Article Summary: “The Bottom Line: Marketing & Firm Performance” Leslie M. Fine‚ author of “The Bottom Line: Marketing & Firm Performance‚” analyzes how marketing relates to how well the firm does overall. A majority of the article is focused on how customer relations’ impact firm performance and can affect shareholder wealth. Firms improving customer equity and reducing the firm’s cash needs‚ will influence the net present value of the firm. Within recent years‚ there has been an increase in
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shown as follow: b. The market rate of substitution is the rate at which good X (or good Y) may be traded for good Y (or good X) in the market. It is the slope of the budget line. So if we calculate the slope of the budget line above‚ we can get the market rate of substitution in this case. Steps: 1. The Slope of budget line= (M/Py)/(M/Px)= Px/Py 2. Px/Py=15/5=3 3. Thus‚ the market rate of substitution in this case is 3. Interpretation: This means that in order to get one unit of good X‚ we have
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Waiting Line Analysis McDonalds - Dago Benediktus Duan Putra Jeremy Joseph Kristianto Wicaksana McDonalds Waiting Line Objective To study the reliability of the McDonalds delivery system to provide a meal & beverages to a customer prior to reaching their critical wait time. McDonalds provides several queues in parallel‚ the first for ordering and paying‚ and the second‚ an (invisible) station where customers wait while their food is gathered and served. The time it takes to cook the food is
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The "Brandt Line"‚ created by Willy Brandt in the 1980s‚ is a visual representation of developing and developed countries in the north and south side of the world. Since the original Brandt line just represents the economy of a state‚ this essay’s objective will be to recreate a new Brandt line‚ with updated data‚ using other two different developing indicators.1 For this reason‚ the new self-made Brandt line will show the current situation of the northern and southern art of the world by using
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Waiting Lines & Queuing Models American Military University Business 312 For my project on other operations research techniques I have decided to research waiting lines and queuing models. My interest in this application stems from my personal dislike for standing in lines and waiting on hold while on the phone. This is virtually my only pet peeve; nothing aggravates me faster than standing in a line or waiting on hold. Like most people I go out of my way to avoid lines‚ using strategies
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Mathieu Bouchard English 102‚ Section 0004 10 December 2012. Matthew Dickman Contradicts Himself Matthew Dickman the author of All- American Poem‚ uses line breaks very carefully and effectively throughout his novel for structural purposes. Dickman mentioned in his interview in Willow that he is terrible at line-breaks; one would agree that this is definitely not true. Since‚ he demonstrates many techniques in his writing‚ such as enjambment and end-stopping. Dickman’s use of enjambment
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Power lines “Power lines”‚ the surge of power‚ is a very good story to read; on the other hand‚ it’s very confusing. For illustration‚ the first parts of the story were jumbled up‚ first it talks about basketball then it jumps to him staring at a grasshopper. However‚ even though it was confusing there was some meaning; to begin with‚ when the power lines surged it caused some buzzing noise that gave John‚ the main character‚ a headache because he was trying to concentrate on playing basketball
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ways of manipulating elections‚ shy of corruption‚ is gerrymandering. Gerrymandering (pronounced “garrey” mandering not “jerry” mandering) is the government’s advantage of one political party over another. It is the process of drawing weirdly shaped lines to define a district. The term is derived from Elbridge Gerry‚ who was one of the founding fathers‚ who drew a weirdly shaped district that resembles a salamander‚ it was henceforth dubbed gerrymandering. One of the unfortunate truths in American society
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Sept/16/2013 Literature – Craig: 1-3 Beowulf Analysis lines 100 - 125 Lines 100 – 125 in Beowulf are full of paganism and descriptions of the horror brought by Grendel‚ all with the intention of glorifying God and reminding the audience of His importance. These lines are rich with cacophonous alliterations in order to set a tone of eerie foreboding as they tell how the king’s people’s turned from God towards
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In early May 1877‚ the Lakota Sioux medicine man and war chief Sitting Bull led his following of 135 lodges across the "medicine line" which was the name used for the border between the United States and Canada. Sitting Bull ’s decision to move his people north into the Province of Saskatchewan was the outcome of the gradual erosion of the Sioux way of life in the American plains because of the decimation of the buffalo herds. In addition‚ he was unable to protect his people against the U.S. military
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