Saint leo MBA540 all discussion and assignments
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Every time we have to make a choice we are faced with an opportunity cost. Using an example in your professional life identify a situation where you were presented with a choice, the opportunity cost of the choice you made and the process you used to make your choice. As part of your discussion explain whether or not responsible stewardship played a role in your choice. Remember to use the appropriate economic concepts and terminology that are applicable to your answer.
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What factors must a firm consider when deciding to raise or lower its price? In answering this question think about the content in Chapters 4 and 5 and use a real-world example that helps illustrate your answer.
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View
the video at the link below and share your thoughts on the economic concepts
that you believe are applicable. In your response provide a rationale on
whether or not a firm has to possess market power in order to raise prices.
How to
Raise Prices Without Losing Customers
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If a firm has created value is it also always able to capture that value? How does a firm create value and then what must it be able to do to capture that value? In your answer provide an example of a firm that has been able to create value. Then discuss whether or not you believe it has captured that value and if so how it was captured and if not why it was not able to do so.
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Identify an incentive conflict in your firm, or one you have read about, that reduced firm value. As part of your answer discuss whether or not one or more of the legs of the organizational stool was unbalanced, and if so, how that contributed to the conflict.
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Should decision management and decision control be separated? As part of your discussion, provide a real-world example (or provide a fictitious example) of a firm where the control (correctly) resides with the same individual as well as an example of a firm where the control is (correctly) separated.
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W. Edwards Deming, often referred to as the leading quality guru in the United States, and psychologist Alfie Kohn support the idea that incentive pay is not a motivator for individuals to do a good job. Yet economists argue that incentive compensation does work and as economist George Baker notes in his 1993 article in the Harvard Business Review titled "Rethinking Rewards," "The problem is not that incentives can't work but that they work too well." What does Baker mean? Discuss the importance of a well-developed compensation plan in attracting and retaining good employees and how to keep those plans from "working too well."
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Describe an experience
that you have had working on a team. As part of your response discuss how the
team was evaluated. Also discuss whether or not the free-rider problem existed
on your team. If it did exist also discuss how/if the problem was addressed. If
the problem did not exist discuss why not or how the problem was managed.
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Assignments
Module 1 For each module you will need to complete case study questions from your textManagerial economics and organizational architecture. Read the scenario provided in the text and then answer the questions provided. Please see your syllabus for more information. Submit this assignment to the Dropboxno later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT.(The Dropbox is linked to Turnitin.) • Chapter 2 “Analyzing Managerial Decisions: Interwest Healthcare Corp.”, page 38 • Chapter 3 "Analyzing Managerial Decisions: Property Right Security in Russian Deprivatization" page 92 module2 for each module you will need to complete case study questions from your textManagerial economics and organizational architecture. Read the scenario provided in the text and then answer the questions provided. Please see your syllabus for more information. Submit this assignment to the Dropboxno later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT.(The Dropbox is linked to Turnitin.) • Chapter 4 - “Analyzing Managerial Decisions: Setting Tuition and Financial Aid” page 110 • Chapter 5 - “Analyzing Managerial Decisions: Rich Manufacturing" page 170 Module 3 For each module you will need to complete case study questions from your textManagerial economics and organizational architecture. Read the scenario provided in the text and then answer the questions provided. Please see your syllabus for more information. Submit this assignment to the Dropboxno later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT.(The Dropbox is linked to Turnitin.) • Chapter 6 - “Analyzing Managerial Decisions: United Airlines” page 185 • Chapter 7 - “Analyzing Managerial Decisions: iTunes Music Pricing” pages 231-232 Module 4 For each module you will need to complete case study questions from your textManagerial economics and organizational architecture. Read the scenario provided in the text and then answer the questions provided. Please see your syllabus for more information. Submit this assignment to the Dropboxno later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT.(The Dropbox is linked to Turnitin.) • Chapter 8 - "Analyzing Managerial Decisions: Leaving New York City for the Farmlands of Illinois” page 262 For this module you are to complete the mid-term exam.This exam covers materials from Modules 1-4. Download the exam from Doc Sharing after your professor has released it. The questions should be written succinctly, using the proper terminology, appropriate for a graduate level class, and showing all work for questions that call for calculation. Complete the exam and submit to the Dropbox and Turnitin.comno later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT. Module 5 Remember that you have a term paper due in Module 7. Review the term paper requirements in the syllabus. For each module you will need to complete case study questions from your textManagerial economics and organizational architecture. Read the scenario provided in the text and then answer the questions provided. Please see your syllabus for more information. Submit this assignment to the Dropboxno later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT.(The Dropbox is linked to Turnitin.) • Chapter 10 - “Analyzing Managerial Decisions: eBay.com” page 334 • Chapter 11 - “Analyzing Managerial Decisions: Eastman Kodak” pages 358-359 Module 6
Submit this assignment to the Dropboxno later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT.(The Dropbox is linked to Turnitin.) • Chapter 12 - “Analyzing Managerial Decisions: Medford University” (p. 387) • Chapter 13 - “Analyzing Managerial Decisions: Bagby Copy Company” (pp. 413-414) module7 For each module you will need to complete case study questions from your textManagerial economics and organizational architecture. Read the scenario provided in the text and then answer the questions provided. Please see your syllabus for more information. Submit this assignment to the Dropboxno later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT.(The Dropbox is linked to Turnitin.) • Chapter 14 - “Analyzing Managerial Decisions: Structuring Compensation Plans” page 446 • Chapter 15 - “Analyzing Managerial Decisions: Granting Stock Options” page 466 Module 8 For each module you will need to complete case study questions from your textManagerial economics and organizational architecture. Read the scenario provided in the text and then answer the questions provided. Please see your syllabus for more information. Submit this assignment to the Dropboxno later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT.(The Dropbox is linked to Turnitin.) • Chapter 16 - “Analyzing Managerial Decisions: Why Teams Fail” page 507
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