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BUS 499 All Assignments and DQs (4 Set for each
Assignment) For more course tutorials
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Discussion 1 Strategic Competitiveness BUS 499
Week 1 Discussion 2 Managements
Responsibility BUS 499 Week 2 Discussion 1 Union
Pacific Corporation
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BUS 499 Week 1 Discussion 1 Strategic
Competitiveness For more course tutorials
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Discussion 1 "Strategic Competitiveness" Please
respond to the following From the first
e-Activity, determine which of the two primary
drivers of the competitive landscape is more
influential. Explain your rationale.
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BUS 499 Week 1 Discussion 2 Managements
Responsibility For more course tutorials
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Discussion 2 "Managements Responsibility" Please
respond to the following
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BUS 499 Week 1-11 All DQs For more course
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Week 1 Discussion 1 Strategic Competitiveness BUS
499 Week 1 Discussion 2 Managements
Responsibility BUS 499 Week 2 Discussion 1 Union
Pacific Corporation BUS 499 Week 2 Discussion 2
Five Forces of Competition Model
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BUS 499 Week 2 Assignment 1 Strategic Management
and Strategic Competitiveness (Apple INC) For
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Assignment 1 Strategic Management and Strategic
Competitiveness Due Week 2 and worth 300
points   Choose one (1) public corporation in an
industry with which you are familiar. Research
the company on its own Website, the public
filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission
EDGAR database
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BUS 499 Week 2 Assignment 1 Strategic Management
and Strategic Competitiveness (Dell
Incorporated) For more course tutorials
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Strategic Management and Strategic
Competitiveness Due Week 2 and worth 300 points  
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BUS 499 Week 2 Assignment 1 Strategic Management
and Strategic Competitiveness (Ruby Tuesday)
For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.
com   Assignment 1 Strategic Management and
Strategic Competitiveness Due Week 2 and worth
300 points  
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BUS 499 Week 2 Discussion 1 Union Pacific
Corporation For more course tutorials
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Discussion 1 "Union Pacific Corporation" Please
respond to the following Perform an analysis of
the social / demographic, technological,
economic, environmental / geographic, and
political/legal / governmental segments to
understand the general environment facing Union
Pacific. 
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BUS 499 Week 2 Discussion 2 Five Forces of
Competition Model For more course tutorials
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Discussion 2 "Five Forces of Competition Model"
Please respond to the following From the
e-Activity, analyze the industry you selected
using the Five Forces of Competition Model to
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BUS 499 Week 3 Discussion 1 Strong Brands For
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BUS 499 Week 3 Discussion 1 "Strong Brands"
Please respond to the following Several
companies use their brand as a competitive
advantage. Given your knowle
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BUS 499 Week 3 Discussion 2 Internal Environment
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com   BUS 499 Week 3 Discussion 2 "Internal
Environment" Please respond to the
following From the e-Activity, analyze the
internal environment of the company you
researched to determine that companys strengths
and weaknesses.
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BUS 499 Week 4 Assignment 2 External and Internal
Environments (Apple Inc) For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Assignment
2 External and Internal Environments 
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BUS 499 Week 4 Assignment 2 External and Internal
Environments (GW Pharmaceuticals) For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Assi
gnment 2 External and Internal Environments  Due
Week 4 and worth 350 points
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BUS 499 Week 4 Assignment 2 External and Internal
Environments (Verizon Communications) For more
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gnment 2 External and Internal Environments  Due
Week 4 and worth 350 points  
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BUS 499 Week 4 Discussion 1 Business-Level
Strategy For more course tutorials
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Discussion 1 "Business-Level Strategy" Please
respond to the following From the first
e-Activity, assess your satisfaction with the
company you researched and make
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BUS 499 Week 4 Discussion 2 Apple, Inc Keeping
the I in Innovation For more course tutorials
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Discussion 2 "Apple, Inc Keeping the I in
Innovation Please respond to the following
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BUS 499 Week 5 Discussion 1 Diversification For
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BUS 499 Week 5 Discussion 1 "Diversification"
Please respond to the following From the
e-Activity, suggest one way the company you
researched could increase its level of
value-creating
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BUS 499 Week 5 Discussion 2 Victory Motorcycles
For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.
com   BUS 499 Week 5 Discussion 2 "Victory
Motorcycles" Please respond to the
following From the e-Activity and the case
study, evaluate the business-level strategy of
Victory Motorcycles to determine whether you
believe the strategy is appropriate to offset
forces in the industry. Provide specific
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BUS 499 Week 6 Assignment 3 Business-Level and
Corporate-Level Strategies (Amazon) For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Assi
gnment 3 Business-Level and Corporate-Level
Strategies  Due Week 6 and worth 300 points
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BUS 499 Week 6 Assignment 3 Business-Level and
Corporate-Level Strategies (Ford) For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Assi
gnment 3 Business-Level and Corporate-Level
Strategies  Due Week 6 and worth 300
points Choose an industry you have not yet
written about in this course, and one publicly
traded corporation within
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BUS 499 Week 6 Assignment 3 Business-Level and
Corporate-Level Strategies (Ikea) For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Assi
gnment 3 Business-Level and Corporate-Level
Strategies  Due Week 6 and worth 300
points Choose an industry you have not yet
written about in this course, and one publicly
traded corporation within
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BUS 499 Week 6 Assignment 3 Business-Level and
Corporate-Level Strategies (Toyota Corporation)
For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.
com   Assignment 3 Business-Level and
Corporate-Level Strategies  Due Week 6 and worth
300 points Choose an industry you have not yet
written about in this course, and one publicly
traded corporation within
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BUS 499 Week 6 Discussion 1 Executive Pay For
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BUS 499 Week 6 Discussion 1 "Executive Pay"
Please respond to the following Some evidence
suggests that there is a direct and positive
relationship between a firms size and its
top-level
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BUS 499 Week 6 Discussion 2 Dr Pepper Snapple
Group 2011 For more course tutorials
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Discussion 2 "Dr Pepper Snapple Group 2011
Fighting to Prosper in a Highly Competitive
Market" Please respond to the following The
case study outlines six specific strategies that
the firm has chosen to support its strategic
direction. Determine which strategy is most
likely to benefit the firm. Explain your
rationale.
