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.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1.  Analyze the business-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the business-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.

2.  Analyze the corporate-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the corporate-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.

3.  Analyze the competitive environment to determine the corporation’s most significant competitor.  Compare their strategies at each level and evaluate which company you think is most likely to be successful in the long term. Justify your choice.

4.  Determine whether your choice from Question 3 would differ in slow-cycle and fast-cycle markets.

5.  Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

·  Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format

Ensure each numbered question is bold before answering question

·  Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.

·  Write clearly and concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics.

 

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Analyze the income statement from 2012 to 2015, to see there is any change, what causes these changes. If there are some bad changes in these income statement, what is the company’s strategy for these changes?Are these strategies useful? At least find three strategies.

http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/urbn/fi…

You can use this website. Here is a example essay I have.

 

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Project- The Journey of a Court Case

Learn what happens to cases as they travel within a court and between courts. After you complete this project, you will know how a court case goes through the system.

Case Study: Colorado Judicial Branch

Go to the Colorado Judicial Branch’s website at www.courts.state.co.us and click on the Supreme Court. Going into the case announcements, find a case from any of the years listed to analyze. You will not know what the cases are about until you click on them individually; choose one at random, or choose one that interests you.

• Write a paper of at least 500 words on what the case is about. Then make a flowchart for the journey of that specific court case. The flowchart can be in the form of a presentation, or you may use any other flowchart-making software you prefer.
• For instance, did it start in the trial courts? Can you tell if it was county or district court?
• Who won, and who appealed? Did it go to the Court of Appeals?
• Who won and who appealed there?
• What happened at the Supreme Court level?
• Where will the case go from here (i.e. is it closed, or will it go back to the trial court?)?

Note: Though not a requirement for credit for this assignment, you can creatively make a flowchart for the journey of that specific court case. You may create a flow chart using Google Draw.oi https://www.draw.io/# if you have a google or dropbox account. You may use the general shapes, lines, flowchart, or arrows functions to create your flow chart.

 

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Barry has a wife, Lucy, and 3 children, Arthur, Brenda and Carrie. He has very little money, but he owns (in his own name) a house that’s worth over $500,000. The house is located at 12 Maple Lane, Hypoville, New Tudor 66666. He is concerned about several things: 1) He wants to remove the house from his name so that it won’t be vulnerable to creditors and because he wants to be eligible for government assistance (such as Medicaid) if he ever needs it. 2) No matter what he does with the property now, he wants Lucy to be able to live in the house for the rest of her life. 3) After his and Lucy’s death, he wants the property to be split among his children. He also wants the children to be able to whatever they want with their individual shares (e.g., to pass it to their children upon their deaths, etc.). Barry comes to you and asks what he should do. Please do the following for Barry: a) Tell him how he should convey his property. What interests should he give to whom? What kind of remainder interests and tenancies should he give to the children, etc.? Also, what kind of deed should be used to effect this conveyance? b) Please draft a deed to transfer Barry’s property in the manner you suggested in part (a) of your answer. There is NO need for an IRAC-based essay for this assignment. Part A can be satisfied in standard letter form.

 

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In order to receive full credit for this discussion, you need to post (1) an answer of at least 100 words to at least one of the questions below, and (2) a substantive response of at least 50 words to a comment on this discussion board posted my another student. A substantive response is more than just saying you agree or disagree.  Explain why.

There are no correct answers.  As long as you participate as described above, you will receive full credit.  The goal is to motivate careful consideration and discussion of saving and investing for retirement and the roles of Medicare and Social Security.

Read materials for this module in the Reading folder.

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 

(I provided multiple questions to provide more options for your discussion.  You are not required to answer all of them, but you do need to post at least twice.)

Do we need Medicare and Social Security?  Is it reasonable to expect people to save and invest enough to cover all of their expenses in retirement, even unexpected medical costs?  Or is it fair to expect that people will need some financial assistance when they no longer have paying jobs? 

Is Social Security a Ponzi scheme, as 2012 U.S. Presidential candidate Rick Perry suggested? 

Are current Medicare and Social Security benefits too generous?  If so, who should receive fewer benefits?  Explain.

Should Medicare and Social Security benefits be expanded?  For example, the Medicare Modernization Act was advocated and approved in 2003 by President George W. Bush and a Republican-controlled Congress.  This law provides prescription drug benefits to Medicare beneficiaries and was designed to address the concern that many elderly people could not afford their medications.  (Some were forced to choose between food and prescribed drugs.)  But there are holes in the coverage that force some beneficiaries to pay their own drug costs.

Should Medicare and Social Security taxes be based on expected benefits?  Some people say they do not like paying taxes that provide benefits to other people.  Would it be fair to base payroll taxes on expected benefits?  If so, how would that work?  Should women, who have an average life span longer than men, pay higher payroll taxes because they will be eligible to receive benefits for a longer period of time (and thus receive more total benefits)?  Should African-Americans pay less in payroll taxes because their average life span is less than that of Whites (and thus they receive fewer total benefits than Whites)?

Please change the title of your response to reflect the main idea in the sentences that you post.

 

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