Draft - Case Analysis
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Draft - Case Analysis
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BUS 4993
Draft - Case Analysis
Greg Tavarez
Professor Hashmi
Capella University
11/19/17
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abstract…………………………………………………………………………….3
Introduction……………………………………………………………………….4
Business overview…………………………………………………………………5
Problem statement………………………………………………………………….5
Company’s competencies………………………………………………………….7
Strategies followed by the CEO………………………………………………….…8
Board of director’s strategic intent and their effectiveness…………………………8
Recommendations…………………………………………………………………...9
References………………………………………………………………………….11
Abstract
The case talks about the Marissa Mayer initiatives taken at Yahoo, Inc. after joining as the CEO in 2012. It is clear that Yahoo had been having challenges and lost the increasing dominance, especially in internet services. The primary objectives assigned to Marissa Mayer, the former Google executive, was reviving the organizational fortunes. Marissa began to focus on changing the Yahoo culture as the primary strategy to turn around the company and put it back to the competitive position as soon as she took over the CEO. Over the times, Yahoo had taken back an awful reputation for being a company bearing bureaucratic culture which strangled creativity and expansion.
The CEO began several initiatives to ensure that the organization had become democratic. She began hiring many new individuals for essential posts with the aim to change the Yahoo culture (Thomas, David & Charles, 2017). Among the significant initiatives Mayer started, the most important one was PB&J program that encouraged individuals to render ideas on how to make Yahoo the most favorable organization to work. The PB&J program was not the sole influential initiative, Mayer also began efforts with the objective to lower bureaucracy at the group and introduce effective compensation initiatives.
Regarding the ability of the new enterprises to changing the company culture in a limited time, analysts bore mixed opinions on the issues. Some argued that it would not be easy to dismantle an organizational culture in a limited time, especially since the organization had seen a leadership difficulty with successive executives. The discussion will center on this case and how important or influential these decisions were of organizational culture.
Introduction
The entity, in this case, Yahoo Inc. is among the globe’s leading online networks incorporated services provider having a combined user base in more than five million. Yahoo offers a wide array of network services, however over its 17 years of existence, there has been the rise of entities providing similar services. It is clear that the current players assumed the specializing path in a given kind of service while others introduced a whole array of new services. Yahoo has been facing increased competition from dominant market players, such as Google. Technology advancement has become an essential aspect of human adapta.
THE AFI STRATEGY FRAMEWORKPART 1Strategy Analysis CHAP.docxmattinsonjanel
THE AFI STRATEGY FRAMEWORK
PART 1
Strategy Analysis
CHAPTER 1 What Is Strategy and Why Is It Important? 2
CHAPTER 2 The Strategic Management Process 30
CHAPTER 3 External Analysis: Industry Structure, Competitive Forces, and Strategic
Groups 54
CHAPTER 4 Internal Analysis: Resources, Capabilities, and Activities 84
CHAPTER 5 Competitive Advantage and Firm Performance 112
GAINING &
SUSTAINING
COMPETITIVE
ADVANTAGE
Implementation
11. Organizational Design: Structure,
Culture, and Control
12. Corporate Governance, Business
Ethics, and Strategic Leadership
Formulation: Business Strategy
6. Business Strategy: Differentiation,
Cost Leadership, and Integration
7. Business Strategy: Innovation and
Strategic Entrepreneurship
Analysis: Getting Started
1. What Is Strategy and Why Is It
Important?
2. The Strategic Management
Process
P
A
R
T
1
Formulation: Corporate Strategy
8. Corporate Strategy: Vertical
Integration and Diversification
9. Corporate Strategy: Acquisitions,
Alliances, and Networks
10. Global Strategy: Competing Around
the World
External and Internal Analysis
3. External Analysis: Industry Structure,
Competitive Forces, and
Strategic Groups
4. Internal Analysis: Resources,
Capabilities, and Activities
5. Competitive Advantage and Firm
Performance
P
A
R
T
1
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9
LO 1-1 Define competitive advantage, sustainable competitive advantage, competitive
disadvantage, and competitive parity.
LO 1-2 Define strategy and explain its role in a firm’s quest for competitive advantage.
LO 1-3 Explain the role of firm effects and industry effects in determining firm performance.
LO 1-4 Describe the role of corporate, business, and functional managers in strategy
formulation and implementation.
LO 1-5 Outline how business models put strategy into action.
LO 1-6 Describe and assess the opportunities and challenges managers face in the
21st century.
LO 1-7 Critically evaluate the role that different stakeholders play in the firm’s quest for
competitive advantage.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
1C H A P T E R
What Is Strategy and
Why Is It Important?
rot24455_ch01_001-029.indd 2 14/10/11 4:28 PM
10 Managing Stratregy in The Global Marketplace
CHAPTERCASE 1
The Premature Death of
a Google Forerunner at
Microsoft
I
N 1998, 24-year-old Sergey Brin and 25-year-old
Larry Page founded Google. They met as grad-
uate students in computer science at Stanford
University, where they began working together
on a web crawler, with the goal of improv-
ing online searches. What they developed was the
PageRank algorithm, which returns the most rel-
evant web pages more or less instantaneously and
ranks them by how often they
are referenced on other impor-
tant web pages. A clear improve-
ment over early search engines
such as AltaVista, Overture, and
Yahoo, all of wh ...
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1 Case Study #23 Is Yahoo!’s Business Model .docxpoulterbarbara
1
Case Study #23:
Is Yahoo!’s Business Model
Working in 2011 and Today?
BUS 189 - Prof. Larry Gee
Team # 5 - The A+ Students
Aimee Gohil - # 7260
Sean Luis - # 0283
PM - Karin Proven - # 7884
Krysta Sumabat - # 2199
Friday, December 4 2015
2
Table of Contents
Appendix 1: History, Development, and Growth ……….………………………………………. 3
Appendix 2: Internal Strengths and Weakness ….………………………………………………. 8
Appendix 3: Nature of External Environment …..……………………………………………... 11
Appendix 4: SWOT Analysis…………….………….…………………………………………. 12
Appendix 5: Corporate-Level Strategy ...………………………………………………………. 18
Appendix 6: Business- Level Strategy …………………………………………………………. 20
Appendix 7: Company Structure and Control Systems………...………………………………. 22
Appendix 8: Recommendations...………………………………………………………………. 24
Case Question 1 ……….………………………………………………………….…….……… 25
Case Question 2 ……….………………………………………………………………..……… 29
Case Question 3 ………………………………………………………………………..………. 32
Case Question 4 ……………………………………………………………………….….……. 36
Conclusion …………………………………………………………………………….….……. 38
Bibliography………………………………….………………….……………………….….…. 40
3
Appendix 1: The History, Development, and Growth
Yahoo! is a global technology company best known and recognized for their search
engine, web portals, email services, and similar technologies. Yahoo! is currently working hard
to stand out from competitors by executing several strategies, including corporate level strategies
such as acquisitions, horizontal and vertical integration. It is clear with the struggles Yahoo! has
faced over the past 7 years that they need to regain market share, expand their demographics,
improve innovation, and build brand loyalty to be profitable. The company’s past strategy of
acquisitions has been costly and has not produced the desired result.
Yahoo! was founded by David Filo and Jerry Yang and the company is based in the heart
of the Silicon Valley in Sunnyvale, California. (McCullough) In 1994, David and Jerry were
graduate students at Stanford University, studying to obtain their Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering. The World Wide Web was a tool they used, but the user experience left them
extremely frustrated. Thousands of pages would appear which were random and unorganized,
making the tool overly cumbersome and difficult to use effectively. Realizing there was a better
way to organize the information, the pair found a way to manage all these websites by specific
content. What David and Jerry provided was a hierarchically organized index compared to an
index of pages. They named this organized hierarchy “David and Jerry’s Guide to The World
Wide Web” and published it in 1994.
