Given the following information regarding a project involving an initial public offering (IPO):
Activities Description Duration (weeks) Predecessors
a. Check feasibility 3 —
b. Determine funding 1 —
c. Find possible banks 3 a
d. Select two possible 4 a
e. Interview two banks 4 b
f. Analyze funding costs 5 b
g. Determine chance of success 2 c ,e
h Sign contract 3 f
a) Draw the network.
b) What is the critical path?
c) Calculate the float for each activity.
d) What is the effect on the project if activity e (approvals) takes an extra week? Two extra weeks? Three extra weeks?

Afirm’s production function is represented by q(m, r) = 4m 3/4r1/3, where q denotes output, m raw materials, and r robots. the firm is currently using 6 units of raw materials and 12 robots. according to the mrts, in order to maintain its output level the firm would need to give up 2 robots if it adds 9 units of raw materials. (a) true (b) false

This activity is important because as a marketing manager, you must allocate resources to reach your target market. during the strategic marketing process, managers move through three important phases to determine how to optimally allocate resources: a planning phase, an implementation phase, and an evaluation phase. in this interactive exercise, you are asked to review various strategic marketing actions and determine where in the strategic marketing process the action would occur. the goal of this exercise is to demonstrate your understanding of the strategic marketing process and related marketing actions.

1. what are the unique operational challenges to delivering fresh meals? 2. why is speed of delivery so important for delivered meals? what variety of options contribute to this performance metric? 3. how could operations management concepts be utilized to improve the performance of freshly? 4. what are your typical product delivery times? what would be required to speed these up? 5. what are your delivery batch quantities? how could you reduce batch size and reduce delivery cost simultaneously using operations management concepts?