Reasons to study operations management include learning about:
A) how people organize themselves for productive enterprise.
B) how goods and services are produced.
C) what operations managers do.
D) a costly part of the enterprise.
E) all of the above.
E
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Describe some external pressures that organizational leaders face in this day and age.
What will be an ideal response?
To market Suave shampoo, Unilever used PRIZM to identify neighborhoods with high concentrations of young working women
These women responded best to advertisements conveying the message that Suave is inexpensive, yet will make their hair "look like they spend a fortune on it." What segmentation tool did Unilever use in this example? A) geocoding B) geodemography C) the hierarchy of needs D) projective techniques E) ethnography
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A) The company's credit department has followed up with customers whose account balances are past due in order to generate quicker collections. B) The company has decreased sales to its most credit worthy customers. C) The company has increased the amount of time customers have to pay their accounts before they are past due. D) The company has extended credit to more risky customers in order to increase the accounts receivable turnover ratio.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of serving a foreign market through a greenfield foreign direct investment compared to an acquisition of a local firm in the target market?
What will be an ideal response?