International Machinery Company (IMC) is a Swedish multinational manufacturing company. Currently, IMC's financial planners are considering undertaking a 1-year project in the United States. The project's expected dollar-denominated cash flows consist of an initial investment of $2,650 and a cash inflow the following year of $3,350. IMC estimates that its risk-adjusted cost of capital is 14%. Currently, 1 U.S. dollar will buy 7.1 Swedish kronas. In addition, 1-year risk-free securities in the United States are yielding 6%, while similar securities in Sweden are yielding 5%.

a. If the interest parity holds, what is the forward exchange rate of Swedish krona per U.S. dollar? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.

Swedish krona per U.S. dollar

b. If IMC undertakes the project, what is the net present value and rate of return of the project for IMC in home currency? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to two decimal places.

NPV:  Swedish kronas

Rate of return:  %

What two basic dimensions determine if a shopper will react positively or negatively to a consumption environment? What factors can affect a consumer's moods in the shopping environment that are a) under the control of the marketer and b) not under the control of the marketer?

C++ Code While Loops.

Ask user for file and open file.

Do priming read and make a while loop that: 1. Reads in numbers. 2. Counts how many there is. 3. Also for every 10 numbers in the file, print out the average of those 10 numbers. Ex: (If 20 numbers in the file. "With 10 numbers the average is .... and With 20 numbers the average is" and EX for a file with 5 numbers "There are 5 numbers in this file with an average of ..."

After the loop calculate and print the average of all nums in the file.

It is now clear that extreme weather events, global warming, and species extinctions are at least partly caused by pollution, mostly the release of greenhouse gases from power generation, vehicles, agri-business and manufacturing.

Why is the science so widely denied?

Why do many politicians resist implementing policies that will reduce the amounts of CO₂ and methane that are released into the atmosphere?

How are the issues of sustainable agriculture linked to the quality, price, and availability of food?

IRR Project K costs $42,881.70, its expected cash inflows are $10,000 per year for 8 years, and its WACC is 14%. What is the project's IRR? Round your answer to two decimal places.

Write at least two large paragraphs to describe your critical thoughts and reflections about watching the Movie The Race to Rebuild America’s Infrastructure. Specifically, what do you think about the issue of an aging and deteriorating American public infrastructure system? What are the possible consequences of an aging and deteriorating American public infrastructure system? How do we take action to address this issue?

What is centripetal acceleration? What is centripetal force? What purpose does centripetal force serve, and how can it be provided?

Identify and describe ways that policies and procedures facilitate strategy execution.

Study this short case and then answer the following questions:

Differing Perceptions at Clarkston Industries1

Susan Harrington continued to drum her fingers on her desk. She had a real problem and wasn’t sure what to do next. She had a lot of confidence in Jack Reed, but she suspected she was about the last person in the office who did. Perhaps if she ran through the entire story again in her mind she would see the solution.

Susan had been distribution manager for Clarkston Industries for almost twenty years. An early brush with the law and a short stay in prison had made her realize the importance of honesty and hard work. Henry Clarkston had given her a chance despite her record, and Susan had made the most of it. She now was one of the most respected managers in the company. Few people knew her background.

Susan had hired Jack Reed fresh out of prison six months ago. Susan understood how Jack felt when Jack tried to explain his past and asked for another chance. Susan decided to give him that chance just as Henry Clarkston had given her one. Jack eagerly accepted a job on the loading docks and could soon load a truck as fast as anyone in the crew.

Things had gone well at first. Everyone seemed to like Jack, and he made several new friends. Susan had been vaguely disturbed about two months ago, however, when another dock worker reported his wallet missing. She confronted Jack about this and was reassured when Jack understood her concern and earnestly but calmly asserted his innocence. Susan was especially relieved when the wallet was found a few days later.

The events of last week, however, had caused serious trouble. First, a new personnel clerk had come across records about Jack’s past while updating employee files. Assuming that the information was common knowledge, the clerk had mentioned to several employees what a good thing it was to give ex-convicts like Jack a chance. The next day, someone in bookkeeping discovered some money missing from petty cash. Another worker claimed to have seen Jack in the area around the office strongbox, which was open during working hours, earlier that same day.

Most people assumed Jack was the thief. Even the worker whose wallet had been misplaced suggested that perhaps Jack had indeed stolen it but had returned it when questioned. Several employees had approached Susan and requested that Jack be fired. Meanwhile, when Susan had discussed the problem with Jack, Jack had been defensive and sullen and said little about the petty-cash situation other than to deny stealing the money.

To her dismay, Susan found that rethinking the story did little to solve his problem. Should she fire Jack? The evidence, of course, was purely circumstantial, yet everybody else seemed to see things quite clearly. Susan feared that if she did not fire Jack, she would lose everyone’s trust and that some people might even begin to question her own motives.

Q1: Explain the events in this case in terms of learning, perception, and attribution (18 marks, 3 marks for each point)?

Q2: If you were to decide about this case, would you fire Jack or give him another chance? Why?

Q3: Does personality play a role in this case?

Guidelines - Do not rewrite the questions in your answers. - When answering, refer to each question by its symbol (e.g. Q1) - Answer in a new Word file

Ch 07 - Leadership Moment (BW13)

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You are now a leader. What you do and say is important. Please read the following situation in its entirety.  

1) Write 3 sentences or more about what you will say to the new men now under your command?

1. You can write a script of what exactly you would say, or
2. Write about the topic or thing you would want to convey to the men.

