The Ajax Company uses a portfolio approach to manage their research and development (R&D) projects. Ajax wants
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a. Create a bubble chart where the expected rate of return is along the horizontal axis, the risk estimate is on the vertical axis, and the size of the bubbles represents the amount of capital invested. Format this chart for best presentation by adding axes labels and labeling each bubble with the project number.
b. The efficient frontier of R&D projects represents the set of projects that have the highest expected rate of return for a given level of risk. In other words, any project that has a smaller expected rate of return for an equivalent, or higher, risk estimate cannot be on the efficient frontier. From the bubble chart in part a., what projects appear to be located on the efficient frontier?
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Essentials of Business Analytics
ISBN: 978-1285187273
1st edition
Authors: Jeffrey Camm, James Cochran, Michael Fry, Jeffrey Ohlmann, David Anderson, Dennis Sweeney, Thomas Williams