Mkt501 GDB No. 1 Solution

Semester “Fall 2010”

“Marketing Management (MKT 501)”

This is to inform that Graded Discussion Board (GDB) will be opened according to the following schedule

Schedule

Opening Date and Time: November 02, 2010 At 12:01 A.M. (Mid-Night)

Closing Date and Time: November 04, 2010 At 11:59 P.M. (Mid-Night)

Topic for Discussion

“Competition/ Competitors”

You have been recently hired as a marketing manager in a Shampoo manufacturing organization.There is only 20% market share of your organization while your competitors having 45% and 35% market share respectively. CEO has given you the target at the time of joining this organization that Market share should be 40% within a year.

“How do you upgrade your market share”?

Solution:

1. Reallocate marketing budgets from branding to direct-target marketing for a higher return on investment.

2. Know your customer. Build a marketing database designed to gain insights into customer value, vulnerability and potential.

3. Get smart about your customer data. Hotel sales and marketing teams should profile their best customers on highest value and target others that look like those best customers. Hotels attracting conventions or meetings need to prioritize prospects into A-B-C lists and provide value-added incentives for A-list prospects, focusing the majority of the budget on those.

4. Leverage new customer insights on customer value, vulnerability and potential into campaigns that maximize ROI.
5. Test creative and offers to measure and redeploy what works best.

6. Track and report campaign response and conversion effectiveness.

7. Grow relationships with current customers. Use social media and electronic communications to increase loyalty and reasons to communicate with customers.

FIN630 GDB No. 1 Announcement

“Investment Analysis & Portfolio Management (Fin 630)”

This is to inform that Graded Discussion Board (GDB) has opened according to the following schedule

Opening Date and Time

November 04, 2010 At 12:01 A.M. (Mid-Night)

Closing Date and Time

November 08, 2010 At 11:59 P.M. (Mid-Night)

Note: No extra or bonus/grace period is available for attempting GBD

“Discussion Question”

Mr. A is holding 1500 shares of a company and he wants to buy or sell some shares. He is taking the services of a broker for trading in stock exchange. Broker has analyzed the market trend based on mutual fund cash position analysis and Bar chart analysis. Broker has provided following information to Mr. A on different days:

A. Due to adverse political situation of country and some other economic factors, only 40% of mutual funds are invested in the stock market and rest is idle.

B. In the Bar chart a stock breaks through resistance level.

Required:

Based upon the above information provided by broker:

1. What is feasible for Mr. A (buying or selling) in situation A and in situation B?

2. What will be the market trend (bearish or bullish) in situation A and in situation B?

Mkt624 GDB No. 1 announced

“Brand Management (MKT624)”

Opening Date and Time

November 3, 2010 At 12:01 A.M. (Mid-Night)

Closing Date and Time

November 4, 2010 At 11:59 P.M. (Mid-Night)

Discussion Question

“Brand association is a critical element of brand management which should not be neglected. Briefly discuss why brand managers should create brand association and give one example of brand association.”

Mgt603 GDB No. 1 Announced

“Strategic Management (MGT 603)”

Question: For ensuring success in business, top management applies different kind of strategies. Suppose if you are a CEO of any bank, what kind of strategies you may design for the better growth and success.

Your job is to only identify any four or five successful strategies for banks

Schedule:
Opening Date and Time	November 03,2010 At 12:01 AM
Closing Date and Time	November 05,2010 At 11:59 PM

CS201 Assignment Solution

Instructions: Please read the following instructions carefully before submitting your assignment:

It should be clear that your assignment will not get any credit if:

§ The assignment is submitted after due date.

§ The submitted assignment does not open or file is corrupt.

All types of plagiarism are strictly prohibited.

Note:You have to upload only .cpp file. Assignment in any other format (extension) will not be accepted. If you will submit code any other file format like .doc or .txt etc. you will get zero marks.

Objective

The objective of this assignment is to provide hands on experience of using

§Basic concepts of C/C++ language and Programming

§Writing, Compiling and Executing a C program

§Conditional statements of C language

§Loops in C language

Guidelines

§Code should be properly aligned and well commented.

§Follow C/C++ rules while writing variables names, function names etc.

§Use only Dev-C++ IDE for this assignment.

Assignment

Problem Statement: Calculating No. of A Grades in Class

You are required to write a program which should take input from user in the form of characters A or B. Based upon user's input you should calculate no. of A grades. You should use while loop or do/while loop for taking input and if / else condition for making decisions.

Detailed Description:

The program should display like;

Please Enter Grade ('A' OR 'B' )

Then the program should take 10 inputs one by one,

After taking 10 inputs, you should display no. of A grades.

If A grades are less than or equal to 2, you should display a message "Your class is Poor!".

If A grades are less than or equal to 7, you should display a message "Your class is Good!".

If A grades are greater than or equal to 8, you should display a message "Your class is Brilliant!".

The user should enter either A or B. If user has entered other than A or B, e.g. C,D,E etc. Your program should display a message like;

"Please Enter 'A' or 'B' grade only!"

Sample Input and Output


Please Enter Grade of student 1 : A Please Enter Grade of student 2 : A Please Enter Grade of student 3 : B Please Enter Grade of student 4 : A Please Enter Grade of student 5 : B Please Enter Grade of student 6 : B Please Enter Grade of student 7 : A Please Enter Grade of student 8 : B Please Enter Grade of student 9 : CPlease Enter 'A' or 'B' grade only! Please Enter Grade of student 9 : A Please Enter Grade of student 10 : A


Total No. of A Grades = 6


Your Class is Good!

Deadline:

Your Assignment solution must be uploaded/submitted on or before November 05, 2010

SOLUTION:

using namespace std;

#include
#include


main()

{
int totalstudent=1;
int A =0,B=0;

char grad(1);

while (totalstudent <= 10)
{
cout"Please Enter Grade of student "totalstudent" :\n";
cin>>grad;
if (grad=='a' or grad =='A')
{
A = A+1;
totalstudent++;
}
else if (grad=='b' or grad =='B')
{
B += 1;
totalstudent++;
}
else
{
cout"\nPlease Enter 'A' or 'B' grade only! \n";

}
}

cout"Total No. of A Grades "A" :\n";


if (A <=2)
{
cout"\nYour class is Poor!\n";
}else if (A <=7)
cout"\nYour class is Good!\n";
else
{
cout"\nYour class is Brilliant!\n";
}
getche();
}