Chapter 9 Please answer the following questions for the company (( Pfizer))) This is not a…

Chapter 9
Please answer the following questions for the company ((
Pfizer))) This is not a case analysis. there is no case. I
just need the questions answered for the company
Pfizer.
1. Use Exhibit 9.1 as a decision tree guide on your
focal firm. Identify a strategic resource gap to study about the
firm. Use the related questions to guide your thinking on the
appropriate corporate strategy (build, borrow, or buy) to employ to
close this gap and move the company forward.

2. Research what strategic alliances your firm has enter
in the past three years. If there are several of these, choose the
three you identify as the most important for further analysis.
Based on company press releases and business journal reports for
each alliance, what do you find to be the main reason the firm
entered these alliances?
3. Do you think each of the three alliances achieves the
original intent and therefore is successful? Why or why
not?
4. Does your firm have an identifiable alliance
management organization? Can you find any evidence that this
organization improves the likelihood of success for these
alliances? What responsibilities does this alliance management
organization have in your firm?
5. Has your firm participated in any mergers or
acquisitions in the past three years? What was the nature of these
actions? Did they result in a consolidation of
competitors?
EXHIBIT 9.1 Guiding Corporate Strategy The Build-Borrow-orBuy Framework Resource Gap Low Low High Low Revisit bulld-borrow-buy options or reformulate strateg How relevant are Interna How close to your resource How well can you integate the target firm? How tradable ey Question are the targeted resources? High Low Strategic Alllance Internal Development Action – Contract Equity Alliance . Jolnt Venture Buy-Borrow- or-Bulld? Bulld Borrow Buy Contractual Alliance Alliance with Equity Source: Adapted from L Capron and W Mitchell 2021 Buld Borro ?, ? By SaMng the Groth Diemma(Boston, MA Harvard Busness Re aw Press)