Entries by Sarah Kaelo

Why did you select this firm’s podcast?

How I Built This with Guy Raz is an excellent NPR Podcast that talks about how companies got their start and the basis for this week’s discussion. Given your study of market structure and microeconomics overall this semester, I think you will have a greater appreciation for these stories! Have fun with this! Pick any podcast […]

More Restaurants Are Banning Tips. That Might Be A Good

I need a total of five (10) of the following articles. They should be written from the perspective of a college aged white American male. Environmental scanning is a useful tool to create awareness and knowledge of how information relates to current environmental conditions. It is usually specific to a topic. For this course the […]

Describe the exchange of value expected from operating the business

Overview Rather than adopting a standard traditional business model, a business venture based on the concepts of a sharing economy represents a peer-to-peer business model in which the business acts as a matchmaker between individuals with a service to offer and others who want the service. Another emerging and perhaps more comprehensive term is collaborative consumption. […]

Explain why perfect competition is efficient.

Perfect competition is a market in which there are many firms, each selling an identical product; many buyers; no barriers to the entry of new firms into the industry; no advantage to established firms; and in which buyers and sellers are well informed about prices. Explain why perfect competition is efficient. Determine whether perfect competition […]

discuss how your business can leverage those opportunities

Assignments and Rubrics: Week 8: Assignment 2: Entrepreneurial Opportunities Plan Part 1 Instructions We’ve been discussing the impact of unscaling on the future economy and the many opportunities that one can take advantage of as an entrepreneur. The purpose of the Entrepreneurial Opportunities Plan is to pinpoint and identify some of those opportunities (as discussed […]

Identify critical values for the test statistics and state the decision rule concerning when to reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis

For this assignment, you will use the six-step hypothesis testing process (noted below) to run and interpret a correlation analysis using SPSS. The following vignette will inform you of the context for this assignment. A data file is provided in the week’s resources for use in this assignment.  Also review the section on Presentation of Statistical […]

.  In the case of direct support agreements, who bears the cost of failure?

Risk and uncertainty are often used interchangeably in everyday discussions, but they are different, in business, two different concepts.  Risk describes a situation in which we do not know the outcome, but we do know all the possible outcomes and can assign probabilities to each of these outcomes happening.  Risked can be managed.  Knowing the potential costs of […]

company’s price elasticity of demand and the industry supply/competitive

In this week’s discussion you are going to be the CEO of a company.  In anticipation of the upcoming quarterly disclosure of profits, you prepare your Board of Directors for the pressure that cost-push inflation is having on profits. There will be some erosion of profits.  Please make yourself CEO of only one of these hypothetical companies. Profile […]

the resulted from the government’s policy in 2018?

Based on research conducted by the Department of Economic Analysis, the government and policy advisors of an economy believe that the full employment GDP is $7500 billion, and Pe, the overall expected price level is 118. In addition, the researchers estimate that the short run aggregate supply equation is Y = Ypot 80 (P- Pe), […]

Isn’t providing a living wage or more for employees an acceptable social good as well?  

Write a paper summarizing your perspective on how health care administrators should decide on spending their limited resources. When determining how to allocate resources in a hospital, how can administrators decide how to prioritize funding between employees’ wages and taking care of the poor.  Given that increasing salaries would decrease resources for charity, how should […]