Business Administration Seminar
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Course Introduction
The Business Administration Seminar is designed to provide students with an in-depth exploration of current trends, challenges, and developments in the field of business management. Through a series of interactive lectures, case studies, and group discussions, participants analyze real-world business scenarios, engage with guest speakers from various industries, and develop practical problem-solving skills. The seminar emphasizes critical thinking, strategic planning, and effective communication, preparing students to tackle complex business problems and make informed decisions in dynamic organizational environments.
Recommended Textbook Essentials of Strategic Management 5th Edition by John E Gamble
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Chapter 1: Strategy,Business Models, and Competitive Advantage
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Q1) The most important aspect(s) of a company's business strategy
A) are the actions and moves in the marketplace that managers take to gain a sustainable competitive advantage.
B) is figuring out how to maximize profits and shareholder value.
C) concerns how to improve the efficiency of its business model.
D) deals with how management plans to maximize profits while,at the same time,operating in a socially responsible manner.
E) is figuring out how to become the industry's low-cost provider.
Answer: A
Q2) What is the connection between a company's strategy and its quest for sustainable competitive advantage?
Answer: Answers may vary.
Q3) Explain why some companies get to the top of industry rankings and stay there,while others do not.
Answer: Answers may vary.
Q4) What is the nitty-gritty issue surrounding a company's business model?
Answer: Answers may vary.
Q5) Why does a company's strategy tend to evolve over time?
Answer: Answers may vary.
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Chapter 2: Strategy Formulation, Execution, and Governance
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Q1) Effectively communicating the strategic vision down the line to lower-level managers and employees has the value of
A) not only explaining "where we are going and why" but,more importantly,also inspiring and energizing company personnel to unite to get the company moving in the intended direction.
B) helping company personnel understand why "making a profit" is so important.
C) making it easier for top executives to set strategic objectives.
D) helping lower-level managers and employees better understand the company's business model.
E) All of these choices are correct.
Answer: A
Q2) A single-business company has three levels of strategy.Name and describe each level.
Answer: Answers may vary.
Q3) What is the meaning of the term "balanced scorecard"? What are the merits of using a balanced scorecard in judging a company's performance?
Answer: Answers may vary.
Q4) What is the difference between a mission statement and a strategic vision?
Answer: Answers may vary.
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Chapter 3: Evaluating a Companys External Environment
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Q1) The competitive pressures from substitute products tend to be stronger when A) buyers are relatively comfortable with the quality and performance of substitutes,and the costs to buyers of switching over to the substitutes are low.
B) there are more than 10 sellers of substitute products.
C) substitutes exhibit the latest in technological innovation.
D) buyers have high psychic costs in severing existing brand relationships and establishing new ones.
E) demand for the industry's product is not very price sensitive.
Answer: A
Q2) Identify and briefly discuss any three of the factors that influence the bargaining strength and leverage of buyers.
Answer: Answers may vary.
Q3) Identify and briefly explain any three factors that weaken the competitive pressures stemming from the threat that new firms will enter the industry.
Answer: Answers may vary.
Q4) Can an industry be attractive to one company and unattractive to another company? Why or why not?
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Chapter 4: Evaluating a Company Resources, Capabilities, and Competitiveness
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Q1) The competitive power of a company resource or competitive capability hinges on A) how hard it is for competitors to copy or imitate.
B) whether it is rare and,therefore,something rivals lack.
C) whether it is really competitively valuable.
D) how easily it can be trumped by the substitute resources/capabilities of rivals.
E) All of these choices are correct.
Q2) When a company is good at performing a particular internal activity,it is said to have a
A) competitive advantage over rivals.
B) competitive capability.
C) distinctive competence.
D) resource-based strategy.
E) competence.
Q3) Why is it important for company managers to develop a "worry list" of strategic issues and problems that they need to address and to resolve? What should they consider to develop this list?
Q4) Draw a typical value chain for an entire industry.Why are the activities performed by value chain allies strategically relevant?
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Chapter 5: The Five Generic Competitive Strategies
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Q1) Which of the following is not one of the ways that a company can achieve a cost advantage by revamping its value chain?
A) Eliminating distributors and dealers by selling direct to customers.
B) Replacing certain value chain activities with faster and cheaper online technology.
C) Increasing production capacity and then striving hard to operate at full capacity.
D) Relocating facilities so as to curb the need for shipping and handling activities.
E) Streamlining operations by eliminating low value-added or unnecessary work steps and activities.
Q2) A low-cost leader's basis for competitive advantage is
A) lower prices than rival firms.
B) using a low-cost/low-price approach to gain the biggest market share.
C) high buyer switching costs.
D) lower overall costs than competitors.
E) higher unit sales than rivals.
