BMAL 590 (BMAL590) EXAM STUDY GUIDE
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What Is Statistics? - ANSWER "Statistics is a way to get information from data."
Statistics is a tool for creating new understanding from a set of numbers.
You need data and information
descriptive statistics - ANSWER one of two branches of statistics which focuses
on methods of organizing, summarizing, and presenting data in a convenient and
informative way.
One form of descriptive statistics uses graphical techniques which allow statistics
practitioners to present data in ways that make it easy for the reader to extract
useful information.
Another form of descriptive statistics uses numerical techniques to summarize
data. Rather than providing the raw data, the professor may only share summary
data with the student.
, Histogram - ANSWER (or bar graph) can show if the data is evenly distributed
across the range of values, if it falls symmetrically from a center peak (normal
distribution), if there is a peak but the more of the data falls on one side of the peak
than the other (a skewed distribution), or if there are two or more peaks in the data
(bi- or multi-modal).
average - ANSWER mean
range - ANSWER calculated by subtracting the smallest number from the largest.
mode - ANSWER the most frequently occurring score(s) in a distribution
variance - ANSWER the average squared deviation from the mean
Standard deviation - ANSWER the square root of the variance and gets the
variability measure back to the same units as the data. Standard deviation has many
useful properties when the data is normally distributed
inferential statistics - ANSWER a body of methods used to draw conclusions or
inferences about characteristics of populations based on sample data.
Exit polls are a very common application of statistical inference.
Why Study Global Strategy? - ANSWER Knowing the concepts and components
of global strategy will improve job and career aspiration opportunities, build
awareness of what is occurring in the world, and avoid the downside risks of
globalization.
Approximately 80 million people worldwide are directly employed by foreign-
owned firms.
, global strategy - ANSWER a firm's intention to provide standardized products
and/or services on a world-wide basis. Another definition suggests that global
strategy is any strategy outside one's home country.
However, the best definition is that "global strategy" is each firm's theory about
how to compete successfully in whatever global markets the firm chooses to
compete.
"strategy as plan" - ANSWER The first school of thought
This school is the oldest and is based on the work of Carl von Clausewitz, a
Prussian (German) military strategist. This school suggests that strategy is
embodied in the same explicit rigorous formal planning as in the military.
"strategy as action" - ANSWER suggests that strategy is most fundamentally
reflected by firms' patterns of action.
The planning school has been challenged by Liddell Hart, a British military
strategist. Hart argues that the key to strategy is a set of flexible goal-oriented
actions. He favored an indirect approach, which seeks rapid flexible actions to
avoid clashing with opponents head-on.
emergent strategy - ANSWER Henry Mintzberg, a Canadian scholar, posited that
in addition to the intended strategy that the planning school emphasizes, there can
be an emergent strategy that is not the result of "top-down" planning, but that is the
outcome of a stream of smaller decisions from the "bottom up."
"strategy as integration" - ANSWER Although the debate between the planning
school and action school is difficult to resolve, many scholars and managers have
, realized that the essence of strategy is likely to be a combination of both planned
deliberate actions and unplanned emergent activities
defines strategy as "a firm's theory about how to compete successfully." In other
words, if we have to define strategy with one word, our choice is neither plan nor
action - it is theory. A theory serves two purposes: explanation and prediction.
Strategy as a theory - ANSWER describes how to compete successfully in a
global market. Firms have both intended and emergent strategies, meaning, some
strategies are defined from the outset while others develop with the firm's
participation in the marketplace.
It is often difficult to change strategy so firms must guard against total adherence
to a strategy because to do so would hamper adaptation in new situations. Strategy
should continue to give coherence to decisions and actions. Managers must exert
effective strategic leadership both in a global and a local perspective.
Theory building and development requires replication and experimentation to
establish the temporal (time-related) and geographic limits of an existing theory.
The strategy as theory perspective helps us understand why it is often difficult to
change strategy.
Why do firms differ? - ANSWER The largest influences are a reflection of the
cultural differences between Western and Japanese companies.
In Western firms, the competition among companies drives the process. In other
companies, like the Japanese, networks of relationships have powerful effects.
