BOSTON CHICKEN‚ INC* At the end of 1996‚ Boston Chicken was one of the hottest names on Wall Street. Operating in the highly competitive restaurant industry‚ the chain had grown from 18 stores in 1991 to over 1‚000 stores in 1996 and in its short history had raised over $1 billion in public offerings. EPS had grown from just $0.06 in 1993 to $1.01 in 1996‚ representing an annual growth rate of well over 100%. At the end of 1996‚ Boston Chicken traded around $40‚ representing a price-earnings multiple
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Total‚ average‚ and marginal product Total Product Curve The total product (or total physical product) of a variable factor of production identifies what outputs are possible using various levels of the variable input. This can be displayed in either a chart that lists the output level corresponding to various levels of input‚ or a graph that summarizes the data into a “total product curve”. The diagram shows a typical total product curve. In this example‚ output increases as more inputs
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Deciding on Organ Transplant Priorities Thinking in terms of equality‚ all people should be able to get health care in matters of life and death. However‚ while there are some people who believe that terminally ill patients who have abused their bodies should not be eligible for organ transplants‚ some others feel that it is unfair to deny life-saving help to another human being. Anyway‚ other citizens are worried about society’s limited number of donor organs and limited economic resources
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me. Thanks Sultan Lashari 10 2629 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL TO: Sir Michael Simon‚ Instructor micro economics FROM: Sultan Lashari‚ 10K 2629 DATE: 29th/November/ 2010 SUBJECT: Consumer behavior and Marginal utility We present our report on “CONSUMER BEHAVIOR AND MARGINAL UTILITY” that was assigned to us. This report provides information related to rational behavior of individual and utility of individual This report is divided into some parts‚ such as the INTRODUCTION. This part
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2% growth in Samuel Adams is more than six times what we are doing in light beer.” This phrase tells us that they are better not to invest in light beer because it is very unprofitable for the company. Also‚ if we looked at exhibit 2‚ the sales of Boston lightship were decreasing gradually from 1992 to 1997. 2. I agree with the HBS team recommendation. I think Amstel Light was very successful in the light beer product‚ so it is a good idea to have the same target segment. My perception is BBC
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be used in the real world but merely in-game or in-app purchases. Nature of these in-app purchases could be anything from clothes and accessories for your character in the game to purchases of the next level in the game. In order to understand pricing of virtual goods‚ we need to first understand how some of the economics of in-game purchases. 1. Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG) have their own in-game currency. For eg: Second Life has Linden Dollars‚ World of Warcraft
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Marginal Analysis and Profit Maximization Task A At the point of profit maximization within any firm‚ the aspects of both marginal revenue and marginal cost play a major role. The economically working definition of marginal revenue is termed as: the extra revenue that an additional unit of product will bring. It is the additional income from selling one more unit of a good; sometimes equal to price (MoneyTerms‚ 2005). The marginal revenue of the output of any given product ties closely in the
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Marginal Costing vs Absorption Costing Marginal Costing and Absorption Costing are methods which are often used to prepare profit statements‚ value inventory and assist in pricing decisions. The methods have some notable differences‚ which can be reconciled though. Absorption Costing absorbs all manufacturing/production costs into inventory valuation. These costs include direct material‚ direct labour‚ direct expenses‚variable production overheads‚ as well as fixed production overheads. On the
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2.1 BCG Matrix Analysis The Boston Consulting Group’s growth-share matrix is the model of analysing the company’s portfolio of SBUs. The following figure plots the position of Virgin’s SBUs. 2.2 Implications of BCG Matrix Analysis on strategy development Portfolio analysis has three uses. First‚ a business can assess the balance of its portfolio… Second‚ the portfolio provides a framework for strategic market planning… Third‚ each SBU should have a clear objective appropriate to its portfolio
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Youngstown Products‚ a supplier to the automotive industry‚ had seen its operating margins shrink below 20% as its OEM customers put continued pressure on pricing. Youngstown produced fours products in its plant and decided to eliminate products that no longer contributed positive margins. Details on the fours products are provided below: Products A B C D Total Production volume (units) 10‚000 8‚000 6‚000 4‚000 Selling Price $15.00 $18.00 $20.00 $22.00 Materials/unit $4
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