(a) Critically examine any 11 Grand Strategies in terms of their characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages. (b) Comprehensively analyze Porter’s Generic Strategies and for each generic strategy, provide detailed examples of two companies each that have adopted each named generic strategy. (c) Research and find out real Ghanaian corporate examples over the past three decades that fit each Grand Strategy described above in (a) above. (precede each example with a paragraph on the background of the company being named) (d) Investigate what accounted for the success or failure of each example stated in (b) above and provide superior recommendations that would have helped such companies in those instances to achieve their objectives.

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(a) Critically examine any 11 Grand Strategies in terms of their characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages.
(b) Comprehensively analyze Porter’s Generic Strategies and for each generic strategy, provide detailed examples of two companies each that have adopted each named generic strategy.
(c) Research and find out real Ghanaian corporate examples over the past three decades that fit each Grand Strategy described above in (a) above. (precede each example with a paragraph on the background of the company being named)
(d) Investigate what accounted for the success or failure of each example stated in (b) above and provide superior recommendations that would have helped such companies in those instances to achieve their objectives.

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