The Strategist Quiz (#208)
- What is the connection between GM’s Chevy Volt cars and the BP Gulf oil spill?
- Every week analysts of this firm offer stock tips at a gathering called “The trading huddle”. Some traders who make bets with the firm’s own money also attend it. Name the firm.
- The employees of which company have the phrase “Student of Lickonomics” on their uniforms?
- In the 1980s, the officials of this company looked for a designer who could help establish the firm as a world-class company. They created seven projects code-named after the Seven Dwarves on which the new design language was to be applied. Name the company and the designer.
- The MD of an Indian company is opening a homeopathy cum yoga clinic, a first of its kind in the world. He uses the principles of homeopathy to run his firm. Name him and his company.
- Which brand was the inspiration for Banglorean V Siddhartha who founded Café Coffee Day?
- Name the electronic invention by a Chinese pharmacist in 2003 that prompted the company he worked for to take on the product’s brand name. It received the first international patent in 2007.
- This person was the grandson of Napoleon Bonaparte’s youngest brother. He sowed the seeds to establish which famous organisation in the US in the early 1900s?
- What does the phrase “triple bottom line” mean and who coined it?
- This company has used several corporate logos in its history, yet the peacock is the most well known. What is the significance of using the peacock? The company introduced its first corporate logo in the early 1940s.
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