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Choose the option that best corrects the grammatical or logical error in the underlined fragment.

In the annals of corporate strategy, the decision by the multinational conglomerate to divest its failing subsidiaries, a move widely criticized by industry pundits at the time, eventually proved itself to be a masterstroke, significantly boosting their long-term profitability and market valuation.

A. (No change)
B. its long-term profitability and market valuation
C. their long-term profitability and the market valuation
D. its long-term profitability, as well as its market valuation

1. Identification of Error: Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement.
2. Grammatical Rule: A singular collective noun, when acting as a unified entity, requires a singular possessive pronoun. The antecedent "multinational conglomerate" is a singular entity, and thus requires the singular possessive pronoun "its" rather than the plural "their".
3. Option Elimination:
A. Incorrect — uses the plural possessive 'their' for the singular antecedent 'multinational conglomerate'.
B. Correct — correctly uses the singular possessive 'its' to agree with the singular antecedent 'multinational conglomerate'.
C. Incorrect — retains the plural possessive 'their' and introduces an unnecessary article 'the'.
D. Incorrect — while correcting the pronoun to 'its', it alters the phrasing by introducing "as well as its", which is less concise and grammatically less direct than the simple conjunction "and" in option B, which maintains perfect parallelism.

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