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Chapter 3-Internal Analysis: Distinctive Competencies, Competitive Advantage, and Profitability
Questions:
Define value creation for customers and the components that can be used to determine value creation per unit. How value creation is related to competitive advantage?
What is a value chain? Why is efficiency so important in an organizations' value chain activities?
What building blocks in value creation can an organization use to sustain competitive advantage? How best you can sustain competitive advantage?
What does internal analysis help a company to determine? How does this process contribute to the overall health (value creation, competitive advantage, profitability) of a company?
Why do companies fail? How does competitive advantage relate to failure? If competitive advantage is not maintained, what would be the consequence for a company?
Chapter 4-Building Competitive Advantage through Functional-Level Strategy.
Questions:
What are functional level strategies? How they relate to competitive advantage of a company? How can functional level strategy contribute to efficiency?
Describe economies of scale and how it relates to competitive advantage. What strategic significance does economies of scale have for a company? What it does with the competitive advantage of a company?
How does innovation relate to competitive advantage? What can be done to sustain innovation in a company?
How does customer relations contribute to competitive advantage? What is the effect of customer relations on value creation and its components?
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Investing in stocks vs bonds
: Discuss the uncertainty of future cash flows between investing in stocks vs. bonds. Which financial asset is more risky?
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The volkswagen scandal
: Explain how the culture of Volkswagen created this ethical scandal. While Volkswagen claimed to support ethics and sustainability,
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Find the beta for amazon
: The excel file 'Question 2_Stock Prices CW 2021' contains the monthly stock prices for Amazon (the technology company) as well as the value of the S&P 500 i
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Compare and contrast life insurance products
: Compare and Contrast life insurance products vis-a-vis General insurance products.
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Distinctive competencies and competitive advantage
: Define value creation for customers and components that can be used to determine value creation per unit. How value creation is related to competitive advantage
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Announcement of the deal
: Firm A enters into a merger agreement with firm B whereby A will buy B and will pay for B with its own stock. Upon announcement of the deal, Firm A's stock pric
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Display the seller account ref
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Hedge against possible devaluation of chf
: You expect to receive 5,000,000 Swiss Franc (CHF) from the importer 90 days later. You want to hedge against possible devaluation of CHF in the coming 90 days.
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Prepare chart of accounts
: Why do business owners need to prepare their Chart of Accounts?
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