ANSWERS TO CASE DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. What does the Chevy Volt case tell you about the nature of strategic decision making at a large complex organization like General Motors? Strategic decision making is often met with cognitive biases that are formed around prior victories or defeats. 2. What trends in the external environment favored the pursuit of the Chevy Volt project? Trends included increases in oil prices‚ global warming‚ costs of manufacturing lithium ion batteries was falling
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Questions for Review Chapter 13 1. What is the relationship between a firm’s total revenue‚ profit‚ and total cost? Each of these has an effect on the other‚ which will cause them to go up or down based on the output of the business. A firm aims to keep costs down‚ while increasing total revenue and profit. 2. Give an example of an opportunity cost that an accountant might not count as a cost. Why would the accountant ignore this cost? The money she would make working a full time job with
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b) b. had new & improved technologies and ideas‚ e.g.‚ outrigger canoes‚ fish hooks‚ etc (had not adopted agriculture) c) exchanged goods over hundreds of miles and developed sophisticated sculpture and rock painting and northwest coast of North America developed very differently 3. Agricultural Village Societies a) predominated in much of North America‚ in Africa south of the equator‚ in parts of the Amazon River basin and Southeast Asia b) their societies mostly avoided
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Closing Case: CH 9 When should Bunyan Lumber‚ harvest the forest? The cash flow will grow at the inflation rate of 3.7%. Utilizing the real cash flow formula (1+R) =v (1+R)(1+H) 1.10 = (1+R)(1.037) R= 6.08% The conservation funds are anticipated to grow slower than the inflation rate. The return for the conservation fund will be‚ (1+R) = (1+R) (1+H) 1.10 = (1+R) (1.032) R= 6.5% The cash flow from the thinning process is as follow‚ Cash flow from thinning = Acres thinned x cash
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Chapter 13 Zinn opens chapter with the recognition that “war and jingoism might postpone‚ but could not fully suppress‚ the class anger that came from the realities of ordinary life”. Despite the brief interlude that momentarily quelled class conflict‚ the issues at home had never been resolved and resurfaced with a vengeance. More and more writers were writing from a Socialist mindset: Upton Sinclair published The Jungle in 1906‚ as a commentary on Chicago’s meatpacking industry. In writing
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The first entry I want to discuss in more detail is in chapter two page thirteen. Here Marissa gets a letter from the University of Texas. When she looks at the letter she gets excited but then her excitement is gone because she remembers what her parents acted like towards her when she told them her ACT and SAT scores‚ which was not a good reaction. Her father said‚ “It’s only because some gringos want to feel good about themselves‚ want to feel like they’re helping out some poor Mexicana. Don’t
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Eng1C Firtha 20 April 2013 The Closing of the Frontier (?) Frederick Jackson Turner described the frontier as “a return to primitive conditions on a continually advancing frontier line” (Turner 530). Turner separates the process of civilization into four phases: “the trader’s frontier‚ the rancher’s frontier‚ or the miner’s frontier‚ and the farmer’s frontier” (Turner 536). After all four stages are completed and there are no more or too few places to settle - the major movement of people is
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Chapter 13 Acids and Bases (Dr Chong Fai Kait) 1) A 7.0 103 M aqueous solution of Ca(OH) 2 at 25.0 °C has a pH of __________. A) 12.15 B) 1.85 C) 1.4 102 D) 7.1 1013 E) 11.85 Answer: A 2) The acid-dissociation constant at 25.0 °C for hypochlorous acid (HClO) is 3.0 108 . At equilibrium‚ the molarity of H 3 O in a 0.010 M solution of HClO is __________. A) 1.7 105 B) 0.010 C) 5.8 1010 D) 4.76 E) 2.00 3) Using the data in the table‚ which of the conjugate acids below is the weakest
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Quiz Chapter 13: How Cells Obtain Energy From Food . The energy released by oxidizing glucose is saved in high energy bonds of: ATP and other activated carrier molecues 2. Sugars derived from food are broken down by: glycolysis‚ the citric acid cycle‚ and oxidative phosphorylation 3. Catabolism: a breakdown process in which enzymes degrade complex molecules into simpler ones 4. The digestion of polymeric food molecules into monomeric subunits occurs in: extracellular space (i.g. lumen of
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