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Business and Tech Leaders

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Business and tech leaders covers prominent founders, chief executives, and economists who shaped global industries. This section features questions on leaders of major technology corporations and financial institutions. It is a highly scoring topic in general awareness.

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Business and Tech Leaders Questions

Multiple choice

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows"

  1. Ralph Marston

  2. Bill Gates
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Ralph Marston is an author and publisher known for his motivational writings. This quote highlights the importance of daily effort for long-term success.

Multiple choice elements of business marketing and sales difference between marketing and sales marketing and sales department ideologies/concepts/views of marketing management

Who propounded Mega marketing?

  1. Mc Aurthy

  2. Philip Kotler

  3. Sheth

  4. Peter F Drucker
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Mega marketing refers to marketing activities needed to manage the elements of the firm's external environment and which try to control the same. This environment consist of legal, political, social, technological factors.   

Multiple choice business organisation and correspondence elements of success in business and qualities of a successful businessman meaning of entrepreneur entrepreneurship – concept, meaning and definition values and qualities of a businessman

Management consultant ___________  author of the 1985 book entitled Intrapreneuring.

  1. Maslow

  2. Schumpeter

  3. Peter Drucker

  4. Gifford Pinchot
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Intrapreneurship is like acting as an entrepreneur within the organization. Intrapreneurship is a step towards entrepreneurship. Gifford Pinchot is the author of the 1985 book entitled intrapreneuring.

Multiple choice business organisation and correspondence elements of success in business and qualities of a successful businessman meaning of entrepreneur entrepreneurship – concept, meaning and definition values and qualities of a businessman

Which category of Rajat Gupta falls in?

  1. Inventor

  2. Intrapreneur

  3. Entrepreneur

  4. Manager
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Rajat Gupta is often cited in business studies as an example of an intrapreneur, as he operated within large corporate structures to drive innovation and change.

Multiple choice commercial applications sales and selling process distinction between marketing and sales meaning, elements and factors influencing marketing mix evolution of marketing

Who coined the expression marketing mix?

  1. Henry Fayol

  2. Neil Borden

  3. Peter Drucker

  4. Abraham Maslow
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Professor Neil Borden published a retrospective article detailing the early history of the marketing mix. Marketing mix is a combination of factors that are in a company's control to influence consumers to purchase its products. The 4P's of marketing mix are product, price, promotion and place.

Multiple choice botany ecological adaptations, succession and ecological services ecosystem services ecosystems ecosystem

Who have tried to put price tags on natures life support services?

  1. Robert Constanga et al

  2. Nile Perch et al

  3. Herbert Boyer et al

  4. Ram Deo Misra et al
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Robert Constanga et al have tried to put price tags on natures life support services. He gave price tags to the ecosystem services. Out of these services, 50% accounts for the soil formation. The ecosystem services he put price on includes purify water and air, mitigate droughts and floods, nutrient cycling, habitat for wild life.

Thus, the correct answer is 'Robert Constanga et al.'

Multiple choice economics how does production take place? entrepreneur land,labour, capital and entrepreneur production mechanism

Who among the following has given definition of social entrepreneurship ?

  1. Greg Dugouts

  2. Greg Dees

  3. Dee Maria

  4. Susan B. Anthony
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Greg Dees ,co-founder of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University and a member of the Impact Entrepreneurs advisory board,wrote the definition of social entrepreneurship.

Multiple choice business organisation management - process or functions, managerial role and levels functional areas of management levels and functions of management management functions

Hanry feyol, the __________ Industrialist and popularly known the 'founder of modern management theory'.

  1. German

  2. French

  3. Greek

  4. American
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Henry Fayol, the French Industrialist and popularly known the 'founder of modern management theory'. Henry Fayol was born in France in 1841. He became famous as "Father of Management Studies and Thoughts". He developed fourteen principles of management which act as guidelines for management to perform managerial activities.

Multiple choice elements of business ownership structures - joint stock company meaning and objectives of public sector enterprises introduction to public sector organisations types of companies - private & public

Who headed a team at the Hawthrone plant of the Western Electric Company?

  1. Henri Fayol

  2. Elton Mayo

  3. McGregor

  4. Mintzberg
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Elton Mayo led the famous Hawthorne Studies at the Western Electric Company, which laid the foundation for the Human Relations Movement in management.

Multiple choice organization of commerce and management principles and techniques of management henri fayol's principles of management principles of management management of business

Who is regarded as the founder of modem management theory?

  1. Mice

  2. Koontz

  3. D'Dannel

  4. Henry Fayol
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Explanation

Henri Fayol is regarded as the founder of modern management theory for his systematic approach to management principles and functions, documented in his influential work 'General and Industrial Management'.

Multiple choice commercial applications functioning of commercial organisation definition and functions of production department production or works department ideologies/concepts/views of marketing management

Build, Hold, Harvest and Divest all are the alternative objectives of SBU has been propounded by?

  1. Kotler

  2. James Champy

  3. Peter F. Drucker

  4. Clyton
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A Correct answer
Explanation

The BCG matrix, which includes the strategies of Build, Hold, Harvest, and Divest for Strategic Business Units (SBUs), is widely associated with Bruce Henderson of the Boston Consulting Group, but Philip Kotler popularized these concepts in his marketing management textbooks.

Multiple choice concept of social responsibility organization of commerce and management industrial pollution and degradation of environment environmental values and ethics industrial pollution accelerated with the start of industrial revolution social responsibility towards the environment

Sarbanes Oxley Act of $2002$ is named after which of the following experts?

  1. Aristotle

  2. Smator Paul Sarbanes

  3. Michael Oxley

  4. Both (b) and (c)
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Explanation

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, officially named the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of $2002$, became law on $July\ 30, 2002$. The law was informally named after its sponsors, Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) and Representative Michael G. Oxley (R-OH).

Multiple choice business organisation and correspondence postal services 4 - rapid communication and other facilities communication services postal services and warehouses communication and transport services importance, types and documentation in warehousing meaning of warehousing and warehousing warehousing

Who is the founder of E-mail?

  1. Merrian

  2. Tomlinson

  3. Aristotle

  4. None
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Hint Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972.