Graduate (S) Business Administration 503 FUNDAMENTALS OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS
	Summer 2011

"Well-Timed Strategy" Case Analysis

Read the case "The Well-Timed Strategy:  Managing the Business Cycle" by Peter Navarro.

1.  Write a brief summary of the case, focusing on the strategies discussed in the section entitled "The Master Cyclist Management Wheel" starting on page 78.  For each strategy, mention how an example given in the case applies to the situation.

2.  How would the strategies outlined apply today to your current or previous place of employment?  If a strategy doesn't apply, just indicate that that is the case.

3.  The case discusses two key controversies when trying to manage the business cycle.  How would these controversies impact your answer in (2) above?

The summary and analysis should be roughly 2 - 5 typed, doubled spaced pages.  It is due on Wednesday, July 13.