Production of sliver's latest small car, the beetle, has been a dramatic improvement compared to its previous product, quiver. the production target of 2,000 beetle cars per day has been reached only within 10 weeks since the launch date, which is less than the time they needed for quiver. which of the following, if true, would suggest that sliver adopted a jit strategy for the beetle? a. sliver acquired one of its major distributors before the production of the beetleb. sliver has recently made a substantial investment in acquiring warehouses close to its production facilities. c. sliver acquired a fleet of airplanes to ensure that all the components it sourced from across the world were unaffected by supply bottlenecks in other countries. d. all of sliver's production factories have their own purchase departments that the company achieve benefits of scale discounting

At a young age, ebony's coaches were confident she had the potential to be a world-class swimmer with a future coaching career. after four years on an athletic scholarship and olympic experience under her belt, she chose a different path. with her savings and personal connections, she rented a corner building in a bustling san francisco neighborhood and pursued her dream: a surf shop business. ebony's dream was rooted in which basic right of free-market capitalism?

Ajustification for job training programs is that they improve worker productivity. suppose that you are asked to evaluate whether more job training makes workers more productive. however, rather than having data on individual workers, you have access to data on manufacturing firms in ohio. in particu- lar, for each firm, you have information on hours of job training per worker (training) and number of nondefective items produced per worker hour (output). (i) carefully state the ceteris paribus thought experiment underlying this policy question. (ii) does it seem likely that a firm’s decision to train its workers will be independent of worker characteristics? what are some of those measurable and unmeasurable worker characteristics? (iii) name a factor other than worker characteristics that can affect worker productivity. (iv) if you find a positive correlation between output and training, would you have convincingly established that job training makes workers more productive? explain.

What type of budget is stated? a budget is a type of financial report that scrutinizes the inflow and outflow of money in a given financial year.