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What is the difference between price maker vs price taker.

How do network effects help Facebook fend off smaller social-networking rivals? Could an online retailer doing half as much business compete on an equal footing with Amazon in terms of costs? Explain.

 

 

a.) Describe your understanding of Regulated Monopolies; Geographic Monopolies (one paragraph)

b.) What is the difference between price maker vs price taker (one paragraph)

c.) Discuss your understanding of the pricing policy of a Monopoly( one Paragraph)

d.)  Look at the Consider This Section regarding Price Discrimination at the B

Is it cost effective to spend millions and millions of dollars in an effort to stop a hand-full of people” who are bound to terrorize the United States?

Should be at least350 words, APA format

Question 1

The United States Government is striving to have an open, but secure border. What would be the consequences/impact to the United States if the border was suddenly made less open and more secure?

2) Should the “need to know” be replaced by the “need to share” as stated in the 9/11 Commission Report? Why or why not? Fully explain your position.

3) What is the role of the Department of Defense in border and coastal security? What is the DOD’s relationship with the Department of Homeland Security as it pertains to border security? How does DOD support civil authorities?

 

Question 2

1) Define pay riding. What is free riding? Over time, can the unilateral solution likely turn into a multilateral one?

2) “Is it cost effective to spend millions and millions of dollars in an effort to stop a hand-full of people” who are bound to terrorize the United States?

3) What is the “Hardened Border Paradox? What is the “Open Border Paradox? How can both be overcome?

How should the intrinsic as well as the instrumental value of a human life be determined?

Read the Decision: Point Measuring Our Worth. Page 277.

This Decision Point deals with how we measure the intrinsic value of a life in addition to the instrumental value.

The scenario discussed is that of the Ford Pinto, which involves a decision that teaches the hazards of considering only the instrumental value of a life.

In 1968, Ford Motor Company made a historic decision regarding the Pinto, which was engineered with a rear gas tank assembly that had a tendency to explode in accidents that involved some rear-end collisions. The company allowed the Pinto to remain on the market after it determined that it would be more costly to engage in a recall effort than to pay out the costs of liability for injuries and deaths incurred.

In an infamous memo, Ford’s senior management calculated what the company would likely have to pay per life lost. It is noteworthy that these estimates were not Ford’s alone but were based on figures from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Using these figures, the costs for recalling and modifying the Pinto were $121 million, while the costs for settling cases in which injuries were expected to occur would be only about $50 million.

Write a 2 page, APA style paper considering the following questions when assessing this scenario:

  1. How should the decision-making process be handled.
  2. How should the intrinsic as well as the instrumental value of a human life be determined?
  3. Consider how you would measure your own worth or the value of someone close to you. Who are their stakeholders and what is their value to each of them? How will they measure it financially?
    • How much would your stakeholders suffer if they lost you?
    • How much do you currently contribute to society and what would society lose if you were not here?
    • How much would society benefit if you continued to survive?

Businesses have reasons to consider these issues, though extraordinarily difficult; how would you prefer that they reach conclusions in these areas? Provide 3-5 APA style references both inline and at the end of the paper to support your analysis.

Note: This is your opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge of the week’s theory linked to personal opinion and outside evidence.

Your paper

Are there common themes that you see running through the issues and topics addressed by several associations?

Now that you have explored the Web sites of a number of professional associations and foundations that support the work of higher education professionals, share your findings with your colleagues and determine “what’s on the agenda” of these organizations. In your Discussion this week, address the following questions:

 

  • Are there common themes that you see running through the issues and topics addressed by several associations?
  • Are there some associations whose agenda seems to be very different from those of others?
  • How do the agendas of these organizations overlap with the issues we’ve been investigating in this course so far? Are the associations working on issues that truly concern the majority of higher education professionals, and is their work likely to provide resources that will help us with our key challenges? Do you see any gaps?

 

 

 

 

Additionally, explore the resources available from the following private foundations that support work in higher education:

 

APA GUIDELINES IN CITE CITATIONS DUE 2/1

Calculate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for the firm’s existing capital structure.

Airvalue Airways is a regional carrier whose strategy is to expand gradually as they can identify routes that offer an attractive return on the investment necessary to support successful coverage of the route.  As part of this expansion, the company is planning to buy a new plane in the upcoming fiscal year. The purchasing department has narrowed the choice down to two models.  One is the A220 which is manufactured in Europe.  The other plane is the G435 which is built in the United States.  The two aircraft have similar profiles. However, the locally-built G435 is significantly more expensive to purchase.

The A220 has an expected life of 5 years, will cost $90 million and its use will produce net operating cash inflows of $30 million per year. The G435 has a life of 10 years, will cost $128 million, and its use will produce net operating cash inflows of $25 million per year.  Airvalue plans to serve the route for 10 years. When they need to purchase a new A220 at the end of five years, the cost will be $115 million net after allowing for salvage value of the used plane.  Net operating cash inflows will remain at $30 million throughout the second five years.  At the end of 10 years, salvage value of the G435 and of the second A220 are expected to be about the same at approximately $500,000 each.

As the company’s CFO you are to provide the financial analysis that will be considered by the strategic planning executive committee during evaluation of this expansion alternative.  Your plan is to use a capital budgeting approach to the analysis in order to best assure that the decision will result in maximization of wealth for the company’s stockholders.  You also want to convert the entire committee to the concept that capital budgeting should be used as the main tool for the financial analysis of capital expenditure alternatives.

