Q2. You are in charge of the revenue management department at the Richardson's Days Out Hotel, which has a total of 200 rooms. Xpedia (a travel fare aggregator company) is offering to buy your rooms for Valentine's Day at a rate of $200. On the other hand, you can book the rooms through your own website (which is far less popular than Xpedia) at a rate of $300. The demand on your own website follows a normal distribution with mean 20 and standard deviation 5, and all the rooms that you did not sell to Xpedia nor booked through your website result unoccupied. a. How many rooms should you sell to Xpedia?

Currently, there is a federal mandate for sick leave.  True  False

Answer C only. Tim Woods, a recent GMU MBA grad and serial entrepreneur, has opened Pets-R-awesOMe, an online pet store. He and his team are experimenting with call center staffing. A. The current call center format has two lines: one for customers who want to place an order and one for customers who want to report a problem. Each line is served by one specialized customer service representative. The call center is staffed so that at any given time, there is one representative taking customer orders and one representative addressing customer problems. On average, there is a new customer who wants to place an order every two minutes, exponentially distributed. Similarly, there is a new customer needing to address a problem every two minutes, exponentially distributed. The call center staffers are fast and can on average complete one call of either type in 75 seconds, with a standard deviation of 30 seconds. Each call center staff member is paid $15 per hour. The estimated cost of a…

Explain the benefits of a company automating its documents, specifically spreadsheets

5 of 20 The word audience is derived from a Latin root that means O to watch O to love O to hear O to ask

SCENARIO 5: CALLING AFTER WORK HOURS You work as a manager for a family-owned, well-established and well-respected toy company. The owner, who is also you direct supervisor, frequently calls you after you have already left the office. His calls are never urgent, but he becomes very upset when you don't answer the phone. Recently, his calls have become so numerous that they have started to interfere with and disrupt your personal life plans: you can't schedule a tennis workout or go to the movies if you want, knowing that these activities will be interrupted by phone calls from your boss. How will you handle this situation?

What are the duties and responsibilities of a FLIGHT ATTENDANT?

You review a report of an A/B study that lasted 5 days.  This study involved two versions of a company's e-commerce website:  Version A was the current, released version of the website.  Version B was a new version that used a different color scheme and some different button labels. On each day of the study, all visitors between 6:00am – 5:59pm (Eastern time) were routed to Version A of the website and all visitors between 6:00pm - 5:59am (Eastern time) were routed to Version B of the website. The results of the study indicated that visitors to Version B purchased significantly more products than visitors to Version A.  The report concluded that the design of Version B was responsible for the increase in purchases and recommended that the company should switch to Version B. Two-part question: 1.  Based on just the information presented above, describe one alternative explanation for why Version B may have resulted in more purchases than Version A (i.e., a difference other than the…

It is necessary to provide a summary of what is to be obtained during the request process. Why does this happen?

One of the best ways of warming up a cold call is to email the prospect a company brochure prior to reaching out. Group of answer choices True or False