[SOLVED] BCOR 4970, s. 9: Strategic Management

BCOR 4970, s. 9: Strategic Management
Spring 2022
FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
Total Points: 100
This Final exam will be worth 20% of your final grade in this Course.
Responses are due April 28 by 5:00 p.m. posted into Brightspace. If the Exam is not completed by this date and time, then your individual grade on the assignment will be reduced by 5 marks. For example, if the grade was 78%, then your reduced mark would be 78 – 5 = 73%.
Carefully read the Vanguard Case Study, available on McGraw Hill Connect (Case #04, “the 12 most popular cases”) and respond to the questions below.
Remember, quality of response is key, not quantity. Please spell and grammar check your responses prior to submission.
This is an individual effort, please do not consult others regarding your responses.
Each Response should draw on, cite, and utilize: (i) the evidence from the Case Study, (ii) what you have learned throughout this semester in this Course as well as (iii) information gleaned from the Textbook and (iv) case studies.
YOUR FULL NAME: _______________________
Define strategic leadership as you have come to understand it during this Course; drawing on information from this Case Study and what you have learned in Class, evaluate founder Jack Bogle’s leadership using the 5 level Pyramid (Ch. 2). Support your response with specific examples or references from the case. (10 points)
Drawing on information from this Case Study, identify the top 2 corporate-level strategies used by Vanguard. Evaluate the appropriateness of these strategies for Vanguard’s business. (10 points)
What is Vanguard’s mission? Using information from the Case Study, evaluate whether Vanguard is a mission driven company and whether or not that serves the firm’s drive for competitive advantage. (10 points)
Drawing on what you have learned in class and Core vs Dynamic concepts (Ch. 4), what 2-3 strategic recommendations do you have for CEO Tim Buckley to support future revenue growth while maintaining and improving Vanguard’s market share? (10 points)
Using the “Four I’s” (Ch. 7), explain how this applies to Vanguard and its competitors. (10 points)
Explain the Shared Value Creation framework & apply that to Vanguard and the Financial Services Industry detailed in the Case Study. (10 points)
Using the Strategic Group model (Ch. 3), evaluate the competitive landscape in which Vanguard operates. (10 points)
Thinking about the Value Innovation we studied and discussed (Ch. 6), what is Vanguard’s central dilemma as of the end of the Case Study; how do you apply Value Innovation and other concepts learned in Class to evaluate Vanguard’s strategic position at the end of the Case? (10 points)
Define the Economic Value Creation framework (Ch. 5) & apply that to Vanguard’s competitive challenges. (10 points)
WHAT ARE THE TOP 3 LEARNINGS (1 SENTENCE EACH) YOU HAVE GLEANED FROM THIS COURSE? (10 points)