selling executives on project management

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*Must be original and not used before* case attached.

Read the Chapter 10 Case titled “Selling Executives on Project Management.” Write a one to two (1-2) page paper in which you:

  1. Analyze the fundamental reasons why the executives in the case refused to listen to their own employees but were willing to listen to a consultant. Discuss the main reasons why the executives still seemed apprehensive even after the consultant’s presentation.
  2. Imagine that you are the consultant from the case study. Speculate on three (3) strategies that you could employ to get the executives to understand your point of view and thus support your project management recommendations.
  3. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

review my group project it

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Just need someone to review and add a few sentences where the notes say to add. Not very hard please review the word doc.GroupProject_Kuhn_with_comments.docx

i need help solving these two problems

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Question 1

Part1

You want to celebrate all of your recent successes.  You decide to reward yourself and a special someone with a vacation to a destination of your choosing.  For your trip you will need to stay in a hotel/resort and rent a car.

You decide to rent a car for the duration of your trip.  You have two options.  Write an equation for each company that depicts the total cost of the rental, y, based on the number of days, x.

Cheepers Rent-A-Car:

$39/day with a one-time charge of $20 for insurance/fees

Busters:

$49/day but all additional fees are included in the price of the rental

Be sure to label each equation with the company it corresponds to.

Part 2

Graph the system of equations that you wrote for car rental options to determine the break-even point for the cost of the car rentals.  One easy way to do this is using desmos.com, the online graphing calculator and take a screen shot of your graph.  If you are unsure how to capture a screen shot visit http://www.take-a-screenshot.org/.  You may also choose to graph this by hand and take a picture of your graph but be sure that your graph is easy to read.  Insert either option AS A PICTURE using the  button.

Part 3

Write your solution to the system as an ordered pair, then interpret the values in the context of the problem.

Part 4

Explain how you would use your graph to determine the cheaper option after one day, two days, three days etc.  What would you look for on the graph?

Part 5

Explain how you would use your break even point to determine the cheaper option after one day, two days, three days etc. 

Question 2

Part 1

You also have two options for lodging.  Write an equation FOR EACH OPTION that depicts the total cost of your stay, y, based on the number of days, x.

Bilton Hotel:

$100/night but you must pay an additional one-time fee of $40 for parking and other fees

Triple Tree:

$110/night with no additional parking or resort fees.

Be sure to label each equation with the hotel it corresponds to.

Part 2

You will need to use either substitution or elimination to solve this system.  Which method will you choose?  What factors helped you make that decision?

Part 3

Show your work for solving the system of equations you wrote for your hotel options using the equation editor.  Be sure to use the method you decided on in the previous question.

Part 4

 Write your solution to the system as an ordered pair, then interpret the values in the context of the problem.

geology

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Those classified as plagioclase are triclinic and include andesine and anorthite, while barium ones
are monoclinic and include celsian and hyalophane. Another classification, alkali, applies to those such
as orthoclase and microcline that fall between the (*) potassium variety and albite. These rocks have a
name from the German for field rock or rock without ore, and their crystals can sometimes be found in
granite. For 10 points, the orthoclase type of what group of minerals, the most abundant group found in the
earth’s crust, has a Mohs hardness of six?

geometry help please 149

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ΔABC will undergo two transformations to give ΔA′B′C′. Which pair of transformations will give a different image of ΔABC if the order of the transformations is reversed?

need help on 2 question 4

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1.Analyze the reasons why the short-term project that you have chosen might be ranked higher under the NPV criterion if the cost of capital is high, while the long-term project might be deemed better if the cost of capital is low. Determine whether or not changes in the cost of capital could ever cause a change in the internal rate of return (IRR) ranking of two (2).

2. Take a position for or against TFC’s decision to expand to the West Coast. Provide a rationale for your response in which you cite at least two (2) capital budgeting techniques (e.g., NPV, IRR, Payback Period, etc.) that you used to arrive at your decision.

need help with questions problems and math 1

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Directions: Answer the following questions on a separate document. Explain how you reached the answeror show your work if a mathematical calculation is needed, or both.

Use the following information for questions 1 through 8:

The Goodman Industries’ and Landry Incorporated’s stock prices and dividends, along with the Market

Index, are shown below. Stock prices are reported for December 31 of each year, and dividends reflect

those paid during the year. The market data are adjusted to include dividends.

