As veronica janneck and her friends prepare to graduate from college, they are faced with numerous job offers with starting salaries better than they could have imagined when they began college four years ago. based on this information, which stage of the business cycle would the economy be in?
a. depression
b. peak
c. recession
d. trough
e. recovery

Ancho corp. is an automobile company whose core competency lies in manufacturing petrol- and diesel- based cars. the company realizes that more of its potential customers are switching to electric cars. the r& d department of the company acquires competencies in developing electric cars and launches its first hybrid car, which uses both gas and electricity. in this scenario, ancho is primarilya. leveraging new core competencies to improve current market position. b. redeploying existing core competencies to compete in future markets. c. unlearning existing core competencies to create and compete in markets of the future. d. building new core competencies to protect and extend current market position