1. What are Starbucks strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats?

2. How does your experience with leadership and management compare with the case of Starbucks?

3. Planning is a key component to the P-O-L-C framework. What type of planning do you think the founders of Starbucks engaged in?

4. What competitive advantages (based on the Value Chain framework) does Starbucks seem to possess?

5. Based on Porter’s strategies, which type of strategy do you see Starbucks employing? Support your response.