For the Session Long Project you will be applying the concepts in the background materials to your own personal experiences in the workplace. For this first SLP assignment you will choose a supervisor that you personally worked for and got to know well, and compare and contrast this supervisor’s leadership characteristics with your own personal leadership characteristics using the concepts from the required background materials. […]

How would you describe Ellison’s personality and leadership traits? Refer to the specific leadership traits discussed in Hiriyappa (2009) or Bauer and Erdogan (2012).Would you describe Ellison’s behav How would you describe Ellison’s personality and leadership traits? Refer to the specific leadership traits discussed in Hiriyappa (2009) or Bauer and Erdogan (2012). Would you describe Ellison’s behavior as being task-oriented, or people/relationship-oriented? Refer to Hiriyappa […]

Suppose you deposit $1,000 per year in a bond fund and $2,000 per year in a stock fund and do so for 10 years.  The bond fund pays a return each year that is a random draw a uniform distribution of whole percentages from 1% to 5%. The stock fund pays a return each year that is a random draw from a normal distribution with […]

ASSIGNMENT: Find one or two news articles from the Internet that illustrate a shift in supply and/or demand. The article(s) need to illustrate at least two of the four graphs. This may require two articles. The article(s) must be recent (within the last six months), and MUST NOT be from an encyclopedia or reference website that discusses demand and supply. DO NOT use blogs. The […]

I am including the first page answers to questions 1-3.in a attached files Imagine that you are a financial manager researching investments for your client. Think of a friend or a family member as a client. Define her or his characteristics and goals such as an employee or employer, relatively young (less than 40 years) or close to retirement, having some savings/property, a risk taker […]

A contract requires that Bob makes payments of $1661 and $2808 to Jim 27 and 51 months respectively. Bob would like to change the payment structure to a payment of $1550 today, and a second payment made 42 months from today. If the two sets of payments are economically equivalent, and the interest rate is 4.4% compounded quarterly, then what is the amount of the […]

Question 2 (1 point} The Black Bird Company plans an expansion. The expansion is to be financed byselling $12 million in new debt and $40 million in new common stock. The before-tax required rate of return on debt is 8.33% percent and the required rate of returnon equity is 19.59% percent. If the company is in the 34 percent tax bracket, – Round the answer […]

In a traditional forecast driven manufacturing operation, What would be the EOQ? What would be the average inventory level in units, and in dollars? In a demand-based, synchronous manufacturing operation, assume C = $10, with the changeover time reductions seen in synchronous manufacturing. What would be the new EOQ? What would be the new average inventory level in units, and in dollars? Assuming the carrying […]

Deliverable Length:  700 words, including 1 page of calculations OBJECTIVES You know from your prior experience that moving to lean manufacturing (or demand-based manufacturing) can generate not only profitability improvements but also improvements in asset requirements (inventory reduction). Based on this, you wanted to let the Global Supply Chain Manager and her purchasing department know about the kind of inventory savings that might be achievable. […]

For this essay, you will conduct research on corporate strategies and the affect they have on the decision process. Use the same company you chose in Unit II (Walmart). As you explore the decision process, consider how corporate strategies influence these decisions. In your essay, address the following questions: 1.      What is a functional strategy? 2.      What are stability strategies in business? What are the […]