Where does most of our knowledge of firms come from? - ANSWER Anglo-
American capitalism
2026/2027 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS ||
100% GUARANTEED PASS
<NEWEST VERSION>
What Is Statistics? - ANSWER "Statistics is a way to get information from data."
Statistics is a tool for creating new understanding from a set of numbers.
You need data and information
descriptive statistics - ANSWER one of two branches of statistics which focuses
on methods of organizing, summarizing, and presenting data in a convenient and
informative way.
One form of descriptive statistics uses graphical techniques which allow statistics
practitioners to present data in ways that make it easy for the reader to extract
useful information.
Another form of descriptive statistics uses numerical techniques to summarize
data. Rather than providing the raw data, the professor may only share summary
data with the student.
, Histogram - ANSWER (or bar graph) can show if the data is evenly distributed
across the range of values, if it falls symmetrically from a center peak (normal
distribution), if there is a peak but the more of the data falls on one side of the peak
than the other (a skewed distribution), or if there are two or more peaks in the data
(bi- or multi-modal).
average - ANSWER mean
range - ANSWER calculated by subtracting the smallest number from the largest.
mode - ANSWER the most frequently occurring score(s) in a distribution
variance - ANSWER the average squared deviation from the mean
Standard deviation - ANSWER the square root of the variance and gets the
variability measure back to the same units as the data. Standard deviation has many
useful properties when the data is normally distributed
inferential statistics - ANSWER a body of methods used to draw conclusions or
inferences about characteristics of populations based on sample data.
Exit polls are a very common application of statistical inference.
Why Study Global Strategy? - ANSWER Knowing the concepts and components
of global strategy will improve job and career aspiration opportunities, build
awareness of what is occurring in the world, and avoid the downside risks of
globalization.
Approximately 80 million people worldwide are directly employed by foreign-
owned firms.
, global strategy - ANSWER a firm's intention to provide standardized products
and/or services on a world-wide basis. Another definition suggests that global
strategy is any strategy outside one's home country.
However, the best definition is that "global strategy" is each firm's theory about
how to compete successfully in whatever global markets the firm chooses to
compete.
"strategy as plan" - ANSWER The first school of thought
This school is the oldest and is based on the work of Carl von Clausewitz, a
Prussian (German) military strategist. This school suggests that strategy is
embodied in the same explicit rigorous formal planning as in the military.
"strategy as action" - ANSWER suggests that strategy is most fundamentally
reflected by firms' patterns of action.
The planning school has been challenged by Liddell Hart, a British military
strategist. Hart argues that the key to strategy is a set of flexible goal-oriented
actions. He favored an indirect approach, which seeks rapid flexible actions to
avoid clashing with opponents head-on.
emergent strategy - ANSWER Henry Mintzberg, a Canadian scholar, posited that
in addition to the intended strategy that the planning school emphasizes, there can
be an emergent strategy that is not the result of "top-down" planning, but that is the
outcome of a stream of smaller decisions from the "bottom up."
"strategy as integration" - ANSWER Although the debate between the planning
school and action school is difficult to resolve, many scholars and managers have
, realized that the essence of strategy is likely to be a combination of both planned
deliberate actions and unplanned emergent activities
defines strategy as "a firm's theory about how to compete successfully." In other
words, if we have to define strategy with one word, our choice is neither plan nor
action - it is theory. A theory serves two purposes: explanation and prediction.
Strategy as a theory - ANSWER describes how to compete successfully in a
global market. Firms have both intended and emergent strategies, meaning, some
strategies are defined from the outset while others develop with the firm's
participation in the marketplace.
It is often difficult to change strategy so firms must guard against total adherence
to a strategy because to do so would hamper adaptation in new situations. Strategy
should continue to give coherence to decisions and actions. Managers must exert
effective strategic leadership both in a global and a local perspective.
Theory building and development requires replication and experimentation to
establish the temporal (time-related) and geographic limits of an existing theory.
The strategy as theory perspective helps us understand why it is often difficult to
change strategy.
Why do firms differ? - ANSWER The largest influences are a reflection of the
cultural differences between Western and Japanese companies.
In Western firms, the competition among companies drives the process. In other
companies, like the Japanese, networks of relationships have powerful effects.
Where does most of our knowledge of firms come from? - ANSWER Anglo-
American capitalism
