An unlikely pitfall that is associated with pursuing strategic alliances with foreign partners is: a. reaching mutual agreements to deal with key issues and resolve differences
b. overcoming cultural and language barriers
c. dealing with diverse operating practices, conflicting objectives, and strategies
d. getting alliance partners to reach decisions fast enough to stay abreast of rapid advances
d. making it harder to pursue a multidomestic strategy as compared to a global strategy

During 2017, sheridan company expected job no. 26 to cost $300000 of overhead, $500000 of materials, and $200000 in labor. sheridan applied overhead based on direct labor cost. actual production required an overhead cost of $260000, $510000 in materials used, and $150000 in labor. all of the goods were completed. what amount was transferred to finished goods?

Retirement investment advisors, inc., has just offered you an annual interest rate of 4.4 percent until you retire in 40 years. you believe that interest rates will increase over the next year and you would be offered 5 percent per year one year from today. if you plan to deposit $13,000 into the account either this year or next year, how much more will you have when you retire if you wait one year to make your deposit?

David consumes two things: gasoline (g) and bread (b). david's utility function is u(g, b) = 10g^0.25 b^0.75. use the lagrange technique to solve for david's optimal choices of gasoline and bread as a function of the price of gasoline, p_g, the price of bread, p_b, and his income m. with recent decrease in the price of gasoline (maybe due to external shock such as shale gas production) does david increase his consumption of gasoline? for david, how does partial differential g/partial differential p_g depend on his income m? that is, how does david's change in gasoline consumption due to an increase in the price of gasoline depend on his income level? to answer these questions, find the cross-partial derivative, |partial differential^2 g/partial differential m partial differential p_g.