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Party effect- when multiple conversations are happening and someone says your name and you hear that: you"ve been train since birth to hear that name)

Black death- worse plague to ever hit europe: also known as the great plague and bubonic plague. 1348- black death invaded france this year, this is wh

Operations and productivity: production of goods and services requires om, production: creation of goods and services, om: set of production activities

Politics: what- anything (ex. freedom: when- as important as what (ex. Prorogued parliament: how- most important, electoral system (ex. First past the

Financial contracts: how much an initial investment will yield payment over time. Economic system and investment: investors rarely make transactions wi

Why is strategy necessary: success depends on concerted effort of many people committed to a common purpose, common purpose should inspire and shape ac

Principals of strategic planning: characteristics: visionary ex. Steve jobs: driven by personal insights impatient, directive ex. large chartered banks

Nominal interest rate- interest rate that is not adjusted for purchasing power. Real interest rate excess if the interest rate over the inflation rate

Utility = e[r] a (variance) where a is an index to the investors aversion to taking on risk. Certainty equivalent rate- rate that risk-free investments

Private placement- bonds sold directly to a limited number of institutional investors (public offering) Direct search market- where buyers and sellers

Mutual fund theorem- a result associated with the capm asserting that investors will choose to invest their entire risky portfolio in a market-index mu

Weight in bond stock * return of return for bond stock + Diversification spreading a portfolio over many investments to avoid excessive exposure to any

Market capitalization- how big a share a company has in the market. Informational role- the role played by financial assets that enables the efficient

Financial contracts: how much an initial investment will yield payment over time. Economic system and investment: investors rarely make transactions wi

Petersburg in 1703, very modern city: peter wants a navy and access to the sea, wars of peter the great. Attacks the ottoman empire- istanbule was the

Napoleonic era: olympe de gouges wrote the declaration of the right of women because women were excluded originally, french revolutionary wars- france

Not part of the exam- war between spain and netherlands. Thirty years war (1618-1648: the second most destructive war in europe, 1/3 of population in h

Kings were taking control back from smaller regions to bigger ones (process: making land and armies bigger) Most trouble some regions was burgundy- the