Source: Dr. Mark Lehner, quoted in “How Egypt’s Great Pyramid Changed Civilization” Scientific American, 2015.When Lehner and his team began excavating the site, they expected to find a modest encampment at most—a handful of nondescript buildings where poor, low-status laborers would have eked out their miserable existence each night. Instead the team uncovered something far more elaborate—a city whose layout and architecture had been carefully preplanned by Khufu’s regime. The buildings each contained hearths and sleeping platforms for 20 people—the number of men in a work team—plus an extra room that may have been for their overseer. South of the Gallery Complex stood the bakeries and breweries, as evidenced by the bread ovens and beer jars found in the remains of the buildings there. South of the bakeries lies a large building next to what appear to be silos for storing grain and an enclosure wall that may have been used as a corral for livestock. West of the bakeries is a neighborhood that boasted big houses. The garbage dumps in this area showed that the residents here were eating a lot of very expensive veal, and clay sealings found in the vicinity bear the titles of high-ranking individuals, suggesting that the buildings served as the homes and offices for the city’s administrators. Far from being treated little better than slaves, the estimated 6,000 residents appear to have lived quite comfortably. The findings suggest that after a long day’s work of unloading the barges, the pyramid builders would have headed into town to eat. The smell of baking bread and brewing beer would have wafted from the bakeries. Meat would have been offered, too—probably goat for the crew, beef for the foreman. And remains of distinctive ceramic shipping containers suggest that they may have had access to olive oil imported from the eastern edge of the Mediterranean, a frill unavailable to most Egyptians. Question: What evidence does Mark Lehner use to study the pyramid workers?

Orange sells only four products and they are very different from each other.   Their newest product is a Bluetooth headset where the microphone attaches to one of the customer’s teeth.  This is an expensive headset and customer demand is unknown. However, it does make Orange a huge profit. It has been difficult for the company to find a good supplier of dental mikes. Another technologically advanced product is the ‘gesture’ mouse which reads one’s body language and allows one to manipulate the computer purely with gestures.  These mice must be set up for the body language of various cultures and Orange needs to customize these to different countries. Orange also makes a regular headset though it is high-fidelity.  Production requires special speakers only available from one or two suppliers.  Orange worries that these suppliers might not continue supplying them. Finally, Orange sells t-shirts with their logo on them.  These are purchased plain and silk-screened in-house. How should Orange manage the supply chains for these four products?  Explain your answers in terms of upstream and downstream uncertainty.  

True or False: Studies have found that users read or scan emails following a P-shape.

What does ESP stand for?

True or False: According to the eMarketing (6th edition) textbook, YouTube has over 1.3 billion active users and over 60% of users are male. 

What is content marketing?

When a bank has short-term liabilities that are greater than its short-term assets, but overall its assets are greater than its liabilities, the bank is considered:

You have created a virtual economy on your computer to try to mimic the interesting models we have done in this class. You and your friends are keeping employment statistics in the exact same way as the BLS, and you have the following data at your disposal: last month there were 100 million people in your virtual reality world, 60 percent were in the labor force, and 12 million people were classified as unemployed. What is the unemployment rate in your virtual reality world?

Which program(s) would be more directed at helping overcome frictional unemployment?

Countries with higher levels of real per capita GDP tend to have better educational opportunities higher infant survival rates longer life expectancy rates