MBA PROGRAMME CLASS OF 2016, SECTION B Semester II Weekly Class Schedule FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 30 TO April 03, 2015 Auditorium 104 DG Class 1 DG Class 2 DG Class 3 0830-0900 0905-1035 1105-1135 1140-1310 1435-1505 1510-1640 IE 1 ME 15 OM 16 MACS 15 * FMG 15 * FMG 16 BII 1 OM 17 BII 2 30-Mar Mon 31-Mar Tue 1-Apr Wed 2-Apr Thu 3-Apr Fri 4-Apr Sat
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1. The soft copy of the weekly schedule is available on the main page of the LUMS website www.lums.edu.pk - Information For: Students\Schedules\MBA Schedule 2. Class timings may sometimes differ from the usual timetable. Please follow the timings given on the inner pages. 3. 4. * For course titles and instructors, please turn overleaf. FMG WAC is due
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How have the changes affected small competitors? How has Airborne survived, and recently prospered, in its industry? Quantify Airborne’s sources of advantage. As the note on “Creating Competitive Advantage” (HBS 798-062) discusses, it is often useful to analyze a company’s cost position relative to its rivals and to examine the willingness of customers to pay for the company’s products relative to competitors’. The case allows you to analyze the relative costs of Airborne Express in detail. Specifically, compare the costs of an overnight letter shipped by Airborne Express to one shipped by Federal Express. The case does not allow you to compare willingness to pay across companies more than qualitatively, but it does permit you to examine relative prices. To examine relative costs, start with the cost structure of a Federal Express overnight letter, given in Exhibit 3. Using information in the case and your understanding of what influences each cost item, estimate each of the items for Airborne Express. 4. What must Robert Brazier, Airborne’s President and COO, do in order to strengthen the company's position? 3
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Tea break Discussion Group: Managerial Economics MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS
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Answer the questions. When you are finished, submit this test to your teacher by the due date for full credit.
When a certain point is reached regarding a company’s success, a set of different opportunities arise and partnerships may unfold. However, with every possible strategy available, risks and benefits also come into play; without discarding any of them beforehand, every option is a strong candidate until a final decision is made. In this case study we will analyze the current business strategy pertaining
OPS 571 Complete Class Week 1 – 5 All Assignments and Discussion Questions – A+ Graded Course Material
Write all three of your responses here. Don’t turn the work in until all three responses are done, on or before Monday, March 13.
Instructions: Answer 33 questions on this quiz. That means skip 3 questions. If you answer more than 33 I will choose up to 3 random numbers and will disregard those questions so only 33 will remain to be graded. All questions are worth the same point value (3 points each). Email me your completed quiz no later than Sunday, Nov 2nd.
Please post your response to ONE of the following questions in the Forum by Wednesday, midnight, of Week 3. Then please post at least three responses to other student’s postings by Saturday, midnight, of Week 3.
Please complete these questions in groups of 2, to hand in. The grade is calculated as part of your participation grade, so participation, as with the last case, can improve your score substantially, even if your calculations aren’t all perfect!
What was Airborne’s long term strategy to address low willingness to pay among its target customers?
In order to complete a class successfully the course must be completed with a grade of “C” or better. Required core course will include several accounting classes, economics, microeconomics, macroeconomics, legal environment of business, math classes, computer information science, introduction to information systems programming, introduction to business, and business communication. The total units for this major are 27- 28 general education units and 37-39 units transfer electives to complete 60 transferable units.
Recently, the WSJ had displayed data regarding United Airlines signifying that the company was not covering their flight costs from San Francisco to Washington D.C. Due to this, they had assumed United Airlines is unable to cover their costs, so in this case it was suggested for them to discontinue their services. To begin, it is critical that United Airlines should preform a marginal analysis in order to make a final decision. A marginal analysis focusses on incremental costs and benefits that will help aid companies in making a final decision. After completing this analysis, the company can then make an executive decision on whether or not they should discontinue their flights.
The company's internal strategies stand in response to the conditions of the external environment. The airline industry in the United States is a difficult one in which to operate. Fixed costs associated with
Provide examples of three businesses (from the MOS book) that faced the same economic issues by Airborne.
of price versus service in the airline industry as a whole, as well as, the
In my nearly two years at Xxxx, I have been actively involved in making decisions and taking actions in order to assure student learning at the MBA, in close connection with the Associate Dean. I am also a member of the Teaching and Learning Committee. I also presented and educational project for the fostering of the use of the case method at the MBA, currently expecting the appropriate circumstances in order to be properly developed. I have also been involved in ongoing changes as the new Business Mastery Project (optional and perhaps shorter).