DM summary Lecture 1 Question 1 = Assume you would like to subscribe to ‘Time’ magazine * internet only subscription * print only subscription * print and internet subscription = context question * Choices are made in a context * Everything is relative ‚ without context choices (in absolute terms) mean nothing * We compare jobs with jobs‚ wines with wines‚ lovers with lovers Question 2 = Anchoring and adjustment When was Atilla defeated by estimation
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1. Asset allocation decisions To minimize risk as well as maintain and increase the amount originally invested‚ I chose to diversify my portfolios by combining stocks‚ bonds and cash savings in difference proportions. I choose home market (UK market) to invest with the goal of maintaining a balance of income and capital growth. Investment in the UK is not bring high profit and fast but its safe and stable because less risk. Investing aboard will bring high return but the risk high also. Invest
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Basic Concepts The economics of business enterprise‚ an introduction to economic organisation and the theory of the firm Martin Ricketts (chp. 1-5) …and more… Aida Isabel Tavares Economia da Empresa 1 Quick review about the basics of theory of the firm Firms under the neoclassic view are treated as a production black-box: input → firm → output Fundamental issues about firms: Why do firms exist? How different are firms versus markets? What determines firm’s scope or boundaries? M&As; Spin-offs;
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Firms did not flourish until the early 20th century. They emerged as an authorized structure and were granted exclusive rights to trade and conduct business in certain markets and products. The fact that firms are a different way to organize economic activities cannot explain explicitly and adequately the reason of firm formation. Many socialists and economists have given their interpretations of the conditions under which firms emerged and developed in certain ways in a specialised exchange economy
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Q.No.1 Managers would be more likely to make rational decision making or in some cases the bounded rationality in case of specific goals. It is because specific goals are clearly defined and they leave no room for interpretation. So a manager would be knowing all or most of the alternatives for decision making and would be knowing the outcomes‚ thus will be qualifying for the rational decision making. Q.No.2 Certainty: Rational Decision making would work under certainty. Also programmed decisions
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Greyhound Lines is a bus transportation company that had problems with operating costs and customer service. It did not have union in solving vital problems‚ more concretely‚ while Greyhound’s executive faced with these issues by reorganizing such as massive cuts in personnel‚ routes’ and service‚ along with computerization‚ middle managers in computer programming‚ human resource and terminal managers considered that executive’s solution was inappropriate. As a result‚ it was impossible for them
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Question 1 a) [pic] Figure 1: Porter’s Five Forces Applying the Porter’s Five Forces model to the industry is not an easy task provided that FedEx Corporation provides various shipping services. In FedEx‚ these two sectors are represented by FedEx Express and FedEx Ground. FedEx Express is the world’s largest express transportation company. FedEx Ground‚ on the other hand‚ is the North America’s second largest provider of small-package ground delivery service‚ following the lead of United
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Introduction Financial market is a significant factor in economy development. Through financial market‚ people are able to transfer their surplus funds to those who have shortage which enhance efficiency. China’s financial market started relatively late compared with developed countries. After the economy reform in 1978‚ China’s step by step build up its own financial system. With the continuous improvement of the financial markets‚ people are started to question about whether China’s financial
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sensemaking approach‚ we argue that ethical blindness results from a complex interplay between individual sensemaking activities and context factors. Keywords Ethical decision-making Á Ethical/unethical behavior Á Ethical fading Á Moral disengagement Á Bounded awareness/ethicality Á Rigid framing Introduction Business history is rich with examples of extreme forms of unethical behavior by and within companies. When these cases are made public by traditional muckrakers like Upton Sinclair in the nineteenth
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|| Decision Support and Expert Systems|Assignment #1 | || Introduction The following are responses to the questions for assignment #1: Review Question 6: Why is management often equated with decision-making? Management is described as “a process by which organizational goals are achieved using resources” such as people (labor)‚ capital‚ and equipment (technology); these resources must be allocated to achieve organizational goals. The degree to which management is successful is dependent
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