A product development team has a basic product idea that has been given to them, and their current task is to develop some attractive images of what the product might look like, descriptions of how it will function, and sample advertisements could be used for marketing it. What stage of the new product development process are they working on? O A. Concept development
O B. Commercialization
O C. Idea generation
O D. Market testing

If you want to compare two different investments, what should you calculate

You are considering the purchase of one of two machines used in your manufacturing plant. machine 1 has a life of two years, costs $20,000 initially, and then $4,000 per year in maintenance costs. machine 2 costs $25,000 initially, has a life of three years, and requires $3,500 in annual maintenance costs. either machine must be replaced at the end of its life with an equivalent machine. using eac which is the better machine for the firm

You are a newspaper publisher. you are in the middle of a one-year rental contract for your factory that requires you to pay $500,000 per month, and you have contractual labor obligations of $1 million per month that you can't get out of. you also have a marginal printing cost of $.25 per paper as well as a marginal delivery cost of $.10 per paper. if sales fall by 20 percent from 1 million papers per month to 800,000 papers per month, what happens to the afc per paper?