A strategy focuses on increasing differentiation by creating and raising industry factors that are improved relative to the existing marketplace. At the same time, it focuses on decreasing cost by eliminating and reducing prevailing industry factors that are no longer necessary or can be provided below current standards.

Assume that a national restaurant firm called bbq builds 10 new restaurants at a cost of $1 million per restaurant. it outfits each restaurant with an additional $200,000 of equipment and furnishings. to partially defray the cost of this expansion, bbq issues and sells 200,000 shares of stock at $30 per share. what is the amount of economic investment that ahs resulted from bbq's actions? how much purely financial investment took place?

Reqwest llc agrees to sell one hundred servers to social media networks, inc. the servers, which social media networks expressly requires to have certain amounts of memory, are to be shipped “f.o.b. social media networks distribution center in tampa, fl.” when the servers arrive, social media networks rejects them and informs reqwest, claiming that the servers do not conform to social media networks’ memory requirement. a few hours later, the servers are destroyed in a fire at social media networks’ distribution center. will reqwest succeed in a suit against social media networks for the cost of the goods?

Why is following an unrelated diversification strategy especially advantageous in an emerging economy? a. it allows the conglomerate to overcome institutional weaknesses in emerging economies. b. it allows the conglomerate to form a monopoly in emerging economies. c. it allows the conglomerate to use well-defined legal systems in emerging economies. d. it allows the conglomerate to take advantage of strong capital markets in emerging economies.