A.   Competitor Analysis

B.   Executive Summary

C.   Market Analysis

A.   Shell oil who explores and drills its own oil

B.   EA Games, which develop and publish their own video games

C.   Apple who create their own computers and sells them in their own stores

A.   Threat of New Entrants

C.   Barganing Power of suppliers

D.   Threat of Substiute products or services

A.   Both of them are small

B.   They are both in bankruptcy

C.   Neither have a competitive advantage

A.   The interval that customers return to the business

B.   The speed at which customers enter the business

D.   The amount of money customers generate

A.   Desktop PC

B.   Ford Model T

C.   iPod

A.   An oil company that drills, refines, and sells its own oil at gas stations it owns

B.   A grocery store that grows, processes them, packages, and sells its own crops.

C.   A video game company that creates, publishes, markets, and sells its own games

A.   Internal Public Opportunities

B.   Initial Public Opportunities

C.   Identical Public Operations

A.   Earnings

C.   Partnerships

D.   Business

A.   A company that primarily invests in mutual funds and large cap stocks

B.   Companies that specialize in conducting IPOs

D.   Companies that specialize in selling and dismantling smaller companies

B.   It is often a good indicator of how well you are doing in your industry

C.   It can be useful when comparing similar companies to one another

D.   It measures how much of every dollar in sales a company keeps; thus giving you an idea of how profitable you can be based on your expected sales.

B.   Develop the tools and frameworks for understanding technology's role in strategic competition

C.   Manage the creative process

D.   Ensure those that are directly involved in the creative process are using the right tools

B.   Running background checks on all potential hires, not just a select few

C.   Have a documented hiring process

D.   Avoiding any topics during the interview process related to age, disability, familial status, race, or sexual orientation.

A.   Start

B.   Strong

C.   Study

A.   Differentiation

B.   Cost leadership

C.   Operational effectiveness

D.   Innovation

A.   When a larger companies acquires smaller company

B.   When two competitors work together to fix prices

C.   When two competitors agree to divide market regions

A.   Streaks, Weaknesses, Oddities, and Threats.

B.   Streams, Weaknesses, Obligations, and Treaties.

C.   Streams, Weaknesses, Obligations, and Threats.

A.   Their profit margins

B.   Their sales revenue

C.   Their assets

A.   when there is economic competition

C.   there are viable substitute goods

A.   Increase in waste and decrease in efficiency

B.   Maximize production and minimize sales

A.   You have high growth potential

B.   Your business revenue is predictable and easy to see for investors

C.   You have multiple revenue streams

A.   Low differentiation

B.   food menu

C.   negative publicity

B.   Reporting Bias

C.   Simplifications

D.   Representative Bias

A.   Charging high prices for a product

B.   Constantly reinforcing to consumers the reasons why you are superior compared to your competitors

C.   Be the leader in an industry by keeping your costs down

B.   Competitors agreeing in advance on who will submit a winning bid on a contract to effectively raise the purchase price for the buyer

C.   Competitors agreeing to allocate their market into geographical regions in which they have exclusive rights to

D.   Competitors getting together to set fix price for their products

B.   False

A.   Limited Liberal Corporation

B.   Limited License Corporation

C.   Licensed Limited Corporation

A.   Business strategy focuses on generating profits

C.   Business strategy focuses on making money

D.   Business strategy focuses on making products

B.   Strategic positioning

C.   Highly motivated employees

D.   Highly educated executives

A.   It decreases the amount of products to sell

C.   It increases risk

D.   It reduces competition

A.   A high end furniture store that notices that during bad economic times it has less customers purchasing items

B.   A company that makes winter coats and finds it demand decreases greatly during the summer and other hot periods

D.   An airline company that notices customers tend to fly more during months with holidays

A.   It is only important if you have little to no customers

B.   It can disuade customers from purchasing your goods or products

D.   It can give you an idea of how much you need to spend in order to keep your current customers

A.   Corporate power

B.   Political power

C.   Sales power

A.   Inflexible

B.   Difficult to market

C.   Double taxation

A.   Profit Maximizer

B.   Price Discriminator

A.   Lower prices

C.   Price Differentiation

D.   Market Differentiation

B.   The value of a customer as a person

C.   The customer's total spending power

D.   The customer's net virality effect

E.   The value of the customer and all that they own

A.   Operational management focuses on external issues, while strategic management focuses on internal issues

B.   They are both the same and completely interchangeable

C.   Operational management focuses on financial issues, while strategic management focuses on regulatory issues

B.   An agreement between two dominant companies in which they agree to allow one company to prosper in one product area and another to prosper elsewhere

C.   An agreement between two companies in which one company agrees to create inferiror goods at a low price point, and another agrees to create high quality products at a high price point to prevent competition costs between the two companies

D.   When a single holding company owns all companies in one industry.

A.   An investor that comes in to save a failing company from default

B.   None of these

C.   A benevolent investor who forgives debt when a startup fails

D.   An investor that provides a startup with a seed investment, oftentimes also acting as advisers and confidants.

A.   The cost a customer pays to acquire a certain product or service

C.   It is the cost to keep existing customers

D.   It is the total cost of all activities related to marketing

A.   Selling at a competive price based on the industry standard

B.   Selling at a higher price for discriminatory reasons

D.   Selling a product at a very high price in order to take advantage of a situation

B.   Little to no paperwork needed to start

C.   Full ownership

D.   No corporate tax

B.   Limited Liability Company (LLC)

C.   LLP (Limited Liabity Partnership)

D.   LLLP (Limited Liability Limited Partnership)

A.   The list is not based on any theory and is vague

C.   SWOT is a brainstorming framework, not an analytical tool

D.   Opportunities can end up being threats

A.   It is your profit margin when taking into account customer acquisition costs

B.   It is your total revenue on a product

D.   It is your total profit on a product

A.   A company in a market that has plenty of money to invest or acquire other smaller companies

C.   A company that generates little revenue, but has the potential to generate a lot

D.   A business venture that eats up cash due to high maintenance and investment cost

A.   Product Differentiation

B.   Price Skimming

D.   Growth Strategy

A.   Blue ocean markets tend to redefine the problem customers have and create products and services to solve it.

B.   Incumbents often create blue oceans—usually within their core business.

C.   Are not about technology innovations, but about linking current technology creatively to solve customer needs.

B.   Laissez Faire Leadership

C.   Autocratic Leadership