Dell
How old was Dell founder when he started the company?
a. 18
b. 19
c. 20
d. 21
b. 19
What is the name of the Dell founder?
a. Alexander Dell
b. Alexander Bell
c. Michael Dell
d. Michael Lindsay
Michael Dell
Which country are the facilitators from?
a. India
b. China
c. U.S.A
d. South Korea
d. South Korea
What was the first product the founder of HP invented?
a. Bluetooth speaker
b. Audio oscillator
c. Vacuum cleaner
d. NFT
b. Audio oscillator
What business brought HP $10 billion annually?
a. Camera business
b. Farm
c. Computer business
d. Printer business
d. Printer business
Which university did Dell Computer start?
a. Gordon College
b. MIT
c. University of Texas
d. Stanford University
c. University of Texas
What was Dell's IPO price?
a. $50.20
b. $8.50
c. $11.80
d. $7.10
b. $8.50
When did Dr. Seibert start teaching at Gordon College?
a. 2001
b. 1998
c. 2008
d. 2021
c. 2008
What does HP stand for?
a. Horse-Power
b. Higher-Purchase
c. High-Performance
d. Hewlett-Packard
d. Hewlett-Packard
Who was the fourth CEO of HP?
a. Carly Fiorina
b. Meg Whitman
c. Mark Hurd
d. Léo Apotheker
b. Meg Whitman
What was the name of the CEO who was handpicked by the founder?
Kevin Rollins
In response to declining consumer PC sales, Dell and HP sought to position themselves as:
"one-stop-shops"
President Mike Hammond is _______ president of Gordon College.
9th president of Gordon College
In response to declining consumer PC sales, Dell and HP sought to position themselves as:
"one-stop-shop
What were the areas that Mark Hurd was an expert at?
wringing costs out of processes and operations.
In 2001, how much did Dell cut its costs?
$1 billion
What year and month did the founder of Dell first step away?
July 2004
Where did Dr.Seibert get his D.B.A from?
Boston University
How many years after did Leo Apotheker, the second CEO of HP, was removed from his role as CEO?
b. 1 year
He was assigned as a CEO in September 2010 and removed in September 2011.
What was the name of the company Fiorina decided to merge?
Compaq computer
In an interview with Money magazine in Nov 2002, the founder of Dell speculated that X amount of computers out there were probably over three years old. How many were not in large corporations?
130 million.
He speculated that 180 million computers out there were probably over three years old, and 50 millions of those were in large corporations.
In 2002, Dell grabbed a golden opportunity, and their market share of the worldwide PC market almost doubled. What were the numbers? (Market share of both 1998 and 2002)
In just four years from 1998 to 2002, Dell's market share went from 8% to 15%.
What was Dr. Seibert's nickname when he played basketball in middle school?
a. Stretch
b. Spider legs
c. Lebron junior
d. Lightening
b. Spider legs
What was the major challenge that HP faced when introducing its TouchPad tablet?
Lack of third-party interest in developing apps without volume to support those apps.
Hurd believed the company needed to expand to be competitive. What was his strategy to make HP more competitive?
Mergers and Acquisition
They bought Electronic Data Systems(EDS) which put HP in direct competition with IBM and acquired 3Com, a networking company to make them competitive in the market.