1. How does Amazon.com bring utility or create value for its customers?
2. Explain the marketing framework of Amazon.com?
3. What do you learn about marketing from the Amazon story?
1 ) Identify CHC?s fixed and variable costsb ) What is the breakeven point?c ) What assumptions did you have to
1. How can multinational companies benefit national economies?
2. What is the main determinant of the value of an exchange rate?
3. What are ‘managed’ exchange rates?
1. Identify and discuss the four overarching questions that must be addressed in developing a viable business plan.
2.What factors might cause business specific risk to go down?
3.Review the table titled “What Is an Acquirer’s Risk in an All-Cash Deal?” in theHarvard Business Reviewarticle, “Stock or Cash?: The Trade-Offs for Buyers and Sellers in Mergers and Acquisitions.” Assume that the acquirer is smaller than the target. What does the table indicate given this assumption?https://hbr.org/1999/11/stock-or-cash-the-trade-offs-for-buyers-and-sellers-in-mergers-and-acquisitions
4.Describe and differentiate between what the termsspin-offs,carve-outs, split-ups, andsplit-offs mean. Provide examples to illustrate your descriptions.
5.Compare and contrast tracking, targeted, and letter stocks. Provide specific examples to illustrate their similarities and differences.
1. How does a profit-maximizing firm that is operating in a competitive labor market respond to an increase in the wage rate? A. The firm will demand less capital due to the substitution effect. B. The firm will demand more labor due to the substitution effect. C. The firm will produce less output due to the scale effect. D. The firm will demand more capital due to the scale effect. E. The firm will demand more labor due to the scale effect. 2. Labor demand is more elastic A. the greater is the supply elasticity of capital. B. the greater is the elasticity of substitution between labor and capital. C. the greater is the elasticity of demand for the firm’s output. D. the greater is labor’s share in total costs. 3. What is the most accurate description of the value of a worker to the firm? A. The wage. B. The firm’s total output when holding capital fixed. C. The firm’s average product when holding capital fixed. D. The dollar value of the worker’s output. E. The dollar value of the average worker’s output.
1 Homework stifles the thrill of learning in the mind of the student. 2 It instills an oppressive learn-or-else discipline. 3 It quenches the desire for knowledge and the love of truth. For these reasons 4 homework should never be assigned. (Colman McCarthy, “Homework’s Tyranny Hobbles Promising Minds”)
1. Identify 3 potential barriers to effective communication you have noted in your journal
Discuss how communication skills can be used to overcome each of these barriers.
2. Seek feedback from someone you interact with regularly concerning the barriers and communication skills you have identified above, in terms of your own communication style.
Write about the feedback you received and how you can use this to enhance your own communication skills relevant to your area of study or future profession.
1. How would you modify the HRP exercise 1, algorithm to produce allocations that add up to 0, where 
2. Can you think of an easy way to incorporate expected returns in the HRP allocations?
exercise 1
Given the PnL series on N investment strategies:
(a) Align them to the average frequency of their bets (e.g., weekly observations for strategies that trade on a weekly basis).
(b) Compute the covariance of their returns, V.
(c) Identify the hierarchical clusters among the N strategies.
(d) Plot the clustered correlation matrix of the N strategies.
1. How would you improve the simple evaluate-multiply-interpolate algorithm for multiplying together two polynomials p(
) and q() with known roots 
2. 
a set of N real numbers at which a polynomial of degree N can be evaluated using substantially fewer than N2 operations.
3. Find .a set of N real numbers at which a polynomial of degree N can be interpolated using substantially fewer than N2 operations.
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