An oil company develops an innovative refining process that reduces the time required to produce gasoline by 25 percent. The company has identified its unique process as a core competency. Which of these strategies would be most beneficial for the company to pursue and would best be aligned with the firm's internal analysis? a. Differentiation strategy
b. Cost leadership strategy
c. Focused differentiation strategy
d. Integrated cost leadership/differentiation strategy

conquest, inc. produces a special kind of light-weight, recreational vehicle that has a unique design. it allows the company to follow a cost-plus pricing strategy. it has $9,000,000 of average assets, and the desired profit is a 10% return on assets. assume all products produced are sold. additional data are as follows: sales volume 1000 units per year; variable costs $1000 per unit; fixed costs $4,000,000 per year; using the cost-plus pricing approach, what should be the sales price per unit?

Which feature is a characteristic of a corporation?

In order to be thoughtful about the implementation of security policies and controls, leaders must balance the need to reduce with the impact to the business operations. doing so could mean phasing security controls in over time or be as simple as aligning security implementation with the business’s training events.