In a couple of our lectures, and the textbook, we discuss cotton -- the various stages of its production (cultivation, the creation of thread through the process called spinning, the creation of cotton cloth through the use of weaving looms, etc.) The historian Sven Beckert, in his book Empire of Cotton, thinks of industrialization as having been driven by the market demand for inexpensive cotton cloth in places like the United Kingdom, where cotton could not be cultivated. Is consumer demand really that important?

T-comm makes a variety of products. it is organized in two divisions, north and south. the managers for each division are paid, in part, based on the financial performance of their divisions. the south division normally sells to outside customers but, on occasion, also sells to the north division. when it does, corporate policy states that the price must be cost plus 20 percent to ensure a "fair" return to the selling division. south received an order from north for 300 units. south's planned output for the year had been 1,200 units before north's order. south's capacity is 1,500 units per year. the costs for producing those 1,200 units follow

Bulldog holdings is a u.s.-based consumer electronics company. it owns smaller firms in japan and taiwan where most of its cell phone technology is developed and manufactured before being released worldwide. which of the following alternatives to integration does this best illustrate? a. venture capitalism b. franchising c. joint venture d. parent-subsidiary relationship

Perform a goal seek analysis to find a packing weight that will bring the shipping weight of the retro fit clothing set down to 39.75 lbs. use cell i9 as the cell to set, 39.75 as the target value, and cell f5 as the changing cell. keep the values generated by the goal seek analysis as the value for cells f5, i9, and i10.