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BUS 499 Week 7 Discussion 1 International
Opportunities For more course tutorials
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1    Determine why, given the advantages of
international diversification, some firms choose
not to expand
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BUS 499 Week 7 Discussion 2 Cooperative Strategy
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com   Week 7 Discussion 2 From an ethical
perspective, determine how much information a
firm is obliged to tell a potential strategic
alliance partner about what it expects to learn
from the cooperative arrangement. Explain your
rationale.
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BUS 499 Week 8 Assignment 4 Merger, Acquisition,
and International Strategies (Lithonia Lighting)
For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.
com   Assignment 4 Merger, Acquisition, and
International Strategies Due Week 8 and worth 300
points
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BUS 499 Week 8 Assignment 4 Merger, Acquisition,
and International Strategies (McDonalds) For
more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com  
Assignment 4 Merger, Acquisition, and
International Strategies Due Week 8 and worth 300
points   Choose two (2) public corporations in an
industry with which you are familiar one (1)
that has acquired another company and operates
internationally and one (1) that does not have a
history of mergers and
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BUS 499 Week 8 Assignment 4 Merger, Acquisition,
and International Strategies (Under Armour) For
more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com  
Assignment 4 Merger, Acquisition, and
International Strategies Due Week 8 and worth 300
points  
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BUS 499 Week 8 Assignment 4 Merger, Acquisition,
and International Strategies (Whole Foods Market
Inc. and the Energizer Holdings Inc.) For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Assi
gnment 4 Merger, Acquisition, and International
Strategies Due Week 8 and worth 300 points
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BUS 499 Week 8 Discussion 1 Corporate Governance
For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.
com   Week 8 Discussion 1    Analyze the three
internal governance mechanisms (ownership
concentration, boards of directors, and executive
compensation) and recommend a possible fourth
mechanism that would help align the interests of
managerial agents with those of the firms
owners. Provide specific examples to support your
response.  
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BUS 499 Week 8 Discussion 2 Finding the Best Buy
For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.
com   Week 8 Discussion 2  Corporate governance
has become a hot issue in the U.S. over the past
two decades.  From your analysis of the case
study, determine two possible corporate
governance challenges that might be faced by Best
Buy as a result of its rapid growth and why they
could become corporate governance issues.
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BUS 499 Week 9 Discussion 1 Domino's Pizza For
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Week 9 Discussion 1    Determine whether the
current organizational structure at Dominos is a
good match for its corporate strategies. Explain
your rationale. 
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BUS 499 Week 9 Discussion 2 Strategic Leadership
For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.
com   Week 9 Discussion 2 Compare and contrast
strategic controls and financial controls.
Provide specific examples of how each may be used
to best serve a corporation.    As a strategic
leader, determine if you would feel ethically
responsible for developing your firms human
capital and state why. Discuss whether or not you
believe your position is consistent with the
majority or minority of todays strategic leaders.
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BUS 499 Week 10 Assignment 5 Capstone (Apple)
For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.
com   Assignment 5 Capstone Due Week 10 and
worth 400 points
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BUS 499 Week 10 Assignment 5 Capstone (Coca -
Cola) For more course tutorials
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Capstone Due Week 10 and worth 400 points  
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BUS 499 Week 10 Assignment 5 Capstone (FedEx
Corporation) For more course tutorials
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Capstone Due Week 10 and worth 400
points   Select a publicly traded corporation for
which you would like to work or are currently
working.  
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BUS 499 Week 10 Assignment 5 Capstone (Victorias
Secret) For more course tutorials
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Capstone Due Week 10 and worth 400
points   Select a publicly traded corporation for
which you would like to work or are currently
working.
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BUS 499 Week 10 Assignment 5 Capstone (Walmart)
For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.
com   Assignment 5 Capstone Due Week 10 and
worth 400 points   Select a publicly traded
corporation for which you would like to work or
are currently working.   the University's online
databases, and any other sources
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BUS 499 Week 10 Discussion 1 Strategic
Entrepreneurship For more course tutorials
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1    From the e-Activity, evaluate the lessons
learned in this chapter to determine which single
lesson would be most beneficial to the company
you researched. Provide specific examples to
support your response.
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BUS 499 Week 10 Discussion 2 Innovation Applied
For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.
com   Create one innovative approach that is not
discussed in the textbook for increasing the
amount of innovation within a large company.
Describe this approach in detail and explain how
companies could benefit from it.  
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BUS 499 Week 11 Discussion 1 Summation For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Week
11 Discussion 1  Create a metaphor or analogy
that captures the essence of the major lessons
learned in the BBA program (e.g., business
administration is like . . .).   Discuss the
single most interesting or surprising thing you
learned in the BBA program, as well as what made
it
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BUS 499 Week 11 Discussion 2 Looking Ahead For
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Week 11 Discussion 2 Discuss how you will use
the lessons learned in your BBA program to be
more productive in your current (or future)
career. Provide specific examples to support your
response.
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