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Chapter 1 Meticulous event planning and operations management
number of other organizations with similar offerings. This case explores the formulation and implementation of an entrepreneurial strategy in an emerging industry where there are few barriers to entry. The key issues this case addresses are: the choice of […]
Chapter 1 The case is short and most business students are likely
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Chapter 1 The Framework For Strategy Analysis the Same Elements
• Strategy as the linkage between the firm and its external environment and the importance of fit— the strategy of the firm needs to fit with the requirements of the external environment (especially the needs of customers), with the resources […]
Chapter 1 The situation that the world auto industry finds itself
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Chapter 10 The case offers insight into Chipotle’s business system
repositioned it to create a new market segment. The case describes the company and its strategy providing the basis for an analysis of the nature and sources of Chipotle’s competitive advantage. The case offers insight into Chipotle’s business system and […]
Chapter 10 The New York Times Company Responded Shedding
industry. Thus, in the case of the New York Times, the challenge is to address the problems of declining circulation, rising costs and falling advertising revenues. Should the company stick to the traditional model and seek financial viability through aggressive […]
Chapter 11 The industry is also on the brink of technological changes
© 2016 Robert M. Grant www.contemporarystrategyanalysis.com 1 However, despite CEO Mark Fields’ optimistic pronouncements about the future, it is clear that the world auto industry is entering a period of profound change which threatens all the world’s manufacturers. The challenge […]
Chapter 11 Thus The Case American Apparel And Zara
• To be capable of making vertical integration decisions. In relation to a specific activity, should the firm make or buy? In relation to the vertical scope of the firm as a whole, how broad a span of the industry […]
Chapter 12 Outback Steakhouse Highly Successful Restaurant Chain Whose
an overseas market? Issues concerning the transferability and replicability of the firm’s competitive advantage are critical here. • What mode of foreign market entry should a firm adopt? Again, issues of resources and capabilities and the need for local market […]
Chapter 12 The case illustrates the challenges of strategic
ability to develop the capabilities needed to adapt its business model. The strategic differences between digital and chemical imaging technologies are wide. Not only do they draw upon a distinctly different area of scientific knowledge, the modes of product […]
Chapter 12 The primary purpose of this case is to explore
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Chapter 13 Different Types Resources And Capabilities Give Rise
During the past two decades, the predominant direction of firm development has been specialization rather than diversification. Hence, an important strategic question for many companies is not so much where to diversify, but more which existing businesses should be divested? […]
Chapter 13 The case allows a consideration of the rationale behind
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Chapter 13 Would you buy or short Tesla’s shares
By mid-2015, Tesla is far from being a large scale manufacturer—it will produce about 50,000 cars in 2015. However, as a result of two highly successful model launches (the Roadster and the Model S), and a third (the Model X) […]
Chapter 14 Danone Strategy Implementation International Food And Beverage
• Managing linkages: how the corporate HQ facilitates the exploitation of synergies across the different businesses. • Managing individual businesses: the processes of performance management, strategic planning, and financial control through which the corporate HQ guides the strategies and performance […]
Chapter 14 I use this case in the section of my strategy
devices; and new revenue models were appearing, including monthly subscriptions and advertising. The case explores the dynamics of platform-based competition, the sources of network externalities, and the challenges facing each of the three leading players as they adapt their strategies […]
Chapter 14 Now that video game consoles can be used to watch
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Chapter 14 The rising power of the software publishers meant that
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Chapter 15 Assessing the challenges of industry decline for long
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Chapter 15 Merrill Lynchs Losses Confirms That Bank America
to less information than the seller) • Analyzing the different dimensions of a merger: horizontal integration, diversification, international expansion • The problems of most-merger integration arising from differences in culture, systems and traditions. © 2016 Robert M. Grant www.contemporarystrategyanalysis.com 1 […]
Chapter 15 The case is also useful in encouraging creativity
The New York Times Company (NYT), publisher of one of the world’s largest and best known newspapers, is struggling against losses and declining revenues. The company has been adjusting to decline by cutting costs and selling assets—which have included almost […]
Chapter 16 Eni’s upstream operations are also subject to acute
Despite Eni’s outstanding operational and financial performance, which has made it Italy’s largest company in terms of market capitalization, in 2015 the company faces a combination of challenges which call for a reassessment of the strategy that has propelled it […]
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Chapter 16 What Strategies Will Firms Need Adopt Order
