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Review the Strategic Management Project Background.
Familiarize yourself with the following terms and concepts discussed this week in preparation for completion of this assignment: vertical integration, taper integration, backward vertical integration, forward vertical integration, strategic alliances, global strategy, international strategy, innovation.
Create your strategic management research journal. You will use information from this entry in your presentation due in Week 5. Respond to the following prompts in your journal entry:
Identify Caterpillar Inc.'s short-term versus long term goals.
Evaluate how mergers and acquisitions in the past 5 years have contributed to Caterpillar Inc.'s performance.
Assess Caterpillar Inc.'s global strategy (international, multi-domestic, global-standardization, or transnational).
Discuss the types of innovation Caterpillar Inc.'s uses such as radical incremental, disruptive, and architectural innovation. Identify types of innovation Caterpillar Inc. has used over time.
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Describe the ethical challenges
: Describe the ethical challenges faced by organizations operating globally. Give full details of ethical challenges faced by global organizations
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Capm model expected return
: Problem: Rf=2%, Rm= 10% According to the CAPM model Expected Return X= 10 Expected Return Y= 6
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Application of corporate entrepreneurship
: Find an example, illustration, or application of this week's corporate entrepreneurship topics
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Calculate the price of the stock in six months
: Bob buys this put, and Rick enters into a long forward contract. In six months, Bob and Rick have the same pro?t. Calculate the price of the stock in six months
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Review the strategic management project background
: Identify Caterpillar Inc.'s short-term versus long term goals. how mergers and acquisitions in past 5 years have contributed to Caterpillar Inc.'s performance.
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How much of the child care expenses can be used
: Their AGI is $65,000, and their tax liability is $2,006. How much of the child care expenses can be used to claim the dependent care credit
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Determining the fixed rate mortgage loan
: Assume the bank offering a 30-year fixed rate mortgage loan, payable monthly at 5.25% annual interest rate does not charge any points.
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What is the average unit cost and total cost of the job
: If Peter charges a price to the builder that is 160% of the total job cost. what price will he charge for the iob? What is the average unit cost
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Calculate the selling price for bond-marks goldsmith
: Marks Goldsmith's broker has shown how bonds issued by different companies. Each has a maturity of 5 years, a par value of $1,000, and a yield to maturity
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