The Warren Buffet Investment Club’s board is composed of 10 students from a new school of management. The club members also take care of investing the student’s pool of funds. As part of their annual work, members complete a full qualitative and quantitative analysis of a chosen industry, and finally, recommend a company each, from 10 different industries. Finally, these members make a presentation of their investment recommendation.

This year, the selected members for the club includes Aamir, Jackson, JK, PK, Ranga, Rohit, Saradha, Shalini, Shaniya and Yourself. During the discussion, various ideas were suggested for identifying the industries, such as industries with successful products; industries with cheap raw material costs, industries with less competition and industries with high-technology inputs.

Case Question

Prepare a set of five decisive factors (not measures) that you would use while selecting these ten industries (to invest). Give supporting reasons for each of the factors.