Short Discussions

For each bullet point below :  Directions to student: The final paragraph (three or four sentences) of your initial post should summarize the one or two key points that you are making in your initial response. You will be writing three or more discussion posts per week. Your main post must be two to three substantive paragraphs 150-200 total words and include at least two APA-formatted citations/references.

· Visit this site and review the information:

  https://www.strategicmanagement.net/ig/cooperative_strategies.php

Propose a detailed and specific cooperative business level strategy between any two unlike companies (i.e. Panera Bread and Lowe’s).Be sure to state the advantages of this combination in the areas of finance, people, equipment, distribution, and location...

· In order to prevent a hostile take-over, companies can implement defense mechanisms to protect themselves.

Describe three take-over defense strategies.

Identify a company who implemented one of them and explain the outcome on the company’s shareholders and stock price

· The underlying premise of the balanced scorecard is that firms weaken their future performance possibilities when financial controls are emphasized at the expense of strategic controls. Financial controls provide feedback about outcomes achieved from past actions, but do not communicate the drivers of the firm’s future performance. These drivers can promote organizational behavior that has a net effect of sacrificing the firm’s long-term value by creating potential for short-term performance gains (Hitt, Ireland & Hoskisson, 2016).

Differentiate two assessment methods of company performance, with one method being the Balanced Scorecard. View this link for more on this method of assessment:

 

https://hbr.org/2007/07/using-the-balanced-scorecard-as-a-strategic-management-system

 

Compare the two methods and note at least three similarities and differences. Summarize your thoughts on the value of each method.

Hitt M.A., Ireland R.D. & Hoskisson R.E. (2016).  Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases (12th Ed.). Cengage