambia has been
gradually introducing RBF approaches to complement traditional input based financing in some of its
health programs and activities. Zambia was awarded a US$17 million grant in 2008 by the World
Bank through the Health Results Innovation Trust Fund (HRITF) to implement a RBF pilot project with
an accompanying Impact Evaluation (IE) led by the World Bank. Motivated by inadequate progress to
achieving MDGs 4 and 5 targets, the primary objective of the project was to catalyse the country’s
efforts to reduce under-five and maternal mortality in 11 districts in nine (9) of Zambia’s 10
provinces (except Lusaka) countrywide.

Perform a review of the Successes, Challenges and Opportunities of taking Results-Based Financing from scheme to system in health care financing.

You are a newly hired employee at the health department. Your second day at work, you are put in charge of a diabetes awareness program with pamphlets and lectures in a wide variety of target audiences. After speaking with other supervisors, you have been asked to develop a pyramid type program where you train a group of individuals who will then go out and train others. Clearly your knowledge of diffusion theory adoption categories is important.

What aspects of the innovation would be important to highlight in educating the public?

Outline how you would use adopter categories

Who would you expect to include in each of the groups?

How would you target these groups?

How would you evaluate your effort?

What specific factors would you examine?

What are your goals for the program? Why?

In an attempt to strengthen the health system and improve health-service delivery, Zambia has been gradually introducing RBF approaches to complement traditional input based financing in some of its health programs and activities. Zambia was awarded a US$17 million grant in 2008 by the World Bank through the Health Results Innovation Trust Fund (HRITF) to implement a RBF pilot project with an accompanying Impact Evaluation (IE) led by the World Bank. Motivated by inadequate progress to achieving MDGs 4 and 5 targets, the primary objective of the project was to catalyse the country’s efforts to reduce under-five and maternal mortality in 11 districts in nine (9) of Zambia’s 10 provinces (except Lusaka) countrywide. Perform a review of the Successes, Challenges and Opportunities of taking Results-Based Financing from scheme to system in health care financing.