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Over the years, large business organizations have steadily reduced the number of layers in the organization structure. What purposes has this profound change in structure served?
If you were the CEO of a large organization, would you want to share responsibility with a co-CEO? Why or why not?
What can first-level and middle-level managers and team leaders to about shaping the culture of a firm?
What can you tell about the organizational culture of a large retailer just by visiting a couple of the firm's stores?
How can a manager tell whether an employee is resisting change?
Describe how a business person could be an effective manager yet an ineffective leader.
How would a leader know whether a given subordinate, or group of subordinates, is trustworthy enough to be empowered?
Suppose that you as a manager found out that Jennifer, one of your team members, has a strong intrinsic motivation. What would you do with this information to motivate Jennifer to higher levels of performance?
Some managers object to systematic approaches to motivating employees by expressing the thought, "Why should we go out of our way to motivate workers to do what they are paid to do?" What is your reaction to this objection?

 

Due to his long hours as a junior broker with Stampson, Clarke & Weinstein, a prestigious blue-chip brokerage firm on Wall Street, Mike Keaggy was put on some substantive accounts that pertained to the firm's top corporate clients.  Just several weeks ago, Mike's boss, Harry Stampson, a named partner, approached Mike about taking on the Pfeifer account.  The Pfeifer Corporation, a closely-held corporation of several brothers and sisters of a wealthy California family, had generated approximately $1.7 million in annual fees over the past ten years, and was an account that was assigned to promising your workers with an ability to run profit for the firm.  Harry added, "I run a tight ship around here and look for only one thing: your ability to add value to our bottom line.  I don't like creative-types.  Everything we do here has a purpose and is tried-and-true."

 

Fred and Amy, two junior associates, were assigned to Mike's account.  Amy, a Harvard grad, had already made a name for herself by being aggressive with numbers.  Fred, a UCLA grad, was reserved and liked to proceed methodically through a project.  He wasn't like around the firm but was loyal to his partners.  

 

Fred had consulted the Codes of Conduct and Code of Ethics on other accounts, and wanted to know on what issues these documents related on the Pfeifer account.  The brothers and sisters are directors and officers charged with fiduciary duties in running the corporation.  One of the directors, Sue, had recently purchased some property worth $25 million without getting permission from the board.  Mike read a note on the memo that read, "Hide this purchase--Pfeifer doesn't want this transaction to show on financials.  We don't want other clients to know about this--could negatively impact investment advice.  H.S."  Mike showed Amy and Fred this note.  Fred objected, saying that the Codes prohibit hiding such information.  Amy said it probably will never be discovered.  Answer the following questions:

 

1. What options do Mike, Amy, and Fred have in terms of the note?  In your answer, discuss issue management theories and strategic management approaches.  

 

2. What ethical system(s) describes the corporate culture at SC&W?  Is this an example of Immoral Management, Moral Management, or Amoral Management, according to Lynn Sharp Paine's models?  Explain.

 

1. Show the pre and post-money capitalisation table including the price per share. Investor 1 now proposes to invest $600,000 for 60% of the company, but requires there to be a Employee stock option pool (ESOP) of 15% for management before its investment.

 

2. Show the pre and post-money capitalisation table including the price per share.

 

3. Explain the reason(s) for the difference in the price per share in question 2 relative to your answer in question 1.

 

4. Assume now that Investor 1 allows the stock options to be issued after its investment, Show the pre and post-money capitalisation table including the price per share.

 

5. Explain the reason(s) for the difference in the price per share in question 4 relative to your answer in question 1. Assume now that Investor 1 invests $1,000,000 for 60% of the company post ESOP in round 1, and then Investor 2 invests $1,250,000 for 50% of the company in round 2.

 

6. Show the pre and post-money capitalisation table including the price per share for both rounds.

 

7. Show the pre and post-money capitalisation table including the price per share for both rounds assuming that Investor 1 has a full ratchet antidilution provision

 

8. Explain the reason(s) for the difference in the % ownership of the founder in question 7 relative to your answer in question 6 Assume now that Investor 1 and Investor 2 have received shares with simple liquidation preference and both are pari-pasu.

 

9. If the company sells for $2m, what would Investor 1 receive? what would the Investor 1 receive?

 

10. If the company sells for $5m, what would Investor 1 receive? Assume now that Investor 1 and Investor 2 have received participating preferred stock and both are pari-pasu.

