An investor purchases a Treasury Inflation Protected Security with a coupon rate of 3.8% and a face value of $800,000. The maturity date is ten years and the rate of inflation for the first payment is 2.6%. The investor will expect a coupon payment closest to

How has apple been able to sustain its competitive advantage in the smartphone industry? a. by reducing its network effects b. by targeting its new products and services toward laggards c. by driving the price for the end user to zero d. by regularly introducing incremental improvements in its products

You own a nonunion company with 93 nonexempt employees. all of these employ- ees pack books into boxes for shipment to customers throughout the united states. because of wide differences in performance, you have decided to try performance appraisal, something never done before. until now, you have given every worker the same size increase. now you want to measure performance and reward the best performers with bigger increases. without any further information, which of the five types of appraisal formats do you think would be most appropriate? justify your answer. do you anticipate any complaints, or other comments, from employees after you implement your new system?

The following table gives the map coordinates and the shipping loads for a set of cities that we wish to connect through a central hub.,(7,(4,(7,(6,(2,( 2,) for the location of the proposed new central hub, the coordinates should be near: x==) if the shipments from city a double, for the location of the proposed new central hub, the coordinates should be near: x==.926.865.017.21