It took megatech, inc. 100,000 labor-hours to produce the first of several oil-drilling rigs for antarctic exploration. your company, natural resources, inc., has agreed to purchase the fifth (steady state) oil-drilling rig from megatech’s manufacturing yard. assume that megatech experiences a learning rate of 80%. at a labor rate of $35 per hour, what should you, as the purchasing agent, expect to pay for the fifth unit?

According to herman, one of the differences of managing a nonprofit versus a for-profit corporation is

Security a has a higher standard deviation of returns than security b. we would expect that: (i) security a would have a risk premium equal to security b. (ii) the likely range of returns for security a in any given year would be higher than the likely range of returns for security b. (iii) the sharpe ratio of a will be higher than the sharpe ratio of b. (a) i only (b) i and ii only (c) ii and iii only (d) i, ii and iii

It is estimated that over 100,000 students will apply to the top 30 m.b.a. programs in the united states this year. a. using the concept of net present value and opportunity cost, when is it rational for an individual to pursue an m.b.a. degree. b. what would you expect to happen to the number of applicants if the starting salaries of managers with m.b.a. degrees remained constant but salaries of managers without such degrees decreased by 20 percent