You are a CEO of a very large health technology firm. You just completed a lucrative $5 bilion deal with a frm in Singapore. Your assistant had to purchase an airline ticket for you to fly to close the deal with a large ceremony in Singapore. There were no available seats on any of the airlines. Your assistant was able to find a business class ticket for $4OK. You told her to purchase the ticket right away since the deal was so important. Giving up the ticket would mean to give up the lucrative deal. In the aircraft, you started having some conversation with a gentleman from Texas sitting next to you in the business class. You learned that he paid only $3K for his ticket and he was traveling for a wedding of his buddy. He purchased his ticket almost a year ago since the wedding was already planned. You then remembered about your college economics professor. In your mind silently you thanked your professor for teaching the economic concepts to make sense of the many situations including the current awkward one. How did you make sense of the situation by using economic concepts? Please provide your explanation

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You are a CEO of a very large health technology firm. You just completed a lucrative $5 bilion deal with a frm in Singapore. Your assistant had to purchase an airline ticket for you to fly to close the deal with a large ceremony in Singapore. There were no available seats on any of the airlines. Your assistant was able to find a business class ticket for $4OK. You told her to purchase the ticket right away since the deal was so important. Giving up the ticket would mean to give up the lucrative deal. In the aircraft, you started having some conversation with a gentleman from Texas sitting next to you in the business class. You learned that he paid only $3K for his ticket and he was traveling for a wedding of his buddy. He purchased his ticket almost a year ago since the wedding was already planned. You then remembered about your college economics professor. In your mind silently you thanked your professor for teaching the economic concepts to make sense of the many situations including the current awkward one. How did you make sense of the situation by using economic concepts? Please provide your explanation
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