You are the marketing director for a company that sells fashionable athletic wear. Sales have declined in the past couple of years, however, a problem you attribute to the fact that people are paying less and less attention to traditional marketing tactics. At the next board meeting, you are going to propose a campaign that emphasizes good storytelling, interesting visual graphics, and interactive stories. These are all elements of .

Which value describes the desire to be one’s own boss? a. autonomy b. status c. security d. entrepreneurship

You hold a diversified $100,000 portfolio consisting of 20 stocks with $5,000 invested in each. the portfolio's beta is 1.12. you plan to sell a stock with b = 0.90 and use the proceeds to buy a new stock with b = 1.50. what will the portfolio's new beta be? do not round your intermediate calculations.

Adrawback of short-term contracting as an alternative to making a component in-house is thata. it is the most-integrated alternative to performing an activity so the principal company has no control over the agent. b. the supplying firm has no incentive to make any transaction-specific investments to increase performance or quality. c. it fails to allow a long planning period that individual market transactions provide. d. the buying firm cannot demand lower prices due to the lack of a competitive bidding process.