A blue-ocean type of offensive strategy A. is an offensive attack used by a market leader to steal customers away from unsuspecting smaller rivals. B. involves a preemptive strike to secure an advantageous position in a fast-growing market segment. C. works best when a company is the industry's low-cost leader. D. offers growth in revenues and profits by discovering or inventing a new industry or distinct market segment that renders rivals largely irrelevant and allows a company to create and capture altogether new demand. E. involves the use of highly creative, never-used-before strategic moves to attack the competitive weaknesses of rivals.

Ardmore farm and seed has an inventory dilemma. they have been selling a brand of very popular insect spray for the past year. they have never really analyzed the costs incurred from ordering and holding the inventory and currently fave a large stock of the insecticide in the warehouse. they estimate that it costs $25 to place an order, and it costs $0.25 per gallon to hold the spray. the annual requirements total 80,000 gallons for a 365 day year.a. assuming that 10,000 gallons are ordered each time an order is placed, estimate the annual inventory costs.b. calculate the eoq.c. given the eoq calculated in part b., how many orders should be placed and what is the average inventory balance? d. if it takes seven days to receive an order from suppliers, at what inventory level should ardmore place another order?

Three years ago, the city of recker committed to build a park and music venue by the river. it was expected to cost $2.5 million and be paid for from an additional meals tax in the community. the residents pushed back. local restaurants suffered as people ate out less or patronized restaurants in neighboring communities. the project has stalled, but the town council kept pushing it on. this spring, a flood devastated the venue. the town council appears to have suffered from bias

Just like a lot of other americans, john wayne died of cancer. but is there more to this story? in 1955, wayne was in utah shooting a film. across the state line, in nevada, the united states military was testing atomic bombs. radioactive fallout from those tests drifted across the filming location. a total of 46 of the 220 people working on the film eventually died of cancer. cancer experts estimate that one would expect only about 30 cancer deaths in a group this size. is the death rate among the movie crew unusually high? does this prove that exposure to radiation increases the risk of cancer?