Reference no: EM13700988 , Length: 3100 Words

Part 1:

Research the assigned company's history since 1990 or since its inception, if after 1990. What do you consider the major milestones (with the year identified) in the company's evolution during this period? Why?

For each evolutionary period:

1. Identify and analyze the competitive forces present in Bank of America's external environment

2. Assess Bank of America's strategic strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats

3. Identify, analyze, and assess the effectiveness of the basic or generic competitive and supplemental strategies

Part 2:

Research the assigned company's competitive environment over the course of its history since 1990 using scholarly and professional journals and other authoritative works of experts in the field. What do you consider the major competitive challenges for the company during this period? Why? How do your findings align with the milestones you identified in Unit 1? Why? Are there adjustments to the milestones that should be made, based on your further research and collaboration with your colleague learners in this unit's discussion? If so, modify your list of milestones for later reference.

Note that the milestones you ultimately identify may be different from those of your colleague learners, given your own analysis and the perspective of your major discipline.

For each evolutionary period:

1. Identify and analyze the competitive forces present in Bank of America's external environment

2. Assess Bank of America's strategic strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats

3. Identify, analyze, and assess the effectiveness of the basic or generic competitive and supplemental strategies

Part 3: This unit and the next two units may require analysis of multiple research sources, their synthesis, and reasoned conclusions, given available information. Building on the research in Unit 2, analyze the company's financial condition at the point of each milestone you identify, as of the conclusion in Unit 2, using scholarly and professional journals, and other authoritative sources. If there is more than one milestone identified in a given fiscal year, those milestones may be analyzed as one milestone, given the annualized nature of financial reporting. What are your findings? What do they indicate about the company's financial health as of each milestone?

For each evolutionary period:

1. Identify and analyze the competitive forces present in Bank of America's external environment

2. Assess Bank of America's strategic strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats

3. Identify, analyze, and assess the effectiveness of the basic or generic competitive and supplemental strategies

4 Evaluate the company's corporate stock value, health, and trends at the point of each milestone you identify from the point of initial stock offering or since 1990 using scholarly and professional journals, and other authoritative sources. What are your findings? What do they indicate about the company's stock health as of each milestone?

For each evolutionary period:

1. Identify and analyze the competitive forces present in Bank of America's external environment

2. Assess Bank of America's strategic strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats

3. Identify, analyze, and assess the effectiveness of the basic or generic competitive and supplemental strategies

5 Corporate Sustainability - Research the concepts of the triple bottom line and conscious capitalism. Evaluate how the company has performed since 1990 or since its inception, if after 1990, from an economic, social responsibility, and environmental sustainability perspective. Note that all three perspectives may be reflected through the internal and/or external policies and actions of the company.

How has the company's corporate sustainability efforts affected the company's financial strategies and health? What contribution has the company's financial strategies and management made toward the company's corporate sustainability?

For each evolutionary period:

1. Identify and analyze the competitive forces present in Bank of America's external environment

2. Assess Bank of America's strategic strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats

3. Identify, analyze, and assess the effectiveness of the basic or generic competitive and supplemental strategies

 This paper is regarding Bank of America and this paper is extremely important because this is my Capstone assignment and it is worth 340 pts. which is a huge chunk of my grade. The word count needs to be 3100 and everything that you need is in the above information however,