Diploma Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,7, Leipzig Graduate School of Management (Betriebswirtschaft), course: Rechnungswesen, Wirtschaftsprufung und Controlling, language: English, abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Abstract: The ultimate management challenge is said to be the management of a conglomerate. Diversified companies, especially conglomerates, are complex organisations that in the larger cases resemble full-blown economies, rather than firms. They develop internal capital markets with billion dollar budgets,...