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BSG Comprehensive Exam | Questions And Answers With Verified Solutions 2023 The benefits of pursuing a strategy of social responsibility and corporate citizenship include · The positive impact that such a strategy has on the company's image rating, provided the company spends a meaningful amou...

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BSG Comprehensive Exam | Questions And Answers With Verified Solutions 2023 The benefits of pursuing a strategy of social responsibility and corporate citizenship include ✔✔· The positive impact that such a strategy has on the company's image rating , provided the company spends a meaningful amount on socially responsible activities and such spending is sustained over a multi -year period If a company's managers want to succeed in creating a differentiation -based competitive advantage (And a potential cost advantage in achieving the differentiation) that is difficult for rivals to quickly or easily copy (because every strategic move a company makes to outcompete rivals and gain a competitive advantage is not apparent from information contained in the F IR and the competitive intelligence Report), then the managers have to ✔✔· Do a better job then rivals in identifying and implementing ways to become very cost -efficient in producing and marketing 350 -500 models/styles of branded footwear that also have th e highest S/Q rating in the industry Valid reasons to consider building a new plant in Latin America include ✔✔· Low tariff costs on footwear sales in Latin America (because no import tariffs are paid on footwear produced at the Latin American plant and shipped to the distribution warehouses in Latin America) A company stands a better chance of achieving a sustainable cost -based competitive advantage over rivals if its managers ✔✔· Pursue a number of cost -reducing initiatives that can be concealed from rivals (because such initiatives are not part of the information contained in the FIR and the competitive intelligence report) Which of the following actions does not help a company's social responsibility strategy result in a higher image rating? ✔✔· Reducing the prices, the company charges it s customers for branded footwear What does help a company's social responsibility strategy and results in a higher image rating ✔✔· Using environmentally friendly or 'Green' materials in producing footwear at the company's plants · Using recycled packagi ng materials to box each pair of athletic footwear at the company's distribution centers · Making donations to charities and charitable causes · Investing to improve energy efficiency and the use of renewable sources at company facilities. It makes good economic sense for company managers to consider investing $3.5 million per million pairs of capacity for a plant facilities upgrade that will boost labor productivity by 25%. ✔✔· At a plant that currently has labor productivity of 3,200 pairs per worker a nd total employee compensation of $20,000 annually because the upgrade will cause labor costs per pair produced to decline from $6.25 to $5.00 o Labor cost per pair = Compensation/Productivity o Labor cost per pair initially = 20,000/3,200 = $6.25 o After increase in productivity = 20,000/ (3,200*1.25) = $5.00 o Reduction = 6.25 * 5.00 = $1.25 Which of the following combinations of actions will likely provide the biggest competitive benefits in helping a company achieve a differentiation -based competit ive advantage over some/many of its rivals? ✔✔· Offering 400 or more models/styles to buyers in all four geographic regions, maintaining a celebrity appeal rating of 200 or higher in all four geographic regions, selling branded footwear with a 7 -star or hi gher S/Q rating in all four geographic regions, and offering a rebate of $9 in all four geographic regions It is both reasonable and wise for a company to consider shifting away from pursuit of a strategy to strongly differentiate its branded footwear fro m the offerings of rival companies and sell its footwear at a premium price when ✔✔· A big percentage of industry rivals are trying to outcompete each other with copycat differentiation strategies that include high S/W ratings, many models/styles, high cel ebrity appeal ratings, and above -average advertising expenditures Which of the following is NOT of much significance to company manager in deciding whether profitable opportunity exist to build (or purchase) additional plant capacity in the upcoming decision round? ✔✔· Information in the most recent FIR indicates that mo re than half of the companies in the industry have expanded their plant capacity since year 10 What IS significant to company managers in deciding whether profitable opportunity exist to build (or purchase) additional plant capacity in the upcoming decisi on round? ✔✔· The growth in branded demand and private -label demand over the next 3 years (as reported in each year FIR) · How branded pairs available for sale in each geographic region in the past year compared with projected branded demand and private l abel demand in each geographic region over the next three years as shown in each year FIR · The size of beginning inventories of branded footwear in each geographic region reported in the most recent FIR

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