The most recent financial statements for schenkel co. are shown here: income statement balance sheet sales $ 18,000 current assets $ 11,900 debt $ 16,400 costs 12,100 fixed assets 28,750 equity 24,250 taxable income $ 5,900 total $ 40,650 total $ 40,650 taxes (40%) 2,360 net income $ 3,540 assets and costs are proportional to sales. debt and equity are not. the company maintains a constant 40 percent dividend payout ratio. no external equity financing is possible. what is the sustainable growth rate? (do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e. g., 32.16.) sustainable growth rate %

Is exploiting a distinctive competence or improving efficiency for competitive advantage. (a) cooptation (b) coalition (c) competitive intelligence (d) competitive aggression (e) smoothing

Carlos hears juan and rita’s complaints about the new employees with whom they have to work with, as well as their threats to quit the company. if carlos were to reassign juan and rita to new, unique roles and separate them from the ronny and bill, it would signal that carlos has moved into the stage of managing resistance.

David burdick is the ceo of acme bubblegum, a successful public company. as one of the cofounders of the company, burdick has enjoyed speaking and writing about the success of acme bubblegum for several years. typically, he speaks at conferences or directly to the press, but recently, he has been blogging about his firm anonymously. specifically, he defended a recent advertising campaign that was unpopular among consumers and pointedly attacked one of acme bubblegum’s competitors. burdick deeply enjoys his anonymous blogging and believes that none of his readers actually know that he works for acme bubblegum.should burdick be allowed to praise his company’s performance anonymously online? should he be allowed to attack his competitors without disclosing his relationship with the company? how would you feel if the ceo of a company at which you shopped was secretly writing criticisms of his or her competition? how would you feel if you knew a writer for your favorite blog was actually closely involved in a company that the blog discussed? 1. define the ethical issue? 2. who are the primary stakeholders? 3. what are the possible alternatives? 4. how could you evaluate the ethical implications of the alternative actions (use appropriate decision rules)? 5. what action would you recommend and why?