Amazon Prime Spotlight
Extending the Resource-Based View of the Firm
Financial Ratio Analysis
LG & CarMax Spotlights
Potluck
100
Amazon prime was introduced in this year.
What is 2004?
100
These are the four factors that help explain the extent to which employees and managers will be able to obtain a proportionately high level of the profits that they generate.
What are employee bargaining power, employee replacement cost, employee exit costs, and manager bargaining power?
100
Short-term solvency or liquidity, long-term solvency measures, asset management (or turnover), profitability, and market value are all different types of this.
What is financial ratios?
100
This was a truly pioneering creation of LG Electronics.
What is a better supply chain?
100
This actor, known for his comic portrayal of neurotics, died this week at the age of 83. The cause of death was complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Who is Gene Wilder?
200
Amazon Prime is known for its ability to get items to the customer in what number of days?
What is 2 days?
200
This factor may actually reduce an employee's bargaining power.
What is employee exit costs?
200
The Price-Earnings ratio is an example of this.
What is market value ratio?
200
LG is the world's largest maker of this?
What is handsets (phones)?
200
This is the value of the highest denomination of paper money ever issued by the US government. It was only used for transactions between the FED and Treasury Department.
What is $100,000
300
This is a shipping program that was developed to compete with Amazon Prime.
What is ShopRunner?
300
When truly independent outsiders, this party can make the diversion of profits from the owners to the top management far less likely.
What is the board members?
300
When evaluating a firm's financial performance, you should always compare it to this.
What is industry norms?
300
LG was able to cut 2 billion dollars from its 30 billion dollar shopping budget by doing this.
What is centralizing purchases?
300
This Great Lake state has more shoreline than the entire US Atlantic seaboard.
What is Michigan?
400
Brick-and-mortars attempt to compete with Amazon by doing what?
What is price matching?
400
This is what employees have if they are vital to forming a firm's unique capabilities.
What is employee bargaining power?
400
This is a method of evaluating a firm's performance using performance measures from the customer's internal, innovation & learning, and financial perspectives.
What is balanced score card?
400
CarMax is the largest U.S. retailer of used cars with 9 billion dollars in revenue in 2011. It has gained a competitive advantage through its service, pricing, and 125-point inspections. But, their use of ______ has taken them to a whole new level of competitiveness.
What is competitive analytics?
400
This person is first female chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Who Janet Yellen?
500
This is what Amazon was able to accomplish during the recent recession, that most others businesses were not.
What is growth in sales (300%!)
500
This is something that a government can do that will lead to a reduction in what is available to a firm's stockholders.
What is excessive taxation?
500
This measures a firms' financial performance and indicates how well strategy, implementation and execution are contributing to bottom-line improvement.
What is financial perspective?
500
CarMax, along with Apple Stores, numerous restaurants and other businesses, use this device to better assist their tech savvy customers. It's aim is to give customers a better experience so they will more likely return as a customer and tell their friends about it.
What is an iPad?
500
There are 27,800 photos uploaded per minute on this particular social media.
What is Instagram?
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