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BUS 640 (Ash) Reading feeds the
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BUS 640 Entire Course

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•  BUS 640 Week 1 DQ 1 Firm Objectives
• BUS 640 Week 1 DQ 2 Decision Making Under
  Uncertainty
• BUS 640 Week 1 Economics of Risk and Uncertainty
  Applied Problems
• BUS 640 Week 1 Economics of Risk and Uncertainty
  Applied Problems (New)
• BUS 640 Week 2 DQ 1 Marginal Rate of Substitution
• BUS 640 Week 2 DQ 2 Demand Elasticity

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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 (Ash Course)

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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 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)

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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 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 2 Consumer Demand Analysis and
Estimation Applied Problems (New)

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• Week 2 Assignment
• Consumer Demand Analysis and Estimation Applied
  Problems
• Please complete the following two applied
  problems
• Problem 1
• 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.

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BUS 640 Week 2 DQ 1 Marginal Rate of Substitution
(Ash Course)

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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 (Ash Course)

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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 DQ 1 Relevant Costs (Ash Course)

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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.

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BUS 640 Week 3 DQ 2 Contribution Analysis (Ash
Course)

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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
  Problems
• Please complete the following two applied
  problems
• Problem 1
• William 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 (Ash Course)

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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.

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BUS 640 Week 4 DQ 2 Local Market Power (Ash
Course)

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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.

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BUS 640 Week 4 Journal Economics in News (Ash
Course)

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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 1
• Roberts New Way Vacuum Cleaner Company is a
  newly started small business that
• produces vacuum cleaners and belongs to a
  monopolistically competitive market. Its
• demand curve for the product is expressed as Q
  5000 25P where Q is the number of
• vacuum cleaners per year and P is in dollars.
  Cost estimation processes have determined
• that the firms cost function is represented by
  TC 1500 20Q 0.02Q2.

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BUS 640 Week 5 DQ 1 Good Will in Price Bidding
(Ash Course)

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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 (Ash
Course)

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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.

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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
  Problems
• Please complete the following two applied
  problems
• Problem 1
• Jessica Alba, a famous actress, starts the baby
  and family products business, The Honest Company,
  with Christopher Gavigan.

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BUS 640 Week 6 DQ 1 Game Theory and Strategic
Behavior (Ash Course)

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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 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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• 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)
• 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

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BUS 640 Week 6 Final Paper (Wal-mart)

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• We have another set of Final Paper based on Apple
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• BUS640 Week 6 Paper(Wal-Mart)
• Managerial Decision Making Research and Analysis
• 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
  Ashford University Online library and web-based
  resources for your research.

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BUS 640 (Ash) Reading feeds the
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