The Strategist Quiz (#123)
- Name the brand whose up to 43 wood parts include mahogany from west Africa, maple from North America and pure wool from Australia, north China and California .
- In which brand’s product will you find the world’s smallest Bhagavad-Gita engraved or imprinted?
- Where will you get to use a service called Blue&Me? Also, name its providers.
- When one its large stores opened in 1965, on the first day there were more customers than the store could handle. Therefore, the store manager made a judgement call and let the customers choose items from the warehouse attached to the store. Since then it has become a successful operating model for this company. Name the company.
- Who was awarded a patent for “a method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications network”?
- Where in India are coffee mugs being sold as souvenirs with an image of a bullet shot by terrorists in November 2008 in Mumbai?
- The Telegraph, Sunday, The Asian Age and ______ . Link the commonality between the three and fill in the blank.
- When this article was written by two professors in 1998, no management journal was willing to publish it. Finally, in 2002 strategy+business published it. Its title is today a well-known management and industry jargon. What was the title of the article?
- To which company are the following attributed: Stereo sound, broadcast TV, a secret device that helped defeat the Nazis and the CAT scanner?
- Name this US company and its Indian parent company: It owns premium brands called Hi-Val and Checkers.
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