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Dell Inc., with its vaunted Direct Model, defined success in the personal computer industry for more than a decade. Starting in the mid-2000s, however, the company fell on hard times. In 2009, Michael Dell and his management team must figure out why the Direct Model... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Change Management; Industry Growth; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Computer Industry

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November 1994
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Citibank European Strategy & Organization

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Thomas W. Malnight

Examines strategic and organizational issues facing Citibank as it pursues a highly focused strategy in Europe in the face of increasing competition. Central in this consideration is the role of the European regional organization. View Details

Keywords: Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Design; Competitive Strategy; Competition; Banking Industry; Europe

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April 1979 (Revised October 1983)
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U.S. Securities Industry in 1979

By: Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry; United States

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October 1988 (Revised November 1988)
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Du Pont: Biotechnology in Agricultural Products

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Biotechnology Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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November 1985
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Genetics Institute Enters the Seed Business

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Michael Joseph Kennedy

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Biotechnology Industry

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July 1986 (Revised April 1989)
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Note on Sources of Comparative Advantage

By: David B. Yoffie and John J. Coleman

After Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin's propositions about the sources of comparative advantage were empirically challenged by Wassily Leontief, scholars set out to explain the "Leontief paradox" by developing alternative theories on the sources of comparative... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Advantage

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April 2000
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Market Failures

By: Bharat N. Anand, Tarun Khanna and Jan W. Rivkin

Examines the role of transaction costs in impeding the functioning of markets and shows how the concept of transaction costs sheds light on a broad range of issues in strategy. View Details

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Cost; Market Transactions; Industry Clusters; Failure; Internet

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