Apple's $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics and Beats Music in 2014 was an attractive strategy option for entering promising new industries in headphones and streaming music services because it:

A. was an effective way to hurdle entry barriers, is usually quicker than trying to launch a brand-new startup operation, and allows the acquirer to move directly to the task of building a strong position in the target industry.
B. was less expensive than launching a new startup operation, thus passing the cost of entry test.
C. offered a challenging opportunity to train new resources and revive a sagging business even if does not offer great prospects for growth, profitability, or return on investment.
D. was more likely to result in passing the shareholder value test, the profitability test, and the better-off test.
E. offered the prospect of gaining an immediate competitive advantage in the new industry and thus helps ensure that the diversification move will pass the competitive advantage test for building shareholder value.

In his speech on varying explanations of how the earth came into existence, eduardo begins with opinions, moves to inferences, and uses scientific facts in support of his last point. what principle of supporting material organization is eduardo utilizing in his speech?

German brothels recently began offering a monthly subscription service for multiple purchasers. if you thought that the brothels' encouragement of prostitution was immoral to begin with, would you consider this pricing plan to be even more immoral? suppose a particular patron at a german brothel has the following willingness-to-pay schedule for services at the brothel, per session. session willingness to pay 1st $84 2nd $72 3rd $60 4th $48 5th $36 6th $24 suppose this consumer would not demand any more sessions, even for free. also assume that the marginal cost to the brothel, per session, is constant at $12. at a price of $78.00 per session, the number of sessions demanded by this consumer would be . at this price and quantity, consumer surplus is $ and producer surplus is $ . suppose the brothel has devised a new pricing scheme for consumers who demand more than 1 session. this pricing scheme is a subscription service, whereby consumers can pay a flat fee of $259.20 and can have up to 6 sessions total. using this subscription pricing model, this consumer would demand sessions. under this scenario, consumer surplus is $ and producer surplus is $ . (hint: for consumer surplus, consider how much total value the consumer places on all sessions, versus the total price paid.)

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