Is the agreement a breach of the antitrust laws? Explain briefly the reason behind your answer.

Plaintiffs, soft drinks retailers, brought suit alleging that their wholesalers had engaged in an unlawful conspiracy to restrain trade by refusing to sell soft drinks unless plaintiffs paid cash in advance or at the time of the delivery. The wholesalers had an agreement that none of them would grant short-term credit although such credit had been extended in the past. Question: Is the agreement a breach of the antitrust laws? Explain briefly the reason behind your answer.

Apply the Timmons entrepreneurship framework (entrepreneur-opportunity-resources) to analyze this case

75-150 words please.Jim Poss Case, pages 107-120 in the textHis company, Seahorse Power Company, is an engineering startup specializing in environmentally friendly methods of power generation.Poss had designed and done initial test marketing of a trash compactor, designed to reduce the frequency and energy expense of trash collection. The case discusses the opportunity and the technology and poses the following questions:1. Apply the Timmons entrepreneurship framework (entrepreneur-opportunity-resources) to analyze this case2. Discuss Jim Poss’ fundraising strategies. What other options might be considered for raising the funds SPC needs? Is this a good investment?3. Discuss the growth strategy. What additional market(s) should Poss pursue?

What business-level strategy are you pursuing? Explain why.

Reflection #1What business-level strategy are you pursuing? Explain why. Provide at least three examples of how that strategy influenced decisions you made.Reflection #2Tell me about the most important thing that you spent money on in this round. Why is that investment so important? How do you expect it to pay off by Year 15 (three years from now)?Did you have to give up spending on something else in order to accommodate this? If so, what? Are you concerned about the implications of that?Final Presentation InstructionsFinal Presentation: This assignment requires a minimum of 5 slides plus your script. Your presentation should be posted as a PPT or PDF. Your script should be separate – either an MS Word or PDF file. You need to post both attachments at the same time using the same submission link.All presentations must feature:Identification and explanation of your strategy and if/how that strategy evolved throughout the simulation.A visual depiction of results/progress over the course of the simulation. You select the metric. Explain the decisions that contributed to this result.Description of one or more key decisions that did NOT work out for you.Description of one or more key decisions that DID work out for you.Ideas for remaining slide(s):How did your treat your employees? Explain those decisions.Describe your image ratings and the activities that contributed to those ratings.Describe a key element of your marketing strategy – this could include product (branded v. private label, number of models, enhanced features), price, distribution (wholesale, internet, private label) or promotion (celebrity endorsements, internet marketing) decisions.Describe your approach to international markets. How important was this to your success?Identify an special awards achieved during the simulation. Was this a strategic target? Which decisions contributed to those awards?

What product market did you choose for this data to represent? Explain why.

For thisassignment, you will produce a marginal cost analysis graph and create a scenario that explains where the firm should set price and quantity levels.Step One:Launch the data file to get started. Print or copy the data table before continuing to step two.Step Two:Determine a product market (a specific good or service) appropriate to the prices listed. Make this the title of your graph and data table.Step Three:Calculate the marginal revenue, marginal cost, and profit for each quantity level. Fill in the data table. If you need help with this step, review thiscase study.Step Four:Create a graph of the data. Quantity is along the x-axis and price is along the y-axis. Graph the marginal revenue curve and the marginal cost curve.Correctly label the x axis as quantity and y axis as price.Based on the data from your table, graph the marginal revenue curve. Label the curve MR.Based on the data from your table, graph the marginal cost curve. Label the curve MC.Step Five:Answer the following reflection questions. You will submit your responses with your data table and graph to your instructor.What product market did you choose for this data to represent? Explain why.At which price and quantity does marginal cost nearly equal marginal revenue without exceeding it? Highlight this point on your graph.If you were in business for this product, at which price and quantity level would you sell? Explain why.

What number of visits is required to break even?

You are considering starting a walk-in clinic. Your financial projections for the first year of operations are as follows:Revenues: $400,000Wages & Benefits: $220,000Rent: $5,000Depreciation: $30,000Utilities: $2,500Medical Supplies: $50,000Administrative Supplies: $10,000Assume that all costs are fixed, except supply costs, which are variable. Furthermore, assume that the clinic must pay taxes at a 20 percent rate.a. Construct the clinic’s projected P&L statement.b. What number of visits is required to break even?c. What number of visits is required to provide you with an after-tax profit of $100,000?

