Business Studies

You’re the sales manager for a large chemical company, and you have reason to suspect that one of your top salespeople isn’t always playing by the rules. You know that occasionally Jared has taken friends out to lunch and charged it to the company. At other times, you’ve caught him conducting personal business on company […]

According to the Small Business Administration: Small Business Survival Rates Small Business Openings & Closings in 2008: •    There were 627,200 new businesses, 595,600 business closures and 43,546 bankruptcies. •    Seven out of 10 new employer firms survive at least two years, and about half survive five years. •    Findings do not differ greatly across […]

Who is responsible for strategic thinking? Do small business owners need to perform strategic planning or just large firms? Why do you think large companies would be willing to pay business students to propose solutions to their strategic dilemmas instead of relying on experienced business people? Think about the three levels of planning O, T, […]

Assume that you have been hired as a business consultant to an international organisation. Your task is to write a report for senior management evaluating how well the organisation is currently performing and recommending how it can improve its international business performance. You need to identify a major international organisation for which you have reasonable […]

In assignment 2, students will write a persuasive essay in response to the theme: “It isn’t enough for a multinational corporation to be socially responsible; they must be a triple bottom line company to meet their ethical obligations”  Required Elements of Assignment #2 – Persuasive Essay: Write a persuasive essay either supporting or denying the […]

Bruce is a branch sales manager in a traditional line organization. He decides to assign the sales force based on products rather than geographic territories. He believes this will increase the perceived expertise of the sales force. However, his supervisor approaches him after hearing of the plan. “The problem is that you’ll end up assigning […]

“Looking Back and Looking Ahead” Please respond to the following: •Discuss the five most significant things you learned in this course. Explain your rationale for selecting the five that you did. Next, discuss how you will apply the one or two most important lessons learned from this class in your current (or future) career •Anticipate […]

Please respond to the following: From the e-Activity, give examples of two (2) products that rely on their price to woo customers, and demonstrate the manner in which pricing management must go hand in hand with the identification of the correct target market. Provide a rationale for your response.

Access articles about the history, business approaches, management, and marketing of Eastman Kodak and Fujifilm. Eastman Kodak has been a developer and pioneer of photographic films for over 130 years. Although it invented the digital camera, the company was unprepared for the rapid changes in new technologies and filed for bankruptcy protection in January 2012. […]

Normative ethics and intellectual property File Sharing: What have you seen? The session long project is a chance for you to take the issue in a module and give it a concrete personal expression. Think about file sharing, CD burning and the like, and relate it to your world. The operative question is: What have […]