Blog Chapter VII – Strategy (2)

Contrast corporate-level strategy with business-level strategy

Blog Chapter VII – Strategy

Why strategy is complicated?

Blog Chapter VI - Work specialization

Researchers are now saying that efforts to simplify work tasks actually have negative results for both companies and their employees. What do you think?

Blog Chapter VI - Mechanistic & Organic organizational structures

Would you rather work in a mechanistic or an organic organization? Why?

Blog 19 – The risk

Describe the genesis of risk (the market requires different product or inability of the factors of production) for the YouTube videos you discussed in Blog 3

Blog 18 – Classifying the factors of production

Classify the factors of production on the basis of the first two points listed above (tangible and intangible, mode of participation in the productive combination), for the YouTube videos you discussed in Blog 3.

Blog 17 – The phases of production

Describe what are the phases of production, for the YouTube videos you discussed in Blog 3, p. 15. Using the logic make or buy decide which phases externalize.

Blog 16 – Corruption

Discuss the YouTube 16 using the framework presented in Table 53. In particular find the primary interest of the policeman, his secondary interest and the way the secondary interest affects the primary one. Moreover, indicate what are the consequences of that behaviour.

If more than 3 students have discussed the YouTube 16 find another similar video (i.e. situation of corruption) on YouTube.

Blog 15 – Actual, potential and apparent conflict of interest

Find out a story (also using internet) of conflict of interest, differentiating the actual, potential and apparent situations

Blog 14 – The non-business entities

Find out the What, How and Why of a non-for-profit organization (e.g. the Greenpeace association), using its mission

Blog 13 – Unsustainable firms

Find a company that create an unsustainable profit, saying why it is unsustainable (e.g. because of the environment or society)

Blog 12 – The objective of your private hospital

1) You are an entrepreneur and you want to open a private hospital in your City. Write the mission statement, describing separately its What, How and Why, distinguishing two cases:
a) You are an unethical entrepreneur who wants just to maximize profit
b) You are an ethical entrepreneur who wants to have profit operating ethically

Blog 11 – The objective of the azienda

After watching TED video “How great leaders inspire action” (http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action), find and discuss the WHAT, HOW and WHY of a company using its mission statement

Blog 10 – Your WHY

Discuss shortly the WHY you chose the bachelor degree in English

Blog 8 – The British Petroleum case

1) Give your opinion on the video Who’s Minding the Store? The Ethics of Corporate Governance for what concern the BP case
2) Do you think Margaret Blair is against the logic of profit?

Blog 7 – The useless economic entities

1) Using newspapers, Internet and other sources find a story (no more than five lines, you can also post the link) on a useless entity, answering the following questions: What is the name of the entity? Why is it useless, unproductive? Why is it still surviving?

Blog 6 – The attribute of Economicità

1) After reading the article “Henry Ford and the model T” (please click here to download it), analyse the effectiveness and the efficiency of Ford Motor Company, before and after the year 1924. For instance, after 1924 was Ford Motor Company both effective and efficient? Or effective but not efficient or efficient but not effective? Why?
2) After watching the YouTube video you discussed in Blog 3, do you have the elements to evaluate the strategic effectiveness of the economic entity? Why?