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      • February 1989 (Revised October 1994)
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      Asahi Breweries Ltd.

      By: Malcolm S. Salter
      Focuses on competitive repositioning, organizational renewal, and personal leadership. Describes how Asahi Breweries was faced with a major capacity expansion decision after succeeding in increasing market share dramatically in the traditionally stable Japanese beer... View Details
      Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Leadership; Organizational Structure; Product Launch; Management Teams; Business or Company Management; Marketing Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Mission and Purpose; Food and Beverage Industry; Japan
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      Salter, Malcolm S. "Asahi Breweries Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 389-114, February 1989. (Revised October 1994.)
      • January 1989 (Revised March 1995)
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      Du Pont Freon Products Division (A)

      By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Forest L. Reinhardt
      In 1988, the Du Pont Co. is abruptly confronted with solid scientific evidence that chlorofluorocarbons are destroying the earth's ozone shield. Du Pont, with its Freon brand product line serving markets for foam insulation, electronics solvents, and especially... View Details
      Keywords: Business Divisions; Policy; Management; Brands and Branding; Production; Service Operations; Natural Environment; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Environmental Sustainability
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      Vietor, Richard H.K., and Forest L. Reinhardt. "Du Pont Freon Products Division (A)." Harvard Business School Case 389-111, January 1989. (Revised March 1995.)
      • December 1988
      • Case

      Great Lakes Diversified Corp.: The Detroit Plant--1980

      By: Roy D. Shapiro
      Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Planning; Production; Strategy; Michigan
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      Shapiro, Roy D. "Great Lakes Diversified Corp.: The Detroit Plant--1980." Harvard Business School Case 689-050, December 1988.
      • October 1988
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      Harris Seafoods Leveraged Buyout

      By: William A. Sahlman
      Describes set of issues confronting Alison Lassiter, who is trying to help Charlie Harris arrange a leveraged buyout of the shrimp company he runs, a division of a publicly traded company, Katy Industries. Lassiter has prepared a memorandum discussing and analyzing the... View Details
      Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Equity; Cost vs Benefits; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Preparation; Financial Management; Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Planning; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry
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      Sahlman, William A. "Harris Seafoods Leveraged Buyout." Harvard Business School Case 289-019, October 1988.
      • 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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      Goldberg, Ray A. "Du Pont: Biotechnology in Agricultural Products." Harvard Business School Case 589-058, October 1988. (Revised November 1988.)
      • September 1988 (Revised October 1992)
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      Suzuki Samurai

      By: John A. Quelch
      Suzuki and advertising agency executives are debating the product positioning and accompanying copy strategy alternatives for the Suzuki Samurai prior to its U.S. introduction. View Details
      Keywords: Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Advertising Campaigns; Advertising Industry; Auto Industry; Japan; United States
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      Quelch, John A. "Suzuki Samurai." Harvard Business School Case 589-028, September 1988. (Revised October 1992.)
      • September 1988 (Revised June 1993)
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      Ring Medical

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan
      Describes the progress of a new product launch (HCS-100, a hospital communication system). Ring Medical has sold only five systems in six months against an annual target of 30. There is a lack of agreement internally on how the new product effort should be organized.... View Details
      Keywords: Conferences; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Distribution Channels; Performance
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      Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Ring Medical." Harvard Business School Case 589-046, September 1988. (Revised June 1993.)
      • August 1988 (Revised February 1992)
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      Norton Group PLC: To Be or Not to Be in the Motorcycle Business (A)

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Jon Skofic
      Norton, a once famous motorcycle manufacturer, soundly beaten by Japanese competition, turns its attention to developing rotary engines. The company is acquired by Norton Group PLC, which is headed by a dashing entrepreneur. The new management must decide what... View Details
      Keywords: Acquisition; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Crisis Management; Resource Allocation; Production; Competition; Auto Industry; Motorcycle Industry; Japan; United Kingdom
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      Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Jon Skofic. "Norton Group PLC: To Be or Not to Be in the Motorcycle Business (A)." Harvard Business School Case 589-013, August 1988. (Revised February 1992.)
      • August 1988 (Revised April 1998)
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      IBM 360: Giant as Entrepreneur

      By: Joseph L. Bower
      Presents the ingredients that went into a major entrepreneurial shift by IBM--investing $5 billion into a new product line that would obsolete any existing computer product line offered by the competition, or by IBM itself. The economic and technical challenges of this... View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Financial Management; Investment; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry
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      Bower, Joseph L. "IBM 360: Giant as Entrepreneur." Harvard Business School Case 389-003, August 1988. (Revised April 1998.)
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      Beyond the Reach of the Invisible Hand: Impediments to Economic Activity, Market Failures, and Profitability

      By: Dennis Yao
      In this paper it is argued that failures of the competitive market are necessary conditions for supranormal profitability. Three fundamental causes of these market failures-production economies and sunk costs, transactions costs, and imperfect information-are developed... View Details
      Keywords: Economics; Markets; Failure; Profit; Cost; Information; Market Transactions; Competition; Strategy; Production
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      Yao, Dennis. "Beyond the Reach of the Invisible Hand: Impediments to Economic Activity, Market Failures, and Profitability." Strategic Management Journal 9 (Summer 1988): 59–70. (Harvard users click here for full text.)
      • May 1988 (Revised November 1990)
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      Airbus vs. Boeing (B): The Storm Intensifies

