MBA 500 (Corporate Strategy) Professor Mark Shanley UIC – Liautaud Graduate School of Management Summer 2011 Final Examination Instructions: This exam covers the Morepen Laboratories Ltd. (MLL) Case that was distributed through Blackboard last week. Please answer all four questions (and all the parts of each question). The exam will be graded comprehensively on a 100 hundred point scale (with points for each question listed in parentheses). Please support your answers where appropriate
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Newell’s corporate strategy was mainly focused on high volume and low cost product to large mass retailer. The goal of the company was to increase its sales and profitability by offering a complete and complementary range of products and reliable service to the mass retail stores. Newell’s initial focus was on home and hardware products which later on expended to other markets. The company strategy was to grow and expand its product line through acquisitions‚ rather than internal growth. Before
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French and the British the style of education was different‚ the French was one of making French men in Africa while the British was more indirect. However it was this group that benefited from education whether French or British were to play a key role in the decolonisation process. Crowder states that the First World War raised the hopes of this emergent class all over Africa that they would be given positions of significance and respect from the colonizers; however these hopes were never realised
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1. What is the Corporate Level Strategy that Viacom is using? Give examples of Operational Relatedness and Corporate Relatedness to back up your answer. The Corporate Level Strategy that Viacom is using: Several business level strategy‚ they are using the decentralize approach to management and providing the high powered incentive for divisional managers‚ which mean employ a separate business-level strategy for each product market area to dealing with product and geographic diversity
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communication task roles discussed in Chapter 9 and 10 to describe two specific characters and the communication task role(s) they played. How did these roles affect the group communication? Give specific examples. --Answer below: I watched Law and Order season 13 episode 10 “Spiraling Down”. Alexandra the state prosecutor used a self-centered role. The reason I believe this is because when ever she had a conversation with a group she focused the attention on her rather than on the group. This role affected
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“All corporate strategy identifies the set of businesses‚ markets‚ or industries in which the organization competes and the distribution of resources among those businesses.”(Batemen‚ T.S & Scott‚ 2011) The four basic alternatives when using corporate strategy in the planning function of management are concentration‚ vertical integration‚ concentric diversification‚ and‚ conglomerate diversification. Coca-Cola CEO Neville Isdell retired from Coca-Cola in 2001 after serving 35 years with the company
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Name: Vicki Wong Date: 21st February‚ 2011 Essay Topic: Discuss the role played by personality factors in stress Living in a modern world today‚ we all experience stress in one form or another. Generally‚ we regard stressors as unpleasant events in our lives as they may cause negative impacts on both of our physical and mental health. However‚ stress can also appear to be positive under different circumstances. In fact‚ a similar level of stress may have different impacts on different people
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3M Optical System Managing Corporate Entrepreneurship Andy Wong ( manager of the OS business unit): how managing the formal approval process of the Authorisation for Expenditure – minimizing the risk of kill ideas- presented by his team? Informal channels: seeking support from mentors higher in the organization but this option has to be used carefully and not often. Restructure the project: carrying on within the unit. Paul Gueheler (vice president of SSSD) is worried about OSunit. His
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Corporate level strategy Coca-Cola Company is now the largest soft drink company in the world. Moreover‚ the company has become the largest manufacturer‚ distributor‚ and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups which operate in more than 200 countries. After years of globalization and brand building‚ Coca-Cola proudly pronounces its Mission Statement “At The Coca Cola Company we strive to refresh the world‚ inspire moments of optimism and happiness‚ create value and make
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Northern Sigma‚ a high technology firm with over 22‚000 employees nationwide and 3‚000 employees at the Chicago site has identified a retention issue with minorities and women. The site manager recently had an outside consulting firm to interview minorities and women and try and discover the cause of the high turnover rates for these groups. The results of the interview reveal there is n apparent lack of diversity awareness among the employees and managers. Without intervention there will likely
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