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BUS 640 APPRENTICE TUTORS

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

• BUS 640 Week 1 DQ 2 Decision Making Under
  Uncertainty

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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

• 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

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

• BUS 630 AWeek 1 DQ 2 Fixed and Variable costsBUS
  640 Week 1 Economics of Risk and Uncertainty
  Applied Problems

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• BUS640 week 1 Assignment
• We have another Set (old one) of Week 1
  Assignment (But with different description,
  values), it can be found on this link
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• http//www.uophelp.com/BUS-640-(Ash)/BUS-640-Week-
  1-Economics-of-Risk-and-Uncertainty-Applied-Proble
  ms-(Ash-Course)
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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), or in parts, in which 7 million
  can be

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BUS 640 APPRENTICE TUTORS

• BUS 640 Week 2 Consumer Demand Analysis and
  Estimation Applied Problems (New)

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

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• 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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• http//www.uophelp.com/BUS-640-(Ash)/BUS-640-Week-
  2-Consumer-Demand-Analysis-and-Estimation-Applied-
  Problems-(Ash-Course)
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• Week 2 Assignment 

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• 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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BUS 640 APPRENTICE TUTORS

• BUS 640 Week 2 DQ 1 Marginal Rate of Substitution

• BUS 640 Week 2 DQ 2 Demand Elasticity

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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

• 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 DQ 1 Relevant Costs

• BUS 640 Week 3 DQ 2 Contribution Analysis

• 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

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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 APPRENTICE TUTORS

• BUS 640 Week 3 Production Cost Analysis and
  Estimation Applied Problems (New)

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

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• We have another Set (old one) of Week 3
  Assignment (But with different description,
  values), it can be found on this link
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• http//www.uophelp.com/BUS-640-(Ash)/BUS-640-Week-
  3-Production-Cost-Analysis-and-Estimation-Applied-
  Problems-(Ash-Course)
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• 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

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BUS 640 APPRENTICE TUTORS

• BUS 640 Week 4 DQ 1 Strategic Behavior Oligopolies

• 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 to
  Apple

• 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

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BUS 640 APPRENTICE TUTORS

• BUS 640 Week 4 Journal Economics in News

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

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• BUS 640 Week 4 Journal Economics in News

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• We have another Set (old one) of Week 4
  Assignment (But with different description,
  values), it can be found on this link
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  4-Market-Structures-and-Pricing-Decisions-Applied-
  Problems-(Ash-Course) 
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• Market Structures and Pricing Decisions Applied
  Problems.Please complete the following two ap

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BUS 640 APPRENTICE TUTORS

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

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

• 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

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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 APPRENTICE TUTORS

• BUS 640 Week 5 DQ 2 New Product Introduction

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

• 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

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• We have another Set (old one) of Week 4
  Assignment (But with different description,
  values), it can be found on this link
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• http//www.uophelp.com/BUS-640-(Ash)/BUS-640-Week-
  5-Price-Quotes-and-Pricing-Decisions-Applied-Probl
  ems-(Ash-Course)
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• Week 5 Assignment
• Price Quotes and Pricing Decisions Applied
  Problems

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BUS 640 APPRENTICE TUTORS

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

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

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

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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 APPRENTICE TUTORS

• BUS 640 Week 6 DQ 2 Sustainable Competitive
  Advantage (Ash Course)

• BUS 640 Week 6 Final Paper (Apple)

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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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• We have another set of final paper based on
  walmart which could be found on this link
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  -BUS-640-Week-6-Final-Paper-(Wal-mart)
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BUS 640 APPRENTICE TUTORS

• BUS 640 Week 6 Final Paper (Wal-mart)

• BUS-640-Entire-Course

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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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• http//www.uophelp.com/BUS-640-(Ash)/BUS-640-Week-
  6-Final-Paper-Managerial-Decision-Making-(Ash-Cour
  se)

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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
  OligopoliesBUS 640 Week 4 DQ 2 Local Mar

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