[SOLVED] MBA Professional Assignment - Business Finance - Economics

Reading:
Book: Baye, M. R., & Prince, J. T. (2017). Managerial economics and business strategy (9th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN 978-1-259-29061-9
o Chapter 11: Pricing Strategies for Firms with Market Power
o Chapter 12: The Economics of Information
Professional Assignment
Please study the case about the “Time Warner Cable” (In the attached file) and write an analytical and evidence-based paper of a minimum of five (5) pages, with a minimum of 7 peer-reviewed citations, please remember to have Introduction and conclusion. APA formatted encompass the followings :
● A summary history and analysis of Time Warner business expansion since 2000
● What have been the business markets for Time Warner?
● Who is the competition for Time Warner and what policies Time Warner have used to challenge it?
● What are the significant regulatory areas that impact the operations and strategic decisions of Time Warner?
● The technological change and challenges that Time Warner has been facing.

CASE: TIME WARNER CABLE

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

—George Santayana

Managers who cannot apply managerial economics are destined for failure

—Michael Baye and Jeffrey Prince
The case-study method is a useful pedagogy for applying managerial economics to real business scenarios. Two things are required for this approach to yield optimal results. First, since hindsight is always 20–20, put yourself in the shoes of decision makers at the time of their decisions—July 2016 in this case—rather than at the time you read the case. This is your job. Second, the case being studied must involve economic issues that transcend time. That’s our job.

Time Warner Cable is a timeless case that was written especially for Managerial Economics and Business Strategy. Regardless of whether you’ve covered a single chapter or every chapter in the text, the case provides an opportunity to apply tools from managerial economics to a real-world business situation. The case includes a plethora of issues and may be used in a variety of ways to hone your decision-making skills.
For example, your instructor may choose to use the case as a capstone experience where you and/or team members present your analysis and make recommendations for the company. For this reason, when you read the case, you will observe that it provides information about the company and its business environment, but it does not identify specific problems or ask specific questions. As in the business world, the onus is on you to identify key issues and to defend your recommendations. Different students are likely to focus on different issues and to make different recommendations, depending on the chapters covered and their mastery of the material.
Alternatively, or in addition, your instructor may use this case as “an extended problem” throughout the course to illustrate concepts developed in specific chapters. The case includes a variety of memos—some at the end of the case and others available online at

www.mhhe.com/baye9e

—that permit you to apply concepts on a chapter-by-chapter basis.
We hope you enjoy the case. Remember that an important component of any case exercise is to use the information provided along with your knowledge of managerial economics and business strategy to identify key issues and to guide your recommendations and decisions. Consider this a practice run for when you leave the classroom and enter the business world.
Time Warner Cable1

Note to Students: Please read the information on the previous page before working through this case.
HEADLINE
When Andreas finished his MBA 10 years ago and joined the company, he envisioned an exciting career in a growing industry. However, economic and technological changes have been rapid, and he has already been through spin-offs and mergers. Now, thanks to Time Warner Cable’s most recent merger, he is potentially poised to join Charter Communications. He recently met with the Executive Board, and the Le

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