Gaining experience in making effective presentations is an important part of this course. Role-playingis helpful in this regard. The presentation group will play the role of a team of outside consultants who have been hired by the corporate headquarters staff (class) to present independent recommendations and a solution to the problem at hand.Presentation sessions will be organized as follows. At the beginning of the session each student from the designated teams will turn in strategy papers (see schedule below). The presentation team will come prepared to present the case with a complete set of power point, or equivalent, slides -- one set of which will be turned in to me. All of the assumptions necessary to solve the case should be collected together and displayed on one or more contiguous slides. The presentation group will have 40 (uninterrupted) minutes in which to make their formal presentation. [Note: Since you are addressing a Corporate Headquarters Group it is neither necessary nor desirable to spend any time summarizing background material that would be general knowledge for any of the corporation's executives. You may find it helpful, however, to call attention to specific elements of the economic and competitive environments that are relevant to your approach.] After the presentation team has finished, the interrogation team and then the headquarters staff will become involved in a question and answer session. The interrogation team will assume the role of the Financial Analysis Group within the corporate headquarters which has concurrently (and independently) accomplished an in-depth analysis of the problem. The interrogation team is, of course, expected to initially take the lead in critically evaluating the consultants' report. The critique will largely be accomplished by asking questions. The primary responsibility of the interrogation group in this regard is to make certain that they and the headquarters staff completely understand the analysis presented by the consultants. (After all, we are paying these consultants handsomely, and we must benefit as much as possible from their presentation!) Among other things, the interrogation team will frequently find it helpful to do one or more of the following:· Require justification of any questionable assumptions.· Ask for the re-display of overheads which were too hastily displayed or discussed.· Make sure that complex calculations are thoroughly developed and understood.· Make sure that important data sources are identified.· Require the consultants to justify their choice of alternatives (where there are clearly multiple alternatives).After the interrogation team has finished, others in the class will become involved in a general question and answer session.It is important to limit presentation time to 40 minutes to allow sufficient time for class discussion and my concluding comments. As a general guideline, we will allow 40 min. for the presentation, 25 min. for the interrogation, 25 min. for the general question and answer session, and 5-10 min. for my comments. I have a policy of non-interference during the presentation, interrogation, and the question and answer session. I will limit my participation to closing comments on one or more of the following areas.· The general approach to the case, and the reasonableness of assumptions.· Internal consistency. Given the team's assumptions, were their solution and their recommendations generally consistent with the approach taken?· Relevant generalizations or extensions.· The outcome of the case (if available)