• I affirm the basic case for shareholder capitalism—despite the crimes and lunacy that been associated with “shareholder value maximization”—I argue that the maximization of the enterprise value—so long as it is focuses on the lifetime of the firm and […]
Chapter 17 Clothing is produced offshore in low-wage countries
expanded rapidly over the next five years both at home and overseas. However, since 2008 sales have stagnated and profits slumped. Amidst deteriorating financial performance, American Apparel’s eccentric and controversial founder and CEO, Dov Charney, was ousted. During 2015 losses […]
Chapter 17 To reaffirm the usefulness of the basic tools of
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Chapter 18 Do overseas markets offer attractive growth opportunities
The question posed by the case is whether Chipotle can replicate its huge success within the US in overseas markets? Up to 2015, Chipotle’s few international forays have met with limited success. The case addresses fundamental issues concerning whether and […]
Chapter 18 Whether overseas consumers have similar preferences
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Chapter 19 Recognizing the role of entrepreneurial leadership
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Chapter 19 The main features of Haier’s internationalization
principles of international business expansion. Is Haier’s international success due to its unconventional strategy or in spite of it? Given its present position and the capabilities it has developed in the design, manufacture, and marketing of appliances, how can Haier […]
Chapter 2 Amidst a slump in Starbucks’ profitability and sales
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Chapter 2 They must also assess the extent to which the components
entrepreneurial folklore. The dramatic content of the story is enhanced by the fact that, after 20 years of leading Starbucks’ continuous growth, Schultz relinquished the post of CEO in 2000. However, amidst a slump in Starbucks’ profitability and sales, he […]
Chapter 2 This Then Requires Some Explanation How This
• Interpreting performance data and selecting performance indicators (including accounting profit vs. economic profit, cash flow vs. profit, and the relationship of enterprise value to profitability). • The limits of financial analysis – why qualitative strategic analysis is important both […]
Chapter 20 Do all these businesses fit with the resources and capabilities
However, it was also clear that the Virgin Group had reached its maturity phase. In particular, new investment was dwarfed by divestment. Recent sales included Virgin’s mobile telephony and broadband businesses, and its health clubs. Other businesses received stock market […]
Chapter 20 Richard Branson’s Virgin group of companies extended from airlines
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Chapter 21 The creation of Alphabet did little to clarify
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Chapter 21 The Google case is concerned with corporate
activities; although most of these related to web-based information, computer software, and advertising, others seemed to extend well beyond Google’s mission to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” These included operating systems such as Android […]
Chapter 22 Does GE possess the management systems and leadership
The focus of the case upon the identification and assessment of the initiatives undertaken by Immelt during this period in terms of corporate strategy, organizational structure, management systems, and leadership style. These changes marked a profound change in direction from […]
Chapter 22 The problem here is that many of the companies that adopt
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Chapter 23 New evidence of the extent of Merrill Lynch’s losses confirms
Although the merger occurred under highly unusual circumstances—a period when the world’s financial system was on the brink of disaster—the issues that the case addresses are of wider relevance. In assessing the potential benefits of the merger, the central question […]
Chapter 23 To what extent is his emphasis on business
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Chapter 24 Embracing uncertainty and viewing it as an opportunity rather
decentralization of decision making to self-managing teams. The case offers the opportunity to consider the advantages and disadvantages of Gore’s management structure, the extent to which it represents a viable alternative to management based upon hierarchical control, and the potential […]
Chapter 3 Either close competitors or other firms more generally
Kering SA is a French luxury and sports apparel company formerly known as PPR, a diversified retailing company. The acquisition of Gucci in 1999 marked the beginning of PPR’s transformation from a retailer into a diversified fashion, luxury, and sports […]
Chapter 3 I like to devote at least one session early in my
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Chapter 3 Looking First Customers And How They
It is this criterion of practical usefulness that justifies my continuing use of Porter’s Five Forces Framework as the primary tool of industry analysis in preference to more sophisticated and rigorous models of competitive behavior—i.e. game theory. Despite the theoretical […]
Chapter 4 Competitor analysis arises in the video games
• Game theory concepts—notably those on preemption, deterrence, commitment, signaling, and cooperation) arise in the cases on Starbucks (“Starbucks Corporation, May 2015”), Walmart (“Wal–Mart Stores Inc., June 2015”), and Tesla (“Tesla Motors: Disrupting the Auto Industry”). • Competitor analysis arises […]
Chapter 4 For venture capital investors with a medium-term
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Chapter 4 The estimates of profitability included in the case differ