Initially their site was used mainly by their friends and for their own personal
use. However, over time, more and more people came across the time saving website, spreading
the word about “David and .
Running head: PROJECT 2
PROJECT 2 2
The changes that were first seen at Apple were in 1997 when Steve Jobs returned to the company. He generally changes the course of the company by simplifying things through his collaboration with Jonathan Ives. They generally grafted a very special design aesthetic for Apple(Daft& Sandburg, 2000).In a period of 4 years after coming back to the company‚ he was able to distill the company’s product matrix into pro desktop‚ pro notebook‚ consumer notebook‚ and consumer desk top. He also eliminated competitions in the company’s management that existed in product development process. This played a very important part in enabling the company to change its course in a quick manner in response to technological changes‚ changes in users‚ changes in markets‚ and the general changes that were going on around the world at that time. He generally changed the company’s hardware strategy. It was through his leadership that the company was able to bring products such as iPod‚ iPhone‚ and the iPad. However‚ under the leadership of Tim Cook the company has also undergone some remarkable changes.
Apple‚ Inc. has undergone considerable amount of change since the time when Tim Cook took over as the CEO from the former CEO Steve Jobs. It is important to note that Cook has tried as much as possible to maintain the unique corporate culture of Apple while taking the company through a term of organizational change.In general terms‚ under the leadership of Cook‚ Apple has become more corporate compared to the time when it was under the leadership of Steve jobs. It is also important to point out that since the time that Cook took over the leadership of the company the company has generally gone up by a market value the is approximately $140 billion.
One of the areas where Cook has stressed in the company is the enhancement of operational efficiency. The company’s has been faced with a breakage of the warehouses‚ factories‚ and suppliers when he joined the company in 1998. He generally strengthened the company’s corporation with the contract manufacturers aboard and mainly the ones in China. The other important organizational changes that have been stressed on by the company’s CEO are the ones that would aid in increasing collaboration across software‚ hardware‚ and services. In the year 2012‚ the company made executive management changes that were aimed at increasing collaboration between its world-class software‚ hardware‚ and service teams. Part of those changes involved some members of the executive management‚ such asCraig Fderrighi‚ Eddy Cue‚ Bob Mansfield‚ and Jony Ive adding more responsibilities to their various roles in the company.It is important to point out that most of these changes that were brought into the company’s executive management and their teams were aimed at strengthening the services an.
Required MaterialHalkos, E. (2016). Employee discount and pu.docxaudeleypearl
Required Material
Halkos, E. (2016). Employee discount and purchase programs—A smart employee benefits strategy. Corporate Wellness Magazine.com. Retrieved from https://www.purchasingpower.com/about/news/employee-discount-and-purchase-programs-smart-employee-benefits-strategy
Sanicola, L. (2011). Employee Benefits Basics, pp. 31-53. Scottsdale: WorldatWork Press. Retrieved from EBSCO eBook Collection in the Trident Online Library.
Wu, E. C. (2012). Three tips on evaluating employee benefit communications. Benefits Magazine, 49(9), 36-39. Retrieved from the Trident Online Library.
Optional Material
OWLPurdue. (2012, May 9). Purdue Owl: APA formatting: The basics [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdAfIqRt60c&list=PL8F43A67F38DE3D5D
Ludlow, A., & Farrell, A. (2010). Making total rewards work. Strategic HR Review, 9(6), 49-50. Retrieved from the Trident Online Library.
The Makey Case
M. K. Makey is a privately held outdoor apparel specialty catalog and retail store founded in 1910 by Michael Kenneth Makey, an outdoor enthusiast and entrepreneur. Makey sold his first 100 pairs of flannel-lined work pants by mail order with a 100 percent satisfaction guarantee. When 90 pairs were returned defective, he kept his promise and made the refunds. Makey borrowed $300 from his sister to perfect the design and went on to become a clothing consultant for the military during World War II, and the president and founder of a retail giant.
Makey, Inc.’s library includes about 10 specialty catalogs offering products in categories such as children’s clothing, fly-fishing, outerwear, sportswear, housewares, footwear, camping and hiking gear, and the lined work pants upon which the company was built. Makey also operates about a dozen retail stores and some 15 factory outlets throughout the United States. In addition, it sells online through English- and Japanese-language websites.
Makey’s annual sales grew from $620 million in 1990 to $2.9 billion in 2014. In 2015, Makey paid a 10 percent company-wide bonus.
More than 17,000 people worked for the company during the 2014 holiday season, and in 2014 the company reported 80 percent of sales coming from Internet and catalog sales. The company continues to evolve into a multi-channel sales giant through mail order, telephone, Internet, and in-store sales.
The Brand
K. Makey, Inc. has always been a marketing professionals’ dream of turning a brand into an institution. Strategists, marketing specialists, and other business professionals (including the competition) have tried to duplicate the company’s achievements with varying degrees of success. A brand is built on perceptions about quality, service, and status created by using a particular product or working with a specific company. A brand can be built using marketing techniques such as visual imagery, wording that identifies what the organization does, and advertising campaigns targeted to a desired demographic. Strong brand identity can bu ...
THE AFI STRATEGY FRAMEWORKPART 1Strategy Analysis CHAP.docxmattinsonjanel
THE AFI STRATEGY FRAMEWORK
PART 1
Strategy Analysis
CHAPTER 1 What Is Strategy and Why Is It Important? 2
CHAPTER 2 The Strategic Management Process 30
CHAPTER 3 External Analysis: Industry Structure, Competitive Forces, and Strategic
Groups 54
CHAPTER 4 Internal Analysis: Resources, Capabilities, and Activities 84
CHAPTER 5 Competitive Advantage and Firm Performance 112
GAINING &
SUSTAINING
COMPETITIVE
ADVANTAGE
Implementation
11. Organizational Design: Structure,
Culture, and Control
12. Corporate Governance, Business
Ethics, and Strategic Leadership
Formulation: Business Strategy
6. Business Strategy: Differentiation,
Cost Leadership, and Integration
7. Business Strategy: Innovation and
Strategic Entrepreneurship
Analysis: Getting Started
1. What Is Strategy and Why Is It
Important?
2. The Strategic Management
Process
P
A
R
T
1
Formulation: Corporate Strategy
8. Corporate Strategy: Vertical
Integration and Diversification
9. Corporate Strategy: Acquisitions,
Alliances, and Networks
10. Global Strategy: Competing Around
the World
External and Internal Analysis
3. External Analysis: Industry Structure,
Competitive Forces, and
Strategic Groups
4. Internal Analysis: Resources,
Capabilities, and Activities
5. Competitive Advantage and Firm
Performance
P
A
R
T
1
rot24455_ch01_001-029.indd 1 14/10/11 4:28 PM
9
LO 1-1 Define competitive advantage, sustainable competitive advantage, competitive
disadvantage, and competitive parity.
LO 1-2 Define strategy and explain its role in a firm’s quest for competitive advantage.
LO 1-3 Explain the role of firm effects and industry effects in determining firm performance.
LO 1-4 Describe the role of corporate, business, and functional managers in strategy
formulation and implementation.
LO 1-5 Outline how business models put strategy into action.
LO 1-6 Describe and assess the opportunities and challenges managers face in the
21st century.
