BUSI 400 Strategic Planning/Business Policy Sample Papers, Week by Week

Liberty University · BS in Business Administration · Business and accounting · Updated

BUSI 400 is the capstone strategy course: students practice the full strategic management process, from vision and mission through external and internal assessment, strategy formulation with matrices such as the SWOT, SPACE and QSPM, implementation and evaluation, along with ethics, sustainability and global issues. The samples below apply every stage to one public company, The Hershey Company, using its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, from its cocoa sourcing ethics and mission statement to a recommended strategy and implementation plan.

CourseBUSI 400 Strategic Planning/Business Policy (BUSI400)
Credit hours3
ProgramBS in Business Administration
Length8 Module/Weeks, online
Weeks with written work8 of 8
Samples on this site8 week sample papers
SourcesLiberty's 2026-2027 catalog and the published BUSI 400 course guide
UpdatedOctober 2026

What BUSI 400 covers

Assurance of Learning exercises apply each chapter's tools to the cohesion case, two completed individually and four in assigned groups; four case analyses, two individual and two group, diagnose a company's strategic issues, evaluate alternatives and recommend a workable action plan.

Group members rate one another after every group assignment, and each student's grade on the group work is multiplied by the average peer evaluation score, so a 100 on a group case with an 80 percent peer average becomes an 80.

Liberty's 2026-2027 catalog describes BUSI 400 Strategic Planning/Business Policy this way:
This course serves as the capstone for all business administration majors. Students integrate the concepts, techniques, and knowledge of the common professional components (CPC) of business administration. Course topics include a review of the CPC, strategic management theory/practices, and business analysis tools. Additionally, the course requires students to undertake a research project that is discipline-specific to strategic management and business decisions within a business environment.

BUSI 400 week by week, with the sample for each

WeekWritten work in the course guidePointsSample
Week 1Individual Assurance of Learning Exercise 1125Read the Week 1 sample
Week 2Group Assurance of Learning Exercise 162.5Read the Week 2 sample
Week 3Group Assurance of Learning Exercise 262.5Read the Week 3 sample
Week 4Individual Case Analysis 1125Read the Week 4 sample
Week 5Individual Assurance of Learning Exercise 2 (Group Assurance of Learning Exercise 3 also due)125Read the Week 5 sample
Week 6Group Case Analysis 1125Read the Week 6 sample
Week 7Individual Case Analysis 2 (Group Assurance of Learning Exercise 4 also due)125Read the Week 7 sample
Week 8Group Case Analysis 2125Read the Week 8 sample

Where BUSI 400 papers lose points

BUSI 400 work loses points when matrices are filled with generic factors rather than the company's actual numbers, when weights and ratings are assigned without justification, when recommendations do not follow from the analysis, and when action plans lack costs, timelines or responsibility.

Using a BUSI 400 sample well

The samples draw on The Hershey Company's annual reports and financial data from the Securities and Exchange Commission, research on mission statements, the resource-based view, industry effects, diversification and corporate social responsibility, and a report on child labor in West African cocoa, with David and David's Strategic Management.

BUSI 400 questions, answered

What are Assurance of Learning exercises in BUSI 400?

Experiential exercises from David and David that apply each chapter's strategic tools to the textbook's cohesion case, completed individually or in assigned groups across the eight modules/weeks.

How do BUSI 400 peer evaluations affect grades?

Each student's grade on a group assignment is multiplied by the average of the peer evaluation scores the student receives, so weak participation lowers the individual grade.

What strategic tools does BUSI 400 use?

The vision and mission statement analysis, external and internal factor evaluation matrices, the competitive profile matrix, SWOT, SPACE, BCG and IE matrices, and the quantitative strategic planning matrix, among others.

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