2008 | hbr.org STRATEGY STRATEGY by Michael E. Porter Peter Crowther SHAPE THE FIVE COMPETITIVE FORCES THAT 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 to the study of competitive strategy for corporations‚ regions
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The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer The capitalist system is under siege. In recent years business increasingly has been viewed as a major cause of social‚ environmental‚ and economic problems. Companies are widely perceived to be prospering at the expense of the broader community. Even worse‚ the more business has begun to embrace corporate responsibility‚ the more it has been blamed for society’s failures. The legitimacy of business has fallen to levels not seen in recent history
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1. Reading for this Lecture Porter M. (1990)‚ The Competitive Advantage of Nations‚ Chapters 3&4 2. Why Location Matters The ways that firms create and sustain competitive advantage in global industries provides the necessary foundation for understanding the role of the home nation in the process. There are five premises we must understand relating to national advantage: 1) The nature of competition and the sources of competitive advantage differ widely among industries and industry segments
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India and the Tata Nano Project: A Comparison of Singur with Sanand By Devparna Roy Paper presented at the International Conference on Global Land Grabbing 6-8 April 2011 Organised by the Land Deals Politics Initiative (LDPI) in collaboration with the Journal of Peasant Studies and hosted by the Future Agricultures Consortium at the Institute of Development Studies‚ University of Sussex GUJARAT’S GAIN AND BENGAL’S LOSS? “DEVELOPMENT‚” LAND ACQUISITION IN INDIA AND THE TATA NANO PROJECT:
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Porter five forces Prepared by Dean Content 1. Introduction 2. Explanation of the Porter Model 3. Porters five forces Automobile industry 4. Conclusion and weaknesses 1. Introduction Audi History It all began with August Horch‚ one of Germany’s pioneering personalities automobile engineers. He set up business on his own in 1899‚ establishing Horch & Cie. Motorwagen Werke in Cologne on November 14 of that year. August Horch left the company in 1909 and immediately
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Tata Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Mumbai‚ Maharashtra‚ India.[3] It encompasses seven business sectors: communications and information technology‚ engineering‚ materials‚ services‚ energy‚ consumer products and chemicals. Tata Group was founded in 1868 by Jamsetji Tata as a trading company. It has operations in more than 80 countries across six continents. Tata Group has over 100 operating companies each of them operates independently. Out of them 32 are
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Porter’s five forces Michael E Porter developed the Porter’s five forces analysis in 1979 which serves as a framework for industry analysis and business strategy development. Its five forces determine the competitive intensity and therefore attractiveness of a market. Attractiveness in this context refers to the overall industry profitability. Three of Porter’s five forces refer to competition from external sources. The remainder are internal threats. It is useful to use Porter’s five forces in
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Whereas in Europe‚ national activities to drive e-mobility forward still have to be coordinated at EU level‚ Chinese leaders have adopted a plan aimed at turning the country into one of the leading producers of hybrid and all-electric vehicles within three years‚ and making it the world leader in electric cars and busses. This paper presents the case of the Chinese company BYD („Build Your Dreams“)‚ that began selling a plug-in electric car in China‚ at least a year ahead of similar efforts in the U
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Case Study Tata Steel – Corus Group Plc Acquisition Group Report (Submitted towards Group assignment under Corporate strategy) eMEP10/ePGP03 IIM‚ Kozhikode. Submitted By: Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Tata Group 3 3. Tata Steel 4 4. SWOT Analysis of Tata steel 5 5. Corus Group Plc. 5 6. SWOT Analysis of Corus 6 7. Rationale for Acquisition 6 8. About the deal 7 9. Justification of Deal 7 10. Tata Steel financial position after the deal
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Tata Motors India is not a country that encourages free trade.the government has imposed many trade barriers‚like very high taxes for one.these high taxes are a form of preventing the local industries domestic products from international companies. Also‚ the bureacracy that exists is india is the worst.every level of the heirachy of any department‚corporate‚law‚governemnt is bound to accept bribe and is corrupt.Tata has also undergone tremendous challenges when building its Nano factory in west
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