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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
  Problems

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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. He preferred
  to travel along

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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 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 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".

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• BUS 640 Week 3 Assignment Case 5A (Glaser Health
  Products) (New)
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• Glasier Health Products
• Complete Case 5A (Glaser Health Products)
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• In this case, management needs assistance in
  evaluating and classifying costs identified
  within Glaser Health Products in order to
  implement an activity-based costing system.
  Please address Questions 1 through 6 at the end
  of the case. Based on the case questions, you
  are required to provide a two to

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• BUS 640 Week 3 DQ 1 Allocating Joint Costs (New)
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• Describe the three methods used to allocate joint
  costs. What are the advantages/disadvantages of
  each allocation method? Which method would you
  recommend? Why? Support your position with
  evidence from the text or external sources.

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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
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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

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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 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

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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

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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
• Problem 1Roberts New Way Vacuum Cleaner
  Company is a newly started small business
  thatproduces vacuum cleaners and belo

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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

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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 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

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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
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• BUS 640 Week 6 Final Paper (Apple)
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• We have another set of final paper based on
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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

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