LO 1-7 Critically evaluate the role that different stakeholders play in the firm’s quest for
competitive advantage.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
1C H A P T E R
What Is Strategy and
Why Is It Important?
rot24455_ch01_001-029.indd 2 14/10/11 4:28 PM
10 Managing Stratregy in The Global Marketplace
CHAPTERCASE 1
The Premature Death of
a Google Forerunner at
Microsoft
I
N 1998, 24-year-old Sergey Brin and 25-year-old
Larry Page founded Google. They met as grad-
uate students in computer science at Stanford
University, where they began working together
on a web crawler, with the goal of improv-
ing online searches. What they developed was the
PageRank algorithm, which returns the most rel-
evant web pages more or less instantaneously and
ranks them by how often they
are referenced on other impor-
tant web pages. A clear improve-
ment over early search engines
such as AltaVista, Overture, and
Yahoo, all of wh ...
Top 10 pioneering ceos to follow in 2021 pdfMerry D'souza
CIO LOOK approaches with its new edition of Top 10 Pioneering CEOs to Follow in 2021. Featuring on the Cover Story is Mike Gorey, the CEO at Propex GeoSolutions.
Read more: https://ciolook.com/top-10-pioneering-ceos-to-follow-in-2021-march2021/
1 Case Study #23 Is Yahoo!’s Business Model .docxpoulterbarbara
1
Case Study #23:
Is Yahoo!’s Business Model
Working in 2011 and Today?
BUS 189 - Prof. Larry Gee
Team # 5 - The A+ Students
Aimee Gohil - # 7260
Sean Luis - # 0283
PM - Karin Proven - # 7884
Krysta Sumabat - # 2199
Friday, December 4 2015
2
Table of Contents
Appendix 1: History, Development, and Growth ……….………………………………………. 3
Appendix 2: Internal Strengths and Weakness ….………………………………………………. 8
Appendix 3: Nature of External Environment …..……………………………………………... 11
Appendix 4: SWOT Analysis…………….………….…………………………………………. 12
Appendix 5: Corporate-Level Strategy ...………………………………………………………. 18
Appendix 6: Business- Level Strategy …………………………………………………………. 20
Appendix 7: Company Structure and Control Systems………...………………………………. 22
Appendix 8: Recommendations...………………………………………………………………. 24
Case Question 1 ……….………………………………………………………….…….……… 25
Case Question 2 ……….………………………………………………………………..……… 29
Case Question 3 ………………………………………………………………………..………. 32
Case Question 4 ……………………………………………………………………….….……. 36
Conclusion …………………………………………………………………………….….……. 38
Bibliography………………………………….………………….……………………….….…. 40
3
Appendix 1: The History, Development, and Growth
Yahoo! is a global technology company best known and recognized for their search
engine, web portals, email services, and similar technologies. Yahoo! is currently working hard
to stand out from competitors by executing several strategies, including corporate level strategies
such as acquisitions, horizontal and vertical integration. It is clear with the struggles Yahoo! has
faced over the past 7 years that they need to regain market share, expand their demographics,
improve innovation, and build brand loyalty to be profitable. The company’s past strategy of
acquisitions has been costly and has not produced the desired result.
Yahoo! was founded by David Filo and Jerry Yang and the company is based in the heart
of the Silicon Valley in Sunnyvale, California. (McCullough) In 1994, David and Jerry were
graduate students at Stanford University, studying to obtain their Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering. The World Wide Web was a tool they used, but the user experience left them
extremely frustrated. Thousands of pages would appear which were random and unorganized,
making the tool overly cumbersome and difficult to use effectively. Realizing there was a better
way to organize the information, the pair found a way to manage all these websites by specific
content. What David and Jerry provided was a hierarchically organized index compared to an
index of pages. They named this organized hierarchy “David and Jerry’s Guide to The World
Wide Web” and published it in 1994.
Initially their site was used mainly by their friends and for their own personal
use. However, over time, more and more people came across the time saving website, spreading
the word about “David and .
Running head: PROJECT 2
PROJECT 2 2
The changes that were first seen at Apple were in 1997 when Steve Jobs returned to the company. He generally changes the course of the company by simplifying things through his collaboration with Jonathan Ives. They generally grafted a very special design aesthetic for Apple(Daft& Sandburg, 2000).In a period of 4 years after coming back to the company‚ he was able to distill the company’s product matrix into pro desktop‚ pro notebook‚ consumer notebook‚ and consumer desk top. He also eliminated competitions in the company’s management that existed in product development process. This played a very important part in enabling the company to change its course in a quick manner in response to technological changes‚ changes in users‚ changes in markets‚ and the general changes that were going on around the world at that time. He generally changed the company’s hardware strategy. It was through his leadership that the company was able to bring products such as iPod‚ iPhone‚ and the iPad. However‚ under the leadership of Tim Cook the company has also undergone some remarkable changes.
Apple‚ Inc. has undergone considerable amount of change since the time when Tim Cook took over as the CEO from the former CEO Steve Jobs. It is important to note that Cook has tried as much as possible to maintain the unique corporate culture of Apple while taking the company through a term of organizational change.In general terms‚ under the leadership of Cook‚ Apple has become more corporate compared to the time when it was under the leadership of Steve jobs. It is also important to point out that since the time that Cook took over the leadership of the company the company has generally gone up by a market value the is approximately $140 billion.
One of the areas where Cook has stressed in the company is the enhancement of operational efficiency. The company’s has been faced with a breakage of the warehouses‚ factories‚ and suppliers when he joined the company in 1998. He generally strengthened the company’s corporation with the contract manufacturers aboard and mainly the ones in China. The other important organizational changes that have been stressed on by the company’s CEO are the ones that would aid in increasing collaboration across software‚ hardware‚ and services. In the year 2012‚ the company made executive management changes that were aimed at increasing collaboration between its world-class software‚ hardware‚ and service teams. Part of those changes involved some members of the executive management‚ such asCraig Fderrighi‚ Eddy Cue‚ Bob Mansfield‚ and Jony Ive adding more responsibilities to their various roles in the company.It is important to point out that most of these changes that were brought into the company’s executive management and their teams were aimed at strengthening the services an.
Required MaterialHalkos, E. (2016). Employee discount and pu.docxaudeleypearl
Required Material
Halkos, E. (2016). Employee discount and purchase programs—A smart employee benefits strategy. Corporate Wellness Magazine.com. Retrieved from https://www.purchasingpower.com/about/news/employee-discount-and-purchase-programs-smart-employee-benefits-strategy
Sanicola, L. (2011). Employee Benefits Basics, pp. 31-53. Scottsdale: WorldatWork Press. Retrieved from EBSCO eBook Collection in the Trident Online Library.
Wu, E. C. (2012). Three tips on evaluating employee benefit communications. Benefits Magazine, 49(9), 36-39. Retrieved from the Trident Online Library.
Optional Material
OWLPurdue. (2012, May 9). Purdue Owl: APA formatting: The basics [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdAfIqRt60c&list=PL8F43A67F38DE3D5D
Ludlow, A., & Farrell, A. (2010). Making total rewards work. Strategic HR Review, 9(6), 49-50. Retrieved from the Trident Online Library.
The Makey Case
M. K. Makey is a privately held outdoor apparel specialty catalog and retail store founded in 1910 by Michael Kenneth Makey, an outdoor enthusiast and entrepreneur. Makey sold his first 100 pairs of flannel-lined work pants by mail order with a 100 percent satisfaction guarantee. When 90 pairs were returned defective, he kept his promise and made the refunds. Makey borrowed $300 from his sister to perfect the design and went on to become a clothing consultant for the military during World War II, and the president and founder of a retail giant.