From an ethical perspective, describe the factors that contributed to the rise and fall of Nortel.

MGMT314: Week #8 Paper:INCLUDE AN ABSTRACT5-6 page PaperFor this assignment, you should focus on the reading material for weeks 1-7 and YOU MUST READ the NORTEL CASE STUDY that is in the resources section of your classroom – It is also on page 535 of your text and in the resources tab in our classroom. If you choose, you may also research the library for additional background about Nortel (If you choose to do some additional research).The breakdown of your paper should be as follows:Introduction of Your Paper:Provide an introduction of the topics that you will discuss below (Base your introduction on our reading material from weeks 1-7-It is basically all of the reading material from our class)Body of your paper: (5-6 Pages total in length)-Your thoughts should be supported with key words from our text. You must answer all five questions below and include AT LEAST THREE key words from our text when responding to EACH QUESTION. That means that you would use 15 of the key words in our text for this paper. This will show me that you are attempting to support your thoughts with key material from our text and that you are able to apply the material from our class. The five required questions are as follows:1. From an ethical perspective, describe the factors that contributed to the rise and fall of Nortel.2. What mechanisms should be put in place to better align managers with the interests of shareholders?3. Would you describe the meltdown of Nortel more as a failure of “people” or of “capital market processes”?4. What happened to Nortel is similar to what happened to WorldCom and Enron in the early 2000s, and to Lehman Brothers, Citigroup, and many other banks during the 2008 financial crisis. Why do businesspeople keep making the same mistake?5. Discuss how to prioritize the following remedies to stop such recurrences: business education, regulation of accounting/financial markets, regulation of incentives, or regulation of punishment. Also, tell me your thought process about your decision about priorities.Save your review as Last Name-Week #8 Paper.docPaper Format:A. Title Page – Include a title page with your name, student number, title of your review, course number, course name, session, section, semester and date.B. Introductory Paragraph – Include an introductory paragraph.C. Font and Spacing – Use Arial or Times New Roman 12 pitch font with double spaced lines.D. Length – Write a 5-6 page review not including the title page and citation page.E. Reference Page – Include all sources on a Reference pageF. Utilize the APA Style for the review and to documenting sources.G. Punctuation, essay format (thesis, supporting paragraphs with transition and topic sentences, and summary) grammar and documentation count toward your grade.Reference for the text book the case study is in.Collins, Denis.Business Ethics: How to Design and Manage Ethical Organizations. Wiley, 09/2011. VitalBook file.

What can happen if you have too many people with the same strengths or weaknesses?

Hiring people with complementary skills and styles can lead to a more effective team. When you’re picking out the members of your team, you will need to apply what you have learned about them (from your research and the evaluations) to the selection process. This week, you learn how to balance your team so you have complementary skills and styles. Think about what you have learned this week regarding balance. Why is it important to make sure you have a balanced team? What can happen if you have too many people with the same strengths or weaknesses?READ ARTICLE ATTACHED BELOW………..

Do you believe that deficit spending helps or hinders short-term and long-term economic growth?

