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Book SynopsisThis book, written in story narrative form, traces the development of a company from a start-up to a global enterprise. It develops the key concepts related to this evolution — corporate strategy, raising external finance, capital budgeting, dividend policy, mergers and acquisition, globalization, marketing and human resource management. The focus is on topics in corporate strategy and corporate finance, and each topic is developed in depth with problem sets and reflection questions within the context of the organization's evolution.The Power Point slides, practice problems and solutions, as well as intervention exercises for executive education teaching is available upon request for all instructors who adopt this book as a course text. Please send your request to sales@wspc.com.
Table of ContentsTime for Action: Jerry Says Hello to Finance and Takes the Plunge; The Source of Value: Strategy; Risk and Value: Why Should Jerry Care?; More on Economic Profit; Comprehensive Resource Allocation: A Training Seminar; Acquiring a Firm; Resource Allocation for Non-Traditional Projects; Post-Acquisition Integration Issues; Managing in Tough Times Versus Innovating; and other papers.
