Business Studies

This assignment has you complete two parts of a strategic business plan. To see how those parts fit into a full business plan, click here for a strategic business plan outline. Part I – Analysis of the External Environment As part of the Strategic Business Plan, you have been asked to: Identify and analyze the […]

Create a collage that models the principles and skills chart found on figure 1.2 on page 20 in your textbook. You can use digital pictures, personal drawings, or personal photos to represent/illustrate each facet of the chart. Below each picture or drawing, write a sentence, in your own words, summing up the principle or skill. […]

What does the concept of corporate social responsibility mean for businesses?  What sort of conflicts does corporate social responsibility create for corporations?  Is there a conflict between the shareholders of a corporation and the stakeholders of a corporation?  Can corporations/businesses really be socially responsible or are corporations/businesses really still thinking about their own best interests […]

I choose claim: It is permissible for Uï¼³ electronic commerce companies to elude paying internet sales tax. Format: Claim: A single well-worded declarative statement. E.g., “Should American companies hire underage workers in countries that legally permit it?” is not in declarative form, and therefore is not a claim. Questions do not assert anything. The claim […]

Read the Porsche case provided in the course materials section and describe the company’s history, products, and major competitors in a paragraph or two. Assess the financial performance and condition of the organization. Then, conduct a SWOT analysis detailing the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats that may affect the organization. Finally, assess the quality of […]

In a three- to four-page paper (not including the title and reference pages), analyze the two alternative perspectives on forecasting. Be sure to include the following: •A description of the subjective and objective methods and their applications to the forecast. •A description of a procedure to evaluate the effectiveness of a particular method’s output/predictions. •A […]

Text Book: Management for quality and performance excellence. Develop a well-researched paper based on the Xerox case study on pages 31 through 36 of the textbook for  your current organization or one you have worked in the past that critically analyzes: 1.The quality methodologies or practices that the company uses or plans to use to […]

SOLEX-DIGITAL: EFFECTIVE NEGOTIATION STRATEGIES Marilyn Boldt, a sales rep for Solex-Digital—a large semiconductor manufacturer—is negotiating with the chief buyer for National Computer Company (NCC). The buyer, Howard Logan, a thirty-year employee of NCC now nearing retirement, is such an aggressive, greedy bargainer that mostsalespeople hate to negotiate with him. He views each sales negotiation as […]

1. Why do you think so many successful CEOs of top companies have come up through sales? 2. What qualities do you think are needed by top-performing salespeople of today and tomorrow? 3. Why should salespeople be empowered in their dealings with prospects and customers?

CENTROID COMPUTER CORPORATION: THE NEW SALES MANAGER Centroid Computer Corporation is a Dallas-based manufacturer of personal computers, monitors, interactive terminals, disk drives, and printers. In the past five years, Centroid has expanded into the development of a variety of software packages for small businesses. The firm’s growth in the past three years can only be […]