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• ASHFORD BUS 640 Entire Course

• ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 1 DQ 1 Firm Objectives

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

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

• ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 1 Economics of Risk and
  Uncertainty Applied Problems

• 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

• Economics of Risk and Uncertainty Applied
  Problems. Please, complete the following 3
  applied problems in a Word or Excel document.
  Show all your calculations and explain your
  results. Submit your assignment in the drop box
  by using the Assignment Submission button.

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• ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 2 Consumer Demand Analysis
  and Estimation Applied Problems

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

• 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

• Consumer Demand Analysis and Estimation Applied
  Problems. Please, complete the following 3
  applied problems in a Word or Excel document.
  Show all your calculations and explain your
  results. Submit your assignment in the drop box
  by using the Assignment Submission button

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• ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 2 DQ 2 Demand Elasticity

• ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 3 DQ 1 Relevant Costs

• 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".

• 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.

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• ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 3 DQ 2 Contribution Analysis

• ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 3 Production Cost Analysis
  and Estimation Applied Problems

• 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 3
  applied problems in a Word or Excel document.
  Show all your calculations and explain your
  results. Submit your assignment in the drop box
  by using the Assignment Submission button.

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• ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 4 DQ 1 Strategic Behavior
  Oligopolies

• ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 4 DQ 2 Local Market Power

• 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

• 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 in its local
  area.

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• ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 4 Journal Economics in News

• ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 4 Market Structures and
  Pricing Decisions Applied Problems

• BUS 640 Week 4 Journal  Economics in News

• Market 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

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• ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 5 DQ 1 Good Will in Price
  Bidding

• ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 5 DQ 2 New Product
  Introduction

• 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?

• 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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• ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 5 Price Quotes and Pricing
  Decisions Applied Problems

• ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 6 DQ 1 Game Theory and
  Strategic Behavior

• Price Quotes and Pricing Decisions Applied
  Problems. Please, complete the following 3
  applied problems in a Word or Excel document.
  Show all your calculations and explain your
  results. Submit your assignment in the drop box
  by using the Assignment Submission button.

• 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.

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• ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 6 DQ 2 Sustainable
  Competitive Advantage

• ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 6 Final Paper Managerial
  Decision Making

• 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.

• 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. At least three
  external scholarly sources must be used. Address
  all of the following areas

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