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Includes all the financial, physical, human and organizational assets used by a firm to develop, manufacture, and deliver products or services to its customers.
What are resources and capabilities?
100
This is the number of elevators in the MB building
What is 6?
100
These are two types of underlying assumptions a. Contestable & unproblematic b. Reality & value c. Narrative & scholarly d. I don’t know & I don’t care
What are reality and value?
100
A group of people, elected by shareholders, who have the legal responsibility to manage the affairs of a company
What is the Board of Directors?
100
This is the name of the periodical commonly known as HBR.
What is Harvard Business Review?
200
“This is a land of giants. The big fish eat the small fish.” Chandler would say this about firms he calls ________.
What are first movers?
200
These are the two founding institutions of Concordia University
What are Sir George Williams University and Loyola College?
200
This is a contestable claim that is related to having casual dress days at work.
What is "Casual dress days improve employees’ comfort & productivity or … Create added expense for workers, …etc."
200
Laropa Fashions has its clothing made in St Lucia, payroll is done in Halifax, and taxes handled by a local accounting firm. Laropa engages in extensive: a. Economies of scope b. Vertical job loading c. Outsourcing d. Downsizing
What is outsourcing?
200
This is the largest bank in Canada
What is the Royal Bank of Canada?
300
“If it ain’t broke, fix it!” The classic author _______ would agree with this statement.
Who is Handy?
300
They were the original occupants of the Concordia building at René Lévesque and Guy.
Who are the Grey Nuns?
300
A new manager takes over Reggie’s Bar in April and implements operational changes. The amount of time students spend in the bar increases. This may be because they like the new changes or it may just be an instance of the ___________________ fallacy
What is post hoc ergo propter hoc?
300
Corporate social responsibility means this. a. Being sensitive to needs of all stakeholders b. Owning up to your shareholders’ errors c. Being careful to have sociable employees d. Providing bottled water for employees
What is being sensitive to needs of all stakeholders?
300
These are five major business newspapers or magazines
What are Financial Times, Financial Post, The Economist, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Canadian Business, Business Week… etc.?
400
The reasons why a separation between top- and middle-managers occur according to Greiner
What is decentralization in later stages of the delegation phase?
400
These two faculties have offices in the EV building.
What are Engineering and Computer Science and Fine Arts?
400
To judge the accuracy of a piece of evidence, we need ______ _______. Failing this, we may use ______ or ______ as a proxy
What are independent information, authority, and precision.
400
These are what the following acronyms stand for: CEO, CIO, CFO, COO
What are Chief Executive Officer; Chief Financial Officer; Chief Information Officer; Chief Operating Officer?
400
This large Quebec industry has suffered financially in recent years. a. Pulp and paper b. Hydroelectricity c. Cable TV d. Pharmaceuticals
What is pulp and paper?
500
A manager who believes in close supervision and strict control for employees, would be most likely this motivation technique.
What is positive KITA?
500
This is the year that John Molson (after whom the school was named) born. a. 1532 b. 1763 c. 1890 d. 1901
What is 1763?
500
These are causal explanation and a rival cause of the following statement "When board members invest their own money in the firms they direct, these firms are more successful".
What are "When board members’ own money is at risk, this causes them to be more careful in over-seeing the firm. Or maybe it is the company’s success that caused them to invest"
500
The following terms match with these authors (in order): Balanced Scorecard First mover advantage Core ideology Hygiene factors
Who are Kaplan & Norton, Chandler, Collins & Porras, Herzberg?
500
These two Canadian companies recently attempted a merger that was initially blocked by the CRTC?
What are Bell and Astral?