Does Sara Lee’s portfolio exhibit good strategic fit? What value-chain match-ups do you see? What opportunities for skills transfer, cost sharing, or brand sharing do you see?
6. What is your assessment of Sara Lee’s financial and operating performance in fiscal years 2008-2010, the period following the divestitures that were the core of Sara Lee’s retrenchment strategy?
7. What is your overall evaluation of Sara Lee’s retrenchment plan? What evidence and/or reasons support a conclusion that Sara Lee’s shareholders have or have not benefitted from the company’s retrenchment strategy?

Corporate Strategy
POST MODULE INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT
Due date: Monday 27 August
Maximum word count: 2500 words (i.e. circa 6 pages, including exhibits, tables,
appendices, etc.).

You will be asked to individually select a corporation – any corporation you
are interested in studying, other than the companies discussed during the
course, – and to analyze some aspect of its corporate strategy. In your paper,
you should first describe in some detail what are the main expansion options
that the firm is pursuing and then go on to analyze how sound the strategy is
and make predictions in terms of whether this strategy will create or destroy
value.
More specific information on the post-module assignment will be provided during
the course.

Please answer all assignment questions