Answers to the Strategist quiz (#523)

Strategy Quiz (#523) answers

1. Connect a British food manufacturing and restaurant chain founded in the 1880s, former PM Margaret Thatcher working as a chemist prior to becoming a barrister and helping develop methods for preserving ice cream and the first business computer

J. Lyons & Co. founded in 1884. The top management, with its background in the use of mechanical adding machines, saw the necessity of new electrical computers for the distribution of cakes and other perishable goods. They substantially financed the University of Cambridge’s Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator which was the second electronic digital stored-programme computer to go into regular service, and built their own versions becoming the first user of these in businesses, with the LEO I digital computer in 1951

2. Which company seems to be growing fairly well by adopting its Mode 1-2-3 strategy?

HCL Technologies

3. A “__” is a highly probable, high impact yet neglected threat: kin to both the elephant in the room and the improbable black swan. Fill in the blank and also mention who are being referred to as __ in China.

Grey rhinos. The rhinos are a herd of Chinese business tycoons who have used a combination of political connections and cheap debt provided by state banks to create global conglomerates

4. Which company’s CEO calls his conference room an “aquarium” because it is made of glass walls?

Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook

5. The French Ebauches was founded in 1965 by the merger of the four most important French producers of watch movements and components. What role did it play in India in the mid-1980s?

It was a part of the tripartite venture of Titan Watches Limited. The Tatas, TIDCO and Ebauches

6. This person is the only member of this business family to have contested the Lok Sabha elections in 1971 from the South Bombay constituency. One of his opponents was George Fernandes. Name him.

Naval Tata, husband of Simone Tata

7. __ is a genus of stingless bees, one of the 40 known species in the warm areas of South America. It provided Mexico with a 300-year-long monopoly on production of __, from its discovery by Europeans till a scientist in the 1830s found a method for artificial pollination. It gets its name from the Latin word vagina. Name the bee and the commodity.

Vanilla. The flowers can be naturally pollinated only by bees of the Melipona (Mountain Bee) genus found in Mexico

8. This company creates fibers based on proteins found in nature, then develops cleaner, closed-loop manufacturing protocol with green chemistry practices. Its cutting-edge tech creates silk using yeast for vegan-friendly textile. Stella McCartney is a partner. Name it.

Bolt Threads, a bay area-based biotech start up

9. In 2012 this brand had the 50th anniversary of the __ and was awarded the Guinness world record for largest tyre manufacturer per annum.

Lego and Lego Wheel

10. Name and link the two companies. Company No. 1, recently in the news, was the first in the US and company No. 2 was the first in the world.

3 Square Market was the first US firm to insert RFID chips in its employees’ bodies. Swedish company Epicenter was the first in the world to do so

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There were 10 correct entries to Quiz No 523. The winner is Shaifali Jain from Meerut