(a) Explain how allocative efficiency is related to the concepts of consumer surplus and producer surplus. Consumer surplus is defined as the highest price consumers are willing to pay for a good minus the price actually paid. As shown in the diagram‚ P1 is the highest price consumers are willing to pay for a good. Pe is the equilibrium price determined by the market. Any consumers are willing to pay price higher than Pe will end up paying Pe. This means they pay less than they expect‚ therefore
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| Achieving Operational Excellence | Identifying supply chain management solutions | | home | 11/15/2009 | Is one of the suppliers they should use to order their gas tanks Global sources will approximately take 2 days to arrive and will cast 4 $ a gas tank to ship to Colorado. CycleBuy.com is another manufature I suggest‚ and their shipping would be their over night for 5$ a gas tank . 2. I2 helps automotive companies define a global process for demand and supply balancing and
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Pareto efficiency‚ or Pareto optimality‚ is a central theory in economics with broad applications in game theory‚ engineering and the social sciences. Given a set of alternative allocations and a set of individuals‚ a movement from one alternative allocation to another that can make at least one individual better off‚ without making any other individual worse off is called a Pareto improvement or Pareto optimization. An allocation of resources is Pareto efficient or Pareto optimal when no further
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How do the Sears changes reflect a total rewards approach? A total rewards approach can be implemented in a company to attract‚ engage‚ and retain employees. When designing an effective total rewards approach a mixture of five key elements are used to tailor a program that reinforces the overall business strategy of a company while ensuring organizational success for the future. These five key elements are: compensation‚ benefits‚ work life‚ performance and recognition‚ and finally development
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industry. This study aims to use Hilton Hotels as the focus of this paper. The main purpose of this study is to examine how Hilton Hotels builds a relationship with its customers‚ how it improves the added value to retain customers and what should be improved under the context of value chain to improve the better services in order to effectively deliver customer satisfaction and exceed their expectation. The paper will start from providing brief information about Hilton Hotels and then move on to analyse
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Manage Operational Plan Assessment Activity 1 Describe the purpose of the operational plan and describe its relationship to the strategic plan. An operational plan is an organisational planning document derived from the strategic plan. The strategic plan provides a high-level outline of the organisation’s mission‚ general direction and broad goals and the operational plan is a detailed document that outlines how the organisation’s strategic goals will be achieved in practice. The operational
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can threaten our basic democratic selves. What do you think? Why? 2.After identifying the word or phrase selected from your preliminary research of current events and explaining the event or issue to which it is related‚ speculate toward the reason(s) motivating the speaker to enlist this form of doublespeak instead of labeling/confirming it in "plain language." To what degree do you think the speaker or source achieves those goals? Why? 1. Doublespeak is the ability to use vague truths and positive
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The Impact of Customer Trust and Perception of Security Control on the Acceptance of Electronic Commerce Author(s): Bomil Suh and Ingoo Han Reviewed work(s): Source: International Journal of Electronic Commerce‚ Vol. 7‚ No. 3 (Spring‚ 2003)‚ pp. 135161 Published by: M.E. Sharpe‚ Inc. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27751068 . Accessed: 09/12/2012 05:40 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms
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CORPORATE RISK MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT OPERATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT (ORM) IN BANKS Risk is inherent in any walk of life in general and in financial sectors in particular. Till recently‚ due to regulated environment‚ banks could not afford to take risks. But of late‚ banks are exposed to same competition and hence are compelled to encounter various types of financial and non-financial risks. Risks and uncertainties form an integral part of banking which by nature entails taking risks. There
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On November 17th‚ 2004 Kmart and Sears publicly announced the impending merger of the two struggling companies to become Sears Holding Corporation. Kmart‚ for 11.5 billion dollars would be the buyer‚ however due to strong brand name recognition and history‚ Sears would be the face of the new conglomerate. At the heart of this merger was Edward Lampert‚ an extremely successful hedge fund manager who had made a name for himself by‚ purchasing companies in the red and making them profitable once again
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