After you are done. Go find Prof. Grooms' comment. There is a video of what possibly the real Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain said.

You are also free to comment on your classmates' posts, but you are not required.

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A Leadership Moment

It is May 24, 1863, and you are 34-year-old Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, commanding officer of the 20^th Maine Regiment of Infantry. You have been with the 20^th Maine since it was founded less than a year ago in late summer, 1862, but you took command of the regiment only four days ago. Your unit is currently marching through Virginia as part of a larger Union army that is on course to engage General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army.

Everything you know about military command you have learned in the last nine months. Prior to the war, you were a professor of modern languages at Bowdoin College in Maine, with no military experience. To the surprise and regret of your academic colleagues, your passion for the Union cause led you to sign up. Your colleagues had sent a message to the Governor of Maine saying that you were “no fighter,” but the Governor had nonetheless appointed you a Lt. Colonel in Maine’s newest regiment.

You have just received a message that you are to be given charge of about 120 new troops from the 2^nd Maine. You need them – your unit began with about a thousand men when it was formed, but a combination of illness, injuries, deaths, and desertion have left you with fewer than 400.

The new troops would be good news except for the fact that they are mutineers. The 2^nd Maine has been decommissioned. A majority of its members had signed two-year contracts, and they have gone home. Left behind were 120 survivors who had signed for three years. After fighting in 11 battles and losing most of their fellow soldiers, they are tired and discouraged. They want to go home too, and they have stubbornly refused assignment to any other regiment.

In transferring these soldiers to your regiment, General George Meade has ordered you to “make them do duty or shoot them down the moment they refuse.” The mutineers have just been dropped in your regiment’s lap, still in uniform but disarmed. One of their number has been elected as a spokesman to relate their grievances. You meet him, and he explains that they had not been fed in several days (part of an effort by the Army to whip them into line), most of their fellow soldiers had died or gone home, they had fought and suffered in numerous battles, they were discouraged with the pace of the war and expected that the Union would probably lose, in no small part because the leadership of Union officers was so poor.

Your regiment will be moving out shortly. You need to talk to the 120 soldiers from the 2^nd Maine. They’re yours now. What is your plan, and what will you say to them? Will you bring them along under guard? Order them to fight? Shoot them if they refuse? Persuade them to join your unit? If so, how? You don’t have much time to choose a course of action and put it into motion.

In this case study, your task is to study different search algorithms to solve the N-Queens Problem which has been presented in class. We will focus on the incremental formulation in which we add a queen to any square in the leftmost empty column that is not attacked by any other queen.

Question: Using Hill Climbing (HC) algorithms, how many steps are needed to find the solution for the 12-Queens Problem? What is it? Draw on an 12x12 table. Show your steps.

A queueing system serves two types of customers. Type 1 customers arrive according to a Poisson process with a mean rate of 5 per hour. Type 2 customers arrive according to a Poisson process at a mean rate of 3 per hour. The system has two servers, both of which serve both types of customers. All service times have an exponential distribution with a mean of 10 minutes. Service is provided on a first-come-first-served basis. a. What is the probability distribution of the time between consecutive arrivals of customers of any type, what is its mean? b. Assume that when a Type 2 customer arrives, he finds two Type 1 customers being served and no other customers in the system. What is the probability distribution of this Type 2 customer’s waiting time in the queue and it mean?

Write a report about intercluter communication

the report must include

introduction

3 paragraph

conclusion

( at least 800 words)

Case Study: “Supply chain whirl”
While the 2001 global overhaul of Whirlpool's supply chain systems remains a work in progress today, managers say its success to date is encouraging the remaining systems work.
The supply chain at Whirlpool in 2000 was broken. Indeed, a manager there at the time quipped that among the four major appliance makers in the U.S., Whirlpool ranked fifth in delivery performance.
"We had too much inventory, too little inventory, wrong inventory, right inventory/wrong place, any combination of those things," says J.B. Hoyt, who was then supply chain project director. He says a sales vice president approached him one day and said he'd accept even worse performance from supply systems if they would just be consistent rather than wildly bouncing back and forth between good and poor production and shipping plans.
So in 2001, Whirlpool embarked on a multiproject global overhaul of its supply chain systems. The meta project remains a work in progress today, with a number of systems yet to be rolled out and some major technical issues to be resolved. But managers at Whirlpool say its success to date -- including huge improvements in customer service and reduced supply chain costs -- is providing the psychological and financial impetus to drive the remaining systems work.
Source: Anthes, G.H. (2015)

1. In order to understand Whirlpool’s supply chain information needs, discuss the purpose, characteristics and key performance dimensions for information flows for the following supply chain activities:
 Strategic decision making
 Tactical planning
 Routine decision making
 Execution and transaction processing (20)

2. Discuss, using examples, the difference between CRM and SRM applications. (5)

Amy is a fixed-income portfolio manager. One year ago, given her expectations of a stable yield curve over the coming 12 months and noting that the yield curve was upward sloping, She elected to position her portfolio solely in 20-year US Treasury bonds with a coupon rate of 4% and a price of $101.7593. After a year, she sells the bonds at a price of $109.0629.

a. Which yield curve strategy was most likely implemented by Amy last year?

Circle one. Sell Convexity / A barbell structure / Riding the yield curve

b. Now Amy is expecting the interest rates over the next 12 months to be highly volatile. She is seeking your advice on how to reposition the portfolio. Would you recommend her to sell or buy the call options on the bonds held in the portfolio, and why?