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Describes the U.S. large turbine generator industry in early 1963, a period of severe price cutting and depressed industry conditions. Presents data to allow a structural analysis of the industry and an analysis of the strategies of the major players since 1946. The... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Machinery and Machining; Cost Management; Price; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Marketing Strategy; Industry Structures; Competition; Manufacturing Industry; United States

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January 1980
Supplement

General Electric vs. Westinghouse in Large Turbine Generators (C)

By: Michael E. Porter

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry; United States

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August 1979 (Revised March 1984)
Case

Environmental Protection Agency: Emergency Pesticide Exemptions

By: David E. Bell

Keywords: Pollutants; Chemicals; United States

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July 1979
Case

Food Stamps--1970

By: Joseph L. Bower

Keywords: Government and Politics; Welfare; Programs; Food; United States

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July 1979 (Revised July 1980)
Case

Dallas Tire Corp. (A)

By: James I. Cash Jr.

Keywords: Consumer Products Industry; Texas

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1979
Chapter

A Comparison of Rates of Return to Social Security Retirees under Wage and Price Indexing

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Retirement; Investment Return; Wages; Price; United States

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June 1979
Article

Reformulating U.S. Food Aid Policy for Development

By: James E. Austin and Mitchel B. Wallerstein

Keywords: Food; Policy; Growth and Development; United States

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May 1979 (Revised April 1987)
Case

Great Lakes Diversified Corp.: The Detroit Plant

By: W. Earl Sasser and David C. Rikert

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Planning; Production; Strategy; Michigan

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May 1979 (Revised March 1984)
Case

Quality Life of New York

By: James I. Cash Jr.

Keywords: Insurance Industry; New York (state, US)

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April 1979 (Revised October 1983)
Case

U.S. Securities Industry in 1979

By: Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry; United States

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April 1979 (Revised June 1988)
Case

Chain Saw Industry in 1978

By: Michael E. Porter and David J. Collis

For use on the second day of a two-day sequence on the U.S. chain saw industry. Describes the evolution of the industry since 1974. Illustrates issues in industry evolution, the forces causing evolution, and the strategic issues raised by evolution. The discussion can... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Industry Growth; Manufacturing Industry; United States

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April 1979 (Revised May 1993)
Teaching Note

Community Television of Southern California: KCET, Teaching Note

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Media; Media and Broadcasting Industry; California

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April 1979 (Revised May 1993)
Case

MASSPORT

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Transportation; Transportation Industry; Massachusetts

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1979
Book

Nutrition Intervention in the United States: Cases and Concepts

By: James E. Austin and Christopher Hitt

Keywords: Nutrition; Programs; Cases; United States

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December 1978 (Revised March 1992)
Case

Archdiocese of New York

By: Stephen A. Greyser and John A. Quelch

A print media campaign to improve attitudes toward the Catholic priesthood and to indirectly increase vocations is evaluated through a comparison of pretest and post-test data. View Details

Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Measurement and Metrics; Media; Public Opinion; Valuation; Media and Broadcasting Industry; New York (state, US)

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