The Effects of Business on Consumers and the Environment: Case Study: Perdue Farms   This discussion assignment requires you to submit at least four posts: an initial post, two reply posts to fellow students in threads other than your own, and a revised post.       Prepare-1.png     Prepare: In preparation for your first […]

Utilitarianism, Deontology, and Virtue Ethics: Case Study: Starbucks   This discussion assignment requires you to submit at least four posts: an initial post, two reply posts to fellow students in threads other than your own, and a revised post in response to the professor’s feedback.   Prepare-4.png     Prepare: The initial post in this discussion […]

Currrent Business Problems: Case Studies: Lehman Brothers, British Petroleum, Monsanto, Merck, …   This discussion assignment requires you to submit at least four posts: an initial post, two reply posts to fellow students in threads other than your own, and a revised post.        Prepare-2.png    Prepare: In your first post in this […]

Capitalism and Socialism: Case Study: Uber   This discussion assignment requires you to submit at least four posts: an initial post, two reply posts to fellow students in threads other than your own, and a revised post.       Prepare-3.png     Prepare: Your initial post in this discussion must be informed by the required […]

The Five Functions of Effective Management.   Address the following bullets, and provide an example company for each structure, with supporting rationale:   Provide an example of one company that should employ the simple structure organizational configuration.   Provide an example of one company that uses the machine bureaucracy form of structure.   Describe the […]

Utilitarianism, Deontology, and Virtue Ethics: Case Study: Starbucks   This discussion assignment requires you to submit at least four posts: an initial post, two reply posts to fellow students in threads other than your own, and a revised post in response to the professor’s feedback.   Prepare-4.png     Prepare: The initial post in this discussion […]

Complex ANOVAs, ANCOVAs, and MANOVAs    This week we will continue our discussion of ANOVAs to cover more than one independent variable, a covariate, or multiple dependent variables. We will learn how to analyze and interpret the results from a factorial ANOVA (more than one between-subjects or within-subjects independent variable), mixed-design ANOVA (combination of at […]

How do firms contribute to the efficiency of the market economy in ways that networks of independent contractors do not? Use your organization, or one with which you are familiar, to illustrate your response.

Find the flaw in the following argument made by a business analyst: “A technological innovation that lowers the cost of producing a good seems at first to result in a reduction in the price of the good to consumers. But a fall in price will increase demand for the good thus sending the price up […]

Identify the components of the GDP formula (expenditure approach). Explain how the current COVID-19 pandemic will affect said components and therefore affect GDP (are the components increasing/decreasing?). Lastly, why are these components affected? Example: Think about what is happening to households and firms and how it changes their relationship for each other. What is the […]