Makey, Inc.’s library includes about 10 specialty catalogs offering products in categories such as children’s clothing, fly-fishing, outerwear, sportswear, housewares, footwear, camping and hiking gear, and the lined work pants upon which the company was built. Makey also operates about a dozen retail stores and some 15 factory outlets throughout the United States. In addition, it sells online through English- and Japanese-language websites.
Makey’s annual sales grew from $620 million in 1990 to $2.9 billion in 2014. In 2015, Makey paid a 10 percent company-wide bonus.
More than 17,000 people worked for the company during the 2014 holiday season, and in 2014 the company reported 80 percent of sales coming from Internet and catalog sales. The company continues to evolve into a multi-channel sales giant through mail order, telephone, Internet, and in-store sales.
The Brand
K. Makey, Inc. has always been a marketing professionals’ dream of turning a brand into an institution. Strategists, marketing specialists, and other business professionals (including the competition) have tried to duplicate the company’s achievements with varying degrees of success. A brand is built on perceptions about quality, service, and status created by using a particular product or working with a specific company. A brand can be built using marketing techniques such as visual imagery, wording that identifies what the organization does, and advertising campaigns targeted to a desired demographic. Strong brand identity can bu ...
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BUS 499 Assignment 4 Merger, Acquisition, and International Strategies
Your Name here
Name of the university
Professor name here
Date
Mergers and Acquisitions: Assuming rationality from all players, mergers and acquisitions deals originate out of specific strategic corporate requirements. In reality, the advisors (both legal & financial) and middlemen also play a significant role in the original activity. Acquirers / targets may focus on players for a potential acquisition. Buying players implies horizontal integration. There are lot of risks (financial as well as operational) involved and challenges in mergers and acquisitions face by company which is acquiring and target companies as which are listed below:-
· Synergies sometimes do not generate real cash flows as expected.
· Financial Risk arises from the amount of debt (taken to acquire other corporation) in a company’s capital structure. Impact of changing debt on valuation
· Increase in debt increases value over surge in interest tax yield
· Interest Tax shield gain is partially offset by increase in cost of equity
· There are complex processes involved in mergers and acquisition .It is difficult to compare betas measured against different indices due to differences in composition of index.
· Changing financial leverage affects the systematic risk that shareholder’s face.
· Risks when the acquirer and the Acquirer-Target merging entities are in two different countries
For the corporation that has acquired another company, merged with another company, or been acquired by another company, evaluate the strategy that led to the merger or acquisition to determine whether or not this merger or acquisition was a wise choice. (Facebook acquiring WhatsApp)
There are many reasons that a company consider before doing any merging or acquisition activity. Hence it can be safely considered that Facebook too has considered the factors related to the same.
First of all, the number of users of WhatsApp is around 450 million. WhatsApp was initially released in the year of 2009. In the span of just over 4 years having over 450 million users itself suggests that the growth of the company is phenomenal. Facebook have achieved just over 100 million in the initial 4 years. This provides the past history of growth for the company.
Another factor is the future growth. WhatsApp is adding around 1 million users daily which is one of the highest in the industry. These are the number of new users that the company is able to add. This shows the future growth potential of the company. Hence the valuation would increase a lot.
Another important factor is the synergy between the two companies. Facebook too has a messenger integrated in their website. But they are unable to provide direct strong competition to the WhatsApp. This means Facebook is left with two options:
· First one is that the company must change the .
CAN HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL LEADERS BE REPLACED SUCCESSFULLY THE IMPORTAN.pdfajantaimmitation888
CAN HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL LEADERS BE REPLACED SUCCESSFULLY? THE
IMPORTANCE OF SUCCESSION PLANNING
Can the replacement for Steve Jobs, the highly successful former CEO of Apple, Tim
Cook, be equally successful? It will be very difficult to do so. In fact, the stock market does not
seem to think so. When Steve Jobs announced his retirement and the new CEO, the price of
Apple\'s stock declined. Likewise, can IBM\'s successful CEO, Sam Palmisano, be replaced
successfully. Because IBM\'s CEOs have a tradition of retiring when they are 60, Palmisano is
expected to retire in 2012. There are several potential successors but the most likely is Virginia
Rometty, who heads IBM\'s sales unit.
Investor groups pressured Apple\'s board to develop a formal succession plan for Steve
Jobs because in 2011 he was on his third medical leave. This caused considerable angst among
investors. The board did not want to name formal successors because the members wanted Jobs
back and also believed that he was very important to Apple\'s success. Jobs turned 56 in 2011 but
his age was not the concern; it was his illnesses that created worry. Despite his third leave of
absence, Jobs proclaimed that he would participate in all major strategic decisions. Even the
laborers\' union pushed Apple for a succession plan. The delay in communicating a succession
plan coupled with Jobs eventual resignation as CEO did not inspire confidence among the
various groups concerned about the loss of Jobs.
Alternatively, IBM seems to be in much better position for a smooth transition of CEOs.
There are at least three candidates for the CEO position when vacated by Palmisano. They are
Rometty, mentioned earlier; Michael Daniels, head of the Global Services unit; and Rodney
Adkins, senior vice president of hardware. All three have demonstrated their capabilities with
strong performances in their respective units. In addition, Palmisano has established a strong
plan of action through 2015. For example, the plan calls for generating 30 percent of IBM\'s total
annual revenue from emerging markets by 2015. The plan also calls for $7 billion in annual
cloud revenue and $16 billion in annual business analytics revenue within the same time period.
As such, the next CEO only needs to continue efforts already launched.
Interestingly, CEO turnover among the 2,500 largest public companies in the world
declined in 2010. However, this is clouded by the fact that more emerging market firms
(including many from China) have been added to the list and they have low turnover among their
CEOs. Therefore, there is still considerable CEO turnover in North American and European
firms. As such, they have a greater need for succession planning. Selecting successors for the
CEO and other officer positions is the responsibility of the board of directors. Boards have come
under increasing pressure to develop formal succession plans, especially for the CEO position.
However, recent surveys suggest that only about 35 percent o.
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Running Head: INNOVATION AND BUSINESS 1
INNOVATION AND BUSINESS
Innovation and the Market
Louie Borrayo
Brian Glennon
Daniel Lapikas
Jared Linscombe
University of Phoenix
PDB17BSB03
MGT/411
Dr. Jay Deb
29 January 2019
Innovation and the Market
Companies may start and seem to succeed but for the success to be sustained, innovation is necessary. This is because as time goes by things change and so does the market world people want new things that are more efficient (Frishammar, 2015). When this is not the case with a company, the CEO’s job is easy, but the company will be at the risk of failing because change and innovation are both inevitable.
One example of a company that failed to innovate and is at the verge of close down is the Kodak Film Company. There was a time that the Kodak film dominated the film industry but because it refused to innovate other companies came into the market and took over. The Kodak Film Company had the chance to be the leaders of the digital industry but was in denial that times had changed and the digital error was taking over (Frishammar, 2015). It is said that the Kodak Company is the one that invented the first digital camera, but the managers could not approve it because they were too focused on the success of the company that they missed the great digital revolution. Kodak problem was they did not move fast enough into the digital world, which caused them to be technological discontinued. This company was declared bankrupt in 2012. Kodak had been failing to keep up their business and profits even before the digital revolution when Fuji started doing a better job using the old technology, the roll-film business ("Barriers To Change: The Real Reason Behind The Kodak Downfall", 2012).
