BUS 189 Stanford University Glo Bus Simulation Feedback & Career Plan Paper

there are two parts of this assignment, first one is the feedback from the glo-bus simulation game, there is a report and presentation slide attached below to help you to finish the assignment, and the second part is career plan after graduation, just make up a manager position of any company as the goal, then follow the instructions to write it. three pages for simulation feedback and one page for career plan.

Assignment Instructions:

There are multiple sections of this essay. Please put a heading for each new section to ensure you are answering each prompt.

Please write about your personal experience with Glo-bus (280 Points). This should include some information/data from your team’s performance, but also how you incorporated the content from the course and applied it to the simulation:

• What do you see as the key factors for being a successful competitor in this industry (meaning, in your course section)? List at least three things that you’ve learned specifically from the class content or discussions that apply to your learning.

• What specific hard evidence from the simulation can you use to show that your team had a strategy, and that the decisions you made worked (ex. Forecasts from Year xx resulted in Bull’s Eye award from Year xx+1).

• In your opinion (backed up with data), what are your company’s competitive advantages (things that are V, R, I, O)? I’m looking for the company information, not how your team worked together.

• Discuss your team’s finance strategy (concerning use of your line of credit, debt repayment, dividend payments, sales/purchases of stock, use of cash, and approaches to achieving a good credit rating)? How did this strategy come about?

Finally, throughout the semester, we have discussed the strategic management process.

• Thinking about your own career after graduation, please write about your personal strategy, including your mission, your objectives, the challenges and opportunities in the general external environment, a SWOT analysis, your business-level strategy, and your corporate-level strategy. Highlight the resources and capabilities you personally have and your competitive advantage (300 Points).