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1) State and describe the management tool with which the top management of a firm views its product lines and business units as a series of investments from which it expects a profitable return.
2) What is the appropriate strategy for a firm that has a weak competitive position in some or all of its product lines resulting in poor performance - sales are down and profits are becoming losses? Show depth in your response to this question.
Strategies to choose from: corporate strategy, directional strategy, portfolio analysis, parenting strategy (or called Corporate Parenting), horizontal strategy, multipoint competition.
3) Which of the strategies discussed in chapter 7 might be useful only to help a company get through a temporary difficulty? Show depth in your response to this question.
Strategies to choose from: corporate strategy, directional strategy, portfolio analysis, parenting strategy (or called Corporate Parenting), horizontal strategy, multipoint competition.