Goodman Industries Landry Incorporated Market Index

Year  Stock Price    Dividend    Stock Price    Dividend    Includes    Dividends

2013  $25.88            $1.73           $73.13          $4.50          17.49         5.97

2012  22.13                1.59            78.45            4.35           13.17         8.55

2011  24.75               1.50             73.13            4.13           13.01         9.97

2010  16.13               1.43             85.88            3.75            9.65         1.05

2009  17.06               1.35             90.00            3.38            8.40          3.42

2008  11.44               1.28             83.63            3.00            7.05          8.96

1.Use the data given to calculate annual returns for Goodman, Landry, and the Market Index, and

then calculate average annual returns for the two stocks and the index. (Hint: Remember, returns

are calculated by subtracting the beginning price from the ending price to get the capital gain or

loss, adding the dividend to the capital gain or loss, and then dividing the result by the beginning

price. Assume that dividends are already included in the index. Also, you cannot calculate the

rate of return for 2008 because you do not have 2007 data.)

2. Calculate the standard deviations of the returns for Goodman, Landry, and the Market Index.

(Hint: Use the sample standard deviation formula given in the chapter, which corresponds to the

STDEV function in Excel.)

3. Estimate Goodman’s and Landry’s betas as the slopes of regression lines with stock return on the

vertical axis (y-axis) and market return on the horizontal axis (x-axis). (Hint: Use Excel’s SLOPE

function.) Are these betas consistent with your graph?

4. The risk-free rate on long-term Treasury bonds is 6.04%. Assume that the market risk premium is

5%. What is the required return on the market using the SML equation?

5. If you formed a portfolio that consisted of 50% Goodman stock and 50% Landry stock, what

would be its beta and its required return?

6. What dividends do you expect for Goodman Industries stock over the next 3 years if you expect

you expect the dividend to grow at the rate of 5% per year for the next 3 years? In other words,

calculate D1, D2, and D3. Note that D0 = $1.50.

7. Assume that Goodman Industries’ stock, currently trading at $27.05, has a required return of

13%. You will use this required return rate to discount dividends. Find the present value of the

dividend stream; that is, calculate the PV of D1, D2, and D3, and then sum these PVs.

8. If you plan to buy the stock, hold it for 3 years, and then sell it for $27.05, what is the most you

should pay for it?

Use the following information for Question 9:

Suppose now that the Goodman Industries (1) trades at a current stock price of $30 with a (2) strike price

of $35. Given the following additional information: (3) time to expiration is 4 months, (4) annualized riskfree

rate is 5%, and (5) variance of stock return is 0.25.

9. What is the price for a call option using the Black-Scholes Model?

10 chemistry multiple choice

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QUESTION 1

  1. The molecule CO2 is polar.   Imported Asset  

2 points  

QUESTION 2

  1. The molecule SCl6 is polar.

    A central atom bonded to six atoms in a 3-D shape.

    TRUE

    FALSE

2 points  

QUESTION 3

  1. Which of the following molecules or ions is polar?

      Imported Asset  

      Imported Asset  

3 points  

QUESTION 4

  1. Which of the following molecules is nonpolar?

      Imported Asset  

      Imported Asset  

      Imported Asset  

      Imported Asset  

3 points  

QUESTION 5

  1. London dispersion forces are relatively weak forces created when the electron clouds of two neighboring atoms or nonpolar molecules come near one another.

2 points  

QUESTION 6

  1. Which of the following types of intermolecular forces is caused by an unequal distribution of electrons induced temporarily in a nonpolar molecule?

3 points  

QUESTION 7

  1. Compared to compounds that possess only dipole-dipole intermolecular forces, compounds that possess hydrogen bonding generally:

3 points  

QUESTION 8

  1. The reason H
    2S exists as a gas while H
    2O exists as a liquid at room temperature is because:

3 points  

QUESTION 9

  1. Water, H
    2O, has a higher boiling point than methane, CH
    4.

2 points  

QUESTION 10

  1. The molecule I
    2 has a lower melting point than Cl
    2.

2 points  

unit 3 journals 1 and 2 1

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Research the following topics related to Product Design:

Benchmarking, Reverse Engineering, Computer Aid Design, FMEA, Carbon Footprint

Select three of the topics listed and compose three paragraphs describing the topics, one paragraph per selected topic, based on the course material and additional research you conduct online.

Unit 3: Journal 2 of 2

Click on the Journal Tab at the top of the page to add your first entry. Begin your post with the label: Unit 3: Service Design.

Research the following topics related to Service Design:

Specification, Blueprint, Queue, Goods, Phases

Select three of the topics listed and compose three paragraphs describing the topics, one paragraph per selected topic, based on the course material and additional research you conduct online.

Cite all references in APA format