A multiple-channel system has customers arriving at an average rate of 5 per hour and an average service time of 40 minutes. What minimum number of servers is required to ensure that the system is not overloaded?

According to your authors, diversifying cash flows internationally may help MNEs reduce the variability of cash flows because:

A) of a lack of competition among international firms. B) of an offset to cash flow variability caused by exchange rate variability. C) returns are not perfectly correlated between countries. D) none of the above

Fast-food companies are providing healthier food choices to help combat the skyrocketing obesity rates in the U.S. This time in marketing's history is known as ________

a. the selling era b. the customer era c. the production era d. the societal marketing era