The Strategist Quiz #029

1. This one-time Red Army guard who was sent by the Chinese government to the US to settle a dispute between a Chinese company and its US partner, was locked up for two days on his arrival at the American partner's house. Despite this, he managed to sign a deal with the same person to build a company that made a $1.7-billion public offering in China last year. Identify him.
   
   
2. Name the product/brand that was discovered in 1976 through a collaborative project between scientists from a UK-based sugar producer and researchers at Queen Elizabeth College in London. An Indian was among the researchers.
   
   
3. With which brand are Michael Jackson, Juhi Chawla, Remo Fernandes and Lionel Richie associated?
   
   
4. What is common to these brands "" MRF, Tata, Britannia and Bournvita? (Hint: the connection pertains to something outside their core businesses.)
   
   
5. Which Indian company is now in the pizza manufacturing outsourcing business?
   
   
6. In which country do the companies Kalina Cosmetics and Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods operate? One of them is listed on the NYSE.
   
   
7. What term is used to best describe shoplifting by eating the product instead of taking it out?
   
   
8. This legendary icon of modern corporate history sketched out his company's strategy on a cocktail napkin, which had three circles labelled services, high tech and core and showed it to his wife. Subsequent to this scribble, he sold 71 business units of his company and raised $500 million from them. Name him.
   
   
9. Link film stars Ashok Kumar, Saeed Jaffery, Shammi Kapoor and Jalal Agha to a brand. All the actors have appeared in ads for this brand.
   
   
10. With which law will you identify the proposition that as economic development occurs, a higher proportion of the working population will be engaged in service industries?
    
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