      By: Malcolm S. Salter
      Discusses the growing competition faced by U.S. producers of civil aircraft due to the success and expanding product line of Airbus Industries. Designed to foster discussion of international trade policy as it affects producers in the industry and to encourage firm... View Details
      Keywords: Trade; Policy; Negotiation; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Aerospace Industry; United States
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      Salter, Malcolm S. "Airbus vs. Boeing (B): The Storm Intensifies." Harvard Business School Case 388-145, May 1988. (Revised November 1990.)
      • May 1988 (Revised March 1990)
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      Matsushita Electric Industrial (MEI) in 1987

      By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal
      Describes the development of Matsushita's international operations and the building of its dominant competitive position in the consumer electronics industry. Picks up the major challenges facing the company in 1987 as both its product focus and geographic posture are... View Details
      Keywords: Global Strategy; Goods and Commodities; Product Positioning; Problems and Challenges; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Value; Electronics Industry
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      Bartlett, Christopher A., and Sumantra Ghoshal. "Matsushita Electric Industrial (MEI) in 1987." Harvard Business School Case 388-144, May 1988. (Revised March 1990.)
      • spring 1988
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      Product Market Competition and Managerial Slack

      By: David S. Scharfstein
      Keywords: Product; Markets; Competition; Management
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      Scharfstein, David S. "Product Market Competition and Managerial Slack." RAND Journal of Economics 19, no. 1 (spring 1988): 147–155.
      • November 1987
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      The Magic Matrix: Products and Accounts

      By: Benson P. Shapiro
      Describes an interfunctional approach to product mix management and account selection. The approach uses a matrix of products and accounts. Also describes the concepts and implementation of the approach. View Details
      Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Customers
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      Shapiro, Benson P. "The Magic Matrix: Products and Accounts." Harvard Business School Background Note 588-006, November 1987.
      • November 1987 (Revised March 1988)
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      Searching for Trade Remedies: The U.S. Machine Tool Industry--1983

      By: David B. Yoffie
      In 1983 the National Machine Tools Builder Association was predicting a declining market for the United States and rising imports. Machine tool manufacturers had to decide if they should ask the U.S. government for help, and if they did, which administrative channels... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Machinery and Machining; Government and Politics; Law; Production; Business and Government Relations; Competition; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; Germany; United States
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      Yoffie, David B. "Searching for Trade Remedies: The U.S. Machine Tool Industry--1983." Harvard Business School Case 388-071, November 1987. (Revised March 1988.)
      • June 1987 (Revised August 1988)
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      American Bank

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      American Bank is developing a new system to compute product costs. The deregulated, more competitive environment for commercial banks has created both problems and opportunities for banking operations. In order to price existing products and assess the desirability of... View Details
      Keywords: System; Consolidation; Commercial Banking; SWOT Analysis; Fair Value Accounting; Cost Management; Price; Banking Industry; North and Central America; United States
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      Kaplan, Robert S. "American Bank." Harvard Business School Case 187-194, June 1987. (Revised August 1988.)
      • April 1987
      • Supplement

      Inland Steel Co. Product Policy, Video 5: Strategy and Capital Budgeting

      By: Benson P. Shapiro and Lawrence B. Levine
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      Shapiro, Benson P., and Lawrence B. Levine. "Inland Steel Co. Product Policy, Video 5: Strategy and Capital Budgeting." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 887-543, April 1987.
      • spring 1987
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      Second-Sourcing and the Experience Curve: Price Competition in Defense Procurement

      By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao
      We examine a dynamic model of price competition in defense procurement that incorporates the experience curve, asymmetric cost information, and the availability of a higher cost alternative system. We model acquisition as a two-stage process in which initial production... View Details
      Keywords: Acquisition; Government and Politics; Price; Competition; Mathematical Methods
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      Anton, James J., and Dennis A. Yao. "Second-Sourcing and the Experience Curve: Price Competition in Defense Procurement." RAND Journal of Economics 18, no. 1 (spring 1987): 57–76. (Harvard users click here for full text.)
      • December 1986 (Revised December 1987)
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      Hewlett-Packard: Manufacturing Productivity Division (B)

      By: Benson P. Shapiro and Lawrence B. Levine
      Asks where in the Hewlett-Packard (HP) network of groups and sectors the Manufacturing Productivity Division should be placed. Provides a great deal of background regarding marketing, sales, and engineering at HP. It is thus possible to expand and broaden the... View Details
      Keywords: Business Divisions; Marketing; Production; Networks; Sales; Expansion; Manufacturing Industry
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      Shapiro, Benson P., and Lawrence B. Levine. "Hewlett-Packard: Manufacturing Productivity Division (B)." Harvard Business School Case 587-102, December 1986. (Revised December 1987.)
      • December 1986 (Revised January 1988)
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      Hewlett-Packard: Manufacturing Productivity Division (C)

      By: Benson P. Shapiro and Lawrence B. Levine
      Focuses on the development of a "market driven" culture at Hewlett-Packard (HP); the conflict between autonomous, well integrated divisions making products responsive to their own markets and a greater degree of systems integration at the corporate level; and the... View Details
      Keywords: Business Divisions; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Production; Organizational Culture; Research and Development; Sales; Integration; Manufacturing Industry
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      Shapiro, Benson P., and Lawrence B. Levine. "Hewlett-Packard: Manufacturing Productivity Division (C)." Harvard Business School Case 587-103, December 1986. (Revised January 1988.)
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