The company uses the historical difference in returns between the S&P 500 and the Treasury bond rates of 7% as their estimated market risk premium.   The current yield to maturity on a 10-year Treasury bond is 6.2%.  Airvalue Airways’ common-stock equity beta is estimated as 1.40.

Airvalue’s capital structure is 58% common stock, 32% preferred stock and 10% long-term debt.  An 8.8% after tax cost of debt has been determined and the cost of preferred stock is 12%.

Your task is to:

  1. Describe for other members of the strategic planning committee the role that capital budgeting should play in corporate strategic management.
  2. Explain why the NPV and IRR capital budgeting tools are superior to the accounting rate of return and simple payback techniques for determining the attractiveness of capital investment opportunities.
  3. Use the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to identify the cost of common stock.
  4. Calculate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for the firm’s existing capital structure.
  5. Calculate the net present value (NPV) for each plane model using the company’s WACC as the hurdle rate.
  6. Recommend which plane should be purchased and justify your recommendation.
  7. Discuss the need to manage implementation of the project so that the higher returns can be realized.  Include the strategic management keys to protecting the project from competitive forces that would erode the earning power of the project and jeopardize realization of the projected rate of return on the investment.

To complete this assignment, you must submit a 6-8 page paper that addresses the seven elements of the task as listed above and exhibits your calculations of the cost of common stock, the weighted average cost of capital, and the NPV for each plane along with an explanation of the calculations.

The paper must be submitted as a Word document and it must follow APA style guidelines.

Determine the best funding alternative for Ockham Technologies and how it will affect the formation of the Board of Directors.

 

Referencing the Ockham Technologies: Living on the Razor’s Edge case study, write a 5-7 page paper in

which you do the following:

 

  1. Determine the best funding alternative for Ockham Technologies and how it will affect the formation of the Board of Directors (look at Resource Dependency Theory to understand how the rationale as to how to select members for a Board of Directors/Advisors).

 

  1. Discuss how would you, as Jim Triandiflou, handle the increasing tension between yourself and Mike Meisenheimer.

 

  1. Determine if Ockham should outsource its system-development efforts, and if so, to which company, and if not, how it should it complete development of the system for IBM.

Compare and contrast conventional current regulations and oversights that exist in the United States with that of nonconventional medicine.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that describes an overview of CAM and its categories of treatments. Include the following:

  • Compare and contrast conventional current regulations and oversights that exist in the United States with that of nonconventional medicine.
  • Define the terms alternative, complementary, and integrative in relation to medicine and clarify how these terms are different.
  • Describe how conventional medicine plays a role in these three terms.
  • Examine the philosophy of CAM and how it relates to or is different from conventional Western medicine.
  • Describe how NCCAM classifies Complementary Health Approaches.
  • Select one CAM treatment therapy (modality) from among the complementary health approaches and describe it.
  • Using one medical condition, describe how your chosen therapy can be used as an alternative, a complementary, or an integrative therapy for that specific medical condition.
  • Include the results of scientific studies that show a clinical benefit from the example selected, if available.

Format your paper con

How did the deregulation of the airline industry in the late 1970s influence labor relations at Magic Carpet Air?

  1. What did the union do to prepare for negotiations? What additional sources of information might it have used?
  2. What were the union’s primary objectives?
  3. What were the union’s strategies? Were they reasonable?
  4. What were the company’s goals?
  5. What were the company’s strategies?
  6. How did the deregulation of the airline industry in the late 1970s influence labor relations at Magic Carpet Air?

What are the five key assumptions that are necessary for the H-W Theorem to be valid?

Read the Lab 12 procedures and watch the online Hardy-Weinberg video (https://youtu.be/xPkOAnK20kw and posted on BlackBoard), then complete this assignment prior to lab.

  1. The Hardy-Weinberg Theorem states…

 

 

 

 

  1. What are the five key assumptions that are necessary for the H-W Theorem to be valid?

 

 

  1. Write the Hardy-Weinberg equation:

 

 

  1. Dominant allele “R” has a frequency (p) of 0.45 in a particular gene pool. Calculate the following showing all your work and using the proper variables for each value (e.g. p, q, p2, q2, 2pg).
  2. The frequency of allele “r” in that same gene pool?

 

 

  1. The proportion of the population that has the genotype RR.

 

 

  1. The proportion of the population that has the genotype Rr.

 

 

  1. The proportion of the population that has the genotype rr.

 

 

  1. If 17% of a population displays the recessive trait for Disease B, what are the frequencies of the recessive allele “b” and the dominant allele “B” in the gene pool?

 

 

 

  1. You perform an experiment where you allow a large population of fruit flies to mate randomly. The parental generation had 30% homozygous recessive genotypes. The F1 generation consisted of 100 flies, 40 of which displayed the recessive trait. Calculate the expected values for each phenotype assuming Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, then fill in the table below and use the Chi-Square test instructions document (posted online) to compare your calculated X2 value with the tabulated X2 value for a P-value of 0.05.
  # of dominant phenotype individuals # of recessive phenotype individuals
Observed value (o)    
Expected value (e)    
Deviation (o – e) = d    
d2    
d2/e    
Calculated Chi-square (X2) = Σd2/e  
Degrees of Freedom  
Tabulated X2 value at P=0.05

(from X2 instructions document)

  

 

  1. According to your analysis above, are the observed proportion of genotypes in the F1 generation the same, or significantly different, than those expected according to the H-W theorem?

 

 

  1. If you allowed your F1 generation to mate, what would you expect the frequency of the recessiv