A firm's core competencies, integrated with an understanding of the results of studying the conditions in the external environment, should: a. guarantee profits. b. increase the firm's market share. c. drive the selection of strategies. d. lead to a first-mover advantage.

You are head of the schwartz family endowment for the arts. you have decided to fund an arts school in the san francisco bay area in perpetuity. every 5 years, you will give the school $ 1 comma 000 comma 000. the first payment will occur 5 years from today. if the interest rate is 5.9 % per year, what is the present value of your gift?

Why are the four primary service outputs of spatial convenience, lot size, waiting time, and product variety important to logistics management? provide examples of competing firms that differ in the level of each service output provided to customers?

Which of the following is not an example of one of the four mail advantages of prices on a free market economy