Reference no: EM131263324
Assignment External and Internal Environments
Choose an industry you have not yet written about in this course, and one publicly traded corporation within that industry. Research the company on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (https://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University's online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.
Write an eight to ten page paper in which you:
1. Choose the two segments of the general environment that would rank highest in their influence on the corporation you chose. Assess how these segments affect the corporation you chose and the industry in which it operates.
2. Considering the five forces of competition, choose the two that you estimate are the most significant for the corporation you chose. Evaluate how well the company has addressed these two forces in the recent past.
3. With the same two forces in mind, predict what the company might do to improve its ability to address these forces in the near future.
4. Assess the external threats affecting this corporation and the opportunities available to the corporation. Give your opinions on how the corporation should deal with the most serious threat and the greatest opportunity. Justify your answer.
5. Give your opinion on the corporation's greatest strengths and most significant weaknesses. Choose the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to take maximum advantage of its strengths, and the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to fix its most significant weakness. Justify your choices.
6. Determine the company's resources, capabilities, and core competencies.
7. Analyze the company's value chain to determine where they can create value using the resources, capabilities, and core competencies discussed above.
8. Use at least three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.
|
Production possibility frontier
: Economists use economic models to study real world economic issues. The two basic economic models are Production Possibility Frontier (PPF) and the Circular Flow Diagram.
|
|
Determining the firm production function
: Suppose that a firm's production function is given by Y=24 K N-N2, where K is the level of capital and N is the number of laborers the firm employs. For the given production function, the marginal products are MPN=24 K-2N and MPK = 24 N. The renta..
|
|
Discuss the given statements
: Discuss the following statements. Are they myths or facts? - Because I'm in a technical field, I will work with numbers, not words.
|
|
Can you perform these activities year-round
: What everyday changes, if any, might you make to increase the amount of energy expended in your day-to-day activities? What types and amounts of exercise would work best for you? Can you perform these activities year-round? If not, suggest alternativ..
|
|
Assess the external threats affecting the corporation
: Assess the external threats affecting this corporation and the opportunities available to the corporation. Give your opinions on how the corporation should deal with the most serious threat and the greatest opportunity.
|
|
Provide the adjusting journal entry
: Prepare Journal Entries for the following 4 situations: Healthy Living, a diet magazine, collected $500,000 in subscription revenue in May. Each subscriber will receive an issue of the magazine for each of the next 12 months, beginning with the June ..
|
|
Find the appropriate sections of the FASB ASC
: Portions of ARB No. 43 are still considered GAAP. Three of the most important issues covered inARB No. 43 are revenue recognition, treasury stock, and comparative financial statements. Find the appropriate sections of the FASB ASC, originally contain..
|
|
Discuss what communication skills are necessary
: Discuss what communication skills are necessary for service agents troubleshooting computers and software at CompUSA.
|
|
Describe the temperature danger zone
: How could this illness have been prevented? Based on the incubation period and symptoms of the illness, what is the most likely microorganism responsible for this illness? Describe the temperature danger zone. How could Martha have sped up the coolin..
|