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• BUS 640 All New Assignments
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• Week 1
• 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. 

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• BUS 640 Entire Course
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• BUS 640 Week 1 DQ 1 Firm Objectives
• BUS 640 Week 1 DQ 2 Decision Making Under
  Uncertainty
• BUS 640 Week 1 Economics of Risk and Uncertainty
  Applied Problems
• BUS 640 Week 1 Economics of Risk and Uncertainty
  Applied Problems (New)
• BUS 640 Week 2 DQ 1 Marginal Rate of Substitution
  
• BUS 640 Week 2 DQ 2 Demand Elasticity
• BUS 640 Week 2 Consumer Demand Analysis and
  Estimation Applied Problems
• BUS 640 Week 2 Consumer Demand Analysis and
  Estimation Applied Problems (New)

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• BUS 640 Week 1 DQ 1 Firm Objectives
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• Firm Objectives. Why do some business firms
  pursue a triple-bottom-line outcome
• while others focus only on profit maximization?
  Please, use a real company example to
• illustrate your points

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• BUS 640 Week 1 DQ 2 Decision Making Under
  Uncertainty
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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.

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• BUS 640 Week 1 Economics of Risk and Uncertainty
  Applied Problems (New)
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• 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.

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• BUS 640 Week 2 Consumer Demand Analysis and
  Estimation Applied Problems (New)
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• Problem 1
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• Patricia is researching venues for a restaurant
  business. She is evaluating three major
  attributes that she considers important in her
  choice taste, location, and price. The value she
  places on each attribute, however, differs
  according to what type of restaurant she is going
  to start. If she opens a restaurant in a suburban
  area of Los Angeles, then taste is the most
  important attribute, three times as important as
  location, and two times as important as price.

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• BUS 640 Week 2 DQ 1 Marginal Rate of
  Substitution
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• 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

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• BUS 640 Week 2 DQ 2 Demand Elasticity
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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"?

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• BUS 640 Week 3 DQ 1 Relevant Costs
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• 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 recent storms in the area
  had caused demand for this service to soar.

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• BUS 640 Week 3 DQ 2 Contribution Analysis
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• Contribution Analysis. Explain what is meant by
  contribution analysis. Carefully define the
  term and provide examples to illustrate it.

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• BUS 640 Week 3 Production Cost Analysis and
  Estimation Applied Problems (New)
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• What number of workers appears to be most
  efficient in terms of pizza product per worker?
• What number of workers appears to minimize the
  marginal cost of pizza production assuming that
  each pizza worker is paid 500 per week?
• Why would marginal productivity decline when you
  hire more workers in the short run after a
  certain level?

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• BUS 640 Week 4 DQ 1 Strategic Behavior
  Oligopolies
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• Strategic Behavior Oligopolies. An interesting
  example of strategic behavior comes from a 1997
  article about Microsofts 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 Apples survival and,
  therefore, to ensure that competitiveness in the
  industry remains. Moreover, the partnership with
  Apple provided an additional market for
  Microsofts products the MS Office and the IE
  products were to be bundled with the MAC OS as
  one of the conditions for this financing.

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• BUS 640 Week 4 DQ 2 Local Market Power
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• Local Market Power.
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• 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 in its local area. Despite
  having some market power, Bulls Eye is currently
  suffering losses.

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• BUS 640 Week 4 Journal Economics in News
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• BUS 640 Week 4 Journal Economics in News.

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• BUS 640 Week 4 Market Structures and Pricing
  Decisions Applied Problems (New)
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• a. What are the profit-maximizing price and
  output levels? Explain them and calculate
• algebraically for equilibrium P (price) and Q
  (output). Then, plot the MC (marginal
• cost), D (demand), and MR (marginal revenue)
  curves graphically and illustrate the
• equilibrium point.
• b. How much economic profit do you expect that
  Roberts company will make in the
• first year?

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• BUS 640 Week 5 DQ 1 Good Will in Price Bidding
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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 would you value the goodwill that is
  obtained in this way?

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• BUS 640 Week 5 DQ 2 New Product Introduction
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• 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.

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• BUS 640 Week 5 Price Quotes and Pricing
  Decisions Applied Problems (New)
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• You calculate your incremental costs to be
  268,000 and your fully allocated costs to be
  440,000. Your usual practice is to add between
  60 and 80 to your incremental costs, depending
  on capacity utilization rate and other factors.
  You expect three other firms to also bid on this
  contract, and you have assembled the following
  competitor intelligence about those companies.

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• BUS 640 Week 6 DQ 1 Game Theory and Strategic
  Behavior
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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 GE and Maytag for the
  advertising spending and entry decisions that
  they are facing.

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• BUS 640 Week 6 DQ 2 Sustainable Competitive
  Advantage
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• 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.

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• BUS 640 Week 6 Final Paper (Apple)
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• We have another set of final paper based on
  walmart which could be found on this link
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  eek-6-Final-Paper-(Wal-mart)
• 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 for your research.

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• BUS 640 Week 6 Final Paper (Wal-mart)
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• We have another set of Final Paper based on Apple
  company, it could be found on this link
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  ek-6-Final-Paper-Managerial-Decision-Making
• 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.

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