Management Capstone Pre-Test Questions
Course Introduction
Management Capstone is a culminating course designed to integrate and apply knowledge gained from previous management studies. Students engage in comprehensive analysis, strategic planning, and problem-solving exercises that simulate real-world business challenges. Through case studies, group projects, and presentations, learners develop critical thinking, leadership, and decision-making skills while working collaboratively to devise effective solutions. The course emphasizes ethical considerations, global perspectives, and effective communication, preparing students to transition seamlessly into professional management roles.
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Strategic Management 2nd Edition by
Frank T. Rothaermel
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Chapter 1: What Is Strategy
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Q1) Why is it not advisable for managers to have single-minded focus on shareholders alone?
Answer: A core tenet of stakeholder strategy is that a single-minded focus on shareholders alone exposes a firm to undue risks that can undermine economic performance and can even threaten the very survival of the enterprise.The strategist's job, therefore, is to understand the complex web of exchange relationships among different stakeholders.By doing so, the firm can proactively shape the various relationships in order to maximize the joint value created, and manage the distribution of this larger pie in a fair and transparent manner.
Q2) Which of the following responsibilities results from a society's mere expectations of a business and not because the society and the shareholders mandatorily require the business to demonstrate it?
A) Economic responsibilities
B) Legal responsibilities
C) Contract responsibilities
D) Philanthropic responsibilities
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Strategic Leadership: Managing the Strategy Process
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Q1) Which of the following reasons justifies the view that functional managers should be allowed to initiate strategic initiatives based on autonomous actions?
A) Functional managers have more control and power in the organization than corporate executives.
B) Functional managers are much closer to the final products, services, and customers than corporate-or business-level managers.
C) Functional managers have a bigger role in identifying a company's vision and mission than the strategic leaders.
D) Functional managers are Level-5 managers in the Level-5 leadership pyramid when compared to the executives who are at Level-4.
Answer: B
Q2) Organizational values help individuals make choices that are:
A) legal but unethical.
B) both illegal.
C) both ethical and effective in advancing a company's goals.
D) ethical but ineffective in achieving long-term success.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: External Analysis: Industry Structure,
Competitive Forces, and Strategic Groups
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Q1) Shield Autos Inc.has newly launched a luxury car into the European market.Which of the following would most likely NOT be a complement to the car?
A) A premium car manufactured and sold by Mova Autos Inc., a rival company
B) A bank that insures cars against theft and accidents
C) A car service station managed and run by Shield Autos Inc.
D) A stereo system that can be used as a GPS system in cars
Answer: A
Q2) The government of Filvia has mandated that the standard minimum wage in the country be increased to $8,000 per year.This has ensured that all firms in the country pay their employees at least $8,000 per year, which has brought about a higher standard of living for the people of Filvia.Which of the following factors in a firm's general environment does this mandate best indicate?
A) Ecological factors
B) Sociocultural factors
C) Technological factors
D) Legal factors
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Internal Analysis: Resources, Capabilities, and Core Competencies
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Q1) To make the SWOT analysis an effective management tool, a strategist must first:
A) distinguish a firm's resources, competencies, and capabilities from each other.
B) separate a firm's primary activities from support activities.
C) analyze the pros and cons of strategic options.
D) scan a firm's internal and external environments.
Q2) Which of the following factors is most likely to lead to a loss of competitive advantage for Nike?
A) An inability of the company to create heroes
B) A marketing strategy that is completely without risks
C) Too many public relations disasters combined with severe shortcomings of some of Nike's heroes
D) Too much money spent on celebrity endorsements and too little spent on sponsoring athletes
Q3) Which of the following is an example of a firm's intangible resources?
A) The firm's cash at bank
B) The firm's finished goods inventory
C) The firm's organizational culture
D) The firm's land and building
Q4) How do firms benefit from their dynamic capabilities?
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Chapter 5: Competitive Advantage, Firm Performance, and Business Models
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Q1) Mia has purchased an Internet package for three months, in which she can use 30 mbps Internet speed.However, for the service, she needs to pay a fee of $50 in advance irrespective of whether she uses the Internet during the service period or not.This arrangement best illustrates the _____ strategy.
A) razor-razor-blade
B) subscription-based
C) pay-as-you-go
D) freemium
Q2) Which of the following statements is true of accounting data?
A) Accounting data focus mainly on intangible assets, rather than tangible assets.
B) Accounting data are historical data and thus backward-looking.
C) Accounting data do not have to be adjusted in any manner to compare companies with different capital structures.
D) Accounting data consider off-balance sheet items, such as pension obligations of a firm.
Q3) Define crowdsourcing.
Q4) What are the advantages of the balanced scorecard?
Q5) Describe the pay-as-you go business model.
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Chapter 6: Business Strategy: Differentiation, Cost
Leadership, and Blue Oceans
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Q1) The productivity frontier function is concave, and it captures the:
A) negative correlation between economies of scale and economies of scope.
B) complementary relationship between differentiation and cost-leadership strategies.
C) trade-off between value creation and production cost.
D) inverse relationship between experience effects and learning effects.
Q2) When Jean Cult Inc.was operating at the minimum efficient scale of 10,000-12,000 units per month, the firm's cost per unit was $20.However, when the output level was increased beyond 12,000 units, the cost per unit increased to $22.This increase was attributed to the wear-and-tear of the machinery, and complexities of managing and coordinating.What is this phenomenon known as?
A) Resource ambiguity
B) Diseconomies of scale
C) Network effect
D) Learning-curve effect
Q3) Why is it important for managers to understand the dynamics of competitive positioning?
Q4) How does operating at the minimum efficient scale benefit a firm?
