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  BUS 640 Week 1 DQ 1 Firm

ObjectivesBUS 640 Week 1 DQ 2 Decision Making Under UncertaintyBUS 640 Week 1 Economics of Risk and Uncertainty Applied ProblemsBUS 640 Week 2 DQ 1 Marginal Rate of SubstitutionBUS 640 Week 2 DQ 2 Demand ElasticityBUS 640 Week 2 Consumer Demand Analysis and Estimation Applied ProblemsBUS 640 Week 3 DQ 1 Relevant Costs

Why do some business firms pursue a triple-bottom-line outcome while others focus only on profit maximization? Please, use

BUS 640 Week 1 DQ 1 Firm Objectives (Ash Course)

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Decision Making Under Uncertainty. To save on gasoline expenses, Edith and Mathew agreed to carpool together for traveling to and from work. Edith preferred to travel on I-20 highway as it was usually the fastest, taking 25 minutes in the absence of traffic delays. Mathew pointed out that traffic jams on the highway can lead to long delays making the trip 45 minutes. He preferred to travel along Shea Boulevard, which was longer (35 minutes), but rarely had traffic jams. Edith

  BUS640 week 1 Assignment Problem 1:

A generous university benefactor has agreed to donate a large amount of money for student scholarships. The money can be provided in one lump sum of $12 million in Year 0 (the current year), or in parts, in which $7 million can be provided at the end of Year 1, and another $7 million can be provided at the end of Year 2.

Describe your answer for each item below in complete sentences, whenever it is necessary. Show all of your

BUS 640 Week 1 Economics of Risk and Uncertainty Applied Problems  

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 BUS640 week 1

AssignmentWe have another Set

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Week 2 Assignment Consumer Demand

Analysis and Estimation Applied Problems

 Please complete the

following two applied problems:

 Problem 1:  Patricia is researching

BUS 640 Week 2 Consumer Demand Analysis and Estimation Applied Problems  

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  Week 2 Assignment  Consumer Demand Analysis

and Estimation Applied Problems

Marginal Rate of Substitution. What is the marginal rate of substitution (MRS) and why does it diminish as the consumer substitutes one product for another? Use examples to illustrate

BUS 640 Week 2 DQ 1 Marginal Rate of Substitution

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Demand Elasticity. Please, read the article Hainer, R. (2010), provided in the required readings section for this week. The tobacco industry is a prime example to consider when talking about price elasticity of demand. While nicotine use can be addictive for many users, it is not addictive for the so-called "social smokers".

What can we say about the price elasticity of demand for nicotine products (such as cigarettes, pipes, tobacco) in the group of nicotine addicted users, versus the group of "social smokers"? Can we say whose demand is likely to be more elastic? Why?

Relevant Costs. Two partners own together a small landscaping business in North Carolina, called Summer Lawn Care. They have been specializing in summer grass seeding, installation, and maintenance. Recently, the partners acquired special technology and know-how for winter grass installations and maintenance. They also added a tree cutting service as

BUS 640 Week 3 DQ 1 Relevant Costs 

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Contribution Analysis. Explain what is meant by “contribution analysis”. Carefully define the term and provide examples to illustrate it.

Production Cost Analysis and Estimation Applied Problems

Please complete the following two applied problems:

Problem 1:

BUS 640 Week 3 Production Cost Analysis and Estimation Applied Problems

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Strategic Behavior Oligopolies. An interesting example of strategic behavior comes from a 1997 article about Microsoft’s investment in Apple (New Straits Times, 1997). The article is included in the Required Readings list. Facing tough anti-trust scrutiny from government agencies, Microsoft provided financial support to Apple in order to ensure Apple’s survival and, therefore, to ensure that competitiveness in the industry remains. Moreover, the partnership with Apple

BUS 640 Week 4 DQ 1 Strategic Behavior Oligopolies 

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Local Market Power. Bulls Eye department store specializes in the sales of discounted clothing, shoes, household items, etc. similar to the offerings at a regular Walmart or Target. Bulls Eye is the only department store in Show Low and the nearest other discount retailer is Target, located 49 miles away in Eagar. Bulls Eye, therefore, has some market power

BUS 640 Week 4 Journal Economics in News

 

BUS 640 Week 4 Journal Economics in News  

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Structures and Pricing Decisions Applied Problems. A small business which produces plastic vacuum-suction covers for round household dishes has a monopoly that is protected by a utility patent. The market demand curve for this product is estimated to be: – 25P where Q is the number of plate covers per year and P is in dollars. Cost estimation processes have determined that the firm’s cost function is represented by + 2500Q -0.25*Q2.

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  Market Structures and

Pricing Decisions Applied Problems.Please complete the following two applied problems:

Problem 1:

BUS 640 Week 4 Market Structures and Pricing Decisions Applied Problems (New) 

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Good Will in Price Bidding. Sometimes, a bidder on a work contract may bid lower than what would maximize his/her profit from the contract and the reason for that is to create goodwill (to increase expected future business from the buyer). How

New Product Introduction. Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany owns the Alka-Seltzer, which was launched in 1931 and was meant for relief of minor aches, pains, inflammation, fever, headache, heartburn, sour stomach, indigestion, and hangovers. The Alka-Seltzer Plus was a spin-off of the original medicine, meant to relieve colds and flu.

The company has

BUS 640 Week 5 DQ 2 New Product Introduction 

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  Week 5 Assignment Price Quotes and Pricing

Decisions Applied Problems

Please complete the following two applied problems:

Problem 1:

Jessica Alba, a famous actress, starts the baby and family products business, The Honest Company, with

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  Week 5 Assignment Price Quotes and Pricing Decisions

Applied Problems

Please complete the following two applied problems:

BUS 640 Week 5 Price Quotes and Pricing Decisions Applied Problems (New) 

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Game Theory and Strategic Behavior. Suppose that GE is trying to prevent Maytag from entering the market for high efficiency clothes dryers. Even though high efficiency dryers are more costly to produce, they are also more profitable as they command sufficiently higher prices from consumers. The following payoffs table shows the annual profits for

 Sustainable

Competitive Advantage. Describe the circumstances under which a firm chooses a low-cost strategy to attain sustainable competitive advantage. What about the situations when a differentiation strategy is chosen? Provide specific real world examples

BUS 640 Week 6 DQ 2 Sustainable Competitive Advantage (Ash Course)

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Focus of the Final Paper

Research a specific company of your choice and identify some of the managerial decisions that were made over time and in response to changes in its market or competitive environment. Use the Ashford University Online Library and web-based sources

  BUS640 Week 6 Paper(Wal-

Mart) Managerial Decision Making

Research and AnalysisResearch a specific company of your choice and identify some of the managerial decisions that were made over time and in response to changes in its market or competitive environment. Use Ashford University Online library and web-based resources for your research. At least 3 external resources must be used. Address all of the following areas:

BUS 640 Week 6 Final Paper (Wal-mart) 

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