Answer: 1) Carol can use the surve results to . identify the building blocks of competitive advantage and develop strategies to use them to increase profitability and in this way try to get the most out of it.
2) Strategically, managers who have identified these advanced factors should <u>take steps to protect these assets, either formally or as a trade secret, optimize the company's use of them and not outsource them to other firms </u>because it is convenient to try that the competition does not find out about the use of this factor of production so that it cannot imitate them and thus be able to gain a greater market share to the competition.
3) The statement "in response to requests from customers for healthier food on the menu, a restaurant tweaks its recipe for its most popular sandwich to remove processed ingredients and replace them with fresh vegetables." describes a strategy that adds value to multiple factors as it goes through several activities in the value chain because the company's decision to use less processed ingredients and more fresh vegetables not only facilitates production but also responds to a customer need, which will value the products even more.
Answer:
B. is not liable because Mike was on a frolic of his own.
Explanation:
Mike who is a dispatch rider, decided to see his girlfriend, Jackie, who lived 50 miles off his pizza route. He had an accident while driving to his girlfriend's, and injured a pedestrian, Chuck due to his negligent driving.
Under the circumstances, Frank's Pizza isn't liable because Mike was on a frolic of his own. Mike embarking on a 50 mile drive to see his girlfriend is frolicsome and outside the scope of his employment as a delivery agent.
Hence, this will absolve his employer from any liability as he wasn't working on the designated route at the time.
Generally speaking, a
business message expressing negative news (reader will react negatively) should
be organized indirectly. The message should be delivered among other
information and should not stand out. This is only appropriate if it is
practical to deliver the message in this way (immediate action is not
required). A more positive message should be prominent in the communication and
expressed in a more direct way, since it is assumed that the reader will react
positively.
Answer:
NPV= $60.52
Explanation:
Giving the following information:
Robbins Inc. is considering a project that has the following cash flow: −$950 $500 $400 $300
Cost of capital= 10.00%
To calculate the net present value we need to use the following formula:
NPV= -Io + ∑[Cf/(1+i)^n]
Cf= cash flow
For example= Year 3: 300/1.10^3= 225.39
NPV= $60.52
Answer:
b. accounts for a significant portion of the U.S.'s economic output
Explanation:
- The U.S economy is an economy where the main economic activity is the provision of the services rather than the manufacturing of goods and based on the growth of the services. And it accounts for a large shares of the U.S economic output of trade and commerce.
