In the example of StubHub, what percentage of its revenue in 2006 came from theater tickets?

Correct answer: 5 percent

Explanation

This quantitative question tests for recall of specific data from the StubHub case study, focusing on its revenue composition.

Other questions

Question 1

According to the text, what is the term for the development of new products from within a company, as opposed to acquiring them from external sources?

Question 2

What percentage of all new products are described as being truly innovative and new to the world?

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT listed as a challenge or drawback that new-product launches face?

Question 4

What is the term for the system used by many top companies that divides the innovation process into stages, with a checkpoint at the end of each stage?

Question 5

According to Table 15.1, 'Cost of Finding One Successful New Product', what is the total cost associated with the 'Concept testing' stage, which starts with 16 ideas?

Question 6

What is the primary purpose of the idea screening stage in the new-product development process?

Question 7

What is the difference between a product idea and a product concept?

Question 8

Which method for measuring consumer preferences for alternative product concepts derives the utility values that consumers attach to varying levels of a product’s attributes?

Question 9

What is the third part of the preliminary three-part strategy plan for introducing a new product?

Question 10

In the five-year cash flow projection for the instant breakfast drink (Table 15.3), what is the maximum investment exposure, representing the highest loss the project can create?

Question 11

What type of testing involves testing a product within the firm to see how it performs in different applications?

Question 12

Which method of consumer-goods market testing involves preselected consumers trying a product at no cost and then being reoffered it, or a competitor's product, multiple times to gauge satisfaction and repurchase intent?

Question 13

What is the typical expenditure for marketing as a percentage of first-year sales for new food products?

Question 14

In the context of commercialization timing, what is a 'late entry' strategy?

Question 15

Which stage in the consumer-adoption process involves the consumer being stimulated to seek information about an innovation?

Question 16

According to the adopter categorization shown in Figure 15.7, what percentage of the population are classified as 'Early Adopters'?

Question 17

Which adopter category is described as 'deliberate pragmatists who adopt the new technology when its benefits have been proven and a lot of adoption has already taken place'?

Question 18

Which characteristic influencing an innovation's rate of adoption refers to the degree to which the innovation is difficult to understand or use?

Question 19

In the example of Google's new products, how much did the 'Glass Explorers' pay for the opportunity to be an early adopter of Google Glass?

Question 20

What does the innovation principle at W. L. Gore, known as 'dabble time,' entail for its research associates?

Question 21

What is a 'DROP-error' in the context of idea screening?

Question 22

According to the example of a product-idea rating device in Table 15.2, what is the minimum acceptance rate for a product idea to be considered 'good'?

Question 23

What is a key benefit of using rapid prototyping in new-product development?

Question 24

In the breakfast drink example for concept testing, what is the 'need-gap score' intended to measure?

Question 25

What type of frequently purchased products exhibit sales that rise, then fall to a plateau representing a level of steady repeat-purchase volume?

Question 26

What is the primary role of quality function deployment (QFD) in product development?

Question 27

Why do some industrial manufacturers use trade shows for market testing?

Question 28

What does Everett Rogers define as a person’s level of innovativeness?

Question 29

What is 'crowdsourcing' in the context of new-product development?

Question 30

According to the analysis of the cost of new-product development in Table 15.1, what is the pass ratio for ideas moving from the 'Product development' stage to the 'Test marketing' stage?

Question 32

Which creativity-generating technique involves listing normal assumptions about an entity and then reversing them to generate new ideas?

Question 33

What is the primary function of a brand-positioning map in concept development?

Question 34

In the five-year cash flow projection (Table 15.3), at what rate is the future contribution discounted to find its present value?

Question 35

What term is used for additional income to other company products caused by a new-product introduction?

Question 36

What is the key difference between simulated test marketing and controlled test marketing?

Question 37

What is a major advantage of a 'first entry' strategy in commercialization?

Question 38

Which adopter category is composed of 'skeptical conservatives who are risk averse, technology shy, and price sensitive'?

Question 39

What is the characteristic of 'divisibility' in the context of an innovation's adoption rate?

Question 40

What did innovator Sir James Dyson claim to have made before getting his bagless vacuum cleaner right?

Question 41

What is a key drawback of a 'first entry' strategy, according to the text?

Question 42

In the context of the New-Product Development Decision Process (Figure 15.1), what is the first stage where the question 'Is the idea worth considering?' is asked?

Question 43

Based on the research by Cooper and Kleinschmidt, what was found to be the number-one success factor for new industrial products?

Question 44

How did the failure of Eli Lilly's drug Evista as a contraceptive lead to a success?

Question 45

In the example criteria for new-product acceptance, a product must have a market potential of at least 50 million dollars and what minimum growth rate?

Question 46

What are 'skunkworks' in the context of organizational arrangements for new-product development?

Question 47

How many ideas, on average, does Toyota report its employees submit annually?

Question 48

What is one of the key requirements for P&G's 'Connect + Develop' strategy to succeed?

Question 49

In the case of the TV show 'Friends', what failing grade did the pilot episode receive from an internal NBC research report?

Question 50

What is the overall probability of success for a new product if the probabilities of technical completion, commercialization given technical completion, and economic success given commercialization are estimated at 0.50, 0.65, and 0.74, respectively?