The Strategist Quiz (#389)

1. This person was the former dean of Harvard Business School and was also a Quartermaster General during the World War II. He set up one the first of its kind entities to invest in businesses run by World War II veterans in 1946. Name the person and the company.
    
2. What is McDonalds rationing since the middle of December 2014 in Japan in all its 3,200 outlets because of dock worker disputes in the ports on the US west coast?
    
3. Connect Queen Victoria and US President Dwight Eisenhower and state the first of its kind activity both of them were involved during Christmas for their respective countries.
    
4. This Naval historian published a humorous essay in the Economist way back in the 1950s with scientific observations supporting the fact that the number of employees increased at the Colonial office as Great Britain's overseas empire declined. Name the person whose postulates went on to become a law in Economics.
    
5. This person nicknamed as the Boss was part of a team, which was called the Barn gang. His most famous invention with the barn gang led to the formation of a company in 1909. Name him and the company.
    
6. The founder of which brand said this: "Through the years, I have greatly feared and sought to keep at bay the four beasts that inevitably devour their keeper - Ego, Envy, Avarice, and Ambition. In 1984, I severed all connections with business for a life of isolation and anonymity, convinced I was making a great bargain by trading money for time, position for liberty, and ego for contentment - that the beasts were securely caged."
    
7. What is Action office II and what did it lead to?
    
8. Which luxury brand has chosen Kim Kardashian and her husband Kanye West as its new brand ambassadors?
    
9. Which brand uses this baseline "Transform Today"?
    
10. Name the company from its logo.

 

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