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Based on our discussion, what is Netflix’s Competitive Advantage?

Network Effects: Uber: The effect on drivers when more riders select onto the service.

Craigslist is an online classified advertising website. It permits consumers to sell secondhand goods to other users for discount prices. Assume for the purpose of the question that Craigslist collects a small tax on the exchanged goods. Craigslist is a:

Which of the following is true regarding the hubris hypothesis in mergers?

In the United States when a bidder initiates an acquisition, it must file a Schedule 8K if:

Industries in the U.S. have become less concentrated over the last couple of decades as the FTC has become more aggressive in thwarting potentially anticompetitive mergers.

The use of greenmail has:

Revenue enhancing synergies are more difficult to achieve than cost economies.

Which of the following statements regarding joint ventures and strategic alliances is true?

T.A. Maxx, an acquirer with a pre-merger value of $140 million, purchased another discount retail chain A.J. Outfitters, which had a pre-merger value of $80 million. The value of the new merged firm is $250 million. The expected synergistic gains from the merger are: