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BUS 640 Entire Course

• 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 All New Assignments

• 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.
  Describe your answer for each item below in
  complete sentences, whenever it is necessary.
  Show all of your calculations and processes for
  the following points

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BUS 640 Week 1 DQ 1 Firm Objectives

• 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

• 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
  agreed that in case of traffic jams, Shea
  Boulevard was a reasonable alternative. Neither
  of them knows the state of the highway ahead of
  time.

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

• 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)

• We have another Set (old one) of Week 2
  Assignment (But with different description,
  values), it can be found on this link
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  nsumer-Demand-Analysis-and-Estimation-Applied-Prob
  lems
• Week 2 Assignment 
• Consumer Demand Analysis and Estimation Applied
  ProblemsPlease complete the following two
  applied problemsProblem 1Patricia 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

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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

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BUS 640 Week 2 DQ 2 Demand Elasticity

• 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

• 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. The second partner wants to keep
  the old name and argues, We have already paid
  for business cards, vehicle paint, signage, and
  ads in Yellow Pages. Evaluate the arguments of
  the two partners. Explain and illustrate their
  points by identifying the relevant and irrelevant
  costs for this decision.

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BUS 640 Week 3 DQ 2 Contribution Analysis

• 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)

• We have another Set (old one) of Week 3
  Assignment (But with different description,
  values), it can be found on this link
• 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

• 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

• 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, so that profitability can be improved.
  The manager is unsure of this strategy as recent
  data points to increasing numbers of individuals
  shopping more and more. What are the pros and
  cons of raising the prices at Bulls Eye and would
  that strategy be profitable?

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BUS 640 Week 4 Journal Economics in News

• BUS 640 Week 4 Journal  Economics in News

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

• Market Structures and Pricing Decisions Applied
  Problems.Please complete the following two
  applied problemsProblem 1Roberts New Way
  Vacuum Cleaner Company is a newly started small
  business thatproduces vacuum cleaners and
  belongs to a monopolistically competitive market.
  Itsdemand curve for the product is expressed as
  Q 5000 25P where Q is the number ofvacuum
  cleaners per year and P is in dollars. Cost
  estimation processes have determinedthat the
  firms cost function is represented by TC 1500
  20Q 0.02Q2.Show all of your calculations and
  processes. Describe your answer for each question
  incomplete sentences, whenever it is necessary.

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BUS 640 Week 5 DQ 1 Good Will in Price Bidding

• 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

• 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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• We have another Set (old one) of Week 5
  Assignment (But with different description,
  values), it can be found on this link
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  ce-Quotes-and-Pricing-Decisions-Applied-Problems
• 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

• 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

• 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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  nal-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)

• We have another set of Final Paper based on Apple
  company, it could be found on this link
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  al-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. At least 3 external resources must be
  used. Address all of the following areas

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