According to Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter, strategic positioning "means performing different activities from rivals, or performing similar activities in different ways" to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. True/false

Aldrich and co. sold goods to donovan on credit. the amount owed grew steadily, and finally aldrich refused to sell any more to donovan unless donovan signed a promissory note for the amount due. donovan did not want to but signed the note because he had no money and needed more goods. when aldrich brought an action to enforce the note, donovan claimed that the note was not binding because it had been obtained by economic duress. was he correct? [aldrich & co. v. donovan, 778 p.2d 397 (mont.)]

Activity-based costing (abc) is not truly a cost collection mechanism as much as it is an inventory valuation method. the main purpose for implementing an activity-based cost system is to try to overcome some of the cost distortions that occur in traditional costing from product differences when there are variations in size and complexity. however, one of the disadvantages of utilizing abc is that the additional information gathering necessary to implement costing with that level of detail might be beyond the reach of some companies with resource or financial constraints. with this in mind, what kinds of industries or companies do you think would benefit most from using activity-based costing and why? in designing or modifying an accounting system to capture appropriate costs for abc, what considerations do you think would need to be made?

Amarginally attached worker is a person who is not happy with his or her job. someone who works part-time more than 25 hours per week but wants full-time work. someone who does not have a job but is available and willing to work and has made specific but unsuccessful efforts to find a job during the past 4 weeks. someone who does not have a job but is available and willing to work but has not made specific efforts to find a job during the past 4 weeks. another name for an unemployed worker.