Creative Homework/Short Project As a marketing student, you know that large firms often organize theiroperations into a number of strategic business units(SBUs). A university might develop a similar structure inwhich different academic schools or departments areseen as separate businesses. Consider how your university or college might divide its total academic unitsinto separate SBUs. What would be the problems withimplementing such a plan? What would be the advantages and disadvantages for students and for faculty?Be prepared to share your analysis of university SBUs toyour class

Creative Homework/Short Project As a marketing student, you know that large firms often organize theiroperations into a number of strategic business units(SBUs). A university might develop a similar structure inwhich different academic schools or departments areseen as separate businesses. Consider how your university or college might divide its total academic unitsinto separate SBUs. What would be the problems withimplementing such a plan? What would be the advantages and disadvantages for students and for faculty?Be prepared to share your analysis of university SBUs toyour class

Principles of Management

OER 2019th Edition

ISBN:9780998625768

Author:OpenStax

Publisher:OpenStax

Chapter9: The Strategic Management Process: Achieving And Sustaining Competitive Advantage

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 3CRQ: Give an example for why a firm would pursue each of the three grand strategies.

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