Advise a guideline and accompanying key points on how to address this MBA question:

  

1. Identify stylized facts on how top management team characteristics affect a firm's strategic decisions, such as investment, R&D investment, technology adoption, and mergers and acquisitions.

2. Develop a framework on how the configuration of a firm's top management team affects the firm's strategic decisions and performance.

3. Use the framework to explain the strategic decisions of a firm of your choice.

4. Explain how the firm may reconfigure its top management team to improve its performance.

Provide a systematic analysis with theory and concepts. It is important to inform your analysis by referring to relevant (secondary) data. The use of peer-reviewed academic journals is essential.