Commonality Resource Similarity DRIVERS OF COMPETITIVE ACTIONS AND RESPONSES Strategic Focus Who Will Win the Competitive Battles Between Netflix and Blockbuster COMPETITIVE RIVALRY Strategic and Tactical Actions Strategic Focus Using Aggressive Pricing as a Tactical Action at Wal-Mart LIKELIHOOD OF ATTACK First-Mover Incentives Organizational Size Quality LIKELIHOOD OF RESPONSE Type of Competitive Action Actors Reputation Dependence on the Market Popped the Top COMPETITIVE DYNAMICS Slow-Cycle
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Transfer pricing is a profit allocation method (the other being formulary apportionment) used to attribute a multinational corporation’s net profit (or loss) before tax to countries where it does business. Since countries impose different corporation tax rates‚ the corporation’s goal is to allocate more of the worldwide profit to lower tax countries‚ thereby minimizing the overall taxes paid. Many countries impose penalties on corporations if they consider that they are being deprived of taxable
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Pricing Strategy Today’s Agenda • Announcements • Chapters 9 & 11 May 6‚ 2015 Refresher • Branding • New product development (NPD) – NPD process • Product life cycle (PLC) – Product development‚ introduction‚ growth‚ maturity‚ decline – Dealing with declining products – Extending the PLC Review Questions A few review questions from chapters 8 & 9 Annie is planning to buy a new washing machine. She notices that they come in numerous price ranges. She wants to make sure she gets the most
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Individual Assignment Total Quality Management (TQM) in Organizations Case Study: IBM Submitted by Meric Oztekin DEFINITION OF TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT Firstly‚ I would like to give few definitions of total quality management (TQM) in order to get a better understanding in this topic. Different authors have given various definitions of TQM. As defined by ISO‚ TQM is a management approach of an organization‚ centered on quality‚ based on the participation of all its members and aiming at long-term
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Managerial Economics Unit 10 Unit 10 Pricing under Imperfect Competition Structure: 10.1 Introduction Case Let Objectives 10.2 Monopoly 10.3 Price Discrimination under Monopoly 10.4 Bilateral Monopoly 10.5 Monopolistic Competition 10.6 Oligopoly 10.7 Collusive Oligopoly and Price Leadership 10.8 Duopoly 10.9 Industry Analysis 10.10 Summary 10.11 Glossary 10.12 Terminal Questions 10.13 Answers 10.14 Case Study Reference/E-Reference 10.1 Introduction In the previous
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Exercises in Pricing Question 1: Wheeler Feed Mills Wheeler Feed Mills Ltd. has a production capacity of 10 MT per hour. The cattlefeed is packed in 50 kg jute gunny bags. During the last three years‚ the company had seen a growth as follows: Year 1997‐8 1998‐9 1999‐0 Sales in MT 26208 32236 39972 % over Prev.Yr 18% 23% 24% The company operates three shifts a day on all days. Sunday is earmarked for weekly maintenance. The product’s price is Rs.1.25 per kg including sales tax of 10%
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Dichotomous Asset Pricing Model Evidence from the UK market 1. Introduction Ever since its introduction by Sharpe-Lintner-Black‚ the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) has been subject to criticism‚ appraisal and continuous efforts for improvement‚ such as the Reward Beta approach (Bornholt‚ 2007)‚ conditional CAPM or the consumption CAPM. The Dichotomous Asset Pricing Model (DAPM)‚ introduced by Professor Liang Zou at the Universiteit van Amsterdam‚ brings a fresh approach to asset pricing and contributes
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TAXATION RATING 6/10 advantages: -Higher price --> less supplied and consumed of demerit goods. Increase in consumer welfare. -Government gains revenue. -Tax receipts can be used to further help with problem e.g. Taxing alcoholic drinks and using the receipts to add funding to the NHS or policing. Disadvantages: -If demand is very income inelastic (e.g. cigarettes) then consumption would not greatly reduce-> potential for black market. If consumption does remain the same then taxation is just
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ONCOLOGY PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICING: Cancer medication prices have been increasing since 15 years and has been affecting the patients as well the American Healthcare System. Cancer treatments cost nearly 20% to 30% of total out- of- pocket expenses for the patient and a financial burden of $20000 to $30000 per year. I hereby present a few facts about prescription drug pricing in U.S.A for oncology[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]:- • According to IMS Institute of Health Informatics‚ prescription
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CAPM vs. APT Asset Pricing Model are very useful tools that enable financial annalists or just simply independent investors evaluate the risk in an specific investment and at the same time set a specific rate of return with respect the amount of risk of an individual investment or a portfolio. The CAPM method while simpler than the ATP method takes into consideration the factor of time and does not get too wrapped up over the Systematic risk factors that sometimes we can not control. In this paper
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