An MBA student has taken a number of courses this term. As usual, each professor has given a ‘term paper’ to write and submit. The due dates and the a mount of work remaining to be done on each paper are mentioned as follows:

Term-paper on Date to be Submitted Estimated Work Remaining

a. Seminar on Operations Mgt (SOM) Dec. 19 14 days

b. Advanced Finance (AFIN) Dec. 10 3 days

c. Marketing-II (MKT-II) Dec.5 10 days

d. Marketing Research (MR) Nov. 30 7 days

e. Safety & Maintenance (SAM) Dec. 3 9 days If today is 25th November, help the student schedule by the Critical Ratio method. Can you schedule by MINSOP?

If the professors have different modes of penalising the late submission of papers, as given below, suggest a priority schedule. Explain your answer.

Term Paper Negative Points per day SOM 5 AFIN 10 MKT II 2 MR 2 SAM 4