You are the director of international operations for North and South America for Lenovo. In 2015 you developed a five-year marketing plan to aggressively market personal computers in Canada, Mexico and Brazil. A key element of your plan called for meeting the competitive prices of HP and local manufacturers every step of the way. In addition, you planned to spend heavily on marketing. Your yearly budget for marketing in the major target markets was set as follows: Canada C$ 2,000,000 Mexico Pesos 5,000,000 Brazil Reals 1,000,000 Your 2015 price set in U. S.$ for your top selling laptop was $2,000 in each market. Market prices have declined 20% on a U. S$ basis over the years. 1.What do your marketing budgets look like in 2015 and today in US$? 2. What do the computer prices look like in local currencies in 2015 and today? 3. What actions would you plan to take in each market to fulfill your goals while addressing current conditions? (Hint: look at the marketing expenditures and the prices together).

Mr. smith recently faced a choice between being (a) an economics profes-sor, which pays $60,000/yr, or (b) a safari leader, which pays $50,000/yr. after careful deliberation, smith took the safari job, but it was a close call. "for a dollar more," he said, "i'd have gone the other way."now smith's brother-in-law approaches him with a business proposition. the terms are as follows: - smith must resign his safari job to work full-time in his brother-in-law's business.- smith must give his brother-in-law an interest-free loan of $100,000, which will be repaid in full if and when smith leaves the business. (smith currently has much more than $100,000 in the the business will pay smith a salary of $70,000/yr. he will receive no other payment from the business. the interest rate is 10 percent per year. apart from salary considerations, smith feels that working in the business would be just as enjoyable as being an economics professor. for simplicity, assume there is no uncertainty regarding either smith's salary in the proposed business or the security of his monetary investment in it. should smith join his brother-in-law and, if so, how small would smith's salary from the business have to be to make it not worthwhile for him to join? if not, how large would smith's salary from the business have to be to make it worthwhile for him to join?

Zoe would like to be able to save for night courses at the local college. which of these would be a good way for zoe to make more money available for savings without dramatically changing her budget? economía

In each of the following, what happens to the unemployment rate? does the unemployment rate give an accurate impression of what’s happening in the labor market? a. esther lost her job and begins looking for a new one. b.sam, a steelworker who has been out of work since his mill closed last year, becomes discouraged and gives up looking for work. c.dan, the sole earner in his family of 5, just lost his $90,000 job as a research scientist. immediately, he takes a part-time job at starbucks until he can find another job in his field.