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MBA, Ph.D in Management
Harvard university
Feb-1997 - Aug-2003
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Strayer University
Jan-2007 - Present
Your firm spent $100 million developing a new drug. It has now been approved for sale, and each pill cost $1 to manufacture. Your market research suggests that the price elasticity of demand in the general public is -1.1.
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a. What price do you charge the public?
b. What would happen to profits if you charged twice as much?
c. What role does the $100 million in development costs play in your pricing decision?
d. The Medicaid agency has made a take-it-or-leave-it offer of $2 per pill. Do you accept it? Why or why not?
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