 

11. What would your answers be to question 9 and question 10?

 

12. What share of the company each of the shareholders (investor 1, investor 2, founder and employees) effectively own?

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New share structure - company acquisition

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(iii) Describe what conditional convergence means in the data? Can both the Solow and Ramsey models help us explain this feature of the data? (iv) What are the main empirical and theoretical contributions of the Mankiw, Romer and Weil's paper? What are the main empirical challenges they faced in their analysis? (v) Does a consumer with preferences u (c) = c − αc2 save more as his future income becomes more uncertain? Question 2 (40% of the grade; you should allocate about 30min.) Consider the Ramsey model (where savings is endogenous). For simplicity, suppose there is neither any technological change nor any population growth. However, there is a government that might subsidy savings. Let γ ∈ R denote the subsidy. Suppose now that the government decides to subsidizes savings, going from a zero subsidy γlow = 0 to a positive subsidy γhigh > 0. This change is unanticipated but, once it occurs, it is expected to last for ever. Suppose further that before this change the economy was resting at the steady state corresponding to zero subsidy. (i) What is the long-run impact of this change on the steady-state levels of per-hear capital (k), output (y), and consumption (c) are affected by this change? 1 (ii) What is the immediate impact of this change on the aforementioned variables? And how do these variables behave over time as the economy transits from the old steady state to the new steady state? (iii) Suppose that the government contemplates the optimal level of the aforementioned subsidy. Is there a trade-off between short-run and long-run consumption? How is this trade-off resolves? What is the optimal subsidy? Question 3 (30% of the grade; you should allocate about 20min.) Consider the Solow growth model (where the saving rate is exogenously fixed). The production function is y = f(k) = Akα for some α ∈ (0, 1). The saving rate is s ∈ (0, 1), the depreciation rate is δ = 0, the rate of exogenous technological change is g = 0, and the rate of population growth is n > 0. (i) Suppose that congress passes a new law on immigration that lowers the inflow of immigrants. As a result, the rate of population growth falls from n to n new, where 0 < nnew < n. For simplicity, suppose that this change happens instantaneously and will last for ever. Suppose further that the economy was in steady state before this change. What is the long-run impact of the new law on the steady-state levels of per-head capital (k), income (y), the wage rate (w), and the interest rate (r)? Who benefits from the law, the workers or the capital owners? (ii) Now suppose that, in addition to the aforementioned reduction in n, the law restricts some talented immigrants from entering the country. As a result, aggregate total factor productivity falls from A to Anew, where 0 < Anew < A. How does this additional change affect your answer to the previous question? (Hint: you can first abstract from the change in n, explain the implications of the change in A, and then combined the two cases intuitively.) 

 

Problem 1: Learning by Doing with Spillovers Consider the model of learning by doing with spillovers (Arrow & Romer) presented in class and assume that the production function is Cobb-Douglas, that is, Y m m α m 1 α t = (Kt ) (htLt ) − However, assume there are diminishing returns to technological progress, γ ht = ηkt , for some constants η > 0, 0 < γ < 1, where Km kt = t Lm . t i. We want to write the equilibrium dynamics are functions of c and k alone: (a) Express the return R that firms are willing to pay in equilibrium as a function of kt alone. (b) Express the resource constraint in terms of c and k. ii. Imagine the continuous time version of the dynamics in part (a) and draw the phase diagram. iii. Repeat parts (a) and (b) for the social planner's problem (Hint: this is similar to the Ramsey model). iv. How does the phase diagram of part (c) compare to that of part (b)? which line changes, the c? = 0 locus or the ?k = 0 locus? What happens to the steady state levels of c and k? v. If the equilibrium allocations differ from the planner's allocations, describe a policy that would restore efficiency. 1 Problem 2: Tax smoothing Consider a two-period economy. Households preferences are given by U = u (c1, c2, n1, n2) = c1 − n 2 1 + β c 2 2 − n2 , where ct ≥ 0 is consumption in period t ∈ {1, 2} and nt ≥ 0 is lab or supply. Labor is used to produce output with the technology yt = Ant (there is no capital). The wage is thus given by wt = A, for t ∈ {1, 2}. The government taxes labor income at rates τt in period t, so households' intertemporal budget constraint is given by 1 1 c1 + c2 = (1 τ1)An1 + (1 τ2)An2 1 + r − 1 + r − The government has constant expenditues, gt = g for t ∈ {1, 2}. Its intertemporal budget constraint is thus given by 1 IBC ≡ (τ1An1 − g1) + (τ2An2 g2) = 0 1 + r − Finally, the resource constraints in the economy are y1 = An1 = c1 + g and y2 = An2 = c2 + g. 1) Consider the household's optimal consumption and labor-supply problem. Argue that the solution is interior only if the interest rate r is such that 1 = β. 1+r Assume that this is the case for the rest of the exercise. 2) Solve for the household's optimal n1 and n2 as functions of τ1 and τ2. 3) Use the two resource constraints to replace ct = Ant−g into U. Next, use the previous result to replace nt with a function of τt . You should now have expressed the household's utility U as a function of the two tax rates: U = U(τ1, τ2) 4) Do the same for the government's intertemporal buget: replace nt with the function of τt that you found in part 2 so as to express IBC in terms of τ1 and τ2 : IBC = IBC(τ1, τ2) 5) It follows that the optimal policy is given by the combination of τ1 and τ2 that solves the following problem: maxU(τ1, τ2) s.t. IBC(τ1, τ2) = 0 Prove that the optimal policy satisfies τ1 = τ2 (tax smoothing). 6) Suppose that we increase g1 but reduce g2 so that g1 + βg2 stays constant. What happens to the optimal taxes? Explain.