Black diamond company produces snow skis. each ski requires 2 pounds of carbon fiber. the company’s management predicts that 6,100 skis and 7,100 pounds of carbon fiber will be in inventory on june 30 of the current year and that 161,000 skis will be sold during the next (third) quarter. a set of two skis sells for $410. management wants to end the third quarter with 4,600 skis and 5,100 pounds of carbon fiber in inventory. carbon fiber can be purchased for $10 per pound. each ski requires 0.5 hours of direct labor at $15 per hour. variable overhead is applied at the rate of $5 per direct labor hour. the company budgets fixed overhead of $1,793,000 for the quarter. prepare the third-quarter production budget for skis.

Goals that are overly ambitious can discourage employees and decrease motivation, yet the idea of stretch goals is proposed as a way to get people fired up and motivated. as a manager, how might you decide where to draw the line between a “good” stretch goal and a “bad” one that is unrealistic?

At a student café, there are equal numbers of two types of customers with the following values. the café owner cannot distinguish between the two types of students because many students without early classes arrive early anyway (i.e., she cannot price-discriminate). students with early classes students without early classes coffee 70 60 banana 51 101 the marginal cost of coffee is 10 and the marginal cost of a banana is 40. the café owner is considering three pricing strategies: 1. mixed bundling: price bundle of coffee and a banana for 161, or just a coffee for 70. 2. price separately: offer coffee at 60, price a banana at 101. 3. bundle only: coffee and a banana for 121. do not offer goods separately. assume that if the price of an item or bundle is no more than exactly equal to a student's willingness to pay, then the student will purchase the item or bundle. for simplicity, assume there is just one student with an early class, and one student without an early class. price strategy revenue from pricing strategy cost from pricing strategy profit from pricing strategy 1. mixed bundling $ $ $ 2. price separately $ $ $ 3. bundle only $ $ $ pricing strategy yields the highest profit for the café owner.

What is the difference between an "i" statement and a "you" statement? a. the "i" statement is non-confrontational b. the "you" statement is non-confrontational c. the "i" statement is argumentative d. the "you" statement is neutral in tone select the best answer from the choices provided