Q5) Discuss the important differences between economies of scale and learning effects.
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Chapter 7: Business Strategy: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Platforms
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Q1) Explain architectural innovation with the help of a real world example.
Q2) Which of the following statements is NOT true about innovation?
A) Innovation as a competitive weapon can simultaneously create and destroy value.
B) Successful innovation allows a firm to extract temporary monopoly profits.
C) Innovation has to be high-tech in order to be a potent competitive weapon.
D) Process innovations are made possible through advances such as the Internet.
Q3) Who are technology enthusiasts?
Q4) A _____ is best described as a form of intellectual property that gives the inventor exclusive rights to benefit from commercializing a technology for a specified time period in exchange for public disclosure of the underlying idea.
A) patent
B) promissory note
C) franchise
D) royalty
Q5) Compare closed and open innovation models.
Q6) Discuss the characteristics of the customer segment "laggards".
Q7) List the five distinct stages of the industry life cycle.
Q8) What are the economic incentives associated with incumbent firms?
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Chapter 8: Corporate Strategy: Vertical Integration and Diversification
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Q1) Elaborate on the parent-subsidiary relationship.
Q2) In the Boston Consulting Group (BCG)growth-share matrix, strategic business units categorized under dogs:
A) compete in a low-growth market but hold considerable market share.
B) hold a high market share in a fast-growing market.
C) compete in a high-growth market but have low and unstable earnings.
D) hold a small market share in a low-growth market.
Q3) Which of the following statements is true of taper integration?
A) It is the most-integrated alternative to performing an activity within one's own corporate family.
B) It refers to a situation in which firms narrow their focus on downstream value chain activities and ignore the upstream value chain activities.
C) It exposes in-house suppliers and distributors to market competition to make performance comparisons possible.
D) It does not rely on outside-market firms for its supplies.
Q4) Explain the two types of related diversification strategy with the help of examples.
Q5) List the benefits of vertical integration.
Q6) Elaborate on corporate strategy.
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Chapter 9: Corporate Strategy: Strategic Alliances, Mergers and Acquisitions
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Q1) What is meant by managerial hubris? In what forms does it appear?
Q2) When should mergers and acquisitions (M&A)be considered the "buy" option for a strategist trying to determine which corporate strategy to implement?
A) When the resource in question is highly tradable
B) Before the strategist has considered borrowing the necessary resources through integrated strategic alliances
C) After it has been established that the firm's internal resources are sufficient to build
D) When extreme closeness to the resource partner is necessary to understand and obtain its underlying knowledge
Q3) Describe alliance management in the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly.
Q4) How can strategists decide between borrowing and buying the resource in question?
Q5) Why do firms make acquisitions?
Q6) Which of the following statements is NOT true of tacit knowledge?
A) It is concerned with knowing how to do a certain task.
B) It is knowledge that cannot be easily codified.
C) It is regularly shared between partners in a non-equity alliance.
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D) It is acquired only through actively participating in the process.
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Chapter 10: Global Strategy: Competing Around the World
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Q1) To keep track of the latest developments in computing, Lenovo's research centers are located in China, U.S.A., and Japan.Also, to benefit from low-cost labor and reduced shipping costs, the company's manufacturing facilities are in Mexico, India, and China.Which of the following strategies would require Lenovo to organize its operations worldwide in order to develop uniform products for its domestic and foreign markets?
A) A transnational strategy
B) A multidomestic strategy
C) A localization strategy
D) A global-standardization strategy
Q2) Which of the following is a drawback of pursuing a multidomestic strategy?
A) The strategy allows for the lowest possible local responsiveness.
B) The strategy lowers the differentiation of a firm's product and service offerings.
C) The strategy exposes a firm to greater exchange rate fluctuation when compared to an international strategy.
D) The strategy is costly and inefficient because it requires the duplication of key business functions across several countries.
Q3) What is the integration-responsiveness framework?
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Chapter 11: Organizational Design: Structure, Culture, and Control
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true about the use of functional structures with various business strategies?
A) The goal of a differentiation strategy is to create competitive parity.
B) The goal of a cost-leadership strategy is to create competitive parity.
C) The goal of a differentiation strategy is to create a competitive advantage by controlling costs.
D) A cost-leadership strategy can be effectively implemented with the help of an organic structure.
Q2) A firm that uses a structure that is organized along different business functions such as HR, R&D, Sales, and Marketing and also along different geographical areas such as different countries of the world is most likely using a _____ structure.
A) global matrix
B) multidivisional
C) functional
D) simple
Q3) How do results-only-work-environments differ from output controls that depend on extrinsic motivation?
Q4) Describe how a core competency of a firm can turn into core rigidity.
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Chapter 12: Corporate Governance and Business Ethics
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Q1) The MBA oath first developed at Harvard and now signed by students at over 300 business schools is modeled after _____.
A) Level-5 leadership
B) the Sarbanes-Oxley pledge
C) the Hippocratic oath in medicine
D) Goldman Sach's code
Q2) In principal-agent relationships, _____ describes the difficulty of principals to ascertain whether agents have really put forth their best efforts.
A) the agency problem
B) adverse selection
C) on-the-job consumption
D) moral hazard
Q3) Which of the following scenarios best exemplifies a leveraged buyout of a telecommunications firm, Telbok Inc.?
A) The owner of another company buys all the outstanding shares of Telbok.
B) A private equity firm, Rainbow Inc., buys a large amount of shares of Telbok.
C) Telbok sells all its shares and declares bankruptcy.
D) Telbok buys back a large amount of its own shares from the stock market.
Q4) List the specific functions of a board of directors in a public stock company.
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