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How did corporate culture, leadership, power and motivation affect Thomas' level of managerial hubris?
Describe the company and provide a brief history of its operations. Find or use graphs to illustrate its financial performance over the years.
Discuss the importance of the Prisoner's Dilemma as a sub-optimal solution. Comment on strategic vs non-strategic bargaining.
Which of the following, if any, are an example of post investment holdup? In your answer explain: what is the sunk, or stranded cost; what is the contract;
An interesting example of strategic behavior comes from a 1997 article about Microsoft's investment in Apple (New Straits Times, 1997).
More generally, how can we use "game theory" in business to improve upon our ability to negotiate and capture value?
How would expanding the business affect the economies of scale? When would you have constant returns to scale or diseconomies of scale?
Explain what is meant by "contribution analysis". Carefully define the term and provide examples to illustrate it.
Read the first 13 pages of the attached paper which discusses the effect of government intervention on recessions.
Discusses the effects that tax policy has on business decisions. How do these taxes affect business decisions regarding investment.
You will create a presentation detailing the pros and cons of each potential payment system, including a final recommendation.
Calculate the price elasticity of demand for Newton's Donuts and describe what it means. Describe your answer and show your calculations.
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.
In reference to the articles, discuss how firms incorporate the triple bottom line concept into traditional business concerns over profitability.
Read the two articles below that discuss why fuel prices fluctuate. Research two of these types further.
Provide a description of a scenario where this kind of decision between two types of payment streams applies in the "real-world" business setting.
Calculate Project A's expected net present value (ENPV) and standard deviation (SD), assuming the discount rate (or risk-free interest rate) to be 8%.
Narrow down your thoughts to one aspect of these macroeconomic policies, i.e taxes (more or less), government spending, government welfare spending.
Intel made large loyalty payments to HP in exchange for HP buying most of their chips from Intel instead of rival AMD. AMD sued Intel under the antitrust laws.
The Principle-Agent Problem, To Manage Incentive You Have to Understand Motivation.
Which decision error is more likely to be discovered by the CEO? How does this affect the HR manager's hiring decisions?
What is the role of government in dealing with benefit externalities? With cost externalities? Discuss the economic justification for a merger.
Read three (3) academically reviewed articles on managerial economics.
Concierge Auctions Limited sells very high end and unique properties worldwide using an English style auction, selling to the highest bidder.
Review the two articles about bank failures and bank diversification that are found below this.