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ASHFORD MGT 450 Entire Course
ASHFORD MGT 450 Assignment Managing the
Multibusiness Corporation Presentation
  ASHFORD MGT 450 Week 1 DQ 1 ASHFORD MGT 450
Week 1 DQ 2 ASHFORD MGT 450 Week 1 Quiz ASHFORD
MGT 450 Week 2 DQ 1 ASHFORD MGT 450 Week 2 DQ
2 ASHFORD MGT 450 Week 2 Assignment Conduct a
SWOT Analysis ASHFORD MGT 450 Week 2 SWOT
PowerPoint Nintendo Strategic Analysis
Review ASHFORD MGT 450 Week 3 DQ 1 ASHFORD MGT
450 Week 3 DQ 2 ASHFORD MGT 450 Week 3 Assignment
Acquisition Strategy Paper
MGT 450 Assignment Managing the Multibusiness
Corporation Presentation
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ASHFORD MGT 450 Week 1 DQ 2
ASHFORD MGT 450 Week 1 DQ 1
  Share the vision and mission statement of your
firm (or one with which you are familiar). How is
that vision and mission statement communicated to
employees and the public? What is the role of the
vision and mission statement in driving the
activities of the firm? If there is no vision
and/or mission statement, discuss possible
reasons why it is not clear.
  Our assigned text for this class asserts a
company strategy consists of the competitive
moves and business approaches management has
developed to attract and please customers,
conduct operations, grow the business, and
achieve performance objectives (Gamle Thompson,
2011).
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ASHFORD MGT 450 Week 2 DQ 1
ASHFORD MGT 450 Week 1 Quiz
1.         Question         A companys strategy
is most accurately defined as   2.       Question
        Proven approaches to winning a
sustainable competitive advantage include which
of the following?   3.       Question        
Crafting a strategy involves   4.       Question
        A viable business model  5.       
Question         A winning strategy is one that
            6.        Question         A
companys strategic plan consists of          
  What are the two most relevant driving forces
from Table 3.2 for a firm with which you are
familiar? Have these driving forces made the
industry in which the firm operates more, or
less, attractive? Explain your rationale.  
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ASHFORD MGT 450 Week 2 SWOT PowerPoint Nintendo
Strategic Analysis Review
ASHFORD MGT 450 Week 2 DQ 2
Should a business always expand if given the
chance to do so? Think of a company that recently
added one or more new businesses to the
organization. Does the addition seem to be in
line with the original mission, vision, and core
competencies? Explain.    
  1.         Question        Which of the
following factors is not a relevant consideration
in judging whether buyer bargaining power is
relatively strong or relatively
weak?    2.        Question        The
competitive pressures from substitute products
tend to be stronger when    3.        Question
       Which one of the following increases the
competitive pressures associated with the threat
of entry?
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ASHFORD MGT 450 Week 3 DQ 1
ASHFORD MGT 450 Week 3 Assignment Acquisition
Strategy Paper
  Use the online library to search a database
such as ProQuest or EBSCOHost and perform a
search on acquisition strategy. Identify at
least two companies in different industries that
are using acquisitions to strengthen their market
positions. Explain how these acquisitions
enhanced the acquiring companies resource
strengths and competitive capabilities. Your
paper must be 2-3 pages in length and formatted
according to APA style as outlined in the
approved APA style guide.
  Chapter 5 covers focused (or market niche)
strategies. Further illustrate with one company
you believe is employing a market niche strategy
that is not covered in our text. What are some of
the pros and cons of targeting a market niche?  
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ASHFORD MGT 450 Week 3 Quiz
ASHFORD MGT 450 Week 3 DQ 2
  Is your company vertically integrated? If so,
is it fully, or partially, integrated? If not,
would such a move yield potentially high
competitive rewards? Explain your rationale. You
can also use a past firm or one with which you
are familiar.
  1.         Question         Which of the
following is not a strength?   2.        
Question         Which of the following is not a
company weakness?   3.         Question        
Which of the following is not a criterion when
choosing the best bundle?   4.         Question
        Which of the following is not a
strategy?   5.         Question         Internal
value chains need more analysis than external
value chains.  
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ASHFORD MGT 450 Week 4 DQ 2
ASHFORD MGT 450 Week 4 DQ 1
  What issues are likely to arise in a developing
country when a global giant like Coca-Cola begins
operations there? What kinds of advantages does
such an expansion bring to the globalizing
organization? Support your thoughts with research
from a credible source other than the text.
Consider how a large diversified organization
sets strategy. PepsiCo, for example, has
beverages (Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Gatorade,
Tropicana, Aquafina, Dole, and tea and coffee
through partnerships with Lipton and Starbucks)
and food companies (Frito Lay, Quaker, Sabritas,
Gamesa, and Latin Americas Foods). Do you think
all the business units should have the same
strategy, or should they be independent and set
their own strategies? Explain.
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ASHFORD MGT 450 Week 5 DQ 1
ASHFORD MGT 450 Week 4 Quiz
  1.         Question         The reasons why a
company opts to expand outside its home market
include   2.       Question         One of the
biggest strategic challenges to competing in the
international arena include   3.       Question
        The advantages of using a licensing
strategy to participate in foreign markets
include   4.       Question         The
advantages of using a franchising strategy to
pursue opportunities in foreign markets
include  5.        Question         The
drawbacks of a localized multicountry strategy
include
  According to our text Corporate social
responsibility calls for companies to strive for
balance between the economic responsibility to
reward shareholders with profits the legal
responsibility to comply with the laws of the
countries where the company operates the ethical
responsibility to abide by societys norms of
what is moral and just and the discretionary
philanthropic responsibility to contribute to the
noneconomic needs of society (Gamble Thompson,
2011). 
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ASHFORD MGT 450 Week 5 Final Paper Netflix
strategic planning
Final Project Focus of the Final ProjectSelect
an organization or department to analyze and
prepare a strategic plan to grow the business or
organization over the next three years. Describe
the organization or department. Include in your
development the followingA description of what
is it that make this organization or department
distinct?          What is the current direction
of the organization or the department?         
Conduct a quick SWOT analysis to determine areas
that offer opportunity to change.         
Choose three or four areas from your SWOT
analysis that you feel are crucial
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