of oil and second- largest producer of natural gas. It is the second-largest trading nation in the world behind China. It has been the world’s largest national economy (not including colonial empires) since at least the 1890s. China The Socialist market economy of People’s Republic of China (PRC) is the world’s second largest economy. It is the world’s fastest-growing major economy‚ with growth rates averaging 10% over the past 30 years. China is also the largest exporter and second largest importer
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Plate Tectonics The forces that shape the earth begin beneath the lithosphere. Rock in the asthenosphere is hot enough to flow slowly. Heated rock rises‚ moves up toward the lithosphere‚ cools and circulates downward. Riding above this circulation system are the tectonic plates‚ enormous moving pieces of the earth’s lithosphere. [pic] Plate Movement Tectonic Plates move in four different ways. When tectonic plates come into contact‚ changes on the earth’s surface occur. 1. Diveregnt Boundary-
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Geological Forces that Shape the Earth Diastrophism Defined: • Comes from the Greek word meaning a “twisting” deformation of the Earth’s crust. All processes that move‚ or elevate or build up portions of the Earth’s crust comes under this. • Diastrophism covers movement of solid (plastic) material‚ as opposed to movement of molten material which is covered by volcanism. • The most obvious evidence of diastrophic movement can be seen where sedimentary rocks have been bent‚ broken or tilted.
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The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy Competition for industry profits goes beyond the direct competitors in the business. It included four other competitive forces as well: • Customers • Suppliers • Potential entrants • Substitute products This extended rivalry that results from all five forces defines an industry’s structure and shapes the nature of competitive interaction within the industry. Industry structure drives profitability‚ not products or services‚ or mature or
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As Long As You Love Me Intro F C Am G As long as you love me Verse 1 Am F Although loneliness has always been a friend of mine G C C/B I’m leavin’ my life in your hands Am F People say I’m crazy and that I am blind
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The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy by Michael E. Porter Comments (143) RELATED Executive Summary ALSO AVAILABLE Buy PDF Editor’s Note: In 1979‚ Harvard Business Review published “How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy” by a young economist and associate professor‚ Michael E. Porter. It was his first HBR article‚ and it started a revolution in the strategy field. In subsequent decades‚ Porter has brought his signature economic rigor
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------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy* The essence of strategy formulation is coping with competition. Yet it is easy to view competition too narrowly and too pessimistically. While one sometimes hears execu-tives complaining to the contrary‚ intense competition in an industry is neither coinci-dence nor bad luck. Moreover‚ in the fight for market share‚ competition is not manifested only in the other players. Rather‚ competition
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“The Competitive Five Forces that Shape Strategy” Hand-in Article Summary In this theoretical piece Porter explains how there are five main forces that shape competition in a company’s external environment. There are various different techniques for identifying strategic opportunities and it differs by industry. The classic five forces are: threat of entry: the risk of new entry by potential competitors‚ the power of supplies: the bargaining power of suppliers‚ the power of buyers: the bargaining
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THE FIVE COMPETITIVE FORCES THAT SHAPE STRATEGY NOTES Competitive Forces 1. Rivalry Among Existing Competitors 2. The Power if Buyers 3. The Power of Suppliers 4. Threat of Entrants 5. The Threat of Substitute Products/Services The extended rivalry that results from all five forces defines an industry’s structure and shapes the nature of competitive interaction within an industry. Understanding the competitive forces‚ and their causes‚ reveals the roots of an industry’s current profit-
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