Harmon recently quit his job that he had worked at for the past 10 years in order to start his own business, a company that specializes in pet care
services. He has a lot of good ideas, but doesn't have a firm business plan. A
month after starting his new company, he applied for a loan at a bank so that
he could buy a new office space. Which of the following is likely to be true in
this situation?
A. The bank will not care about the lack of business plan because
he's only been in business for a month.
B. The bank will be slow to lend to him because of how long he was
at his previous job.
C. The bank might be slow to lend to him because of the lack of a
firm business plan.
D. Harmon only needs to show the bank his record of income from
his old job, not his new business.

Karen is working on classifying all her company’s products in terms of whether they have strong or weak market share and whether this share is in a slow or growing market. what type of strategic framework is she using?

Stocks a, b, and c are similar in some respects: each has an expected return of 10% and a standard deviation of 25%. stocks a and b have returns that are independent of one another; i.e., their correlation coefficient, r, equals zero. stocks a and c have returns that are negatively correlated with one another; i.e., r is less than 0. portfolio ab is a portfolio with half of its money invested in stock a and half in stock b. portfolio ac is a portfolio with half of its money invested in stock a and half invested in stock c. which of the following statements is correct? a. portfolio ab has a standard deviation that is greater than 25%.b. portfolio ac has an expected return that is less than 10%.c. portfolio ac has a standard deviation that is less than 25%.d. portfolio ab has a standard deviation that is equal to 25%.e. portfolio ac has an expected return that is greater than 25%.

Will mark you the which of the following groups has caused ongoing conflicts in afghanistan? a. the sinhalese majority b. natalitesc. kashmir sikhsd. the taliban