Corporate Restructuring Strategies

question 122

Multiple Choice

Corporate restructuring strategies

• A)involve making major changes in a diversified company's business lineup, divesting some businesses and/or acquiring others, so as to put a whole new face on the company's business lineup.
• B)entail reducing the scope of diversification to a smaller number of businesses.
• C)entail selling off marginal businesses to free up resources for redeployment to the remaining businesses.
• D)focus on crafting initiatives to restore a diversified company's money-losing businesses to profitability.
• E)focus on broadening the scope of diversification to include a larger number of businesses and boosting the company's growth and profitability.

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