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[Y Corp] A week after your original conversation with your friend, he set up a meeting over coffee.  He shared that he now is starting to think that Y Corp shouldn’t be innovating at all – at least not focus on disruptive innovation.  He has read a couple articles by Clay Christensen recently, and is convinced that Y Corp should focus on its core.  Your friend has concluded that “our company should maximize the profitability of our existing strong businesses by focusing on efficiency, productivity, and incremental innovations.  I’m going to get myself off of this task force.” a) Is your friend’s conclusion about a company such as Y Corp not pursuing disruptive innovation, correct? Is it misguided for the leadership of a strong incumbent to try and “disrupt itself”?  Why or why not? 

Terrestrial plants have several adaptations that help them survive, reproduce, and disperse on land. We looked most closely at the angiosperms as we studied plant form and function. Identify the structure that is responsible for each of the following functions in angiosperms. Answer options may be used once, more than once, or not at all.

The average number of years that members of a population (or species) live is called:

[Y Corp] a) What are the key differences between incremental (routine) innovations and disruptive innovations? How do these differences impact how organizations successfully encourage and support innovation efforts? b) Why does the senior leadership of Y Corp (who have announced that bringing new innovative products/services to market is a priority) appear to be, to task force members, so focused on analysts’ near-term earnings pressures?  Can this earnings pressure really be an “excuse” to avoid innovating?  Does focusing on near-term earnings pressures prevent progress on disruptive innovation efforts?  Why, or why not?

Identify whether each of the following statements about plant nutrition is correct or incorrect. [a] Plants use carbon dioxide and water as their primary sources of energy. [b] Plants get most of the carbon that makes up their biomass (like cellulose, starch, etc.) from mycorrhizal fungi in the soil. In other words, most of the material in a plant comes from these soil mutualists. [c] Plants get their nitrogen by taking in N2 from the air and converting it into other molecules.

A _________-is defined as an agent that causes abnormal development. Examples include alcohol, nicotine, aspirin, and caffiene.

We shall consider the general method, employed by an adversary,  to prove that no algorithm can always decide a given problem X using less than M questions. For that purpose, the adversary maintains Q, and R_1 … R_M, such that : 1. X(Q) is false2. X(R_i) is true for all i \in 1 … M and such that after k questions from the algorithm:3. Q is consistent with all k answers from the adversary 4. for all i in 1 … M, except for at most k such, it holds that R_i is consistent with all k answers from the adversary.For each declaration from the algorithm, how should the adversary respond?

____ is the temporary support that parents or teachers give a child to do a task according to Vygotsky.

The transient response of the causal filter y(n)=6x(n)-0.6y(n-1) with x(n)=u(n) is    

[Trader Joe’s] a) What specific challenges or concerns should the CEO be aware of as she charts a path to get alignment with her senior team over the next year, and beyond?  Which article(s) from our course might you recommend for her to read?  Explain why you selected your recommendation (any article in our course, whether required or reference) and why it is applicable to this situation. b) How can the new CEO mitigate the risks of these challenges and maximize the chances of successful implementation of the new digital strategy?