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1. According to Figure 1.1, which of the following is not something to
look for in identifying a company's strategy?
- ANS - Actions to boost the company credit rating and stock price
2. Among all the things managers do, nothing affects a company's
ultimate success or failure more fundamentally than
- ANS - How well its management team charts the company's
direction, develops competitively effective strategic moves and
business approaches, and pursues what needs to be done internally
to produce good day-to-day strategy execution and operating
excellence
3. Which of the following is not something a company's strategy is
concerned with?
- ANS - Management's choice of which of several alternative
, business models to employ in delivering value to customers and to
shareholders
4. Which one of the following does not account for why a company's
strategy evolves over time, as shown in Figure 1.2 and explained in
the accompanying text discussion?
- ANS - Managerial preferences for keeping the life-cycle of any
given strategy short
5. Which one of the following statements about whether a company's
strategy can be considered ethical is true?
- ANS - Just keeping a company's strategic actions within the
bounds of what is legal does not mean the strategy is ethical
6. A company's strategy can be considered "ethical"
- ANS - If it does not entail actions or behaviors that cross the moral
line from "can do" to "should not do"(because such actions are
unsavory, unconscionable, injurious to others, or unnecessarily
harmful to the environment).
7. A company's business model
- ANS - Is management's blueprint for delivering a valuable product