MGMT 3900 Individual Research Report Questions and Scoring Guide

MGMT 3900 Individual Research Report Questions and

(100 points)

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE SYLLABUS and

cover the following topics:

• Identify the company and industry/industries that the company competes in (10 points).

• Identify the corporate (5 points) and business (5 points) level strategies of the company.

Why? (10 points)

• Identify the core competencies of the , if any (5 points), and employ the VRIS framework to analyze the core competency of the company and its weaknesses/problems (10 points).

• Identify the problem that you want to help the firm resolve (10 points) • Summarize your recommendation to the company (10 points). • Explain the rationale of your recommendation by outlining the strategic analytical tools

and analyses that you have conducted (15 points). • How your the company gain and potentially sustain competitive

advantage (10 points).

Please make sure to follow the detailed formatting requirements listed in the syllabus to avoid

potential penalty.

• Provide proper references/citations (5 points)

• No grammatical and typos (5 points)

Please be aware that the purpose of this research is to practice analyzing a real-world company

with the theoretical concepts and tools that we discuss in the class. Therefore, please employ the

terminologies and analytical tools of our class, avoid inventing your own terms to describe

strategies, and resist the temptation of copying existing .