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BUS 640 Week 1 DQ 1 Firm Objectives ASHFORD BUS
640 Week 1 DQ 2 Decision Making Under
Uncertainty ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 1 Economics of
Risk and Uncertainty Applied Problems ASHFORD BUS
640 Week 2 DQ 1 Marginal Rate of Substitution
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ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 1 DQ 1 Firm Objectives For
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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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ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 1 DQ 2 Decision Making Under
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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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ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 1 Economics of Risk and
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of Risk and Uncertainty Applied Problems. Please,
complete the following 3 applied problems in a
Word or Excel document. Show all your
calculations and explain your results. Submit
your assignment in the drop box by using the
Assignment Submission button.
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ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 2 Consumer Demand Analysis
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Demand Analysis and Estimation Applied Problems.
Please, complete the following 3 applied problems
in a Word or Excel document. Show all your
calculations and explain your results. Submit
your assignment in the drop box by using the
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ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 2 DQ 1 Marginal Rate of
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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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ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 2 DQ 2 Demand Elasticity For
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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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ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 3 DQ 1 Relevant Costs For
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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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ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 3 DQ 2 Contribution
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Analysis. Explain what is meant by contribution
analysis. Carefully define the term and provide
examples to illustrate it.
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ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 3 Production Cost Analysis
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Cost Analysis and Estimation Applied Problems.
Please, complete the following 3 applied problems
in a Word or Excel document. Show all your
calculations and explain your results. Submit
your assignment in the drop box by using the
Assignment Submission button. 1. Jennifer
Trucking Company operates a large rig
transportation business in Texas that transports
locally grown vegetables to San Diego,
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ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 4 DQ 1 Strategic Behavior
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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.
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ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 4 DQ 2 Local Market
Power For more course tutorials
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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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ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 4 Journal Economics in
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ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 4 Market Structures and
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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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ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 5 DQ 1 Good Will in Price
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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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ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 5 DQ 2 New Product
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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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ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 5 Price Quotes and Pricing
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Quotes and Pricing Decisions Applied Problems.
Please, complete the following 3 applied problems
in a Word or Excel document. Show all your
calculations and explain your results. Submit
your assignment in the drop box by using the
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ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 6 DQ 1 Game Theory and
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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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ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 6 DQ 2 Sustainable
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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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ASHFORD BUS 640 Week 6 Final Paper Managerial
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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 Describe the company and
provide a brief history of its operations. Find
or use graphs to illustrate its financial
performance over the years.
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