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Toys ‘R’ Us Is Dead, but Physical Retail Isn’t

Harvard Business Review

The local toy store seemed positively drab in comparison. From sitting at the kitchen table to waiting for a train, consumers have the power to browse, compare prices, and order from thousands of retailers competing for their attention. Parents, for their part, were drawn by the “everyday low price.” In their 2005 book, W.

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Stop Trying to Engineer Success

Harvard Business Review

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne examined the emergence of outrageously successful companies like Cirque du Soleil, and claim to have discovered the keys. How else could they have moved their businesses into positions that so thoroughly defied competition? Iraq is far from a viable democratic system. As just one example, academics W.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

And so, he famously argued, in addition to the fierceness of price competition among industry rivals, the degree of competitiveness in an industry (that is, the degree to which players are free to set their own prices) depends on the bargaining power of buyers and of suppliers, as well as how threatening substitute products and new entrants are.