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As globalization has become increasingly common, so has the importance of analyzing opportunities to create value through outsourcing the supply chain. In this assignment, you will create a checklist to help determine which country might be the best location for parts of your organization’s supply chain.ScenarioYou are a consultant who specializes in helping U.S.-based businesses expand into new international locations. You have a new client who’s looking to outsource their company’s manufacturing of hard drives and computer memory, and it’s your job to assist in selecting the new locations. The company is very focused on quality, sustainability, and equality, and your client would like these attributes upheld in the new manufacturing locations.Your task is to evaluate two of the following countries:IndiaMexicoThailandThen, recommend one country you believe would be the most suitable for the company’s new manufacturing facility, and one country that would be considered the least suitable.PromptEvaluate both countries being considered for a new manufacturing facility through exploration of course and outside resources. Then, recommend the most and least suitable location based on the company’s attributes and requirements.Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:Sustainability Measures and Environmental Regulation: Briefly describe sustainability measures and regulations in each country, and analyze how they may work well with or create conflict or tension with your U.S.-based company.Examples of items to consider include regulations around pollution, waster, and power sources.Cost and Workforce: Briefly describe each country’s workforce for the creation of computer components and the cost of that labor.Examples of items to consider include workforce education levels, the overall cost of labor, types of manufacturing available in the country, and the existence of a specialized workforce that can create computer components.Government Regulation: Briefly describe the overall regulatory environment of each country. Take the most likely mode of entry into consideration for each country.Examples of items to consider include the types of manufacturing operations allowed in the country, the labor regulations, and the overall business regulations.Intellectual Property: Briefly describe the risk of intellectual property being stolen by creating a manufacturing location in each country.Examples of items to consider include each country’s reputation when it comes to intellectual property, intellectual property regulations, and any other legal protections for intellectual property.Reputation: Briefly describe the ways an organization can face reputational risk through outsourcing its manufacturing to each country.Examples of items to consider include if and why other organizations have closed manufacturing locations in each country, how your organization’s customer base will view manufacturing in each country, and the protections each country provides to its workforce and the environment.Recommendations: Based on your evaluations of the key attributes and requirements, recommend one country that is the most suitable location for your client’s newmanufacturing facility, and one country that would be the least suitable location. Justify your recommendations with evidence from your evaluations and the course resources.Guidelines for SubmissionSubmit this assignment as a 500- to 750-word Word document. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

Why can Prada sell a handbag for $2,000 that costs the firm a little more to manufacture than the $200 bag sold at a department store? At the other end of the pricing spectrum, why would a consumer goods company provide a coupon that makes their new snack product all but free? We learned in the Elder Care scenario that there are a number of pricing strategies firms can use to achieve their marketing objectives. Do they want to build market share, create a perception of exclusivity, or simply get you to try those new cookies?Consider the product you are using for your marketing plan. How would you price it to achieve your objectives? Describe the pricing strategy you would use to introduce your product to the market, and why you selected that strategy over other options. Be very precise – you must use the correct terminology to receive ANY points.Your analysis must include:If your choice a long-term or short-term strategy?What advantages or disadvantages do you foresee?Suppose that sales are not meeting your objectives, what change might you make in your pricing?Be sure to complete the Elder Care scenario and the exercises before you attempt to post. Posting is not available until you have completed the scenario. As always, college level writing is expected and your post should be a minimum of 300 words.By the way, that $2000 Prada bag may seem like lot of money for a simple handbag, but it is not even close to top of the pyramid. For that, check out the Tanaka designed bag sold by Hermes for a staggering $1.9 million. Why not order two?

You are an organizational change consultant—or “OD consultant”—and have been hired to assist with organizational diagnosis. Your analysis will be from YOUR OWN perspective role playing as the OD consultant. Put yourself in the OD CONSULTANT role. Your responses to the case questions indicated in this set of instructions will be based on your reading of your textbook and from your research on the company in the online library.Guidelines

Coronavirus pandemic and resultant shutdown measures to contain it have plunged the economy of United States (US) into severe contraction in 2020. As a result, the Fed (central banking system of the US) followed expansionary monetary policy of cutting down the interest rates and managed to restore the economy back to its potential level (Y*) by the end of 2021.a) Assuming, the US economy was at Y* before the start of the pandemic, show the events as described above using the AD-AS model. Also, carefully explain in words (100 or less) stating explicitly any assumptions you may have made here. (4 marks)

