1. How would you describe the Yahoo corporate culture prior to Marissa Mayer becoming CEO? How might this have slowed her ability to transform the company?

Yahoo has a Work from home Culture which was adversely affecting the company.

The yahoo culture have been seen as a dying giant ever since Google overtook them in search engines and that feeling affected the workforce that remains at Yahoo.

HOW MIGHT IT HAS SLOWED DOWN MARISSA MAYER'S ABILITY TO TRANSFORM THE COMPANY?

1) Majority of the yahoo workforce found it very difficult to come to work,they want to continue to work from home.

2) The yahoo workforce lacked the team team work style which occurs in the work place.

Explanation: Marisa Mayer is an American people prominent business woman famous for her role as the Yahoo CEO a position which she held between the year 20012 to 2017.

When she was hired by Yahoo,Marisa Mayer wants to bring about a total transformation of the company and make it a real player in social media, and a much bigger digital-media property that could generate increased revenue from its large audience.

Marisa mayer spent about $1 billion on Tumblr, which after three years was not able to produced any significant revenue, she later resigned after when Verizon bought Yahoo.

Yahoo had a culture of work from home,which seriously affected the fortunes of the company,These and other factors seriously slowed down her efforts to transform the company.