Stanford University medical researchers conducted a study on the correlation between the use of fertility drugs and ovarian cancer.  Their study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, concludes that the use of the fertility drugs, Pergonal and Serophene, may increase the risk of ovarian cancer by three times.  The lead author of the studies, Professor Alice Whittemore, stated, “Our finding in regard to fertility […]

Question 1 : As companies grow in size, it is inevitable for the shareholders to hire management to run the operations of the business. The entire team of management, starting from the CEO and other top-level management, all the way to the middle and bottom level management are expected to perform towards the growth of the business. Since the shareholders of large companies are scattered […]

Submit to your instructor your answers to the questions in Part One and Part Two. Since this assignment is based on calculations, you are required to show all your work in detail for each answer by listing the components for each calculation and explaining the calculation taking place to reach the answer submitted. This may be done on a Word document or an Excel spreadsheet. […]

In anticipation of Mary’s request for comparative analysis, it will be useful at this time to do some research. You know that you can obtain the financials of companies within the same sector or Standard Industry Code as Apix Printing (e.g., commercial printing), and that the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Standard Industry 2012 code for Apix Printing is presently 323111. Use Hoover’s Pro […]

 Much debate has ensued since 2014 as a  result of the Hobby Lobby company and how its owners chose to exercise  their religious freedoms.   For this assignment, go to the CSU  Online Library, and perform a search on “Hobby Lobby organizational  behavior.” From the long list of results, select an article that relates  to the debated issue about healthcare coverage to include covering the  expense […]

At your age (assume 20) you can assume that you will live to be 100. If you graduate at 23 and start to work, you can expect to work for 47 years, until age 70. At that time you will be eligible for full Social Security benefits, which can reasonably be expected to be $3,000 per month, and which will be received monthly for the […]

 In this exercise, you will use database to analyze the reservation transactions for a hotel and use that information to fine-tune the hotel’s business strategy and marketing activities. This exercise encourages you to develop queries and reports in a database software to help you make better use of transaction data to understand your business. The attached file Hotel contains information about The President’s Inn hotel […]

In 2001, John and Mary Drake founded the Baltimore Resins Corporation (BRC). Their business was finding waste products and plastics manufacturing that had been simply discarded, and finding ways to harvest this material and actually sell it for profit to possible manufacturing groups that could use this material. At the time, a big company (Waste Management) was actually charging customers to pick up and discard […]

 Kyle Wong, our guest speaker, speaks to how his organization integrated differentiation, innovation, and the Internet to gain competitive advantage (INF220 Week Two Information Systems – For Competitive Advantage (Links to an external site.)). Using Michael Porter’s Model of Competitive Advantage, analyze how you feel Pixlee uses information systems for its customers’ competitive advantage. Hint: See the Competitive Advantage Strategies in the “Business Use of Information […]

Imagine that you have decided you need to a purchase 2015 Range Rover Land Rover for $83,500. Conduct some research as to the cost of this car.  You have determined in this imagined scenario that you could afford to make a 10% down payment.  You can borrow the balance either from your local bank using a four-year loan or from the dealership’s finance company.  If […]