The CEO of Transector, Inc., set a 6.5 percent rate-of-retur…

The CEO of Transector, Inc., set a 6.5 percent rate-of-return target for all divisions for the past year. Now, at the end of the year, three of Transector’s seven divisions have not met this rate-of-return goal. The division managers of these three underperforming divisions have all secretly contacted executive-placement firms to investigate openings at other firms, because they know their future at Transector is in jeopardy as financial performance is all-important at Transector. Transector probably uses the __________ structure.

At a recent stockholders meeting for Ignate Inc., a group of…

At a recent stockholders meeting for Ignate Inc., a group of stockholders expressed disagreement with the way that the managers were using free cash flow.  Because they wanted to be able to control how the cash is invested, the stockholders lobbied that the free cash flow should be: