Objective: The purpose of this assignment is to encourage and allow each student to analyze the financial, market and organization dynamics of a company. Some case studies are intended to evaluate what went wrong with the target firm. Others are assigned to let students learn how the firmmanaged to succeed, such as properly balancing business opportunities against financial, regulatory or human resource constraints. In all cases, the assignments are intended to let students learn from examples and to demonstrate their abilities to assess and articulate the core business issues of success and failure in a strategic management context.