industry had been greatly stimulated by the announcement that Founders Fund, a prominent venture capital investor, was investing in the sector. However, amidst the surge of investment interest in marijuana-related businesses, one question remained unresolved: would the legal marijuana industry […]
Chapter 5 Did this mark a new era of prosperity for the industry
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Chapter 5 Formulating strategies that can best exploit a firm’s
• The distinction between resources and capabilities. The key categories of resource. The nature of organizational capability. • How to identify and appraise a firm’s resources and capabilities. • Formulating strategies that can best exploit a firm’s resources and capabilities. […]
Chapter 5 Is it the fault of bad industry economics
The case explores the factors that drive competition and profitability in the airline industry by outlining the history of the industry since deregulation in 1978. Once the regulation of fares and entry was abandoned, the economic reality of the business—new […]
Chapter 6 The case places a strong emphasis on the role that
The focus of the case is on the challenges facing CEO Doug McMillan in sustaining Walmart’s remarkable performance given Walmart’s growing size and complexity and the increasing pressures it faces—not only from meeting competition across an ever-broadening front—but also labor […]
Chapter 6 The challenges facing Walmart do not relate only
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Chapter 6 The role of hierarchy both as a control mechanism
• The fundamental problem of organizing: how to reconcile specialization with coordination and cooperation. • The role of hierarchy both as a control mechanism and as a coordination mechanism—this takes us into the principles of modularity and loose coupling (organizational […]
Chapter 7 Japanese motorcycle companies to become the global
The Harley-Davidson story is one of a clearly-focused, tightly-integrated strategy where Harley carefully exploited its brand strength and reputation while building its capabilities in design, manufacture, marketing, and distribution. Harley’s success has been built upon a differentiation strategy that focuses […]
Chapter 7 This positioning has sheltered Harley
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Chapter 7 Walmart Cases See The Grant Case And
derives a cost advantage form this particular driver. For example, in relation to scale economies, Toyota (8.5 million cars per year) gains considerable advantages in purchasing, new product development, manufacturing, and marketing over BMW (1.5 million cars per year). In […]
Chapter 8 He had embraced environmental responsibility
norms of the industry. His intention had been to turn BP into the most flexible, innovative, and performance– focused of the world’s leading oil and gas majors. Most strikingly, he had embraced environmental responsibility and reinterpreted BP as “Beyond Petroleum.” […]
Chapter 8 The key learning goals for this chapter are for
© 2016 Robert M. Grant www.contemporarystrategyanalysis.com 1 Chapter 11 bankruptcy early in 2012), there is still tremendous insight to be gained from examining its strategy, the reasons for its failure, and alternative strategies that it might have pursued. Largely reflecting […]
Chapter 9 A Malaysian music executive who was inspired by
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Chapter 9 AirAsia achieved the distinction of being recognized
The case explores the sources of AirAsia’s cost efficiency by outlining the main features of AirAsia’s strategy and operations and comparing it with its Malaysian rival, Malaysian Airline System, the country’s national carrier. The case also considers a major departure […]
Chapter 9 Disrupting The Automobile Industry R Grant Contemporary
• Alternative strategies to exploit an innovation. • First-mover advantage. • Competition in markets (a) where standards arise and (b) competition is among rival platforms. • The organizational conditions conducive to innovation and creativity. • The nature and extent of […]
Marketing Chapter 1 Strategy Detailed Plan That Programs The Actions
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Marketing Chapter 10 Very Few Companies Mature Industries Are Able
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Marketing Chapter 11 Corporate Strategy Concerned With How Firm Competes
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Marketing Chapter 12 The Two Primary Drivers Change Business Environment
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Marketing Chapter 13 Diversification Has Been Key Source Value Creation
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Marketing Chapter 14 According Jack Welch The Advantages Focus That
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Marketing Chapter 15 Internal Business Venture Rather Than External Mergers
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Marketing Chapter 16 The Business Environment The 21st Century Has
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Marketing Chapter 2 The Entrepreneurs Who Create Business Enterprises Are
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Marketing Chapter 3 According Warren Buffett Brilliant Managers Can Succeed
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Marketing Chapter 4 Porters Five Forces Model Offers Rigorous Empirically
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Marketing Chapter 5 Strategy Concerned With Matching Firms Resources And
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Marketing Chapter 6 Jamie Dimons Comment Id Rather Have First rate
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Marketing Chapter 7 Competitive Advantage Invariably Revealed Firm Being More
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Marketing Chapter 8 According Charles Darwin The Strongest Species That
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Marketing Chapter 9 Invention And Innovation Are Essentially The Same
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