In Japan, motor vehicles were few and far between in the 1950s, and in 1956 half of all vehicles produced were still 3-wheelers. Car production…
Economics 243 Fall 2018
On Thursday 25 October AB Inbev announced that it will cut its dividend payment in half. In the background is its acquisition of SABMiller (and…
Here are points to read for: What is the core question of the paper? What dynamics in the industry does she try to explain? What…
What question do the authors claim they are addressing? Why? Is it an interesting question? What’s new about this question? Does it use theory that…
From the 1950s into the start of the 1970s General Motors was consistently the most profitable firm in the world, earning 40% on investment and…
Mark Hibben on Seeking Alpha offers an analysis of Apple’s new products that makes a claim about strategy: that Apple is offering down-market alternatives, I…
Eating apples without asking what they were was a bad move for Adam. How about investing in Apple without knowing how it makes its money…
We use Stephen Martin’s text and a book by Maureen Ogle on the beer industry. Useful supplements include various industry histories and overviews, such as…
Here is the presentation on Disruption from today. It includes a couple slides that I skipped over in class. For more on diffusion see this…
Between 1999 and 2011, the record industry shrunk by 64%. With the advent of digital music, musicians were forced to find other streams of…