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Case Study-Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty | Assignment: Dealing with Risk, Asymmetric Information, and Incentives ECO 550; complete guide_latest summer 2022.


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Case Study: Dealing with Risk, Asymmetric Information, and Incentives


Jamie Anderson


Doctor Phyllis Isley


ECO 550 – Managerial Economics & Globalization


May 2, 2022

, DEALING WITH RISK, ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION, AND INCENTIVES


Introduction

Board of directors of large companies faces the challenge of making decisions without

having all the information available. There are concerns about the risk associated with these

decisions and those involved in them might not always have the same goal for the company.

There’s a specific outcome they are looking for that minimizes risk and helps them to reach their

goals for the company and its stakeholders. Handling risk well is what will make a company lead

in their market. Best explained as, “a simple view of the received wisdom on firm strategy in the

face of risk is that firms should strive to maximize expected profits” (Friberg, 2016).


Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty

Verizon Wireless is a famous telecommunications company in the United States because

of their great prices, customer service, and community involvement. In 2018 Verizon has been

awarded over twenty-four different awards in the fields of technology, diversity and inclusion

and corporate responsibility. (Verizon, 2018). In order for Verizon to achieve such outstanding

awards they had to deal with both risk and uncertainty. Risk is defined as uncertainty that can be

modeled by the use of various variables, while uncertainty are outcomes that can’t be foreseen

(Froeb, McCann, Shor, & Ward, 2018). Verizon had to embrace the knowledge that great

companies are judged by what they do, not by what they say. To be the best, they had to keep

pushing themselves in new and exciting directions while accepting uncertainty when an

unexpected event occurs that could impact the company.


One risk that all telecom carriers are facing is the drive to 5G networks. In the drive to

stay ahead of the game Verizon chose to be the first to launch their 5G home network to the


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