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499 Week 1 Discussion 1 Strategic
Competitiveness BUS 499 Week 1 Discussion 2
Managements Responsibility BUS 499 Week 2
Discussion 1 Union Pacific Corporation BUS 499
Week 2 Discussion 2 Five Forces of Competition
Model BUS 499 Week 3 Discussion 1 Strong Brands
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499 Week 1 Discussion 1 "Strategic
Competitiveness" Please respond to the
following From the first e-Activity, determine
which of the two primary drivers of the
competitive landscape is more influential.
Explain your rationa
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499 Week 1 Discussion 2 "Managements
Responsibility" Please respond to the
following From the second e-Activity, determine
the level of responsibility
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499 Week 1 Discussion 1 Strategic
Competitiveness BUS 499 Week 1 Discussion 2
Managements Responsibility BUS 499 Week 2
Discussion 1 Union Pacific Corporation BUS 499
Week 2 Discussion 2 Five Forces of Competition
Model BUS 499 Week 3 Discussion 1 Strong Brands
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Assignment 1 Strategic Management and Strategic
Competitiveness Due Week 2 and worth 300 points
Choose one (1) public corporation in an industry
with which you are familiar. Research the company
on its own Website, the public filings on the
Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database
(http//www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the
University's online databases, and any other
sources you can find. The annual report will
often provide insights that can help address some
of these questions.
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Assignment 1 Strategic Management and Strategic
Competitiveness Due Week 2 and worth 300 points
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499 Week 2 Discussion 1 "Union Pacific
Corporation" Please respond to the
following Perform an analysis of the social /
demographic, technological, economic,
environmental / geographic, and political/legal /
gov
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499 Week 2 Discussion 2 "Five Forces of
Competition Model" Please respond to the
following From the e-Activity, analyze the
industry you selected using the Five Forces of
Competition Model to determine the impact of each
of the five forces.
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499 Week 3 Discussion 1 "Strong Brands" Please
respond to the following Several companies use
their brand as a competitive advantage. Given
your knowledge about the global economy, identify
three brands you believe have
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499 Week 3 Discussion 2 "Internal Environment"
Please respond to the following From the
e-Activity, analyze the internal environment of
the company you researched to determine that
companys strengths and weaknesses.
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Assignment 2 External and Internal Environments
Due Week 4 and worth 350 points
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Assignment 2 External and Internal Environments
Due Week 4 and worth 350 points
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Assignment 2 External and Internal Environments
Due Week 4 and worth 350 points
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499 Week 4 Discussion 1 "Business-Level Strategy"
Please respond to the following From the first
e-Activity, assess your satisfaction with the
company you researched and make recommendations
about how that company could modify its
business-level strategy to both increase your
overall level of satisfaction and to attract new
customers. Provide specific examples to support
your response. Analyze the five business-level
strategies
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499 Week 4 Discussion 2 "Apple, Inc Keeping the
I in Innovation Please respond to the
following From the second e-Activity and the
case study, determine how market commonality and
resource similarity impact Apples competitive
standing in terms of its main rivals. Provide
specific examples to support your response.
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499 Week 5 Discussion 1 "Diversification" Please
respond to the following From the e-Activity,
suggest one way the company you researched could
increase its level of value-creating
diversification. Provide
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499 Week 5 Discussion 2 "Victory Motorcycles"
Please respond to the following From the
e-Activity and the case study, evaluate the
business-level strategy of Victory Motorcycles to
determine whether you believe the strategy
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Assignment 3 Business-Level and Corporate-Level
Strategies Due Week 6 and worth 300
points Choose an industry you have not yet
written about in this course, and one publicly
traded corporation within that industry. Research
the company on its own Website, the public
filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission
EDGAR database (http//www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml),
in the University's online databases, and any
other sources you can find. The annual report
will often provide
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Assignment 3 Business-Level and Corporate-Level
Strategies Due Week 6 and worth 300
points Choose an industry you have not yet
written about in this course, and one publicly
traded corporation within that industry. Research
the company on its own Website, the public
filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission
EDGAR database (http//www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml),
in the
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Assignment 3 Business-Level and Corporate-Level
Strategies Due Week 6 and worth 300
points Choose an industry you have not yet
written about in this course, and one publicly
traded corporation within that industry. Research
th
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499 Week 6 Discussion 1 "Executive Pay" Please
respond to the following Some evidence suggests
that there is a direct and positive relationship
between a firms size and its top-level managers
compensatio
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499 Week 6 Discussion 2 "Dr Pepper Snapple Group
2011 Fighting to Prosper in a Highly Competitive
Market" Please respond to the following
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Week 7 Discussion 1 Determine why, given the
advantages of international diversification, some
firms choose not to expand internationally.
Provide specific examples to support your
response.
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Week 7 Discussion 2 From an ethical perspective,
determine how much information a firm is obliged
to tell a potential strategic alliance partner
about what it expects to learn from the
cooperative arrangement. Explain your rationale.

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Assignment 4 Merger, Acquisition, and
International Strategies Due Week 8 and worth 300
points
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Assignment 4 Merger, Acquisition, and
International Strategies Due Week 8 and worth 300
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Assignment 4 Merger, Acquisition, and
International Strategies Due Week 8 and worth 300
points Choose two (2) public corporations in an
industry with which you are familiar one (1)
that has acquired another company and operates
internationally and one (1) that does not have a
history of mergers and acquisitions and operates
solely within the U.S. Research each company on
its own Website, the public filings on the
Securities a
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