An entrepreneur establishes a social justice online retail company. The company purchases authentic artwork, jewelry and crafts at a fair price from artisans in developing countries and then sells them through a website. As a company following a differentiation strategy, which of these functional-level strategies will be important for sustaining the business?a. Developing a robust marketing program to promote the social justice elements of the business and gain insights into consumer purchasing behavior on the websiteb. Leveraging its purchasing power to pressure artisans into selling their goods at a reduced pricec. Adopting a lean manufacturing technique to reduce production costsd. Incentivizing employees with bonuses for cutting costs within the operation

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?

Match the different financial task to their corresponding financial life cycle phases

What business practice contributed most to andrew carnegie’s ability to form a monopoly?