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What is the primary role of the health provider or health organization in end-of ...

End-of-Life Planning

End-of-life planning encompasses a myriad of activities aimed at allowing individuals to take part or plan for their final wishes. For the health provider or organization, end-of-life planning can take on a more complex role as it can create ethical and legal concerns.

Research advance directives and develop an original response to these questions:

What is the primary role of the health provider or health organization in end-of-life planning?
What are the most significant ethical and legal considerations for the health provider or health organization in participating in the end-of-life decisions of health consumers?
The phrase “death panel” was invoked in the 2008 presidential campaign to describe bureaucrats who would decide who is worthy of medical care, especially if the care is expensive. What implications has the use of this phrase had on the role of health providers in discussing end-of-life care with health consumers?

In this assignment, you will develop a presentation for a town hall meeting to ...

In this assignment, you will develop a presentation for a town hall meeting to present details on a new local policy.

You will select a local policy to research and prepare a presentation for a town hall meeting where you will define the problem and propose solutions, risks, challenges, and funding.

Review the assignment details and rubric for the Week 3 assignment.
Review the Policy Identification & Analysis Assignment Template [PPTX

Provide a real public policy issue (local, state, or national) and select an app ...

Provide a real public policy issue (local, state, or national) and select an appropriate criterion for policy prescription to use in deciding the policy’s effectiveness, efficiency, and adequacy. Provide some reasons why you selected the criterion (such as importance, application, or relevancy).

Define a policy argument or claim that is specific and evaluative. Topics may in ...

Define a policy argument or claim that is specific and evaluative. Topics may include crime, global warming, unemployment, whistleblowing, and others. Discuss the benefits of structuring arguments before and while developing written documents.

What things do you think you will use the most? ...

What things do you think you will use the most?
What did you find most interesting?
What did you never know before?

Looking back, here is a list of some of the concepts and skills we covered:

Use the rational-actor paradigm, identify problems, and then fix them.
Use benefit-cost analysis to evaluate decisions.
Use marginal analysis to make extent (how much) decisions.
Make profitable investment and shutdown decisions.
Set optimal prices and price discriminate.
Predict industry-level changes using demand and supply analysis.
Understand the long-run forces that erode profitability.
Develop long-run strategies to increase firm value.
Predict how your own actions will influence other people's actions.
Bargain effectively.
Make decisions in uncertain environments.
Solve the problems caused by moral hazard and adverse selection.
Motivate employees to work in the firm's best interests.
Motivate divisions to work in the best interests of the parent company.
Manage vertical relationships with upstream suppliers or downstream customers

This week's discussion will provide you with an opportunity to apply Froeb's ana ...

This week's discussion will provide you with an opportunity to apply Froeb's analytic method.

Read the example in the discussion instructions while keeping in mind the following questions:

Who made the bad decision?
What information did they have? And was it good, bad, or unclear?
What was their incentive?

Instructions

Read the following and then respond to the discussion prompt.

Intel made large loyalty payments to HP in exchange for HP buying most of their chips from Intel instead of rival AMD. AMD sued Intel under the antitrust laws, and Intel settled the case by paying $1.25 billion to AMD.

Address the following in your discussion post:

What incentive conflict was being controlled by these loyalty payments?
What advice did Intel ignore when they adopted this practice?
- How did the Robinson-Patman Act apply to their practice?
Why did they ignore the advice?

This week we look at the principle-agent problem and what went wrong at Wells Fa ...

This week we look at the principle-agent problem and what went wrong at Wells Fargo. On March 28, 2019, Tim Sloan, the CEO of Wells Fargo, who was supposed to restore the bank's reputation, stepped down. After a very poor showing by Sloan in testimony about the bank before Congress and with long-standing restrictions by the Federal Reserve still in place, the bank seems unable to overcome the crisis created by a whole collection of deceptive practices which rose to the level of fraud. (For more information, refer to the 2018 article "Fed Won't Lift Wells' Growth Cap Until Deficiencies Are Fixed: Powell" from American Banker.)

On October 21, 2019, Charles Scharf officially assumed the role of CEO. Can he succeed in restoring the reputation of Wells Fargo as the bank that always does the right thing? This week's discussion will provide you with an opportunity to put yourself in the shoes of someone advising Mr. Scharf.

Instructions

For this discussion, you are going to advise Mr. Scharf on a key issue.

What about the incentive system employed by Wells Fargo resulted in massive creation of fake accounts by the retail operation? And why did it only get worse from there?

As you dig into this issue, remember Froeb's rule from Chapter 1: "Avoid the temptation to think about the problem from the employee's point of view . . . [and ask] how does the organization give employees enough information to make good decisions and the incentives to do so?" (1).

Your post for this discussion should answer the question above and address components of motivation and incentive in order to present Mr. Scharf with reasonable and evidence-supported advice on this issue.

Sources

Luke M. Froeb. 2018. Managerial Economics: A Problem Solving Approach (5th ed.). p. 8. Cengage

Case Study 2: Dealing With Risk and Uncertainty ...

Case Study 2: Dealing With Risk and Uncertainty

Select a company of your choice, one that has been dealing with risk and uncertainty within the last six months, and write a 6–8 page paper in which you:

Evaluate a company's recent actions (within the last six months) dealing with risk and uncertainty.
Offer advice for improving risk management.
Examine an adverse selection problem your company is facing and recommend how it should minimize its negative impact on transactions.
Determine the ways your company is dealing with the moral hazard problem and suggest best practices used in the industry to deal with it.
Identify a principal-agent problem in your company and evaluate the tools it uses to align incentives and improve profitability.
Examine the organizational structure of your company and suggest ways it can be changed to improve the overall profitability.
Use at least five quality academic resources in this assignment. One reference must be about the risk and uncertainty the company has faced in the last six months.
- Note: Wikipedia, Investopedia, Course Hero, and similar websites are not acceptable references.

Thanks

What is game theory, and how do businesses use games? ...

What is game theory, and how do businesses use games?

In your Managerial Economics textbook, we consider a sequential-move game in which an entrant is considering entering an industry in competition with an incumbent firm (see Figure 15-1). There are several possibilities of how this sequential game will be played. We want to use the Froeb rule of look ahead and reason back.

Instructions

For your discussion post, use Figure 15-1 from the textbook as your starting point to address the following:

Can, and how does, the entrant succeed?
Is the incumbent ever in control of this game?
- You may wish to review the old game known as Duopoly, as well as Antoine-Augustin Cournot, to help inform your post

Make a case that both groups of customers will be satisfied with the deal and th ...

The idea that transactions in a marketplace work like an invisible hand is to some extent the idea that when a person chooses to buy an item at a given price, they are happy with the deal. There is no coercion. If the person really does not like the deal, they simply walk away.

This week's discussion will give you an opportunity to explore direct and indirect price discrimination within the context of a hypothetical scenario.

Instructions

For this discussion, use the following hypothetical scenario as the basis for your response:

Your business partner is strongly opposed to your proposal to charge your largest customers lower prices for your web-based services than you will charge your smaller customers. She is arguing it is unethical, unfair, and possibly illegal.

Address the following in your discussion post:

Make a case that both groups of customers will be satisfied with the deal and that this is a perfectly legal form of pricing in a business-to-customer relationship.
- What degree is this type of price discrimination?
- How will the plan increase revenue?
- Why will both groups of customers be satisfied with the deal?
- Why is this a legal form of pricing?
Use evidence from your textbook or other reputable sources to support your case to your business partner.