Globalization of CEMEX

March 26, 2023

https://store.hbr.org/product/globalization-of-cemex/701017

Globalization of CEMEX
by Pankaj Ghemawat and Jamie L. Matthews
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CEMEX is a Mexican company that has become a major international competitor in cement while maintaining a higher level of profitability than other, longer-established majors. CEMEX’s superior profitability supplies a basis for discussing the sources of superior performance in a global context. In addition, the wide array of benefits that CEMEX derives from its operations in different countries broadens
conventional notions of why firms globalize.

Product #: 701017-PDF-ENG


What Is Strategy?

March 26, 2023

https://hbr.org/1996/11/what-is-strategy

What Is Strategy?
For starters, it’s not the same as operational effectiveness. by Michael E. Porter
From the Magazine (November–December 1996)


Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. – Case – Faculty & Research – Harvard Business School

March 26, 2023

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=23386

CITATION
Bradley, Stephen P., and Pankaj Ghemawat. “Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.” Harvard Business School Case 794-024, January 1994. (Revised November 2002.)


Maneuver Warfare: Can Modern Military Strategy Lead You to Victory?

March 26, 2023

https://hbr.org/2002/04/maneuver-warfare-can-modern-military-strategy-lead-you-to-victory

Maneuver Warfare: Can Modern Military Strategy Lead You to Victory?

by Eric K. Clemons and Jason A. Santamaria
From the Magazine (April 2002)


Blue Ocean Strategy

March 26, 2023

https://hbr.org/2004/10/blue-ocean-strategy

Blue Ocean Strategy

Competing in overcrowded industries is no way to sustain high performance. The real opportunity is to create blue oceans of uncontested market space.

by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
Harvard Bus. Review (October 2004)

Also:
Red Ocean Traps
The mental models that undermine market-creating strategies by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
From the Magazine (March 2015)
https://hbr.org/2015/03/red-ocean-traps


End the wasteful tyranny of reviewer experiments | Nature

March 26, 2023

https://www.nature.com/articles/472391a


Mutations across species reveal clues to ageing – BBC News

March 26, 2023

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-61045950


How long do Greenland sharks live?

March 26, 2023

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/greenland-shark.html#:~:text=Scientists%20estimate%20the%20Greenland%20shark,may%20live%20over%20500%20years.


Competitive Advantage Definition with Types and Examples

March 25, 2023

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/competitive_advantage.asp


Gordon E. Moore, Intel Co-Founder Behind Moore’s Law, Dies at 94 – The New York Times

March 25, 2023

Gordon E. Moore, Intel Co-Founder Behind Moore’s Law, Dies at 94 – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/technology/gordon-moore-dead.html