1. Oil companies do not allow dealers (franchisees) to buy gas from distributors. Dealers must buy gas from the central oil company. Dealers often complain that this is unfair. The practice has been the subject of antitrust lawsuits. Oil company executives argue that this policy is important because it limits free-riding on the part of the distributors. Explain the executives’ arguments in more detail. The Oil Company executives argue that allowing dealers to buy gas from distributors would be
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kinds of metallurgical slag.otherwise‚we have Grinder mill and Powder mill .It is suitable for brittle materials with Mohs hardness under nine‚ not suitable for viscous material and rock with much dirt. Crusher Plant‚ Vsi Crusher VSI Series Vertical Shaft Impact Crusher Working Principle: In Centrifugal impact crusher‚ material of high speed is crushed by self-broken mutual friction. Centrifugal impact crusher can not only crush but also shape stones. Crusher Plant: http://www.crushermobile
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Canonical Correlation Exercise (1) Discuss the importance of the variable in the dependent set. Spell out the linear composite variate selected. Canonical Correlations 1 .992 2 .859 3 .327 Test that remaining correlations are zero: Wilk’s Chi-SQ DF Sig. 1 .004 251.994 12.000 .000 2 .234 65.351 6.000 .000 3 .893 5.104 2.000 .078 The third function should be removed because of its lack of statistical
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What are the roles and responsibilities of the special educator in the collaboration process? What are they for the general educator? What potential conflicts may arise between the two roles? The special educator is responsible to see that an appropriate plan of learning (also called IEP ) is developed for each student requiring special education. A special educator is responsible for seeing that a student is allowed access to the general curriculum‚ yet at the same time‚ have a learning plan
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face setting in classroom learning. Today students are entering college with a vast knowledge of the computer and Internet. This gives colleges a great opportunity to provide students with different means of educational techniques such as online collaboration in discussion boards. Many organizations are using this technology for easy transfer of communication world wide. The discussion board is an internet forum that provides instant exchange of communication between a computer‚ instructor and students
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Carlos Flores Raquel Crego ------------------------------------------------- March 5th‚ 2011 Horizontal and Vertical Analysis from Macy’s Inc. (All figures are expressed in US dollars) The following financial report is generated from the Financial Statements of the department stores and Internet Websites that sell a range of merchandise‚ including men’s‚ women’s‚ and children’s apparel; and accessories‚ cosmetics‚ home furnishings‚ and other consumer goods. Macy’s‚ Inc. The figures stated
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Last week I attended Forrester’s Content & Collaboration Forum 2011. Forrester notes that in five years‚ almost half of US workers — about 63 million people — will work virtually. I am already one of them. This will change everything in workplace IT support from designing workplace information strategies for collaboration‚ to delivering content experiences tothe firm. For this international‚ integrated energy company with thousands of job sites (often quite remote) spread across 30 countries
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Analyse the vertical boundaries of a firm by describing the critical role played by coordination in a vertical chain. An efficient market will render economic activity within the firm to be vertically integrated with other market firms. Yet many economic activities are still carried out within the firm. Coase (1937)1 in “The Nature of the Firm” raised this question on Transactional Cost Economics (TCE). This essay will explore the key characteristic of TCE‚ analyzing the vertical boundaries
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Boeing‚ the $55 billion Chicago-based aerospace company‚ has been a major player in the global economy for almost a century. But now the company is undertaking a far-reaching transformation as it uses cutting-edge materials and electronics and high-level technology for the design and assembly process of its new passenger plane –the Boeing 787. The new plane‚ nicknamed the “Dreamliner‚” is Boeing’s bid for market leadership in competition with Airbus. The new midsize passenger jet will have an outer
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promoting cross unit collaboration just for the sack of collaboration. This collaboration cannot be called as “Worst” or “Bad” collaboration but it has not given any positive result. Rather in many areas the operating cost has increased‚ projects are getting delayed and time is wasted in resolving conflict. Following is the observation: 1. Previously both units were working separately. The HOD was complaining about shortage of manpower but was managing. Now after collaboration HODs are aggressively
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