Another company that went through the same is the Nokia Company. It was among the most successful companies in the early 1990s for creating the first cellular phone. Nokia was a universal leader in the business of mobile phones. When the internet landed Nokia failed to understand that data was the future. That in the future people will prefer silent communication over voice in this case text messages and emails (Frishammar, 2015). Instead of developing software Nokia focused on the hardware side with the fear that if they changed a lot the current users will get affected. They dint want to risk and lead in the change. They believed in their brand so much that they thought even if they came after others, they would take over but by the time they decided to compete with the touch screen it was too late they could not come up with products that were competitive enough to compete with the iPhone that had been launched by Steve Jobs. Surowiecki (2013), Nokia was known as an engineering company, but needed more market savvy ideas, in order to keep up with its competition.
The other company that failed in the innovation part is Yahoo. Around 2005 Yahoo was a big fish in the online advertising.
BUILDING COMPETITIVE STRATEGY, AND ALIGNING STRATEGY WITH THE EXECUTIONPankaj Kumar
BUILDING COMPETITIVE STRATEGY, AND ALIGNING STRATEGY WITH THE EXECUTION
Authors’ names and affiliations: Pankaj Kumar, CEO of Institute of Financial Leadership & Management, A-1202, Park Titanium, Park Street, Wakad, Pune -411057 pankaj.kumar@iflbm.com
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Each group will write a research paper on an organization of their choice 10-12 pages minimum (not including title and reference sheet). The organizational analysis will utilize a minimum of 10-12 external, peer-reviewed academic sources and contain the following sections
:
Topic:
How do you determine whether an organization is ethical or not?
(250 -300 WORDS MINIMUM)
Groups can add more ethical information about their chosen company to substantiate your paper.
List of companies( My topic should be related to facebook)
Dell
Google
Amazon
Apple
Facebook
Ford
Tesla
SouthWest Airlines
Capitol One
Uber
.
E-Poster The students will complete an E-Poster, The purpose of th.docxkanepbyrne80830
E-Poster: The students will complete an E-Poster, The purpose of the poster is to serve as a summary and an advertisement of the work that supplements the researcher's presentation. The poster could be thought of as an illustrated version of the abstract with visual displays of data and small blocks of text that explain the project and support the data. Base on Chapters 2.
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Brian Glennon
Daniel Lapikas
Jared Linscombe
University of Phoenix
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Dr. Jay Deb
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Oluyemi John Olawalec*, Moshood Dehinde Shittuc
aPrototype Engineering Development Institute Ilesa, Nigeria
bCentre for Energy Research and Development, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
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Keywords: 7075 aluminium, microsegregation, precipitation hardening, annealing, magnesium alloy,
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1. Introduction
Aluminium and its alloys are used in a variety of cast and
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The demand for aluminium grows rapidly because of its
unique combination of properties which makes it becomes
one of the most versatile of engineering and construction
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alloying additions and heat treatments. This promotes the
formation of small hard precipitates which interfere with
the motion of dislocations and improve its mechanical
properties4-7. One of the most commonly used aluminium
alloy for structural applications is 7075 Al alloy due to its
attractive comprehensive properties such as low density, high
strength, ductility, toughness and resistance to fatigue8-11. It
has been extensively utilized in aircraft structural parts and
other highly stressed structural applications12-16.
But aluminium-zinc alloy as it is in 7075 Al alloy is
susceptible to embrittlement because of microsegregation
of MgZn
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precipitates which may lead to catastrophic
failure of components produced from it17,18. The alloy is also
susceptibility to stress corrosion cracking19,20. This is .
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Will it be possible to muster the intellectual creativity and political will to articulate a rupturing critique of the field’s operative structural, political, and theoretical assumptions, in order to develop a radical critique of the prison industrial complex that may fundamentally alter Asian American Studies (and Ethnic Studies) as attempted practices of social transformation?
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E D U C AT I O N
Study Theology, Even If You Don't Believe in
God
The Evangelist St. Matthew with his symbol, the angel (THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF THE NETHERLANDS / WIKIMEDIA
COMMONS)
When I first told my mother—a liberal, secular New Yorker—that I wanted to cross
an ocean to study for a bachelor’s degree in theology, she was equal parts aghast
and concerned. Was I going to become a nun, she asked in horror, or else one of
“those” wingnuts who picketed outside abortion clinics? Was I going to spend
hours in the Bodleian Library agonizing over the number of angels that could fit on
the head of a pin? Theology, she insisted, was a subject by the devout, for the
devout; it had no place in a typical liberal arts education.
Her view of the study of theology is far from uncommon. While elite universities
like Harvard and Yale offer vocational courses at their divinity schools, and nearly
all universities offer undergraduate majors in the comparative study of religions,
few schools (with the exceptions of historically Catholic institutions like
This lost liberal art encourages scholars to understand history from the inside
out.
TA R A I SA B E L L A B U RTO N OCT 30, 2013
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/
https://www.theatlantic.com/author/tara-isabella-burton/
Georgetown and Boston College) offer theology as a major, let alone mandate
courses in theology alongside other “core” liberal arts subjects like English or
history. Indeed, the study of theology has often run afoul of the legal separation of
church and state. Thirty-seven U.S. states have laws limiting the spending of public
funds on religious training. In 2006, the Supreme Court case Locke v. Davey upheld
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funding from an otherwise qualified student after learning that he had decided to
major in theology at a local Bible College.
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their validity in the university sphere. In a 2007 letter to the editor of The
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insisting that “a positive case now needs to be made that [theology] has any real
content at all, or that it has any place whatsoever in today's university culture.”
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Ritin Fernandez RN MN (Critical Care) PhD,1,2 Maree Johnson RN BAppSci MAppSci PhD,3,4
Duong Thuy Tran BMed (Vietnam) MIPH (USyd)5 and Charmaine Miranda BPsycholgy6
1School of Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, 2Centre for Research in Nursing and
Health, St George Hospital, Kogarah, 3Centre for Applied Nursing Research, Sydney South West Area Health Service, 4School of Nursing
and Midwifery, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, 5School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, and 6Centre for Positive
Psychology and Education, School of Education, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Abstract
Objective This review investigated the effect of the various models of nursing care delivery using the diverse levels
of nurses on patient and nursing outcomes.
Methods All published studies that investigated patient and nursing outcomes were considered. Studies were
included if the nursing delivery models only included nurses with varying skill levels. A literature search was
performed using the following databases: Medline (1985–2011), CINAHL (1985–2011), EMBASE (1985 to current)
and the Cochrane Controlled Studies Register (Issue 3, 2011 of Cochrane Library). In addition, the reference lists of
relevant studies and conference proceedings were also scrutinised. Two reviewers independently assessed the
eligibility of the studies for inclusion in the review, the methodological quality and extracted details of eligible studies.
Data were analysed using the RevMan software (Nordic Cochrane Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark).
Results Fourteen studies were included in this review. The results reveal that implementation of the team nursing
model of care resulted in significantly decreased incidence of medication errors and adverse intravenous outcomes,
as well as lower pain scores among patients; however, there was no effect of this model of care on the incidence of
falls. Wards that used a hybrid model demonstrated significant improvement in quality of patient care, but no
difference in incidence of pressure areas or infection rates. There were no significant differences in nursing outcomes
relating to role clarity, job satisfaction and nurse absenteeism rates between any of the models of care.
Conclusions Based on the available evidence, a predominance of team nursing within the comparisons is
suggestive of its popularity. Patient outcomes, nurse satisfaction, absenteeism and role clarity/confusion did not differ
across model comparisons. Little benefit was found within primary nursing comparisons and the cost effectiveness
of team nursing over other models remains debatable. Nonetheless, team nursing does present a better model for
inexperienced staff to develop, a key aspect in units where skill mix or experience is diverse.
