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The spectre of an aging population haunts the land. There are now as many people in Canada over 65 as there are under 15. We all know what lies ahead. The pensions and medical bills of the boomers will overwhelm our ability to pay, and younger generations will be taxed to the max. People who forgot to save (and those who couldn’t) will spend their golden years eking out a miserable existence. Innovation and productivity will suffer as society becomes sclerotic. Our schools will be retrofitted as…

It has recently announced an app to allow owners to rent their Ford vehicles . A ford owner would use the app to connect with a consumer. The model is similar to Zipcar where consumers rent vehicles by the hour, offering more flexibility than traditional car rental services. Ford’s financing department is marketing the effort as a way for consumers to help finance their vehicles. Additionally, Ford hopes that if…

In the mockumentary, “Leaked: The Internet Must Go”, a market researcher, John Wooley, was hired by Internet service providers (ISP) to do market research and talk to people to help them sell their new vision; eliminating net neutrality to reach maximum profit potential. Over many years, ISP has spent billions of dollars to build towers that bring Americans the Internet. However, they believe that there is too much traffic. Their solution to this problem is the “Internet must go”. ISP wanted to…

On a less generic level other substitutions include the increasing amount of car sharing corporations such as ZipCar, Car2Go, Enterprise Car Share, and FlexCar. Carsharing allows its members to access privately owned cars, without the responsibility of owning a car (Shaeen &…

We accept rides from strangers, get random people to complete mundane tasks for us and allow people we’ve never met to stay in our homes. Indeed, the sharing economy – peer-to-peer transactions conducted via the Internet and smartphones has changed how people arrange car rides, find vacation, pick up their laundry and more . We no longer think it taboo to get into cars with strangers, request someone to pick up our groceries or share our personal property with people we’ve never met. But how…

What is one of the first things people look at when meeting a person? Their smile, when meeting a person for the first time everyone wants to have a nice bright and clean smile. Dentists are the people who help take care of that nice smile and help keep teeth from rotting away, as well as aiding to self-confidence by making smiles better. Two qualities that would make me strive as a dentist would be that I am open to helping others, I prefer to build people up, and I help boost their self-…

Marketing for Tweens, Generation X, and Generation Y Generational differences create varied and unique opportunities for today’s marketers. The products the marketer is tasked with promoting may be geared across generational lines. To market across generational lines takes a different vision for each group. Their attitudes and spending habits vary from generation to generation, as well as the way in which each group attains and processes information. To be successful, the marketer must be…

sure your shoes are stylish because everyone pays attention to them! Getting Around Car – Make sure to use Google Maps or Waze to navigate around the city and SpotHero to compare parking rates in different locations. Car rentals are available at Zipcar and…

Company Background / History The company chosen by Group 3 is Hertz. Walter Jacobs began The Hertz Corporation in 1918, in 1923 John Hertz brought over the company from Jacobs but he Jacobs still remained in the company until his retirement (Hertz Corporation, 2015). Hertz’s stock ticket symbol is “NYSE: HTZ” and the NAICS Code is 53211101, Passenger Car Rental (Manta, 2015). Hertz is in the industry of automobile rental and leasing services. Hertz’s headquarter right now is located…

Select several investment criteria that are most important to you. Go to the MSN Money Website found at http://moneycentral.msn.com. Click “Mutual Funds” (under “Investing”), then choose either “Find top performers by category” or “Find using Power Search” located under “Fund Finder.” Select three mutual funds that most closely meet your investment criteria and research each fund’s average return for the past five years. Be prepared to discuss. Activities  Discussions Evaluation  10  None…