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Suppose you are a human resource professional helping to improve the performance

Suppose you are a human resource professional helping to improve the performance management system of a company that sells and services office equipment. The company operates a ca…

Suppose you are a judge trying to decide a dispute between a buyer and a supplie

Suppose you are a judge trying to decide a dispute between a buyer and a supplier. The buyer claims not to have produced a particular email purchase order, while the supplier show…

Suppose you are a lender. The T-bill interest rate is 1.4%. If you do not lend t

Suppose you are a lender. The T-bill interest rate is 1.4%. If you do not lend to a borrower during a round of the experiment, which one of the following would happen in that roun…

Suppose you are a linguistic working at an e-books distributor. Your management

Suppose you are a linguistic working at an e-books distributor. Your management has interest in finding out if commonly used words used in a book make the books more popular, ther…

Suppose you are a loan officer at Carbondale Local Bank. Joan Doe listed the fol

Suppose you are a loan officer at Carbondale Local Bank. Joan Doe listed the following information on her mortgage application: The loan is automatically rejected if the applicant…

Suppose you are a loan officer at Carbondale Local Bank. Joan Doe listed the fol

Suppose you are a loan officer at Carbondale Local Bank. Joan Doe listed the following information on her mortgage application: The loan is automatically rejected if the applicant…

Suppose you are a loan officer for a bank. A start-up company has qualified for

Suppose you are a loan officer for a bank. A start-up company has qualified for a loan. You are pondering various proposals for repayment. 1. Lump sum of $250,000 fiver years henc…

Suppose you are a manager at a multimillion-dollar real estate company. You have

Suppose you are a manager at a multimillion-dollar real estate company. You have been entrusted to research the changing relationship between real estate agents and their clients …

Suppose you are a manager in the IT department for the government of a corrupt d

Suppose you are a manager in the IT department for the government of a corrupt dictator, who has a collection of computers that need to be connected together to create a communica…

Suppose you are a manager in the IT department for the government of a corrupt d

Suppose you are a manager in the IT department for the government of a corrupt dictator, who has a collection of computers that need to be connected together to create a communica…

Suppose you are a manager of a firm that produces products X, Y and Z. You know

Suppose you are a manager of a firm that produces products X, Y and Z. You know that there are two different types of consumers, type 1 and type 2, who value your products differe…

Suppose you are a manager of a newly founded software company with fresh univers

Suppose you are a manager of a newly founded software company with fresh university graduate; as your staff. Fortunately you win a contract from Boeing, and arc going to build a s…

Suppose you are a manager of an organization. Almost 15 people are working under

Suppose you are a manager of an organization. Almost 15 people are working under your supervision. All are performing above expectations except one of your line managers. After di…

Suppose you are a member of a local soccer club. The goal of your soccer is to i

Suppose you are a member of a local soccer club. The goal of your soccer is to increase the amount of revenue earned from ticket sales in the local competition. Two executives of …

Suppose you are a member of the I Eta Pi fraternity. On the morning of the bigge

Suppose you are a member of the I Eta Pi fraternity. On the morning of the biggest party of the year, Shady Steve is caught meddling in the party supply room. Ol’ Shady claims he …

Suppose you are a member of the information systems organization of a mid-sized

Suppose you are a member of the information systems organization of a mid-sized firm, and you are convinced that telecommuting represents an excellent opportunity for the firm to …

Suppose you are a monopolist operating two plants at different locations. Both p

Suppose you are a monopolist operating two plants at different locations. Both plants produce the same product; Q1 is the quantity produced at plant 1 and Q2 is the quantity produ…

Suppose you are a painter, and the price of a gallon of paint increases from $3.

Suppose you are a painter, and the price of a gallon of paint increases from $3.00 a gallon to $3.50 a gallon. Your usage of paint drops from 35 gallons a month to 20 gallons a mo…

Suppose you are a perfectly competitive farmer producing corn. Your costs are gi

Suppose you are a perfectly competitive farmer producing corn. Your costs are given by: C(q, w) wq2-10q 100, where q refers to the quantity that you alone produce and w is the hou…

Suppose you are a plant manager and one of your team members, John Smiths, is fa

Suppose you are a plant manager and one of your team members, John Smiths, is facing problems controlling his anger. He is experiencing wide swings in emotions due to his bipolar …

Suppose you are a policy maker in the U.S. who wants to provide protection to im

Suppose you are a policy maker in the U.S. who wants to provide protection to import-competing producers. Which of the following policies will you choose? Explain why. (Hint: Whic…

Suppose you are a project leader, working for Mitsui OSK Lines or Nippon Yusen (

Suppose you are a project leader, working for Mitsui OSK Lines or Nippon Yusen (choose one), who has been using a waterfall development-based methodology on large and complex proj…

Suppose you are a researcher in a hospital. You are experimenting with a new tra

Suppose you are a researcher in a hospital. You are experimenting with a new tranquilizer. You collect data from a random sample of 11 patients. The period of effectiveness of the…

Suppose you are a researcher in a hospital. You are experimenting with a new tra

Suppose you are a researcher in a hospital. You are experimenting with a new tranquilizer. You collect data from a random sample of 12 patients. The period of effectiveness of the…

Suppose you are a researcher in a hospital. You are experimenting with a new tra

Suppose you are a researcher in a hospital. You are experimenting with a new tranquilizer. You collect data from a random sample of 12 patients. The period of effectiveness of the…

