...Memo Date: December 1, 2012 To: All BUSAD 106 Students From: Instructor ------------------------------------------------- Subject: Reminder of Individual Report As I mentioned in last memo, each student is required to submit a businessresearch paper. This memo is reminding you that your individual report is due by one week ahead from this week. As you all know the main topic, you should be able to consider to some important steps as you need to complete your individual report. Some of these steps are listed below: Important Considerations 1. Your report needs to be presented as an informational report. 2. You need to come up with at least three major in the body of your report (Intro, body, and conclusion). 3. The report must be at least 3 to 4 pages. 4. This 20 point report is due at or before 11:55p.m. On December 8, 2012. General Guidelines 1. You need to complete your own report, and it must be prepared using word processing and good quality print. 2. Use formal writing style throughout the report. 3. Use three to five valid and reliable secondary sources. You already know how to get this information from. 4. Use visual aids (i.e. charts, graphs, tables, etc…) they must be clear and relevant to the topic. 5. In either electronic or hard copy format, provide the sources used to write the report so I can check the accuracy of information and Works Cited page. Grading Policy You must submit your report by due date with...
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...Shidler College of Business University of Hawai´i at Mānoa Vietnam MBA Program Fall 2011 BUS 632—Business Strategy Dates of Course: Oct. 20 - 29 Professor James Richardson BusAd C501f Office Phone: 956-7270 Email: jamesr@hawaii.edu Course Outline and Objectives: BUS 632 covers strategic management as an integrating paradigm for your business knowledge. The aim is to develop an understanding of the strategic challenges facing managers in competitive markets. Globalization, foreign competition, and rapidly changing technology have sharply increased the intensity of competition in most industries. We will learn how leading firms have devised strategies, structured, and managed their organizations to achieve competitive advantage in this challenging environment. Strategic management deals with uncertainty and unstructured situations. You will learn tools and concepts for putting some structure into your analysis of strategic issues. But most strategic choices require judgment. Case studies enable us to test our judgment and learn vicariously from successful and unsuccessful managers in a variety of situations. Hence, class discussion of the cases is a central part of your learning experience. Methods: We will combine cases, lectures, individual and group papers and presentations. Pre-requisites: First semester of Core. Textbook: Jay Barney, Gaining and Sustaining Competitive Advantage, Fourth Edition. Case Packet will be available. Assignments and Grading: 1. Participation: (15%)...
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