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Strategy and Balance Scorecard; Customer Service In its ranking of firms on the basis of c...

Strategy and Balance Scorecard; Customer Service In its ranking of firms on the basis of customer service, Business Week (March 2, 2009) collaborated with J.D. Power&Associates (a global marketing information firm that conducts independent surveys of customer satisfaction; Business Week and J.D. Power are both owned by McGraw-Hill Companies) to develop a list of the top companies. The ranking was based in part on ratings by J.D. Power and also by a survey of 5,000 readers of Business Week. The top 10 firms are listed in order:

1. Amazon.com


2. USAA, an insurance firm for military personnel


3. Jaguar


4. Lexus


5. The Ritz-Carlton


6. Publix Supermarkets


7. Zappos.com, online retail


8. Hewlett-Packard


9. T. Rowe Price, brokerage


10. Ace Hardware

Required Which of the above firms would you classify as a cost leader and which as a differentiator, and why?

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