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How Dell went from dorm room startup in 1984, to the world''s largest PC maker in 2005, and then saw its stock plummet precipitously the next year, is the subject of a lengthy Harvard Business School case study by HBS professor Jan Rivkin. This simple strategy proved wildly successful. The tablet space is similarly competitive.

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But Tirole’s 1980s work on industrial organization also found its way into thinking about business strategy. In the early 1980s, the game theory approach to studying industries promised to be the next big wave in strategy. As an example, Rivkin cites the notion of commitment, which Ghemawat wrote a book on.

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