Short Paper (W6)
- Due Oct 20, 2019 by 11:59pm
- Points 10
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- Available Oct 10, 2019 at 12am - Oct 28, 2019 at 11:59pm
This paper is a two to three page letter to a CEO, boss, or other executive of a business or organization you work for, have worked for in the past, or might want to work for in the future. (You can make up the person's name, if you don't know them, but use a real company.) In the letter, your assignment is to summarize and apply five to six "take aways" from microeconomics that pertain to this organization. These might be about markets in general, about demand, supply, market structure, or game theory. The aim of the letter is strategic and is to help the leader think about the business/organization in terms of the underlying economics. The letter should end with a strong "call to action" about at lease one thing that the CEO/boss should do right away to leverage economics for success of the enterprise. (Or alternatively, something the organization needs to stop doing immediately.)
You do not need to include references to journal articles or websites in the letter, but if it fine if you find that it helps to include them.
If you do use quotations from any source, then the source needs to be cited.