PART ONE:The attached includes10 questions from the content material you have covered in Chapters 3 and 5 (weeks 3 and 4). Research each of these questions in your textbook and online as instructed in each question. Also, give examples as you are prompted in each question.There is no word count for this project. Before submitting this assignment, read it over to yourself to check for grammar, sentence structure, and completeness. A word to the wise, this is a two-week project and in-depth answers are expected. Use your time wiselyto show your insights into each question after carefully reviewing the reference materials.(NO WORD COUNT)PART TWO:Find an operations-basedcompany you are familiar with and research it’s use of suppliers. First, take a look at what companies have already been reported on and try not to duplicate what someone else has analyzed. Then research whether your chosen company makes any of it’s own products, or does it outsource all or most of it’s components and finished products. Where does it source, internationally or domestically? See if you can get a macro-picture to report to the class regarding this company’s products and how it uses a supply chain to source components and/or finished products. Product manufacturing companies you are familiar with are a good place to start, however, it’s also interesting to find a company that maybe no one has heard much about. Once you have found a company you are interested in reporting on for this Discussion, begin by describing this company’s products and then their supply chain network. Finally, see if you can identify the primary risks this company has with it’s sourcing.(200 WORDS)PART THREE:During the Great Recession, like any other economic downturns, as unemployment rises, aggregate income declines causing a major decline in tax collections. On the other hand, with the rise in unemployment, spending on safety net programs rise. So, there are not too many good options available to resort the health of the national economy. It will be very difficult to defend cuts in the federal government programs and especially the programs geared to sustain the minimum of the standard of living for the recent “poor.” So, government needs to increase its borrowing. Deficit spending refers to government spending exceeding what it brings in federal income and corporate taxes during a certain period. Deficit spending hence increases government debt. Most economists accept that deficit spending is desirable and necessary as part of countercyclical fiscal policy. In such a case, government increases its borrowing and hence its deficit to compensate for the shortfall in aggregate demand. This is derived from Keynesian economics, and has been the mainstream economics view. Following John Maynard Keynes, many economists recommend deficit spending to moderate or end a recession, especially a severe one. When the economy has high unemployment, an increase in government purchases creates a market for business output, creating income and encouraging increases in consumer spending, which creates further increases in the demand for business output. (This is the multiplier effect). This raises the real gross domestic product (GDP) and the level of employment and lowers the unemployment rate. Government borrowing under such circumstances increases the demand for borrowing and thus pushes interest rates up. Rising interest rates can “crowd out” (discourage) fixed private investment spending, canceling out some of the demand stimulus arising from the deficitWrite and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of deficit spending and the effects of federal government borrowing on the economy i.e., the “crowding out” effect.Complete this in a Microsoft Word document, and in APA format. Note your submission will automatically be submitted through “TurnItIn” for plagiarism review.should be structured as follows1. Cover with a running head2. Introduction: What is deficit spending and how does it work.2.1. Advantages2.2. Disadvantages3. Crowding-out Effect4. Conclusions: Do you believe that deficit spending helps or hinders short-term and long-term economic growth?5. References(700 WORDS)PART FOUR:Classical economists belief that prices and quantities adjust to the changes in the forces of supply and demand and that the economy produces its potential output in the long run. On the contrary, Keynesian economists believe because of price and wage rigidities the economy’s equilibrium output in the long run may be less than its potential output. What is price-wage rigidity? Do you agree with Keynes assessment that wage-price rigidity requires government’s involvement in the markets? Why? Why not?(200 WORDS)

determine the degree of effect that the play, Hamlet, signifies challenges BETWEEN the concepts of the divine and the humankind that signify their assured mutuality by examining their simultaneous similar contradictions

“All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players” -William Shakespeare“Life is a play. It’s not its length, buts its performance that counts” -SenecaPlaywrights have, throughout history, been tasked with providing a monumentally difficulty in providing a snapshot of humanity told through the lens of humanity about humanity using humanity. In another way, drama becomes the essence or reflection to the truth regarding society and what the society is comprised of. This can be a very richly rewarding experience validating the norms and customs of the present while also expanding them from the limitations woven into the fabrics of society at that time. And, over time, drama has an uncanny ability in not only surviving from its inception but evolving into something more…so where drama was once a snapshot of a moment in time, it begins to change into a photo album chronicling elements, ideas, concepts, and themes that have not only served as reflective but proactive in our continual understanding. Consider these expanded boundaries as you read drama, think reflectively (and introspectively) on its relation to you and beyond you. There is a reason that plays written hundreds of years ago survive to the day (and are adapted into the present day of affairs too).For your final out of class assignment you are being asked to examine one of the options below. You should consider meeting ALL of the various components for the writing and know that your thesis, your direction, your development will be ENTIRELY up to you. You will be expected to demonstrate organizational flow, fully developed ideas, have a consistently focused argument, and a strong consideration of evidence to sustain your argument as it develops.The options to choose from are:• determine the degree of effect that the play, Hamlet, signifies challenges BETWEEN the concepts of the divine and the humankind that signify their assured mutuality by examining their simultaneous similar contradictions (meaning moments in which scenes within the play exhibit contradictory allusions to opposites that, in effect, present a cohesion instead).

What are the major advantages and disadvantages of each system?

1. Consider the topic of the “American Politics in Comparative Perspective” feature. What areas of domestic or foreign policy would be impacted if the United States were to split the head of state and head of government roles?2. Consider the topic of the “American Politics in Comparative Perspective” feature. In parliamentary systems, both the prime minister and the Cabinet are ultimately accountable to parliament. In the U.S., the executive and legislative branches are separate and co-equal. What are the major advantages and disadvantages of each system?

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