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Greg Tavarez
Professor Hashmi
Capella University
11/19/17
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abstract………………………………………………………………
…………….3
Introduction…………………………………………………………
…………….4
Business
overview………………………………………………………………
…5
Problem
statement………………………………………………………………
….5
Company’s
competencies………………………………………………………….
7
2. Strategies followed by the
CEO………………………………………………….…8
Board of director’s strategic intent and their
effectiveness…………………………8
Recommendations……………………………………………………
……………...9
References……………………………………………………………
…………….11
Abstract
The case talks about the Marissa Mayer initiatives taken
at Yahoo, Inc. after joining as the CEO in 2012. It is clear that
Yahoo had been having challenges and lost the increasing
dominance, especially in internet services. The primary
objectives assigned to Marissa Mayer, the former Google
executive, was reviving the organizational fortunes. Marissa
began to focus on changing the Yahoo culture as the primary
strategy to turn around the company and put it back to the
competitive position as soon as she took over the CEO. Over the
times, Yahoo had taken back an awful reputation for being a
company bearing bureaucratic culture which strangled creativity
and expansion.
The CEO began several initiatives to ensure that the
organization had become democratic. She began hiring many
new individuals for essential posts with the aim to change the
Yahoo culture (Thomas, David & Charles, 2017). Among the
significant initiatives Mayer started, the most important one was
PB&J program that encouraged individuals to render ideas on
how to make Yahoo the most favorable organization to work.
The PB&J program was not the sole influential initiative, Mayer
3. also began efforts with the objective to lower bureaucracy at the
group and introduce effective compensation initiatives.
Regarding the ability of the new enterprises to changing the
company culture in a limited time, analysts bore mixed opinions
on the issues. Some argued that it would not be easy to
dismantle an organizational culture in a limited time, especially
since the organization had seen a leadership difficulty with
successive executives. The discussion will center on this case
and how important or influential these decisions were of
organizational culture.
Introduction
The entity, in this case, Yahoo Inc. is among the globe’s leading
online networks incorporated services provider having a
combined user base in more than five million. Yahoo offers a
wide array of network services, however over its 17 years of
existence, there has been the rise of entities providing similar
services. It is clear that the current players assumed the
specializing path in a given kind of service while others
introduced a whole array of new services. Yahoo has been
facing increased competition from dominant market players,
such as Google. Technology advancement has become an
essential aspect of human adaptation.
There are powerful forces that drive the globe to the cultural
level ground, and it is critical to a company operating at this
level to put all these into considerations. The force was
developed and began as an individual website by both David
Filo and Yang. These two had a dream of prospering income
from the web directory by allowing businesses to have their
commodities and services advertised in this online catalog. The
creative idea caught many investors attention because of
commodity preference moved from the origins to across the
global divide.
Through technological channels that extended the growth of
4. new markets in various sectors across the world, the popularity
of the commodity grew instantly. Yahoo Inc. gained investors,
as well as competitors once there was growth in the expansion.
The competitors brought changes in a whole new way, and the
company had to make changes on the objectives, business
concept and both internal and outside environment and
approach. The entity held on the likely return following vertical
integration approach that would have accelerated the business
performance and get hold of the lost bases to the main market
leader. The decision to recruit Marissa Mayer indicates an
exclusive understanding Yahoo faced a challenge posed by
Google, as both the CEO and CFO know well the Google
executive background before joining Yahoo.
Business overview
Yahoo! Was initially designed to offer form to various websites
categories. It started with a navigational guide to the World
Wide Web expansion. The entity became among the top
providers in the World Wide Web search engines and competing
for head-on with Google. The business later became to the
leadership transition, which made the company direction to
move towards advertising end for income. The change of CEOs
came about following increased competition over internet
advertising space. One of the China's most prominent company
where Yahoo invested one billion dollars was the Alibaba group
who received forty percent share of equity. Additionally,
Alibaba also assumed the mandates to run the Yahoo China
website. Yahoo reinvested half of its investment in Alibaba for
7.6 billion dollars since yahoo’s primary objective was
maximizing the tax bill capital gains.
Problem statement
When the company regained the investment proceeds, a more
significant challenge came along for Melissa Mayer. The CEO's
5. first actions (essential acquisitions) went out of play following
increased pressure from the shareholders. The pressure from the
shareholders forms part of the reasons a business of this caliber
was shut down from its exclusive potential and collapse. The
shareholder's mindset prevented the fulfillment of the CEOs
ideas. In the process of all this taking place, the business
throughout period lost its market identity. On the other hand,
Mayer’s additional difficulty fell under re-establishment of
Yahoo as one of primary market competitors. There was a
drastic change in the company’s revenue since it changed from
being known as a professional corporation to more of a firm
doing advertising. Mayer’s experience was in the technology
field, and this transition became even more challenging. The
newly appointed CEO had received the resources as a result of
the investment, and she could use them on weak geographical
locations of Yahoo, which resided in both Asia and Africa. In
that case, it meant that with the direction the advertising and
technical world is headed, Mayer would be expected to reason
out the innovative strategies that will work.
The company will exclusively take this direction, and in future,
Yahoo will largely depend on the resources reinvestment
patterns. If Mayer reached on a decision to focus on the mobile
in line with industry demands, she would have to introduce or
improve Yahoo current mobile standards. Additionally, Mayer
can pay attention to enhancing the geographic regions that the
business is presently weak by developing and implementing
underlying investments or acquisitions. It is also vital for the
CEO to decide on the path to assume which will be accepted by
the shareholders and this will start to change the corporation
image as well as the reputation.
The company’s reputation had also been damaged following the
falsification of the CEO Scott Thompson resume. It was
necessary to improve all the business aspects the work culture
and productivity did not meet the required standards according
6. to Mayer. To gain better productivity, it was essential for the
management and hiring of employees to improve exclusively.
The services offered by Yahoo required to move towards where
the global technology was headed. For improvement to be seen
in coming years, the company finances needed to be structured,
and the burden was on Mayer’s shoulders to resolve.
Figure 1
Company’s core competencies
It appears as if the company is better poised on its
internal environment than external environment primarily based
on the above description and the company’s forecasted analysis.
The business requires improvisation on the assets and brands to
raise market share and efficiency. The beginning of the new
approach of refocusing the company towards its competencies
came with laying off fourteen percent of its employees. The
move was for the sake of innovation implementation, and also it
would give the management a simpler leverage upon the
workers. It is evident as the CEO Mayer took the initiative
immediately and offered workers free lunch, technological
equipment change as well as making it upon herself in
reviewing every single recruit.
The operation move will assist the corporation in
achieving the intimate surrounding of the business and also
impact the commodity portfolio (Goodman, 2017). Yahoo leads
in the sector concerning the services and commodities they
provide. In turn, this offers the chance for the entity for vertical
integration, and the core competency comes in handy with
innovation ability in designing redefined value adding traits for
several services.
The effectiveness of Yahoo marketing services and its potential
to attract clients and publishers is another core competency. The
original business structure depended on contextual marketing
7. and providing a premium search engine for the World Wide
Web. In that case, it is a clear illustration of Yahoo's ability
strength and its capabilities they can implement.
Strategies to be followed by the CEO
Creating a reliable system and improving the services to
develop a mobile-friendly globe are the two main strategies that
will help in redefining Yahoo. Yahoo will globally dominate in
the services they offer as a result of creating a well-balanced
geographic structure. In turn, the company will record increased
income and popularity across the world. With a strong base,
Yahoo will collect acquisition and innovative ideas
opportunities they can offer for specific areas. Global client
satisfaction will result to yahoo’s improved image and help the
company re-enter as a primary competitor. Yahoo needs to focus
on integrating their services to become mobile friendly
especially for regions that are up to date in the technological
globe. It is also essential for the entity to introduce services
that are mobile-specific whether it concerns media, storage or
any other.
