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Leadership Skills Subtopic Professional Topic Course Guidebook Professors Thomas J. Goldsby, Ryan Hamilton, Clinton O. Longenecker, Michael A. Roberto, and Eric Sussman Critical Business Skills for Success PUBLISHED BY: THE GREAT COURSES Corporate Headquarters 4840 Westfields Boulevard, Suite 500 Chantilly, Virginia 20151-2299 Phone: 1-800-832-2412 Fax: 703-378-3819 www.thegreatcourses.com Copyright © The Teaching Company, 2015 Printed in the United States of America This book is in copyright. All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of The Teaching Company. i Michael A. Roberto, D.B.A. Trustee Professor of Management Bryant University Professor, Critical Business Skills: Strategy P rofessor Michael A. Roberto is the Trustee Professor of Management at Bryant �� where he has taught since 2006. Before joining �� Everest Leadership and Team Simulation�� in the eLearning category at the 16th� �� Columbia’s Final Mission�� ii Professor Roberto is the author of two books: Why Great Leaders Don’t ��Know What You Don’t Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems before They Happen�� Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review�� California Management Review. Professor �� Transformational Leadership: How Leaders Change Teams, Companies, and Organizations�� iii Thomas J. Goldsby, Ph.D. �� Fisher College of Business �� P �� Michigan State University. ��Transportation Journal�� of the �� Quarterly�� Transportation Journal� �� Journal of Business �� The �� iv �� The Design and Management of Sustainable Supply Chains�� Chain Management: Strategies for Gaining Competitive Advantage�� . �� v Eric Sussman, M.B.A. �� University of California, Los Angeles, �� Professor, Critical Business Skills: �� P �� the state of California. �� Bloomberg Businessweek� �� by Top Business Degrees�� vi �� vii Clinton O. Longenecker, Ph.D. �� Professor, Critical Business Skills: �� P �� MIT Sloan Management Review, Industrial Management, Business Horizons, The European Business Review, �� The Wall Street Journal� �� Investor’s Business Daily�� viii �� Getting Results: Five Absolutes �� languages. His latest book is The Two-Minute Drill: Lessons for Rapid �� Continuous �� Ryan Hamilton, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Marketing �� Professor, Critical Business Skills: Marketing P rofessor Ryan Hamilton is an Associate �� Poets & Quants, an online �� , the Journal of ��, the Journal of Marketing, �� The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, USA TODAY, �� Times, New York �� Table of Contents INTRODUCTION LECTURE GUIDES Professor Biographies .........................................................................i Critical Business Skills: Strategy Scope .................................................................................................1 LECTURE 1 Strategy Is Making Choices ................................................................3 LECTURE 2 How Apple Raises Competitive Barriers ...........................................10 LECTURE 3 The Danger of Straddling .................................................................17 LECTURE 4 What Trader Joe’s Doesn’t Do ..........................................................24 LECTURE 5 First Movers versus Fast Followers ..................................................31 LECTURE 6 �� ..........................................................38 LECTURE 7 Anticipating Your Rival’s Response ..................................................44 LECTURE 8 ��..............................................................51 Table of Contents �� LECTURE 9 �� .............................................................58 LECTURE 10 Forward and Backward Integration...................................................65 LECTURE 11 Mergers and Acquisitions—The Winner’s Curse ..............................72 LECTURE 12 Launching a Lean Start-Up...............................................................79 Critical Business Skills: Operations Scope ...............................................................................................89 LECTURE 13 The Power of Superior Operations ...................................................91 LECTURE 14 Leaner, Meaner Production ..............................................................98 LECTURE 15 �� ...........................................................106 LECTURE 16 Matching Supply and Demand .......................................................114 LECTURE 17 Rightsizing Inventory ......................................................................122 LECTURE 18 Managing Supply and Suppliers .....................................................129 LECTURE 19 The Long Reach of Logistics ..........................................................136 Table of Contents �� LECTURE 20 Rethinking Your Business Processes .............................................143 LECTURE 21 Measuring Operational Performance..............................................150 LECTURE 22 Keeping an Eye on Your Margins ...................................................157 LECTURE 23 Leveraging Your Supply Chain .......................................................164 LECTURE 24 Reducing Risk, Building Resilience ................................................171 Critical Business Skills: Finance and Accounting Scope .............................................................................................181 LECTURE 25 Accounting and Finance—Decision-Making Tools .........................183 LECTURE 26 How to Interpret a Balance Sheet...................................................190 LECTURE 27 Why the Income Statement Matters ...............................................198 LECTURE 28 How to Analyze a Cash Flow Statement ........................................206 LECTURE 29 Common Size, Trend, and Ratio Analysis ......................................213 LECTURE 30 �� ...........................................................220

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