What is your strategy for e-commerce? That's a question Michael Maher, Barrett Purdum, and Mike Armenta asked each other when they launched Taylor Stitch, a custom shirt manufacturer and retailer in San Francisco. They decided that their strengths were in designing, manufacturing, and marketing their products, not in designing a Web platform for their business. After researching available options, they chose Shopify, which helps companies set up online stores. It sells or configures domain names, sets up and hosts websites, provides shopping cart features enabling customers to browse and buy, and offers other e-commerce products and consulting services. The owners of Taylor Stitch credit the Shopify platform with spurring sales through a well-integrated system.

Afinancial institution, the thriftem bank, is in the process of formulating its loan policy for the next quarter. a total of $12 million is allocated for that purpose. being a full-service facility, the bank is obligated to grant loans to different clientele. the following table provides the types of loans, the interest rate charged by the bank, and the possibility of bad debt as estimated from past experience. type of loaninterest rateprobability of bad debtpersonal.140.10car.130.07home.1 20.03farm.125.05commercial.100.02 bad debts are assumed unrecoverable and hence produce no interest revenue either. competition with other financial institutions in the area requires that the bank allocate at least 40% of the total funds to farm and commercial loans. to assist the housing industry in the region, home loans must equal at least 50% of the personal, car, and home loans. the bank also has a stated policy specifying that the overall ratio for bad debts on all loans may not exceed .04. formulate this problem as a linear program. define your variables clearly and write all the constraints explaining the significance of each.

Standardization is associated with which of the following management orientations? a) ethnocentric orientation b) polycentric orientation c) regiocentric orientation d) geocentric orientation

Darlene has a balance of 3980 on a credit card with an apr of 22.8% paying off her balance and which of these lengths of time will result in her paying the least amount of interest?