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BUS-640-Entire-Course

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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 CostsBUS 640 Week 3 DQ 2
  Contribution AnalysisBUS 640 Week 3 Production
  Cost Analysis and Estimation Applied ProblemsBUS
  640 Week 4 DQ 1 Strategic Behavior Oligopolies

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

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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.

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

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• BUS640 week 1 Assignment
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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)  

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BUS 640 Week 1 Economics of Risk and Uncertainty
Applied Problems

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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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• Week 2 Assignment 
• Consumer Demand Analysis and Estimation Applied
  ProblemsPlease complete the following two
  applied problems

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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
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• Please complete the following two applied
  problems
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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.

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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"? Can
  we say whose demand is likely to be more elastic?
  Why?
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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. One
  of the partners insists that the name of the
  business should change to Lawn and Tree Care, so
  that it better reflects the range of services
  and, thus, generates more customer interest, and
  thus contracts.

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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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• Production Cost Analysis and Estimation Applied
  ProblemsPlease complete the following two
  applied problems

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BUS 640 Week 3 Production Cost Analysis and
Estimation Applied Problems

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• Production Cost Analysis and Estimation Applied
  ProblemsPlease complete the following two
  applied problemsProblem 1William is the
  owner of a small pizza shop and is thinking of
  increasing products and lowering costs. Williams
  pizza shop owns four ovens and the cost of the
  four ovens is 1,000. Each worker is paid 500
  per week.

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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

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BUS 640 Week 4 DQ 2 Local Market Power

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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 in its local
  area. Despite having some market power, Bulls Eye
  is currently suffering losses. An analyst at
  Bulls Eye is recommending to the manager to raise
  prices

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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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• Market Structures and Pricing Decisions Applied
  Problems.Please complete the following two
  applied problems

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BUS 640 Week 4 Market Structures and Pricing
Decisions Applied Problems

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• 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 25P where Q is the number
  of plate covers per year and P is in dollars.
  Cost estimation processes have determined that
  the firms cost function is represented by
  2500Q -0.25Q2.

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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.
• The company has recently introduced a new and
  improved Alka-Seltzer Plus, as described in the
  TV ad The Cold Truth, (please, watch the ad
  listed in the Required Readings)

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

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• Week 5 Assignment
• Price Quotes and Pricing Decisions Applied
  ProblemsPlease complete the following two
  applied problems

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BUS 640 Week 5 Price Quotes and Pricing Decisions
Applied Problems

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• Week 5 Assignment
• Price Quotes and Pricing Decisions Applied
  ProblemsPlease complete the following two
  applied problemsProblem 1

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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.
• Based on this information, can GE successfully
  prevent Maytag from entering this market by
  increasing its advertising levels? What is the
  equilibrium outcome in this game?
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BUS 640 Week 6 DQ 2 Sustainable Competitive
Advantage (Ash Course)

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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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  -BUS-640-Week-6-Final-Paper-(Wal-mart)
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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 for your research. At least three
  external scholarly sources must be used. Address
  all of the following areas

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BUS 640 Week 6 Final Paper (Wal-mart)

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• 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 t

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