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assignment_1_instruction.docxAssignment 1
Company for analysis: Seagate Technology
Topic: Strategy from viewpoint of management scholars
Objectives
The aim of this assignment is to suggest the role played by management scholars in developing new ideas useful to managers, academics, students and others interested in strategic management.
Instructor Comments
Among the greatest challenges facing an analyst is keeping up with knowledge in one’s area of expertise. The time spent in university or college can serve as a catalyst for a tremendous intellectual awakening, exposing the individual to a wide array of new ideas and skills. The homes for many of these ideas are management journals written for practitioners that translate research and theory into a form that is accessible to non-academics. These practitioner oriented journals originate in some of the most famous Business Schools including those of Harvard, Wharton, MIT, and the University of California.
Along with providing exceptional content for management education courses, these journals play another important role and that is they serve as repositories for new ideas that are accessible to managers in the business world. To some extent they serve as a pulse for what is fashionable or influential in management thought. Not only do leading management scholars seek out these publications as forums for their ideas but so too do leading executives such as Jack Welch of GE fame. Students and competitive intelligence analysts can benefit from keeping up to date with managerially oriented academic journals. The first challenge is learning about each journal and the type of information found in each.
Assignment
This assignment seeks to help you understand the answer to a broader concern and that is, “Where is strategy at from the perspective of management scholars?”
To undertake this assignment you will need to view information found on the web sites of four online management journals. Each of the journals offers access to at least the table of contents of the most recent issue as well as brief summaries of each article. These journals include,
Harvard Business Review http://hbr.org/magazine
MIT Sloan Management Review
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/smr/
Knowledge@Wharton
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/
Ivey Business Journal
http://www.iveybusinessjournal.com/
Please answer the following questions:
· For each of the online journals noted above, please examine the latest issue and identify four ideas or issues that appear to be relevant to the field of strategy. Please summarize each of the issues in two or three sentences.
· Are there any common ideas that are being discussed in articles across two or more of the journals? If so what are they?
· In your own words, and using no less than 250 words to do so, please comment on how each of these journals is different from the others in the types of insight that they offer.
Hint: Management scholars seek to explain corporate activity. The journals are important vehicles for disseminating research findings and insight. Each journal targets a slightly different audience. Regardless of how the ideas are communicated, it is your task to identify the ideas that are currently hot or topical.
Please limit your response to this assignment to three single spaced, typed pages. Cite your sources in the text and please reference them at the end of your assignment. End your write–up with one paragraph that summarizes what you think is the importance of this assignment.
