In this assignment, you will be analyzing the Cost of Living Index and the Groceries Index for seven U.S. cities and creating a scatterplot to identify the relationships between the variables. You may choose any seven U.S. cities you wish.   Go to the Numbeo Northern America: Current Cost of Living Index by City (numbeo.com) […]

Order Instructions W8: Course Reflection DQ8: Course Reflection: What is the most important economic principle you learned from the course? How did this information improve your understanding of macroeconomics, and what is its application in the macroeconomic environment?  

Address the following topics: What is leverage? Describe one example of how excessive leverage created enormous risks for Wall Street firms. This topic may end up being related to the second topic if one discusses leverage and the use of derivatives. Try to move the dialogue to a discussion of how abuse of leverage created […]

Question 1 for this week was asking about how you personally feel about marking towards a specific group. The 2nd question for this week is, regardless of how you feel, is targeted marketing effective?  

Please read and consider the Ethics Issues found in the W2 Discussion forum. You should address both cases; however, the manner in which you do that is up to you. By that I mean, you may focus the majority of your main post on one issue and only discuss the second issue in passing. You […]

Early in the chapter we alluded to an ethical aspect of contracts by imagining you were a ticketholder to a Michael Jackson concert at the time of his death. The Final Tour is announced, tickets go on sale, the shows immediately sell out, and then Michael Jackson dies quite suddenly two weeks before the tour […]

On Donald Trump’s personal blog, “Carolyn,” about Carolyn Kepcher, Donald Trump’s former apprentice on his Apprentice show, Trump wrote that Ms. Kepcher was terminated because “she loved her fame and she loved her celebrity on The Apprentice and it was affecting her work. She wasn’t doing her job like she used to or was capable […]

Signature Assignment: Aligning Operational Needs with Business Strategies  Use your selected company from Weeks 1-2 for this week’s assessment. A primary technique of deeper analysis of an organization is the Porter’s Five Forces Model. This technique is often used when looking at your competitive advantage. Looking at your competitive advantage is important to aligning your […]

The CEO of your firm has just announced that the organization is considering two diverse strategies to increase business: marketing healthcare services to the mature healthcare consumer, or marketing healthcare services to international consumers.   Read the following two articles:   Fell, D. (2002). Taking the U.S. health services overseas. Marketing Health Services, 22(2), 21-23. […]

Order Instructions   Assignment 1: Deficit Spending During the Great Recession, like any other economic downturns, as unemployment rises, aggregate income declines causing a major decline in tax collections. On the other hand, with the rise in unemployment, spending on safety net programs rise. So, there are not too many good options available to resort […]