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We cordially welcome all graduate and undergraduate business policy and strategic management students to the Strategic Management Club Online (SMCO) This user friendly web site provides strategic planning tools, templates, links, and information that can help you analyze cases and prepare professional-looking reports for class. The SMCO web site is designed to “save you time” in doing case research, preparing matrices, and even job hunting – activities often engaged upon in a business policy class.
Listed as an important link on the Academy of Management’s Home Page, the SMCO has become a popular tool for business policy students worldwide. Check out these testimonials of the Club. This site offers great links and software for preparing case analyses. SMCO offers benefits for all policy students worldwide, including helpful software products for sale. The following software products, except for CheckMATE, have been developed by Forest David who owns and manages SMCO. Forest completed the business policy course at Auburn University where he received a BBA Degree. He completed the strategic management course at Francis Marion University where he received an MBA Degree. Forest is sole author of Dr. Fred David’s Case Instructor’s Manual and is author of the Hershey Foods case in Dr. David’s strategic management textbook. Forest knows the needs of business policy and strategic management students. He is currently a PhD in Business Administration student at Mississippi State University where he is majoring in strategic management. You may Email Forest with any questions about the products described below. You may purchase any of these products with a credit card and Forest will promptly send you the product via an attached Email file.
Forest David, SMCO Manager
103 Eudora Welty Drive, Apt. K-10
Starkville, Mississippi 39759
This web site offers many free benefits as well as special software for sale to business policy students. The free benefits are listed below, followed by a list of the software products for sale.
Free Resources
1. Case Links – Visit the very best Internet links available for researching many business policy cases. Organized by case, specific links to the best corporate sites, business analysis services, news sites, magazines, governmental sites, and more is provided. Download financial ratio analyses with graphs for many cases. This part of SMCO provides links to hundreds of Internet sites that give specific information for specific business policy cases. The links are organized by case. This area of the web site captures information from the web for inclusion in your case presentation. The links provide industry information and current news about your case(s) as well as ratio analysis of the major competitors in each industry. The links offer graphs of data that compare your company to competitors. There are links to many other relevant sites to “save you time” in doing case research. Visit the Manufacturing and Service Links.
2. Case Updated Financial Statements – Download up-to-date financial statements in spreadsheet format for many business policy cases. Check the left column to see if your assigned case(s) is included. Up-to-date financial statements are provided in downloadable spreadsheet form for over 100 companies. This saves you time in analyzing cases. No need to retype financial statements in preparing proforma statements as needed in a case presentation.
3. Graduate School Links - Conduct an efficient graduate school search if you plan to continue your education beyond the undergraduate level. This site has information on test preparation, test taking, and degree financing. These links could help you select and get into graduate school. There are links to help you take the graduate school entrance tests, find the school that is right for you, and find financing for your graduate degree.
4. Job Search Links – Conduct an efficient online job search if you are seeking full-time employment upon completion of this semester. These links will “save you time” in finding a job. There are many resources available from developing a resume to targeting particular companies or industries to get a job. Increasingly today companies expect you to find them on the net rather than they discover you through a college interview.
5. Strategic Planning Links – This section of the SMCO site offers excellent academic, government, and consulting strategic planning links that provide further narrative about the process of strategic planning in particular types of organizations.
6. Strategic Management LIVE Chat – This section of the SMCO site offers excellent live-chat. You may meet other business policy students here from around the world and engage in live discussion on any aspect of strategic management.
7. Strategic Management Forum – This section of the SMCO site is a discussion, question, and answer area. You may post questions and receive answers later on any aspect of business policy or strategic management.