Red Ocean
Blue Ocean
New Economy
Sacred Commerce
New School Fun Facts
100

What is success in a Red Ocean Strategy?

Lowest cost product or Most different company

100

How does a Blue Ocean company see competition?

Irrelevant

100

According to Flynn, what is sustainability?

What you leave behind

100

What is the 4th bottom line?


Spirituality

100

What is The New School mascot?

Gnarls the Narwhal

200

Why do we call them Red Oceans?

Cut-throat competition in existing industries turns the ocean bloody red

200

Why do we call them Blue Oceans?

Unexplained by competition, Blue Oceans are vast, deep, and powerful

200

What is a fork in the road moment?

The choice of what you do and don’t do. Process for creating new futures

200

Who is God of Commerce?

Hermes and Bes

200

How old is the New School?

99

300

Who introduced the concepts of red and blue oceans?

Chan Kim, Reneé Mauborgne, Kate Raworth, Dan Heath

300

Name the 2 ways to launch a Blue Ocean company

Create new industry or push boundaries of current market

300

What are the 2 boundaries of the Doughnut

Ecological celling and Social foundation

300

What is the symbol of the merchant priests?

Jaguar

300

Name any famous New School Alum

Marc Jacobs, Bradley cooper, Etc.

400

Name a Red Ocean company and why they are Red

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400

Name a Blue Ocean company and why they are Blue

Nintendo, Ebay, Cirque du Soleil

400

When are the 3 steps to behavior change?

Direct the rider, motivate the elephant, shape the path

400

List one of the Pharos who was pro merchant priests?

Queen Hatshepsut, Thutmose the 4th, Akhenaten

400

What sport did Flynn play in college?

Soccer

500

What outcomes does Red Ocean strategy produce?

Zero-sum. Divides existing wealth between rival companies. As competition increases profit and growth declines

500

What outcomes does Blue Ocean strategy produce?

Non-zero sum. Ample opportunity for growth.

500

What is an example of a reinforcing feedback loop?

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500

Which of these was NOT a primary focus of merchant priests? Emotional Alchemy, Cultivating Empathy, Sculpt emotional resonance, Balance consciousness, Creating the map of consciousness

Creating the map of consciousness

500

1948 who taught the first course in African American history and culture ever taught at a university?

W.E.B. Du Bois