Growing up in georgia, george dawes green, a poet and novelist, spent many warm summer evenings with friends on a screened-in porch telling each other stories late into the night. a hole in the screen allowed moths to join them, so the group began calling themselves the moths. after moving to new york city in 1997, green missed those evenings of friendship and entertainment and decided to bring his storytelling tradition to the cafes and clubs of his new home. thus the moth, a not-for-profit storytelling organization, was born. the moth is best known for the moth radio hour, a weekly live program that airs on national public radio stations, through which it has generated a broad interest in the art and craft of storytelling. although most of the moth’s activities are directed at storytelling as entertainment, in 2010, moth senior producer kate tellers began working with publicis groupe, a global advertising and marketing firm based in france, to corporate clients who wanted to learn how to connect better with their customers. tellers first developed and delivered workshops to publicis groupe clients who were looking for an effective way to tell their stories to customers, but later expanded the workshop offerings under the name mothshop corporate training and made them available to a wide variety of companies. although these workshops include technical storytelling tools such as developing a story arc and reinforcing a theme, they also provide corporate marketers with an appreciation for the importance of authenticity and being specific with a message.

New team of management has taken over. as a result, organizational changes from a country-club style leadership where everyone does whatever they want has changed to a more mechanistic, structured, top-down management style. what ethical issues should the employees consider and how should they go about addressing these?

Complete the sentences. upper a decrease in current income taxes the supply of loanable funds today because it a. decreases; increases disposable income, which decreases saving b. has no effect on; doesn't change expected future disposable income c. decreases; decreases expected future disposable income d. increases; increases disposable income, which encourages greater saving upper a decrease in expected future income a. increases the supply of loanable funds today because households with smaller expected future income will save more today b. has no effect on the supply of loanable funds c. decreases the supply of loanable funds because it decreases wealth d. decreases the supply of loanable funds today because households with smaller expected future income will save less today

Blue computers, a major pc manufacturer in the united states, currently has plants in kentucky and pennsylvania. the kentucky plant has a capacity of 1 million units a year and the pennsylvania plant has a capacity of 1.5 million units a year. the firm divides the united states into five markets: northeast, southeast, midwest, south, and west. each pc sells for $1,000. the firm anticipates a 50 perc~nt growth in demand (in each region) this year (after which demand will stabilize) and wants to build a plant with a capacity of 1.5 million units per year to accommodate the growth. potential sites being considered are in north carolina and california. currently the firm pays federal, state, and local taxes on the income from each plant. federal taxes are 20 percent of income, and all state and local taxes are 7 percent of income in each state. north carolina has offered to reduce taxes for the next 10 years from 7 percent to 2 percent. blue computers would like to take the tax break into consideration when planning its network. consider income over the next 10 years in your analysis. assume that all costs remain unchanged over the 10 years. use a discount factor of 0.1 for your analysis. annual fixed costs, production and shipping costs per unit, and current regional demand (before the 50 percent growth) are shown in table 5-13. (a) if blue computers sets an objective of minimizing total fixed and variable costs, where should they build the new plant? how should the network be structured? (b) if blue computers sets an objective of maximizing after-tax profits, where should they build the new plant? how should the network be structured? variable production and shipping cost ($/unit) annual fixed cost northeast southeast midwest south west (million$) kentucky 185 180 175 175 200 150 pennsylvania 170 190 180 200 220 200 n. carolina 180 180 185 185 215 150 california 220 220 195 195 175 150 demand ('000 units/month) 700 400 400 300 600