Addressing marketing failure is a way of having to know the causes of this failure and to be able to determine the better ways of solving it and to prevent it from happening it again, by this, in the future, they will be able to produce a more sustainable and stronger one.
Answer: b. many economic activities expand and contract together in a recurring—but not periodic—fashion
Explanation:
The Business Cycle refers indeed to fluctuations in the business cycle related closely with the rise and fall in production output of goods and services in an economy.
It come with stages being Expansion, Peak, Recession, Depression, Trough, and Recovery. What is most interesting is that the movers behind the business cycle are not a singular entity but rather a series of Economic activities that are interconnected and move together. This is why some activities herald stages in the Business Cycle while some follow it. But they all have a role to play.
It is also very important to note that this is NOT a periodic occurence because it doesn't happen per period and neither can it be predicted but it happens. It is Recurrent but not periodic in other words.
Answer:
False
Explanation:
A sustaining innovation improves existing products. It does not create new markets or value markets, but develops existing ones with better value, allowing companies to compete against each other’s sustaining improvements. A sustaining innovation targets demanding, high-end customers with better performance than what was previously available. Some sustaining innovations are the incremental year-by-year improvements that all good companies grind out. Other sustaining innovations are breakthrough, leapfrog-beyond-the-competition products. It doesn’t matter how technologically difficult the innovation is, however: The established competitors almost always win the battles of sustaining technology. Because this strategy entails making a better product that they can sell for higher profit margins to their best customers, the established competitors have powerful motivations to fight sustaining battles. And they have the resources to win.
Answer:
Explanation:
If in 2006 Luther has 10.2 million shares outstanding and these shares are trading at $16 per share, then using the market value of equity, the debt -equity ratio for Luther in 2006 is closest to ________.
A) 3.45 B) 1.72 C) 0.86 D) 2.41
B) D / E = Total debt / Total equity
Total Debt = Notes payable (10.5) + Current maturities of long-term debt (39.6) + Long-term debt (231.3 ) = 281.4 million
Total equity = 10.2 × $16 = $163.2, so D / E = $281.4 / $163.2 = 1.72
Answer: 0.52
Explanation:
Opportunity cost is the benefit that is obtained from a good or from an activity is foregone by choosing some other alternative.
It was given that a family spends its entire budget either on vegetables or frozen pizzas.
So, the opportunity cost of a can of vegetables 
= 0.5294 units of frozen pizzas
This means that opportunity cost of spending on a can of vegetables is 0.52 units of frozen pizzas.