Suppose you are a researcher in an influenza lab and your team has uncovered fou

Suppose you are a researcher in an influenza lab and your team has uncovered four strains that have evolved changes from last year’s influenza virus. Strain A has evolved four cha…

Suppose you are a researcher who is interested in whether there is a difference

Suppose you are a researcher who is interested in whether there is a difference among men and women in whether they like okra. You collect a random sample of adult men and women a…

Suppose you are a researcher who is interested in whether there is a difference

Suppose you are a researcher who is interested in whether there is a difference among men and women in whether they like okra. You collect a random sample of adult men and women a…

Suppose you are a risk-neutral manager attempting to hire a new sales manager. A

Suppose you are a risk-neutral manager attempting to hire a new sales manager. All of the workers in the market have the same ability to manage and sell, but differ with respect t…

Suppose you are a risk-neutral manager attempting to hire a new sales manager. A

Suppose you are a risk-neutral manager attempting to hire a new sales manager. All of the workers in the market have the same ability to manage and sell, but differ with respect t…

Suppose you are a sociologist studying alleged police brutality. Construct two a

Suppose you are a sociologist studying alleged police brutality. Construct two arguments, one proposing that you ought to be as objective as possible in your work and the other su…

Suppose you are a space traveler, and you land on the surface of a strange new p

Suppose you are a space traveler, and you land on the surface of a strange new planet. As stated in your Starfileet Manual, your first job is to measure the acceleration due to gr…

Suppose you are a stock broker for WillyP Financial. Your client bought a share

Suppose you are a stock broker for WillyP Financial. Your client bought a share of stock of Intel at $60 and a share of stock Microsoft at $115. A year later, after your client re…

Suppose you are a stock broker for WillyP Financial. Your client bought a share

Suppose you are a stock broker for WillyP Financial. Your client bought a share of stock of Intel at $50 and a share of stock Microsoft at $115. A year later, after your client re…

Suppose you are a teaching assistant for the penny experiment, and your job is t

Suppose you are a teaching assistant for the penny experiment, and your job is to review the student’s data for possible problems. What would you expect to see in a student’s data…

Suppose you are a teaching assistant for the penny experiment, and your job is t

Suppose you are a teaching assistant for the penny experiment, and your job is to review the student's data for possible problems. What would you expect to see in a student's data…

Suppose you are a thirty-year-old worker choosing between an IRA, a ROTH IRA and

Suppose you are a thirty-year-old worker choosing between an IRA, a ROTH IRA and aregular brokerage account. Your marginal federal tax rate is 15% now and 15% inretirement. Your i…

Suppose you are a travel agent. A broker approaches you and offers to pay you a

Suppose you are a travel agent. A broker approaches you and offers to pay you a certain amount of money for organizing events for bus trips the broker advertises. The broker guara…

Suppose you are a travel agent. A broker approaches you and offers to pay you a

Suppose you are a travel agent. A broker approaches you and offers to pay you a certain amount of money for organizing events for bus trips the broker advertises. The broker guara…

Suppose you are a typical person in the U.S. Economy. You pay 4 percent of your

Suppose you are a typical person in the U.S. Economy. You pay 4 percent of your income in a state income tax and 15.3 percent of your labor earnings in federal payroll taxes (empl…

Suppose you are a wheat farmer. It is September, and you intend to have 50,000 b

Suppose you are a wheat farmer.  It is September, and you intend to have 50,000 bushels of wheat harvested and ready to sell in November.  The current spot market price is $2.50 p…

Suppose you are advising a bank on the management of its balance sheet. In light

Suppose you are advising a bank on the management of its balance sheet. In light of the financial crisis of 2007-2009, what arguments might you make to convince the bank to hold a…

Suppose you are an analyst for the Coca-Cola company. An individual\'s inverse d

Suppose you are an analyst for the Coca-Cola company. An individual's inverse demand for Coca-Cola is estimated to be P = 98 - 4Q (in cents). If Coca-Cola is produced according to…

Suppose you are an event coordinatorfor a large performance theater. One of the

Suppose you are an event coordinatorfor a large performance theater. One of the hottest new Broadwaymusicals has started to tour, and your city is the first stop onthe tour. You n…

Suppose you are an expert on the fashion industry and wish to gather information

Suppose you are an expert on the fashion industry and wish to gather information to compare the amount earned per month by models featuring Liz Claiborne attire with those of Calv…

Suppose you are an investor with a choice between three securities that are iden

Suppose you are an investor with a choice between three securities that are identical in every way except in terms of their rates of return and risk. Which security has the least …

Suppose you are an option trader and are now considering the options on the shar

Suppose you are an option trader and are now considering the options on the shares of HSBC. The current stock price of HSBC is $60. It is expected that the stock price of HSBC wil…

Suppose you are an option trader and are now considering the options on the shar

Suppose you are an option trader and are now considering the options on the shares of HSBC. The HSBC share price and its January futures price closed at $58.3 and $58.5 on 3 Janua…

Suppose you are an option trader and are now considering the options on the shar

Suppose you are an option trader and are now considering the options on the shares of HSBC. The HSBC share price and its January futures price closed at $58.3 and $58.5 on 3 Janua…

Suppose you are analyzing the daily profit of two different onboard products. Yo

Suppose you are analyzing the daily profit of two different onboard products. You have data for 100 days of sales for organic chips and data for 60 days of sales for a granola bar…