The Industrial Economy: Strategy

EC132 - Course Overview

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Problem Set 2 (answers)

Problem Set 3 (answers)

Problem Set 4 (answers)

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Why do firms exist? | The Economist

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Cooperation and coordination

Coordination failure at NASA

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Solving cooperation and coordination inside the firm

Management Practices, Relational Contracts, and the Decline of General Motors

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Strategic assets and resources

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Apple's case that Samsung copied the iPhone and iPad—in pictures + (update)

The Problems With Software Patents | Forbes.com (1) (2) (3)

Note on deadweight loss

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Markets and mergers

HBOS collapse shows danger of the winner’s curse | ft.com

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Maintaining competitive advantage

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Pricing and positioning

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Quality and advertising

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Prison breakthrough | The Economist

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Quantity competition

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Price competition

Rethinking Why Crazy Eddie Wouldn’t Be Undersold | New York Times

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Capacity constraints + Leaders and followers (1)

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Leaders and followers (2) + Differentiation (1)

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Differentiation

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Repeated interaction

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Module summary and revision

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Term 3 Revision

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