Question: Please identify relevant data for the following business issues: A slowdown in demand served and a shutdown of stores due to the COVID-19 as wake-up

Please identify relevant data for the following business issues:

  1. A slowdown in demand served and a shutdown of stores due to the COVID-19 as wake-up calls for Firm A. Touching customers and bringing them back was crucial to success. (3)

  1. Firm B, a Fortune 500 retailer with more than 2,000 stores, finds that its supplier is not capable enough to support the companys growth. Its supplier is now suffering from government regulation on its industry. Also, the performance of Firm As partnership with its supplier is becoming poor as the imbalance in power and conflicts of interests increase. (3)

  1. Firm C is an academic medical center with facilities in the US Europe and the Middle East. Despite all its success, our client operates in a very challenging environment. Its competitors are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on research, improved patient experience, new facilities, staff, and technology. In particular, the basis of competition shifted from a specific health encounter to a lifetime of care, which forms an emerging market. Firm C has to make a decision now: whether it should enter this new market as its competitors have already done. (3)

  1. Firm D, a large media company in the media and entertainment industry, is facing the challenge from Firm E, a company in the digital platform industry. Firms Ds stock price has fallen due to reduced investor confidence in the company and the industry. (3)

  1. Integrity violations, such as fraud and corruption, are serious governance challenges that threaten all large multinationals. Firm F, a global electronics company, found itself facing corruption allegations when it was discovered that salespeople at one of its subsidiaries had been concealing payments to third parties and improperly retaining consultants. Hit with significant fines by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the company has experienced a high level of costs and thus the debt has reached the highest point of its history. Whats worse, the event has become a scandal and the company reputation has been stigmatized. (3)

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