The one factor that company executives need not worry about when their company is managing many diverse, unrelated firms is

a. knowing what to do if a business unit stumbles.

b. staying abreast of what's happening in each industry and subsidiary.

c. managing by the numbers"—that is, keeping a close track on the financial and operating results of each subsidiary.

d. picking business-unit heads who have the requisite combination of managerial skills and know-how to motivate people.

e. understanding the true value of strategic investment proposals by business-unit managers.

You are opening a new store and must project in your business plan the amount of inventory shrinkage. you have forecasted $1,200,000 in sales for the first year. assuming your shrinkage will be 5%, the high end of the national average, calculate the projected annual shrinkage for your business plan. you are opening a new store and must project in your business plan the amount of inventory shrinkage. you have forecasted $1,200,000 in sales for the first year. assuming your shrinkage will be 5%, the high end of the national average, calculate the projected annual shrinkage for your business plan.

He set of companies a product goes through on the way to the consumer is called the a. economic utility b. cottage industry c. market saturation d. distribution chain

Which of these things did galileo not do? a. stop publishing his scientific work after being convicted of heresy b. invent the concept of acceleration c. experiment with rolling balls down ramps of increasing steepness to test how objects would fall d. argue that earth moves around the sun e. make up a thought experiment that indicated that objects would fall at the same rate