Qualcomm has developed a groundbreaking new CPU chip. The patent on the chip will last 17 years. You expect that the chip’s profits to be $4 million in its first year and that this amount will grow at a rate of 5% per year for the next 17 years. Once the patent expires, Intel will be able to produce the same chip and competition will likely drive profits to zero. What is the present value of the new chip if the interest rate is 8% per year?

1. is the act of declaring a drivers license void and terminated when it is determined that the license was issued through error or fraud.

Adrawback of short-term contracting as an alternative to making a component in-house is thata. it is the most-integrated alternative to performing an activity so the principal company has no control over the agent. b. the supplying firm has no incentive to make any transaction-specific investments to increase performance or quality. c. it fails to allow a long planning period that individual market transactions provide. d. the buying firm cannot demand lower prices due to the lack of a competitive bidding process.

An upper-middle-class manager tends to have hostile relationship with the working-class employees in the firm because of his tendency to perceive himself as superior to them based on his class background. in this example, the manager exhibits: question 14 options: 1) class consciousness. 2) cultural awareness. 3) social mobility. 4) group orientation.