Adding to our continuing discussion of southwest airlines, discuss you position on if management's apparent current strategy change reflecting growth and expansion by acquisition and expanding away from its traditional service area (the u. s. only) passes the five strategically valuable tests of resource strategy discussed in lesson topic 1. does this strategy upgrade swa's resources? what are the strategic implications of this strategy? the five resource strategy tests are: (1) it's hard to copy(2) it depreciates slowly(3) its value is controlled by your company(4) it's not easily substituted(5) it's better than competitors' similar resources

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The federal reserve's organization while all members of the federal reserve board of governors vote at federal open market committee (fomc) meetings, only of the regional bank presidents are members of the fomc. the federal reserve's role as a lender of last resort involves lending to which of the following financially troubled institutions? u.s. banks that cannot borrow elsewhere governments in developing countries during currency crises u.s. state governments when they run short on tax revenues the federal reserve's primary tool for changing the money supply is . in order to decrease the number of dollars in the u.s. economy (the money supply), the federal reserve will government bonds.

Galwaysc electronics makes two products. model a requires component a and component c. model b requires component b and component c. new versions of both models are released each year with updated versions of all components. all components are sourced overseas, and abc contracts annually for a quantity of each component before seeing that year’s demand. components are only assembled into finished products once demand for each model is known. for the coming year, alwaysc’s purchasing manner has proposed ordering 500,000 units of component a, 630,000 of component b, and 1,000,000 units of component c. her boss has asked why she has recommended purchasing so much of components a and b when alwaysc will not have enough of component c to fully use all of the inventory of a and b. what factors might the purchasing manager cite to explain her recommended order? explain your reasoning.