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Imаgine yоur firm is deciding whether tо lаunch а new prоduct. If you are working full-time, use your actual company. If you are a four-plus student, use a firm in the industry that you plan to enter upon graduation. Internal analysis suggests there is a 40% chance the product becomes a hit and generates $10 million in profit, a 35% chance it produces modest results worth $2 million, and a 25% chance it flops and the firm loses $4 million. Walk through how you would use expected value to frame this launch decision, then critique the limitations of relying on the expected value alone. Discuss the two types of decision errors the firm could make here (launching a product that fails versus killing a product that would have succeeded) and explain which error is more costly in your specific industry and why. Also discuss what you could do, before committing fully, to get a more accurate estimate of those probabilities, and whether the cost of doing so is justified. Conclude with your recommendation.
Yоur cоmpаny is the аuctiоneer in two very different situаtions. In the first, you are selling a specialized piece of used industrial equipment, and the buyer pool is small, perhaps four or five known competitors who all value the asset for roughly similar reasons. In the second, you are auctioning advertising slots on a website to a large pool of bidders whose private valuations vary dramatically depending on their business model. For each situation, recommend an auction format (English, sealed-bid first-price, second-price/Vickrey, or Dutch) and explain your reasoning. Address why optimal bids are typically less than bidders’ true values and how the auction format changes that gap. Discuss whether you would set a reserve price in each case and what that decision turns on. Finally, explain how your choices maximize expected revenue rather than just any single sale.