3 Topic 2
What are the trade-offs among all the types of research
addressed?
Suppose you are a manager of a small start-up firm with a
limited budget. What kinds of research would be the most valuable?
Why? (in the united states)
What is a trade-off according to Porter?
Why are trade-offs important?
Why is it essential to make trade-offs?
Give examples of trade-offs in the airline industry and Taiwan
Semiconductor.
What are the trade-offs IKEA made compared to traditional
furniture retailers. Talk about product design, product variety,
in-store service, delivery and store design, flat packs.
1) Every society faces trade-offs. Explain the concept of
trade-offs. Give an example.
2) Outline the various actions the government sector could take
to promote growth.
Explain business-level strategies? What is your understanding of
Strategic Trade-offs? Explain how the economics of scale and
learning-curve effects helps to keep the cost low.
What are the trade-offs in the process of creating a system that
can distinguish between self and non-self? How do you think the
system balances the need to maximize recognition of potential
threats with the danger of autoimmunity? Give an example of a way
the immune system might prevent autoimmune responses, and a way a
microbe might exploit that system.
What are three things that countries can do to become more
productive? What are the trade-offs or sacrifices that a country
has to consider when trying to implement each of those three
policies? Should rich countries be responsible or obligated to help
poor countries in order to ease some of these tradeoffs?