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In strategic management, strategists engage in three pillars. Which of the following is not one of these three pillars?

Value chain analysis consists of systematically analyzing a firm’s key activities that for analysis purposes are categorized into two groups:

According to an evaluation using the VRIO framework, Crocs Shoes was unable to sustain its competitive advantage primarily because its products were

Economies of scale are cost advantages that accrue for firms with

Competitive rivalry based solely on ________ is destructive to firms as it transfers most of the value created in the industry to the customers.

Three large firms dominate the telecommunication industry of CallsRUs: TeleFone Inc., Cell Comm Corp., and Talk Now Inc. Instead of cutting prices competitively, these firms have resorted to non-price competition through branding and product differentiation. Which of the following industry competitive structures are these companies most likely in?

How do strong ethical values benefit a firm?

Big Pharma is currently selling a migraine medication called Go Away, Migraine. Suppose that this product works for 80% of all people who use it.   Suppose you choose one random sample of 350 people from the population of people who buy the product. The sample proportion of people for whom the product worked is 0.75. Determine the z-score for this sample proportion.

The next few questions involve scores on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE). The information will be repeated for each question.   Scores on the verbal portion of the GRE follow a normal distribution with a mean of 550 and standard deviation of 120.   Question: The middle 95% of the scores fall between a low score of [low] and a high score of [high].

Given a normal distribution, determine the z-score that has an area to its left of 0.8212.