United bought Continental airline in 2010.  Reasons for doing this included: removing a competitor from the marketplace, increasing bargaining power with suppliers, and gaining economies of scale. 

At which stage of the industry life cycle do many new companies enter the industry and relative competition between firms is fairly low? 

Innovation can both create and destroy value. 

Globalization in the past 30 years has been facilitated by falling trade and investment barriers, developments in telecommunications, and the overall reduction of transportation costs. 

Your professor thinks that many of the students are not reading the articles assigned in class.  To prove him wrong please explain why so many strategic initiatives fail? There were at least two articles you could draw upon to answer this question.  (10 points)

The company Dirt Cheap is competing on a low-cost strategy.  The company would best be able to execute this strategy using a functional organizational structure. 

In a publicly traded company the groups with the most power to the least power are (in order): Executives of the company, Employees, Board of Directors, and then Shareholders. 

You are treating a patient postoperatively who suffered a hip fracture. The appropriate progression of exercises are:

What is the main question a general manager needs to ask when considering corporate level strategy? 

You are treating a patient with a compression fracture of the spine. Choose which exercises would be appropriate for this patient. A.  B.  C. D. E. F.