Consolidating Effects

  

Suppose you’re in a very difficult course here at the University. Perhaps a Math or Accounting section that demands you fully understand the material weekly, and can apply it practically. After the first call, your eyes can’t focus, you have a terrible headache, and it’s all because you have no idea what was just covered. To your surprise (and relief) fellow students send out an email asking for recommendations to a new University because they also had no idea what was just covered the first class.

Then, you have an idea; perhaps there might be an opportunity for a joint venture to consolidate your ideas, your specific talents, and possibly, maybe, if the stars and planets align, pass with even a 61 average! You have a chance! Describe the trade-offs that might be associated with such an initiative across competitors because, you are competitors. It’s been long thought the students with the higher grades get the better jobs (complete falsehood, but let’s go with it for this discussion)! Discuss the benefits and risks of such a strategy.

Take some of the key terms from this week’s Chapter 13 material and make the assimilation!