2. BUS 640 All New Assignments FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus640homework.com 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.

3. BUS 640 Entire Course FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus640homework.com 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 BUS 640 Week 2 Consumer Demand Analysis and Estimation Applied Problems BUS 640 Week 2 Consumer Demand Analysis and Estimation Applied Problems (New)

4. BUS 640 Week 1 DQ 1 Firm Objectives FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus640homework.com 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

5. BUS 640 Week 1 DQ 2 Decision Making Under Uncertainty FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus640homework.com 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.

6. BUS 640 Week 1 Economics of Risk and Uncertainty Applied Problems (New) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus640homework.com 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.

7. BUS 640 Week 2 Consumer Demand Analysis and Estimation Applied Problems (New) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus640homework.com 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. The value she places on each attribute, however, differs according to what type of restaurant she is going to start. If she opens a restaurant in a suburban area of Los Angeles, then taste is the most important attribute, three times as important as location, and two times as important as price.

8. BUS 640 Week 2 DQ 1 Marginal Rate of Substitution FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus640homework.com 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

9. BUS 640 Week 2 DQ 2 Demand Elasticity FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus640homework.com 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"?

10. BUS 640 Week 3 DQ 1 Relevant Costs FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus640homework.com 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.

11. BUS 640 Week 3 DQ 2 Contribution Analysis FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus640homework.com Contribution Analysis. Explain what is meant by “contribution analysis”. Carefully define the term and provide examples to illustrate it.

12. BUS 640 Week 3 Production Cost Analysis and Estimation Applied Problems (New) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus640homework.com What number of workers appears to be most efficient in terms of pizza product per worker? What number of workers appears to minimize the marginal cost of pizza production assuming that each pizza worker is paid $500 per week? Why would marginal productivity decline when you hire more workers in the short run after a certain level?

13. BUS 640 Week 4 DQ 1 Strategic Behavior Oligopolies FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus640homework.com Strategic Behavior Oligopolies. An interesting example of strategic behavior comes from a 1997 article about Microsoft’s 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 Apple’s survival and, therefore, to ensure that competitiveness in the industry remains. Moreover, the partnership with Apple provided an additional market for Microsoft’s products – the MS Office and the IE products were to be bundled with the MAC OS as one of the conditions for this financing.

14. BUS 640 Week 4 DQ 2 Local Market Power FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus640homework.com 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.

15. BUS 640 Week 4 Journal Economics in News FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus640homework.com BUS 640 Week 4 Journal Economics in News.

16. BUS 640 Week 4 Market Structures and Pricing Decisions Applied Problems (New) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus640homework.com a. What are the profit-maximizing price and output levels? Explain them and calculate algebraically for equilibrium P (price) and Q (output). Then, plot the MC (marginal cost), D (demand), and MR (marginal revenue) curves graphically and illustrate the equilibrium point. b. How much economic profit do you expect that Robert’s company will make in the first year?

17. BUS 640 Week 5 DQ 1 Good Will in Price Bidding FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus640homework.com 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?

18. BUS 640 Week 5 DQ 2 New Product Introduction FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus640homework.com 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.

19. BUS 640 Week 5 Price Quotes and Pricing Decisions Applied Problems (New) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus640homework.com You calculate your incremental costs to be $268,000 and your fully allocated costs to be $440,000. Your usual practice is to add between 60% and 80% to your incremental costs, depending on capacity utilization rate and other factors. You expect three other firms to also bid on this contract, and you have assembled the following competitor intelligence about those companies.

20. BUS 640 Week 6 DQ 1 Game Theory and Strategic Behavior FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus640homework.com 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.

21. BUS 640 Week 6 DQ 2 Sustainable Competitive Advantage FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus640homework.com 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.

22. BUS 640 Week 6 Final Paper (Apple) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus640homework.com We have another set of final paper based on walmart which could be found on this link http://www.bus640homework.com/product-24-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.

23. BUS 640 Week 6 Final Paper (Wal-mart) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus640homework.com We have another set of Final Paper based on Apple company, it could be found on this link http://www.bus640homework.com/product-3-BUS-640-Week-6-Final-Paper- Managerial-Decision-Making 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.