If the economy booms, Meyer & Company stock will have a return of 20.9 percent. If the economy goes into a recession, the stock will have a loss of 13.2 percent. The probability of a boom is 62 percent while the probability of a recession is 38 percent. What is the standard deviation of the returns on the stock?

Which of the following is a characteristic that can be used to guide the design of service systems? a. services cannot be inventoried. b. services are all similar. c. quality work means quality service. d. services businesses are inherently entrepreneurial. e. even service businesses have internal services.

Ancho corp. is an automobile company whose core competency lies in manufacturing petrol- and diesel- based cars. the company realizes that more of its potential customers are switching to electric cars. the r& d department of the company acquires competencies in developing electric cars and launches its first hybrid car, which uses both gas and electricity. in this scenario, ancho is primarilya. leveraging new core competencies to improve current market position. b. redeploying existing core competencies to compete in future markets. c. unlearning existing core competencies to create and compete in markets of the future. d. building new core competencies to protect and extend current market position

Discuss ways that oracle could provide client customers with the ability to form better relationships with customers.