Suppose, the financial crisis in Asia Pacific region reduces the demand for Singaporean exports. This negative demand shock severely affects Singapore which is a small open economy. As a result, Singaporean economy went into recession (output falls below the potential level). Assume, economy was in good shape before the shock (operating at its potential capacity Y*). Suppose the government of Singapore decide to boost its spending (G) to counteract the fall in AD due to fall in exports (NX component of AD).· Do you think government has to increase G by the same amount as fall in NX? (1 mark).· Explain your reasoning in 50 words or less (2 marks).· Is crowding out a concern here? (1 mark)

Do you have what it takes to become an entrepreneur? Explain why or why not based on the quiz feedback.If you discover you don’t have the basic skills needed for your business according to the quiz, are you willing to delay your plans until you have acquired the necessary skills?In spite of what the quiz reveals, do you feel you have the basic skills needed to own and manage a successful business? Explain why or why not?How does your mindset on entrepreneurship compare to Gabriel Jordan’s YouTube presentation?

Wedding cost estimation: Given the following information, calculate the estimated costs for a wedding with 250 guests and a bridal party of six, using the methods indicated. Show your work. Note that members of the bridal party are already counted as guests, you don’t need to add them twice.1. Parametric estimate2. Bottom-up estimate3. Analogous cost estimate4. You will probably notice some differences in the estimated values. Are these differences significant? What might cause the differences? If you were estimating a significant project in the future, which method(s) would you use and why?

Below are the final exam questions for the Final Exam Case Study, Columbia Custom Carpentry, which is attached below. The file name is HRMD 640 Final Exam.pdf. You are to answer all of the questions. Please ensure that your answers are complete. This assignment will be graded according to the Final Exam Rubric that is posted below.Click the links below to access the 4 files needed to complete this assignment.~~~~1. In your opinion, what is causing the turnover at Columbus Custom Carpentry? 10 points.2. Are the assembly technicians overpaid? Explain. 10 points.3. Are the craters underpaid? If so, why? Will they still be underpaid if the custom hand-work portion of their job is eliminated by the jig system? Explain. 15 points.4. Given the case and market information, is the CFO position best aligned with that of an accounting manager, director, or a CFO? Explain. 10 points5. Are there differences in pay that appear to be based on sex/race/ethnicity rather than performance or length of service? How so or why not? 15 points6. Given your answers to the previous questions, exactly how would you rectify the key issues within Columbus Custom Carpentry? What resources/references support your plan of action? 40 points

Imagine that you are a nonprofit executive director who has been asked to prepare a report to the board about the possibility of opening an after-school program at a local elementary school. The mission of the program is to provide recreation and homework assistance programs to children ages 7 – 9. You do not need to write a plan, but instead write a short paper that explains how strategic management works answering these questions: What resources would you use to develop a plan? Are there risks? What might they be (list 5 and explain why they are important considerations)? List 5 ways you would measure the success of the program and why you would use them.Guidelines for Submission: Short papers should use double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to a discipline-appropriate citation method. Page-length requirements: 1–2 pages.

SCHOOL OF CONTINUING AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIESSpring 2021Introduction to MicroeconomicsECON1-UC 302 300Assignment 4This homework is due by 8 am on Saturday April 3. Please upload your 3-4 page paper (in .doc or .docx but not PDF format) to me on the course website at NYU Classes.Explain how the insights of Friedrich Hayek, Joseph Schumpeter, and Adam Smith regarding business competition can be used to critique both perfect and monopolistic competition. What is problematic about the MR = MC pricing formula deployed in neoclassical theory? A good essay will highlight the key theoretical aspects of each of these models of competition drawing on the above authors.Explain in what sense actual business enterprises differ from the textbook neoclassical models as discussed in Dean, Erik et al. 2016. Principles of Microeconomics: Scarcity and Social Provisioning. OpenStax Economics, Principles of Economics. OpenStax CNX. May 18, 2016.Consider a new business that invests $20 million into a plant to manufacture loaves of bread. The market for bread is say around 100 million loaves and the new firm expects that it will be able to obtain a market share of around 5%. At that level of production, the total cost of production is $10 million. Let us say that it targets a 20% return on its investment. What should the price of a loaf of bread be? Use the principle of target rate of return pricing. If the mark-up rate is 10% what will the full-cost price be?