In 2007, Newmarket Inc. set as its annual production goal the manufacture of 125,000 units. ByJune, the economy had declined so drastically that sales were less than half what they had been one year earlier. Still, Newmarket management insisted that the firm produce all 125,000 units. It nearly went bankrupt in the process.

Which one of the following statements could have helped prevent this disaster?

A. Managers should develop plans that are specific then communicate those plans to all who need to know.

B. Make the organizational hierarchy flatter to effectively plan in dynamic environments.

C. It is important to continue formal planning in order to see any effect on organizational performance.

D. Managers need to recognize that planning is an ongoing process.

E. Managers need to stay alert to environmental changes that may impact the implementation of a plan and respond as needed.

Variable rate cd’s = $90 treasury bills = $150 discount loans = $20 treasury notes = $100 fixed rate cds = $160 money market deposit accts. = $140 savings deposits = $90 fed funds borrowing = $40 variable rate mortgage loans $140 demand deposits = $40 primary reserves = $50 fixed rate loans = $210 fed funds lending = $50 equity capital = $120 a. develop a balance sheet from the above data. be sure to divide your balance sheet into rate-sensitive assets and liabilities as we did in class and in the examples. b. perform a standard gap analysis and a duration analysis using the above data if you have a 1.15% decrease in interest rates and an average duration of assets of 5.4 years and an average duration of liabilities of 3.8 years. c. indicate if this bank will remain solvent after the valuation changes. if so, indicate the new level of equity capital after the valuation changes. if not, indicate the amount of the shortage in equity capital.

Contrast two economies that transitioned to capitalism and explain what factors affected the ease kf their transition as welas the “face” of capitalism that each has adopted

Total marketing effort is a term used to describe the critical decision factors that affect demand: price, advertising, distribution, and product quality. define the variable x to represent total marketing effort. a typical model that is used to predict demand as a function of total marketing effort is based on the power function: d = axb suppose that a is a positive number. different model forms result from varying the constant b. sketch the graphs of this model for b = 0, b = 1, 0< b< 1, b< 0, and b> 1. (we encourage you to use excel to do this.) what does each model tell you about the relationship between demand and marketing effort? what assumptions are implied? are they reasonable? how would you go about selecting the appropriate model?