Brulee Bakery produces both regular and vegan baked goods. Each quarter, the research and development department develops a recipe to convert one dairy-based product to a vegan product. The new vegan product is then tested in consumer focus groups. Under activity-based costing, the company is most likely to classify developing a new vegan recipe as a(n) activity

Jared harless shattered his elbow in a snowboarding accident and decided to visit a doctor at smith union hospital for treatment. in most large organizations, several people are responsible for the buying decisions. these buying-center participants can include employees who have a formal role in purchasing decisions (i. e., the purchasing or procurement department), members of the design team for a new product, top managers, and employees who will be using the item being purchased. these employees are likely to play different roles in the buying process. vendors must understand these roles and adapt the marketing process appropriately for different individuals and for the buying center as a whole.

Marketing1. suppose the average price for a new disposable cell phone is $20, and the total market potential for that product is $4 million. topco, inc. has a planned market share of 10 percent. how many phones does topco have the potential to sell in this market? 20,0002. use the data from question 3 to calculate topco, inc.'s planned market share in dollars. $400,0003. atlantic car rental charges $29.95 per day to rent a mid-size automobile. pacific car rental, atlantic's main competitor, just reduced prices on all its car rentals. in response, atlantic reduced its prices by 5 percent. now how much does it cost to rent a mid-size automobile from atlantic? $28.45

In terms of the "great wheel of science", statistics are central to the research process (a) only between the hypothesis phase and the observation phase (b) only between the observation phase and the empirical generalization phase (c) only between the theory phase and the hypothesis phase (d) only between the empirical generalization phase and the theory phase