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BUSN 115 Final Exam (All 3 Sets)  For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Question
1.1. (TCO 7) Some of the characteristics of lean
systems include which of the following? (Points
5) Question 2.2. (TCO 7) Mass customization means
(Points 5) Question 3.3. (TCO 8) One scarce
item in the future will be water. Which is the
least expensive way to get water from places of
abundance to places of need? (Points
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BUSN 115 Final Exam Set 1  For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Question
1.1. (TCO 7) Some of the characteristics of lean
systems include which of the following? (Points
5) They take twice the human effort.
They have the same defects in the finished
product. They require half of the
engineering effort.
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BUSN 115 Final Exam Set 3  For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   1.
(TCO 1) Describe the six major functional areas
in a business enterprise. (Points 25) Question
2.2. (TCO 2) Identify and discuss the social
responsibilities of Home Depot to three different
stakeholder groups. (Points 25) Home Depot is
one of the world's biggest home improvement
retailers in the United States, Canada, and
Puerto Rico. Home Depot stores strive to serve
both the professional
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BUSN 115 Week 1 DQ 1 Laws and Regulations For
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Do laws and regulations always
restrict or impede the efforts of business
professionals, or can they actually help
businesses? In addition to this, could you list
some examples of laws or regulations that may
have impeded business lately?
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BUSN 115 Week 1 DQ 2 Entrepreneurship Failure For
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The risk of failure is an inherent part of free
enterprise. Does society have an obligation to
come to the aid of entrepreneurs who try but
fail? Why or why not? Also, please discuss some
ways you can minimize your risk. Entrepreneurship
Failure
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BUSN 115 Week 1-7 All DQs For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   BUSN 115
Week 1 DQ 1 Laws and Regulations BUSN 115 Week 1
DQ 2 Entrepreneurship Failure BUSN 115 Week 2 DQ
1 Global Markets BUSN 115 Week 2 DQ 2 Corporate
Social Responsibility (CSR) BUSN 115 Week 3 DQ 1
Starting a Business BUSN 115 Week 3 DQ 2 Early
Adopters
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BUSN 115 Week 2 DQ 1 Global Markets  For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Glob
al Markets How can a company use licensing
agreements to enter world markets? What two
fundamental product strategies do companies
choose between when selling their products in the
global marketplace?
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BUSN 115 Week 2 DQ 2 Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR)  For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR) Is it ethical for companies
to benefit from their efforts to practice
corporate social responsibility? Why or why not?
How can anyone be sure that CSR efforts arent
just public relations ploys?
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BUSN 115 Week 2 Quiz For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   Question 1.
Question (TCO 1) _____ is money
that an organization brings in through the sale
of its goods and services. Profit Revenue Sales Ca
pital investment Finance
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BUSN 115 Week 3 Assignment LEMONADE STAND, PART I
(2 Papers)  For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   Background As you
have read about in our lecture, we have used a
lemonade stand to help us understand some basic
concepts of business. As we pointed out, a
lemonade stand has a simple business structure
yet, it can help us understand almost every
function of a firm such as marketing,
operations,
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BUSN 115 Week 3 DQ 1 Starting a Business  For
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Starting a Business What are the advantages of
buying a business rather than starting one from
scratch? What are the advantages and
disadvantages of owning a franchise?
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BUSN 115 Week 3 DQ 2 Early Adopters  For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Early
Adopters Do you consider yourself an early
adopter when it comes to trying out new products
or new fashions, or do you tend to take a
wait-and-see attitude? How does your attitude
toward new products and new ideas influence your
decision making as a consumer?
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BUSN 115 Week 4 DQ 1 Purchasing Process  For more
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hasing Process Think of a product you recently
purchased and review your decision process. Why
did you need or want that product? How did the
products marketing influence your purchase
decision? How did you investigate the product
before making your purchase decision? Did you
experience cognitive dissonance after your
decision?
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BUSN 115 Week 4 DQ 2 Advertising  For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Advertising  
Think about an advertisement (in any medium)
that had either a strongly positive or strongly
negative effect on your attitude toward the
product being advertised or the advertiser
itself. Why did the ad have this effect? If you
responded positively to the ad, do you think you
were being manipulated in any way? If you
responded negativelyand you are a potential
buyer o
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BUSN 115 Week 4 Quiz For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   uestion 1.
Question (TCO 3) A small business is
defined as a company that _____. is newly
launched and has fewer than 100 shareholders is
dominant in its field and employs fewer than
1,500 employees has a revenue of less than
750,000
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BUSN 115 Week 5 Assignment LEMONADE STAND, PART
II (2 Papers)  For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   This tutorial
contains 2 Papers/Tutorial Background In part
II of this assignment, we continue to outline
various business aspects of our lemonade stand.
As you continue to learn new concepts in this
course, you have seen how a lemonade stand can
help us understand and apply these concepts. In
Part II of your lemonade stand we will
incorporate concepts from previous weeks and
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BUSN 115 Week 5 DQ 1 Motivation Theories For more
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vation Theories Chapter 7 discusses several
styles of leadership, including autocratic,
democratic, and laissez-faire. How do each of
these styles relate to Theory X and Theory Y
assumptions about workers?
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BUSN 115 Week 5 DQ 2 Benefit Choices  For more
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fit Choices When you begin interviewing as you
approach graduation, you will need to analyze job
offers that include a number of financial and
nonfinancial elements. Which of these aspects of
employment are your top three priorities a good
base wage bonus or commission
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BUSN 115 Week 6 DQ 2 Technology Improvement For
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Technology Improvement   Business is stalled.
Sales last month were 10 percent less than the
previous month and so far this month is looking
even worse than last month. Could technology help
you answer the decrease in sales? What
technologies could you deploy to increase sales?
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BUSN 115 Week 6 Quiz For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   Question 1.
Question (TCO 5) A company whose
structure, policies, and capabilities allow
employees to respond quickly to customer needs
and changes in the business environment is termed
as a(n) _____.  
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BUSN 115 Week 7 DQ 1 Accounting Firm  For more
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unting Firm   The senior partner of an
accounting firm is looking for ways to increase
the firms business. What other services besides
traditional accounting can the firm offer to its
clients? What new challenges might this
additional work create?
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BUSN 115 Week 7 DQ 2 Financial Control  For more
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ial Control   The company you cofounded last
year is growing rapidly and has strong prospects
for an IPO in the next year or two. The
additional capital that an IPO could raise would
let you hire the brightest people in the industry
and continue to innovate with new product
research.
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