1. Your work on this project comes in doses: a) A First Draft ( ... at the three week point), b) A Best Draft ( ... at the five week point), and c) a Final Report (... at the seven week point). The First Draft is essentially a plan of what you are going to do - an outline that is only partially filled in. The Best Draft has most of this case work completed. The Final Report is what it is - your team's best effort in final form.

2. Also, there is an opportunity to use each team's efforts as a learning experience for the other teams - this could be a big learning multiplier - this happens all the time in business and business strategy - it is called benchmarking - but we have to be careful here in academia as we don't want teams just copying from another team's work. So let's have some rules to guide us in this. First, you will be posting your drafts up in the Discussions Panel of Blackboard - typically at the last second on the Sundays that they are due. So far, so good, but we will have a feature activated in Blackboard so that you will not be able to see another team's postings until the deadline for posting has passed. So, if the deadline is a Sunday at midnight, you will be able to see the other team's work on the following Monday. Then some fair-use rules - no lifting of direct words, calculations, images, or the like - limit yourself to getting ideas and approaches from another team's work - or, if you see some area in another team's draft that you have neglected in your draft, go and build your own work from scratch in this neglected area. I realize we are drawing a fine line Page 2 of 3 between plagiaris on the no-side and idea generation on the yes-side, so you will want to be sure you stay on the idea generation side.

3. For the format of the report, you have essentially two choices: A Word Document or a PowerPoint Presentation. In both cases, the format for a case report differs from most other writing. Here you start with the conclusion and tell your reader where to go in other places of your report for the support for your various conclusions. Your paper should therefore begin with a section entitled: SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS. This section might well go on for several pages. This is where you will briefly answer the key questions brought up by the case. In the text of this section, if it is a Word document, you will draw the reader's attention to which of a series of APPENDICES OR SUB-SECTIONS that develops the specific conclusions. If you choose the PowerPoint approach, these details might go in the Notes Feature of PowerPoint. Therefore, if one of the calculations values the company at a certain price, this fact might be mentioned in a sentence or two of the Summary containing its costs and effects. However, the precise calculations and development of the right price would appear in a separate Appendix later in the paper where this development might take one or two pages of text, calculations, references and citations, or several pages using the Notes Feature of PowerPoint. You might well have seven or eight separate appendices. The various theories, data, conditions, assumptions, spreadsheets and calculations all take place in the appendices. Material which comes from sources other than our text and from class notes should be cited in text and fully referenced in a bibliography. If you are using new techniques or outside non-mainstream methods, these should be explained fully and cited. If you are pulling stuff off the internet (where most material is sourced these day), be sure to give its address, etc. as a citation much as you might cite any other outside reference. Don't be afraid to put your re-cast statements on a spreadsheet and to do your valuation calculations on a spreadsheet - you have all worked with Excel, so put it to use.

4. Good work should look good; therefore, your hard work on the case should not be ruined by a poor presentation. While analytical content and strength of argument are important: thoroughness, neatness, spelling, grammatical structure, logic, accurate calculations and clarity of presentation all matter. Good case reports tend to look good - word processed throughout, charts and trend tables are prepared in professional graphics packages and spread sheet packages and transported to the word processing package for final printing, formulas are developed using Word Equation editor and likewise transported to the word processing text, etc. You should also make it easy for the reader to find things. Therefore, tabbing and highlighting might be appropriate as would good appendix numbering, page numbering, and even paragraph numbering.

5. A common criticism of team-work projects is that you find yourself reading one report that consists of a number of independent inputs that were stapled together. Your team should make considerable effort to integrate the separate efforts of each member. Therefore, my recommendation is that only one person should compose the main section - although all may and should edit it, and this person must have a thorough understanding of all the other appendices and sub-sections - however, all the other team members should equally have a good understanding of the other members' work so that they can edit the Summary intelligently.

6. Here at the end, we must cover options when the team is not working well - what do you do with a team member who is not working well for the team? You have essentially three choices: you can carry them; you can reform them, or you can fire them. A team should not have to carry an unproductive person, so hopefully you can reform them. However, if you Page 3 of 3 want to fire them, all that the instructor will ask is that you do the unpleasant work as a team, confront them with the news and the reason, and then tell your instructor later. The fired person can then continue on the case on their own with no stigma, or perhaps they can join another team. Another problem that sometimes arises is when you individually are a good worker, but your team is dysfunctional. So, you can also quit your team and press on alone, or join another team - but again, do tell your instructor of this.

7. At the end of each of the stages - First Draft, Best Draft, Final Report, you will get a grade from your instructor; all members will share this grade. At the end of the course, there will be a peer evaluation, and your instructor will hold the option to raise an individual's case grade by one whole letter grade, up or down, on the basis of the peer evaluations. However, this is a rarely exercised option - most peer evaluations come in as "We all did great" - in which case, nothing changes in the grading.

References:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p2oe7JWFHf8UDVukO6WDm441FX24uh3z/view?usp=share_link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XiSdrGofBFWeasZJ3DlRfkyYvaIjEsjC/view?usp=share_link

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