- This paper is based on the following requirement -
Overview
To analyze a case study, therefore, you must examine closely the issues confronting the company. Most often, you will need to read the case several times — once to grasp the overall picture of what is happening to the company and then several times more to discover and grasp the specific problems.
Action Items
Read the final case: Keeping it Clean During COVID-19: The Sanitizer Shortage.
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Review the Case Study Analysis Report Guidelines, which include but are not limited to:
Write a minimum 5-page Case Study Analysis report.
Opening: Provide an overview of the overall case to inform the reader about the case.
Incorporate your thoughts, supported by facts using outside sources, for the following questions into the main part of the paper:
What kinds of products will most likely face a shortage during a pandemic?
How might these shortages impact consumer behavior?
Explain, in detail, types of strategies a company may use to control shortages and how these strategies may impact consumers and governments (e.g., pricing strategies, managing supply, imports, exports, etc.).
Conclude by separating the strategies you mentioned into the two separate categories of supply and demand. Then state which strategy would be the best, in your opinion, to reduce the impact of a shortage, and why.
