MGT 487

NASCAR Case 1. What strategic challenges do you think Brian France faces as he guides his company? Using what you know about managing strategically, how might he respond to these challenges? Some challenges that Brian France might face as he guides his company include finding ways to attract a younger audience, to expand the market, and to make NASCAR more appealing to all sports fans. In order to attract new fans without isolating the current fans or changing the concept of NASCAR, Brian...

MGT 487 LafargeHolcim Merger Mini QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS (ALL CORRECT) LafargeHolcim Merger Mini-Case 1. Of the “Reasons of Acquisitions” discussed in the chapter, which reasons are the primary drivers of Lafarge-Holcim merger strategy? Lafarge and Holcim thought merging as equals would create a firm with enhanced and significant competitive abilities, and the leaders of the two firms concluded that together they would have the most balanced and diversified portfolio in the building ma...

Homework 4 1. Discuss the risks associated with each of these forms of competitive advantage: overall cost leadership, differentiation, and focus.  Overall leadership: overall leadership is based on creating low-cost position relative to a firm’s competitors and managing relationships throughout the entire value chain to lower their costs. The downfalls of being a cost leader is too much focus on one or a few value chain activities. Being cost leader means increase in cost of the inpu...