Compare and contrast the three marketing philosophies discussed in the text.

In june 2009, at the trough of the great recession, the bureau of labor statistics announced that of all adult americans, 140,196,000 were employed, 14,729,000 were unemployed and 80,729,000 were not in the labor force. use this information to calculate: a. the adult population b. the labor force c. the labor-force participation rate d. the unemployment rate

Brandt enterprises is considering a new project that has a cost of $1,000,000, and the cfo set up the following simple decision tree to show its three most likely scenarios. the firm could arrange with its work force and suppliers to cease operations at the end of year 1 should it choose to do so, but to obtain this abandonment option, it would have to make a payment to those parties. how much is the option to abandon worth to the firm?

Oliver is the vice president of production at his company and has been managing the launch of new software systems. he worked with a team of individuals who were tasked to create awareness about a specific product and also to approach potential purchasers of the product. which department managers were part of oliver’s team?