Q3) What are the distinctive features of a broad differentiation strategy? Under what circumstances is a broad differentiation strategy appealing?
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Chapter 6: Strength-Ending a Company Competitive
Position: Strategic Moves, Timing, and Scope of Operations
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Q1) A blue ocean strategy
A) is an offensive attack used by a market leader to steal customers away from unsuspecting smaller rivals.
B) involves a preemptive strike to secure an advantageous position in a fast-growing market segment.
C) works best when a company is the industry's low-cost leader.
D) offers growth in revenues and profits by discovering or inventing a new industry or distinct market segment that renders rivals largely irrelevant and allows a company to create and capture altogether new demand.
E) involves the use of highly creative,never-used-before strategic moves to attack the competitive weaknesses of rivals.
Q2) In what sorts of circumstances is it strategically advantageous to be a fast follower or late mover as opposed to a first mover?
Q3) What are the most common reasons companies enter into strategic alliances and collaborative partnerships?
Q4) What are the strategic advantages of a forward vertical integration strategy?
Q5) Explain what is meant by hit-and-run or guerrilla warfare type offensive strategies.
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Chapter 7: Strategies for Competing in International Markets
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Q1) The advantages of using a licensing strategy to participate in foreign markets include
A) being especially well suited to the use of cross-market subsidization.
B) being able to charge lower prices than rivals.
C) enabling a company to achieve competitive advantage quickly and easily.
D) being able to leverage the company's technical know-how or patents without committing significant additional resources to markets that are unfamiliar,politically volatile,economically uncertain,or otherwise risky.
E) being able to achieve higher product quality and better product performance than with an export strategy.
Q2) Factors surrounding the decision to enter into the markets of foreign countries do not include
A) market growth rates that vary from country to country.
B) country-by-country differences in consumer tastes and buying habits.
C) fluctuating exchange rates and country-by-country variations in host-government restrictions and requirements.
D) product designs that may be suitable for one country but inappropriate for another.
E) None of these choices are correct.
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Chapter 8: Corporate Strategy: Diversification and the
Multi-Business Company
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Q1) Checking a diversified firm's business portfolio for the competitive advantage potential of cross-business strategic fits entails consideration of A) whether the parent company's competitive advantages are being deployed to maximum advantage in each of its business units.
B) whether the competitive strategies employed in each business act to reinforce the competitive power of the strategies employed in the company's other businesses.
C) whether the competitive strategies in each business possess good strategic fit with the parent company's corporate strategy.
D) the extent to which there are competitively valuable relationships between the value chains of sister business units and what opportunities they present to reduce costs,share use of a potent brand name,or transfer skills or technology or intellectual capital from one business to another.
E) how compatible the competitive strategies of the various sister businesses are and whether these strategies are properly aimed at achieving the same kind of competitive advantage.
Q2) Discuss the pros and cons of a strategy of unrelated diversification.
Q3) Explain the difference between a cash cow business and a cash hog business.
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Chapter 9: Ethics,Corporate Social
Responsibility,Environmental Sustainability, and Strategy
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Q1) The business case for why companies should act in a socially responsible manner includes such reasons as
A) it generates internal benefits (as concerns employee recruiting,workforce retention,training,and improved worker productivity).
B) it reduces the risk of reputation-damaging incidents.
C) it is in the best interest of shareholders.
D) the potential for increased buyer patronage.
E) All of these choices are correct.
Q2) What is the essence of the theory of corporate social responsibility (CSR)? How does the CSR theory differ from the concept of corporate citizenship?
Q3) What is the difference between ethics and business ethics?
Q4) What is meant by integrative social contracts theory? How does such an approach ensure a strong commitment to business ethics in companies with international operations?
Q5) Explain what is meant by "sustainable business practices," and using that explanation,provide three examples of companies that pursue sustainability strategies.
Q6) Why should a company endeavor to be socially responsible in its actions and conduct?
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Chapter 10: Super Strategy Execution-Another Path to Competitive Advantage
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Q1) Putting together a capable top management team
A) should take top priority in building competitively valuable core competencies.
B) is particularly important when the firm is pursuing unrelated diversification or making a number of new acquisitions in related businesses.
C) is important in building an organization capable of proficient strategy execution but is nearly always less crucial than doing a superior job of training and retraining employees.
D) entails filling key managerial slots with people who are good at figuring out what needs to be done and skilled in "making it happen" and delivering good results.
E) is particularly essential for executing a strategy to keep a company's costs lower than rivals' and become the industry's low-cost leader.
Q2) What three principles underlie the statistical thinking of Six Sigma quality control programs?
Q3) What constitutes effective managerial leadership in achieving superior strategy execution?
Q4) What are the distinctive features of adaptive corporate cultures?
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