You're moving to California! There are just no jobs in Nebraska, and it just makes sense that you move to California where jobs are plentiful. You have an old car, 2 suitcases, and just enough money to pay for gas for the 4 day trip. You have room for yourself, 5 additional passengers and 5 more suitcases in the car. Choose your passengers from the list given, but make sure you can justify your decisions based on human wants, needs, values, interests, and values. Joe is a mechanic, and knows how to drive a car. You've never spent much time with him, but you've heard people say he's a very violent person. He has 1 piece of luggage and 6 blankets. John knows how to drive a car, but knows nothing about how they work. He says he will go with you, but only if he can bring all 4 of his big suitcases...two filled with canned food & water. Susan grew up working on her brother's race car. She's a good driver. She thinks you're great! You like having her around; she makes you feel important. She has one suitcase, a box of bandaids, her rollerblades, and 12 Snicker's candy bars. Jack has a large thermos of fresh water to bring along. He has two suitcases, 4 rolls of toilet paper, and is very strong. He used to be a security guard. CJ has been your boy/girlfriend for the past month. He/she has two suitcases, says they love you very much, doesn't know how to drive, and has never held a job. ______. Lucy has 3 suitcases, a can of Pepsi, 3 oranges, and an Aunt living in California that has offered you free room and board for a week while you hunt for work. Paul just finished serving his 10 year prison sentence for armed robbery and assault of a family member. He has only a small plastic bag for luggage, knows how to drive and fix cars but doesn't have a license. He will pay you $200 cash for his seat in the car. _____Larry is the Pastor/Priest of your church, is your good friend, and has 2 suitcases... one holding a small camp stove and can opener. She has a cell phone with 50 minutes left on it. _____.Karen has a Swiss army knife and a tent as big as 2 suitcases, but no other luggage. She's a safe driver and grew up in California. ______Jim used to run a wilderness survival camp, where he taught people how to survive for a month on just a ball of string, a safety pin, a flashlight, and a pack of chewing gum. Those are the only things he's bringing with him.

If you owned a small manufacturing business with relatively high volume and multiple product lines, would it be good for you to implement an ABC model?  Why? What are the benefits and the risks - or how could you adapt it to get the best of both?

In a retail desert on the South Side of Chicago, amid vacant lots and signs promoting "affordable bankruptcy" sits a highly contested 200-acre plot that's the future of Wal-Mart. The company famous for low prices and high growth is nearly tapped out in the sticks and suburbs. Today, just 47 of its 4,300 Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores are in big cities, and most of those are in Dallas and Houston. Urban America is the company's last frontier. Since 2006 a single Wal-Mart has been homesteading in Austima mostly African American Chicago community with an unemployment rate of 40 percent, its alderman says. Now the company wants to put two dozen more stores in the city, including a 145,000-square-foot Supercenter on that 200-acre plot. In an area ravaged by poverty and desperate for the 400 jobs the Supercenter would provide, you'd think this would have been a slam dunk. It was not. After the first Chicago Wal-Mart opened, unions and community organizations successfully lobbied the city…

A drug company has two options when it comes to drug development. Develop a new drug or improve an existing one. When developing a new drug the company can choose to go with rapid development, which costs less but has a larger chance of failing FDA inspection, or choose to go with thorough development, which is costlier but has a better chance of FDA approval. If the company chooses to improve an existing drug then the company can either choose to do minor improvements to the drug or major improvements to the drug. Major improvements have to be FDA approved while minor improvements don’t have to be approved by the FDA. The company needs to figure out the optimal decision process.   Based on projected demands the payoffs are as follows; if a new drug is developed rapidly, then, approval by FDA will result in a profit of 75,000 while rejection by FDA will result in a loss of 25,000. If a new drug is developed thoroughly, then approval by FDA will result in profit of 105,000 while…