Masters in Business Administration (MBA)

Corporate Strategy

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Global integration is the concept of advancing a given product or service within the global sphere to serve a global market. A corporation attains global integration by leveraging a corporate strategy focusing on the coordination operating model, replication model, and unification (Dess et al., 2021). The coordination operating model seeks to advance a standard method of running operations, often with a central leadership.

Industry Life Cycle

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As such, the two concepts differ based on the core strategic considerations of the firm as to whether it has an efficient capacity to operate independently or whether it prefers its operations to be centered on a given product. Other codependent variables include whether the company desires to have a unification model, coordination operating model, or replication model (Dess et al., 2021)

Leading Crisis Management

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The Samsung handling of explosive batteries crisis bears both a positive on what not to do in a crisis, and what to do. The company faced one of its toughest years in 2016 when it was reported that most of its newest set of phones were exploding and had become a safety hazard (Tsukayama, 2018). In the initial days of the explosions, the US team did not set a clear statement of what was causing the explosions, and hence there was a mass speculation of Samsung phones.

Organizational Innovation

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Innovation, best defined as the gradual or sudden improvement of products or services in the light of new technologies or models, is at the heart of every civilization (Godin, 2020). Thus, while widely spoken of in the current century, innovation has been within the human society since the dawn of civilization. In lieu, the incremental changes from the cave men behavior to the start of agricultural practices in Mesopotamia, to the building of Pyramids in Egypt, innovation has been the wheel upon which humanity has improved itself, and sought to add value and transcend its environmental circumstances (Godin, 2017).

Organizational Sustainability

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The concept of sustainability effectiveness is closely tied to the core elements that define the success of an organization, which are: the structures, the culture, and communities. Thus, the overall strategies that lead to sustainability effectiveness are those which align the sustainable organization priorities with the aforementioned elements. For the structures determine how the organization functions, and the ability to anticipate whether the organization has the capacity and management system to implement the desired outcomes (Lawler & Worley, 2011).