Discipline: Business Finance - Management

BUS 499BUS 499

  Explain why firms experience evolutionary cycles in which there is a fight between strategy and structure, punctuated with periods in which strategy and structure are reshaped. Provide examples of global firms that have experienced this pattern. Choose a CEO of a prominent firm that you believe exemplifies the positive aspects of strategic leadership. What […]

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 Describe the purpose of scatter diagrams, and discuss how you would determine whether positive, negative, or no correlation exists between two variables by looking at the scatter diagram.  Predicting the probability of achieving the desired results often involves the comparison of two groups. For example, politicians would like to know who is more likely to […]

HypothesisHypothesis

  Discussing hypothesis testing may sound like a complicated task. It really should not be. In simple terms, the whole process is about assumptions. Analysts assume that something has validity, and they need to test whether such an assumption can be rejected. If an assumption has validity, then people can make more accurate predictions. In […]

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 Chapter 4 analyzes how consumers maximize utility subject to a budget constraint. This is based on a consumer’s preferences over their options. Can you think of an example of why underlying consumer preferences might change? 

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 When demand is more elastic, consumers are more price sensitive (that is, there is a more pronounced change in quantity associated with a change in price). Can you think of a product whose price elasticity of demand might change over time? Why is this? 

ResearchResearch

Throughout this course, you will work in a CLC group on a strategic case analysis project. This project consists of different parts you will complete each week that build on each other. Go to the Strategy Club website and review the sample “Strategic Plan for Sanderson Farms” (2020) and “Juniper Networks” (2020) under the student […]