Board of director’s strategic intent and their effectiveness.
There has been a rapid growth of internet sector, and with
minimum challenges to entry and reduced switching fees,
technological factors mostly impact yahoo. The board of
directors’ currents faces the challenge of establishing Yahoo’s
identity which is a strategic intent. The company’s primary
source of revenue was advertisement since it began as a
technology entity. Instead of leaning towards media, the
company needs to work on advertising to gain a competitive
advantage against the leading competitors.
Assuming this strategy will see the company take its first step
to redefining the technological image. The policy would not
satisfy the competitors because running a technology-based
8. entity an individual will require having a clear understanding of
the features aspects, though the board of directors earlier was
against having CEO bearing a technological background. To
raise the growth within the technology arena, it is essential to
have an individual who understands the sector and the demands.
Recommendations
The internal core competencies and management of the workers
are the keys to a great business. Motivated employees will help
an organization to improve productivity and achieve consumer
satisfaction. Mayer’s initial plan is an excellent approach, and it
is the best recommendation for the business (Wunder, 2016). It
is essential for the management to ensure that employees remain
motivated and also the CEO need to have core competencies
listed for every employee. For instance, the organization can
have a monthly award for the best employee in line with
performance. Another thing that needs to be present in a group
is effective communication, and this helps in seeing the
employees’ needs through improvement of internal
communication.
Motivate
Deliver
Google has been a top rival for Yahoo, and it is vital to ensure
they develop strategies to ensure they are better than them or
doing things differently (2015). In that case, it would be
recommended that the company pays attention to commodity
innovation and lean towards increased energy efficient
commodities and services. The recommendation will see the
business strengthen the connection with clients and businesses
that need increased storage, applications, and others.
9. References:
Pearce, J. A., & Robinson, R. B. (2015). Strategic management
(14th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw Hill. ISBN:
9780077862510.
Strategic Management: Competitiveness & Globalization:
Concepts, 11th Edition. (2015). ProtoView,
Thomas L., W., J. David, H., Alan N., H., & Charles E., B.
(2017). Concepts in Strategic Management and Business Policy:
Globalization, Innovation and Sustainability, Global Edition.
Harlow, United Kingdom: Pearson.
Goodman, M. (2017). Creativity and Strategic Innovation
Management: Directions for Future Value in Changing Times.
Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
Wunder, T. (2016). Essentials of Strategic Management:
Effective Formulation and Execution of Strategy. Stuttgart:
Schäffer Poeschel.
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-marissa-mayer-changed-
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EMPLOYEES’
COMPANY
Essay should go beyond the obvious and be written at a
graduate level making sure to properly cite sources according to
APA style guidelines. Your essay must be a minimum of 1,200
words (excluding the title, abstract, and reference page), but
10. may not exceed 2,500 words and must use three academic
resources to support your position. Any resources including but
not limited to journals, magazine, and/or books must be
properly cited using the APA style.
Big Brother
Electronic surveillance has become a controversial practice in
the United States and elsewhere. The fear is that civil liberties
can become jeopardized by unregulated interception of
telephone conversations, e-mail, and telefacsimiles. Detractors
argue that government use of these technologies can
conceivably move well beyond their legitimate application
against threats from crime, espionage, and terrorism. Without
strict protocols to rein in these technologies, a worst-case
scenario envisions state intrusions into the everyday activities
of innocent civilians. Should this happen, critics foresee a time
when privacy, liberty, and personal security become values of
the past.
Discuss, from YOUR perspective, the following questions in a
written essay:
· How serious is the threat from abuses in the use of new
technologies?
· How should new technologies be regulated? Can they be
regulated?
· Is it sometimes necessary to sacrifice a few freedoms to
protect national security and to ensure the long- term viability
of civil liberty?
· Should the same protocols be used for domestic electronic
surveillance and foreign surveillance? Why?
· What is the likelihood that new surveillance technologies will
be used as tools of repression by authoritarian regimes in the
near future?
11. Essay should go beyond the obvious and be written at a
graduate level making sure to properly cite sources according to
APA style guidelines. Your essay must be a minimum of 1,200
words (excluding the title, abstract, and reference page), but
may not exceed 2,500 words and must use three academic
resources to support your position. Any resources including but
not limited to journals, magazine, and/or books must be
properly cited using the APA style.
Big Brother
Electronic surveillance has become a controversial practice in
the United States and elsewhere. The fear is that civil liberties
can become jeopardized by unregulated interception of
telephone conversations, e-mail, and telefacsimiles. Detractors
argue that government use of these technologies can
conceivably move well beyond their legitimate application
against threats from crime, espionage, and terrorism. Without
strict protocols to rein in these technologies, a worst-case
scenario envisions state intrusions into the everyday activities
of innocent civilians. Should this happen, critics foresee a time
when privacy, liberty, and personal security become values of
the past.
Discuss, from YOUR perspective, the following questions in a
written essay:
· How serious is the threat from abuses in the use of new
technologies?
· How should new technologies be regulated? Can they be
regulated?
· Is it sometimes necessary to sacrifice a few freedoms to
protect national security and to ensure the long- term viability
of civil liberty?
12. · Should the same protocols be used for domestic electronic
surveillance and foreign surveillance? Why?
· What is the likelihood that new surveillance technologies will
be used as tools of repression by authoritarian regimes in the
near future?
Guide to the Strategic Management Case Analysis Project
Your Case Analysis Project
The Case Analysis Project is an important one, both in terms of
the learning experience in this class and in terms of the effect
on your grade. The purpose of this paper is to collect the project
descriptions, requirements, and grading criteria for the Case
Analysis Project and to include recommendations to help you
successfully complete the project as efficiently and satisfyingly
as possible.
Here is the project description
Excerpted from the syllabus:
Project Overview
For this project, you will analyze a business case, Yahoo! Inc.:
Marissa Mayer’s Challenge, and make recommendations based
on the outcome of your analysis. The goal is to demonstrate
strategic critical thinking skills when analyzing a business
scenario, taking all factors into account, and recommend a
strategy to move that company forward. Your analysis and
recommendations should flow together, providing your readers
with a clear picture of the issues at hand and leading them to the
logical conclusion of your strategic recommendations. Your
case analysis should be designed for an audience of working
adults who are seeking to improve their understanding of your
chosen topic.
In Unit 6, you will submit a complete draft of your analysis.
Your final submission is due in Unit 9. Before you submit the
final version of your paper, revise your draft based on the
13. feedback you receive. In addition, as you learn new concepts
within the final units of the course, you may need to revisit
your draft and add additional supporting points or content, as
warranted.
Case Topic
The case you will analyze is included in your text, specifically,
"Case 30: Yahoo! Inc.: Marissa Mayer’s Challenge," (page 30-1
to 30-12). In preparation for your case analysis, read "Guide to
Strategic Management Case Analysis"(pages 442-450) in the
text, which provides valuable advice on how to analyze a
business case. As you develop your analysis and
recommendations, use the tools provided in your text to guide
you. Also, consider the information and knowledge you are
acquiring and think about how you can apply this in your
current professional work.
Project Requirements
To achieve a successful project experience and outcome, you
are expected to meet the following requirements.
Content and flow: In your final submission, be sure that the:
Structure is evident, understandable, and appropriate.
