WEEKLY SCHEDULE
Week Reading assignments Exercises Assignments
1 (1/21) Chapters 1 and 2 overview
School of Business mission & vision
Semester project overview discussion
A Guide to Case Analysis
Robin Hood case
2 (1/28) Chapters 1 and 2 mission, vision, objectives
Chapter 3 questions 1-7 Submit your team contract
Retail Brokerage Industry case
3 (2/4) Chapter 4 questions 1-5,
AOL and Times Warner calculate and analyze the financial ratios
4 (2/11) Chapter 5 generic strategies
Biotechnology Strategies in 1992
5 (2/18) SWOT SWOT exercise (Each team will present their SWOT for one of the four previous cases.)
6 (2/25) Chapters 6-10 strategy exercise (Teams will present their strategic assessment for one of the four previous cases.)
Strategy note
7 (3/4) Project data collection and analysis
SPRING BREAK Project data collection and analysis
7 (3/18) Chapters 11 - 13 implementation and control and evaluation
Southwest Airlines A & B
Control and Evaluation note
8 (3/25) Good to Great and Primal Leadership in class discussion
Week Reading assignments Exercises Assignments
9 (4/1) Fox Broadcasting case
10 (4/8) Microsoft 2000
11 (4/15) Tyco
12 (4/29) in class working session, presentation methods
13 (5/6) presentations The presentation will be on Tuesday May 6, 2002.
The following is due on or before Friday, May 9, 2003:
Final team written case analysis
Peer evaluations
Final team Power point presentation.
Submit all assignments as attachments to an email sent to me.