Answers to last week's quiz (#155)

 

1. Which company’s corporate philosophy and belief systems are associated with the Japanese word kyosei and the ‘three selves’ — self-motivation, self-management and self-awareness?
   Canon
    
2. This company’s first board comprised Raunaq Singh (late founder of Apollo Tyres), MA Chidambaram of SPIC, Coke bottler Charanjit Singh and VR Mohan of Mohan Meakins. It was headed by a person who did an apprenticeship at Rolls-Royce for three years (1964-67). Name this person and the company he founded. 
   Maruti Motors Ltd, founded in 1971 by Sanjay Gandhi 
    
3. The CEO of which company plans to focus on the development of people in his organisation using the proven scientific principles of homeopathy and yoga?
   Rajiv Bajaj of Bajaj Auto 
   
4. This product was a failure and was referred to as a pizza box. The number plate of its founder’s silver-coloured BMW bore its name. Name it.
   The NeXT computer founded by Steve Jobs 
    
5. The CEO of this company took up a summer job in a poultry farm during his school days and applied the learnings to manage his company. He also set up a corporate communication channel called U&I to establish better connect with his employees. Name him.
   Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies, who has recently released his book Employees First, Customers Second 
    
6. Who founded a VC firm called The Hot Fudge?
   Ben Cohen, the co-founder of the famous ice cream brand Ben and Jerry’s 
    
7. Link Madonna, Demi Moore and Matthew McConaughey and a brand’s baseline, “Nuts for Life”. What do you get? 
   Vita Coco, a coconut water beverage brand funded by the three Hollywood personalities 
    
8. What is colloquially referred to as the Toulouse Goose?
   The Airbus 380. It got its name after Howard Hughe’s infamous “Spruce Goose”, the WWII wood-framed behemoth that never made it beyond a single prototype. 
    
9. This company was an offshoot of an initiative of a chemistry teacher, TK Gajjar, and his student Koti Bhaskar in the early 1900s. It started as a laboratory and was funded by the business family that currently owns it. Name it. 
   Alembic Chemicals 
    
10. Identify this luxury brand from its logo. It has set up shop in India.
    Burberry 
    
    
    

There were 27 all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #155. The winners who will receive a copy of Decision Management: How to Assure Better Decisions in Your Company are:Brayan Dsouza, Bantwal; Malini Kamath, Bangalore; Aditi Bhat, Kasaragod; Kunal Shah, Ahmedabad; Vaibhav Acharya, Vadodara; Bindu B, Bangalore; Sreeram KR, Chennai; VR Vithur Mudhaliar; Jitesh Kumar Mohapatra, Bangalore; and Saahil Iyer, Bangalore. Brayan Dsouza also wins Rs 2,000.