MBA Business Statistics Homework 1 Reminders: 1. Due date: Jan-14-2012 (Saturday) in class. 2. Please submit only the hardcopy. 3. Please show the names and ID numbers of all your group members on the cover page. Please also indicate your session (DSME5110W). 1. Problem 2.1 (p. 33) The file P02_01.xlsx indicates the gender and nationality of the MBA incoming class in two successive years at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. a. For each year‚ create tables of counts
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Assignment-1 Question-1: Listed below is the net sales in $ million for home Depot‚ Inc. and its subsidiaries from 1997 to 2006. Table 1: Net sales of different years |Year |Net Sales ($) |Year |Net Sales ($) | |1997 |50‚600 |2002 | 156‚700 | |1998 |67‚300 |2003 |201‚400
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This higher quality customer serv ice is subject to McDonald’s ability to actually produce faster. Without this ability ‚ McDonald’s ordering costs would be sky -high because the costs associated with ordering would be the loss of customers tired of ordering fast food that really isn’t fast. Second‚ JIT allows McDonald’s to adapt to demand a little bit better. Seemingly ‚ lower inv entory lev els would cause McDonald’s bigger problems in a higher demand because they wouldn’t hav e their safety stock
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PART 1 COMPANY PROFILE 1.1 Name of the Company Chowking Food Corporation Chowking 1.2 Location of the Company (Head Office) 7/F Jollibee Center Building‚ San Miguel Avenue‚ Pasig City‚ Metro Manila 1.3 Location of Chowking 1.4 Background History of the Company Chowking (Chinese: 超群) is a Philippine-based chain that pioneered the Asian quick-service restaurant concept in the Philippines. The concept combines a Western fast-food service style with Chinese food. Chowking predominantly
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macro-environmental factors in India. To give some more debt to this answer‚ I found it convenient to use the PESTEL analysis as a tool to identify the key macro-environmental factors that were relevant for McDonalds when they entered India‚ and then shortly comment on each of them what McDonalds did that was so good. Political/Legal Until the early 1990s‚ India’s political parties were critical of foreign companies operating in India. After that the market opened more up‚ but still the political
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McDonald’s: Polishing the Golden Arches Generic & Functional Strategies Overall‚ McDonald’s tries to operate on a cost leadership basis by offering low-priced goods with higher profit margins. Most of the functional strategies adopted by McDonald’s correlate with this strategy of low cost. McDonald’s management strategy involves a primarily decentralized delegation of authority. The CEO is responsible for making all the large company decisions and designing the processes
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McDonald’s Internal and External Stakeholders We will do task 1-4 as a class and you will do task 5 in pairs. It is impossible for any business to meet the demands of all its stakeholders - they invariably conflict. So what they must do is to find a way of prioritizing stakeholder demands and thus balancing out these competing requirements. This involves judgment. It can be argued that there is no scientific way of doing this‚ someone in the organization has to make a decision and this decision
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New members - £154 Renewal - £110 Student Membership is the entry level of membership for CIPS students and new practitioners in the purchasing and supply sector who are at the earliest stage of their professional development. As a Student Member‚ you will have full access to CIPS benefits at a reduced subscription rate during the course of your study. Other fees: External Assessment | Fees | External Examination | £84.00 | Work Based Assessment | £84.00 | Exemption
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Dick and Mac McDonald‚ McDonald is the longtime leader in fast food industry. It has sustained a remarkable place in industry by fast and consistent quality services‚ in starting days‚ McDonald enjoyed tremendous growth where its average annual return on equity was 25.2% between 1965 and 1991. But the company found its sales per unit slowing between 1990 and 1991. Plus growth in the quick service market was projected to only keep pace with inflation in the 1990s. Question- Why has McDonald sustained
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last benefit of this model is the chance of the company to identify and develop the locations‚ polices quality‚ and develops new products. Operations are large scale and efficient. Weaknesses of McDonald’s model Sharing profits McDonald and the franchisee seek to earn profits over a long period of time so the revenues must be fixed and sufficient to share profits among them. Loss of absolute control MacDonald doesn’t have the complete right to manage or take decisions alone. So it will deal with the
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