Although ultimate responsibility for implementing and executing strategy falls upon the shoulders of senior executives,

a. the success or failure of the implementation/execution effort hinges chiefly on a company's reward system and whether its policies and procedures are strategy-supportive.
b. top-level managers still have to rely on the active support and cooperation of middle and lower-level managers in pushing needed changes in functional areas and operating units.
c. the pivotal and most decisive strategy-implementing actions are carried out by frontline supervisors who have the day-to-day responsibility of seeing that key activities are done properly.
d. the success or failure of the implementation/execution effort hinges chiefly on doing an effective job of empowering employees to make day-to-day operating decisions that support good strategy execution.
e. it is a company's employees who most determine whether the drive for good strategy execution will succeed or fail.

Colter steel has $5,550,000 in assets. temporary current assets $ 3,100,000 permanent current assets 1,605,000 fixed assets 845,000 total assets $ 5,550,000 assume the term structure of interest rates becomes inverted, with short-term rates going to 10 percent and long-term rates 2 percentage points lower than short-term rates. earnings before interest and taxes are $1,170,000. the tax rate is 40 percent earnings after taxes = ?

David burdick is the ceo of acme bubblegum, a successful public company. as one of the cofounders of the company, burdick has enjoyed speaking and writing about the success of acme bubblegum for several years. typically, he speaks at conferences or directly to the press, but recently, he has been blogging about his firm anonymously. specifically, he defended a recent advertising campaign that was unpopular among consumers and pointedly attacked one of acme bubblegum’s competitors. burdick deeply enjoys his anonymous blogging and believes that none of his readers actually know that he works for acme bubblegum.should burdick be allowed to praise his company’s performance anonymously online? should he be allowed to attack his competitors without disclosing his relationship with the company? how would you feel if the ceo of a company at which you shopped was secretly writing criticisms of his or her competition? how would you feel if you knew a writer for your favorite blog was actually closely involved in a company that the blog discussed? 1. define the ethical issue? 2. who are the primary stakeholders? 3. what are the possible alternatives? 4. how could you evaluate the ethical implications of the alternative actions (use appropriate decision rules)? 5. what action would you recommend and why?

Dollar shave club is an ecommerce start-up that delivers razors to its subscribers by mail. by doing this, dollar shave club is using a(n) to disrupt an existing market.a. innovation ecosystem b. architectural innovation c. business model innovation d. incremental innovation