• Why do companies prefer the make decision (integration) over the buy decision (outsourcing)?
• What are the advantages of outsourcing compared to integration?
• What would be an example of forward vertical integration, and backward integration?
• What benefits could Costco gain by integrating the chicken farming step of its supply chain?
• What risks or challenges might Costco face when integrating the chicken farming operations into its business?
• What steps of the supply chain would your company of your business plan would be better to make, buy, or ally? Why? What is the reasoning of your decision?

• Read Van Duzer's book, "Why Business Matters to God"
  • Chapter 4 (Putting it Back Together)
• On page 114 of the book, what does Van Duzer mean by, "business must concern itself with redemptive as well as creative work"?
• Can you find an example of a business doing redemptive and creative work?
• If you were the CEO of a business, it what ways could your business engage in redemptive and creative work?
• On page 118, what does Van Duzer mean by, "for now, business operates in the messy middle"?
• Do you believe that Christians in business have a moral imperative to keep their business going? Always? That is, is the survival of the business the highest value that a Christian in business will pursue or, at times, might a Christian be called to take choices that will end up destroying the business?