2024 – Unit 1 How does competition amongst companies affect you in your daily life personal and or professional

 

 

 

Unit 1:

 

How does competition amongst companies affect you in your daily life (personal and or professional)? Provide a real-world experience that might apply. For instance, consider how you recently chose between at least two products or services offered from rival companies.

 

What factors made you decide to purchase one over the other? How do these companies compete?

 

Unit 2:

 

In preparation for your Discussion topic, please read Chapter 2 Appendix, BB&T Vision, Mission, and Purpose in the Pearce and Robinson text. Post your answer in the Discussion Board along with your source citation in APA format.

 

BB&T Vision, Mission, and Purpose statement is considered an exemplary Mission Statement. Please read it, comment on the positives and negatives of this statement, and defend your answer through APA citation.

 

Unit 3

 

The way business policy and strategy management works with companies is to ultimately find the process in which acknowledges all aspects of the process.  These key building blocks that provide the information needed are processes such as VCA, RBV and SWOT.  All of these processes have reasons for working to achieve an overall successful strategy.

 

Unit 4

 

Choose an industry in which you would like to compete globally. Use the Five-Force method of analysis to explain why you find that industry attractive for business

 

Unit 5

 

These two automotive giants compete in the same strategic group. Browse each website and search for each company’s business-level strategy.

 

How are the luxury car competitors’ strategies similar? In what manner are they different? Which company has the competitive advantage and why?

 

Unit 6

 

Why have outsourcing initiatives become a key element in shaping functional tactics for today’s global companies? As a team, choose a Fortune 1,000 company that has adopted the use of outsourcing and has done so successfully

 

Unit 7

 

 

 

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an “idea that business has [as] a duty to serve in general as well as the financial interest of stockholders” (Pearce & Robinson, 2013, p. 57). Do you believe society’s expectations for CSR will change in the next decade (p. 85)?

 

 

 

Unit 8

 

Retail companies like Walmart are heavy users of strategic control systems. Think about how it utilizes RFID technology to track products from inventory to the market shelves. Discuss how Walmart relies upon strategic surveillance, special alert control, and implementation control. What improvements might you suggest to the company’s COO relative to strategic control and why?

 

 

 

Unit 9

 

If you were asked to serve as an Ethics Review Arbitrator, what decision would you have rendered in support of the Duke University MBA Program learners’ issue? The Centenary College Chinese MBA Program?

 

In support of your ruling as Ethics Review Arbitrator, explain your key reasons for your decision.

 

Unit 10

 

If you refer to Exhibit 14.7, Who Is The Entrepreneur? In your text, the top right-hand quadrant defines an entrepreneur as being one who has high creativity and innovativeness but not necessarily high management skills and business know-how (Pearce & Robinson, 2013, p. 414).

 

• What is intrapreneurship and how is it best enabled?

 

 

 

JOURNALS

 

Learning Journal time…

 

Organizations, leadership, and culture are very popular topics in the business world. Think of a Fortune company that operated like a 20th Century company and has adopted a structure that supports 21st Century characteristics (Pearce & Robinson, 2013, pp. 328–349). What similarities have remained? What differences have emerged?