Main and supporting points are easily identifiable, plausible,
and clear.
Paper employs a minimum of four reputable sources to support
main points.
Logic is identifiable, reasonable, and sound.
Paper includes at least two charts, graphs, or visual aids to
support your points.
Transitions from point to point are excellent and paragraphs
support solid topic sentences.
Number of pages: Your final paper must be 6–8 pages,
excluding the title page and reference list.
File format: Be sure to submit your paper in Microsoft Word
format.
Style and formatting: Use proper APA sixth edition style to cite
and reference your sources. Also follow APA formatting
guidelines for the layout of your paper. Refer to the Capella
14. Online Writing Center's APA sixth edition style and formatting
module on iGuide for more information.
The syllabus identifies nine criteria in the grading rubric for the
draft and final versions of your case analysis:
1. Analyze the strategic fit between the business vision and the
key elements of the business strategy, considering domestic and
global environments, and provide supporting evidence and
examples.
2. Evaluate the alignment between business strategy, customer
needs, to determine how and the degree to which organizational
value has been established.
3. Create organizational value in the recommendations provided
and provide a detailed description of how value is created
through decisions made.
4. Demonstrate an excellent ability to plan strategically in
domestic and global environments in the recommendations
provided.
5. Integrate high-performing business management techniques
in the analysis and recommendations; the integrated techniques
consistently promote delivery of value-added, bottom-line
results.
6. Consistently solves problems within professional standards
and provides supporting evidence and examples.
7. Uses and integrates multiple, appropriate financial models
and principles to support decisions and recommendations.
8. Demonstrate excellent use of proper APA style and
formatting, effective written communication skills, and
supported evidence to communicate effectively; there are no
style or formatting errors.
9. Demonstrate excellent written communication skills.
Excerpted from the text Strategic Management: The authors of
your text have seven excellent suggestions for case analysis in
Part Four: Guide to Strategic Management Case Analysis that
are a combination of substance and style which I strongly
recommend to you:
1. Analyze. Avoid merely repeating the facts presented in the
15. case. Analyze the issues involved in the case and build logically
toward your recommendations.
2. Use headlines or labels. Using headlines or labels throughout
your written analysis will help your reader follow your analysis
and recommendations. For example, when you are analyzing the
weaknesses of the firm in the case, include the heading
Weaknesses. Note the headings in the cases that follow.
3. Discuss alternatives. Follow the proper strategic management
sequence by (a) identifying alternatives, (b) evaluating each
alternative, and (c) recommending the alternative you think is
best.
4. Use topic sentences. You can help your reader more easily
evaluate your analysis by putting the topic sentence first in each
paragraph and following with statements directly supporting the
topic sentence.
5. Be specific in your recommendations. Develop specific
recommendations logically and be sure your recommendations
are well defended by your analysis. Avoid using
generalizations, clichés, and ambiguous statements. Remember
that any number of answers are possible and so your professor
is most concerned about how your reasoning led to your
recommendations and how well you develop and support your
ideas.
6. Do not overlook implementation. Many good analyses receive
poor evaluations because they do not include a discussion of
implementation. Your analysis will be much stronger when you
discuss how your recommendations can be implemented.
Include some of the specific actions needed to achieve the
objectives you are proposing.
7. Specifically state your assumptions. Cases, like all real
business situations, involve incomplete information. Therefore,
it is important that you clearly state any assumptions you make
in your analysis. Do not assume your professor will be able to
fill in the missing points.
My recommendations:
There are as many different successful ways of developing this
16. case analysis as there are learners. That said, here are a few
suggestions for you and some expectations for this project that
you will want to meet:
Establish a role for yourself. For example, assume that you are a
consultant hired either by Yahoo! or an internal consultant to
the company and have been given the task of analyzing the
company and making recommendations that will guide strategy
decisions. Your deliverables are recommendations based on
analysis of the business.
Do not assume the role of reporter. Your role is not to report the
facts about the company—that has been done in the case. You
do not add value by restating these facts. Your role is
analysis—not reporting.
The complaint I hear most often about business or financial
analysts: too much data; too little analysis. Especially today
when so much information is so easily available, providing
more of it is not helpful. Analyze, interpret, predict,
recommend! That’s where you add value.
Use a SWOT analysis approach. (See your Strategic
Management text, especially Chapter Six. This approach to your
case allows for logical organization and presentation of your
analysis. Be very targeted and purposeful in the use of this
approach: don’t include random, unrelated factors. Select only
those factor that will be the focus of your recommendations.
There may be any number of strengths or weaknesses,
opportunities or threats that you will ignore. You’ll focus on
those critical few that will be the subject of your
recommendations and implementation plans. Focus your SWOT
analysis on the specific issues that you feel are key to your
analysis of the case. Identify only factors in the SWOT analysis
that are important to your recommendations and implementation
strategies.
Make and support recommendations. The meat of your
presentation are the recommendations that follow from your
analysis of the facts. Make your recommendations specific,
relevant, achievable, and actionable. (A mistake that I’ve seen
17. repeated is a recommendation: increase market share 40%. I ask
myself: how would the company do that: growth, acquisition,
how? That much growth would be enormously expensive in the
short run—you know how much liquidity is eaten by growth—
and that kind of acquisition plans would likely have serious
problems with regulators. So I am eager to see how that plan is
defended. But, there was no support offered. Only the
recommendation. Which does not add value.
Include implementation plans for your recommendations.
Specify the who, what, where, why, when to support your
recommendations. How will they be accomplished? By whom?
How will they be funded? Over what period of time? To
accomplish what?
Analyze your recommendations. Include your cost/benefit
analysis. What is their expected return? How much value do you
expect them to add?
Length of the paper: The project instructions include that your
paper must be 6-8 pages long exclusive of title page, references,
and appendices. My expectation is that most effective papers
will be at least eight pages long-- if your paper is longer than
ten pages edit it down to ten pages. Again, this length is
exclusive of charts, pictures, graphs, etc. which belong in an
appendix, not in the body of the paper. Tactics like using wide
margins, large fonts, and excessive amounts of white space do
not hide the fact that a paper is inappropriately short, but
instead call attention to that fact.
Charts and Graphs: Meet the requirement that you include at
least two charts, graphs, or visual aids to support your points.
You would be well advised to include charts and graphical
analysis for the major points of your case. These charts or
graphs are not merely reproductions of those presented in the
case, but are the result of your analysis. Your use of data must
be analytical—don’t just present the facts, but interpret them.
You are not a reporter; you are an analyst! What does the data
show? What does the data predict? What recommendations do
the data prompt you to make?
18. Cite credible resources. Meet the requirement that your paper
employs a minimum of four reputable sources to support your
main points. Your sources must be reputable-- which in this
context means that your source must be primary. Wikipedia, for
example, is not a reputable source because it is in most cases a
tertiary resource.
Start with an outline. Decide on, and then outline your approach
before you begin. What factors will you analyze, what data will
you use to analyze them, what alternative recommendations will
you explore, how will you decide among them, what
recommendations for implementation will you make, how will
you justify these recommendations, how will they help to solve
the problems you have identified or how will they help to take
advantage of the opportunities you have identified.
Invest in the draft. Resist the temptation to view your project
submission in unit six as a rough draft. Think of it instead as a
robust draft. Remind yourself that the more time, effort, and
energy you invest in the version you submit in unit six the less
will be required of you in your unit nine assignment.
Establish a plan. Plan now to budget your time, effort and
energy for this project so that you will be able to produce an
end result which will give you the satisfaction of completing
your Capstone Project at a distinguished level.