Discipline: Business Finance - Management

 Consider the following data and make your best analysis of per member per month (PMPM) rates, considering reductions in utilization or pricing. Bay Pines Medical Center estimates that a capitated population of 50,000 would have the following base case utilization and total cost characteristics: (table is attached)   In addition to medical costs, Bay Pines […]

1 Map the research design used by Donato’s for new product development. 2 Evaluate the Wassup meetings as an exploratory methodology to help define the research question. 3 Evaluate the test market Donatos used. What were its advantages and disadvantages? 4 What measurement scales would you have used on the survey that was part of […]

  This is a complete written report of your portfolio formation in a Word document. Your historical data and relevant derived values in tables can be pasted from your previous calculations in the Excel spreadsheet. Please provide explanations of all calculations and the justifications in Word format. Make sure to also paste all underlying Excel […]

  After you graduate from college and start your professional career, you will need to consider investing for your retirement. A 401(k) plan is a retirement plan offered by many companies. Such plans are tax-deferred savings vehicles, meaning that any deposits you make into the plan are deducted from your current pretax income, so no […]

Consider the facet of embeddedness called fit, or comfort with the job, company, and surrounding area.  Describe what fit would look like in your ideal job. Do you expect other students in the class to have more similar or more different descriptions than yours? Explain why you believe this. 

 Imagine you own a mid-sized business that sells auto parts. Of the following, which branch of the business is, in your opinion, the most important: finance, IT, human resources, customer relationships, marketing, transaction processing, supply chain management. 

 A firm has market power if it can raise price above marginal cost and not lose all its customers as a result. Think about your own experience as a consumer. Can you think of an example of dealing with a firm that had significant market power? What was the source of this market power? 

 Week 10 Discussion COLLAPSEOverall Rating: 1 2 3 4 Job discrimination (Chapter 11, pages 401–433), is the topic for this week. We will explore areas such as disparity, affirmative action policies, bias wage systems, hostile work environments, sexual harassment, and many other job discrimination topics. For this week’s discussion, think about the concept of comparable […]

 One of the assumptions of a perfectly competitive market is that firms within the industry are selling homogenous, or identical, products. Can you think of an example of an industry (not given directly in the chapter) where this is a good assumption? How does this impact competition within this industry? 

 Watch and summarize key points in your own words. Use bullet point sentences. Avoid simply transcribing the narration or the closed captions.   1-danieljbmitchell. (2007, August 7). Ford and Taylor in the 1920s – Part One [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvbG9Sjp97o 2- danieljbmitchell. (2007b, August 7). Ford and Taylor in the 1920s – Part Two [Video]. YouTube. […]