Can anyone help me with the attached case study on Wal-Mart? Answering the following questions:
Late in 2005, Wal-Mart announced a series of sweeping new strategic initiatives. Each student is to write a case analysis of Wal-Mart’s current strategy and challenges. The paper should be 10-12 typed pages, due June 28 2015, must address each of the 6 items listed below. Include at least three (3) sources in addition to the references provided.
- What threats and challenges is Wal-Mart currently facing?
- What priorities did Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott set in his “Wal-Mart: Twenty-First Century Leadership” address (24 Oct 2005)?
- Wal-Mart’s Board discussed proposals to meet (some of) these challenges at a board retreat in 2005. Discuss these initiatives as outlined in the “Supplemental Benefits Documentation: Board of Directors Retreat FY06″ See also Wal-Mart health cost strategy NYT 26Oct2005. Was additional damage done to Wal-Mart by the leaking to the public of the Board Benefits Strategy document?
- Comment on two recent Wal-Mart initiatives from the standpoints of: a) Strategy and b) PR.
- Discuss Wal-Mart’s strategic social challenges from the standpoint of Bonini, Sheila M. J.; Mendonca, Lenny T.; Oppenheim, Jeremy M. When social issues become strategic. McKinsey Quarterly. 2006 no. 2.
- Were all of the issues Wal-Mart now faces already evident in the 2003 case study
Additional sources:
Wal-Mart as Leviathan New York Review of Books. 16 Dec 2004
Lee Scott on why Wal-Mart is playing nicer. Business Week. 03 Oct 2005. 94/5.
Wal-Mart Experimental Stores: Environments of scale. By: Payton, Paula. European Retail Digest, Winter2005 Issue 48, p7-12, 6p.
Wal-Mart and Carrefour as Home-Region Multinationals. By: Rugman, Alan M.; Dossett, Aaron. European Retail Digest, Winter2005 Issue 48, p61-65.
