Advanced Strategy

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS
I. Introduction
1	Does sustained performance exist?
II. What drives sustained performance?
2	Reviewing 15.900: Strategy fundamentals: position vs. competencies
3	Case: Wal-Mart
4	Case: Southwest
5	Pause for reflection
III. Organizational Competence and Relational Contracts
6	Revisiting 15.311: Lincoln Electric in China
7	Case: The HP-Cisco Alliance
8	Case: Toyota
9	Case: BP
10	Case: BP and the Baker report
11	Pause for reflection
IV. Changing Relational Contracts
12	Case: Best Buy and Circuit City
13	Case: Delta and Song
14	Pause for reflection: Toyota’s expansion
V. Doing Strategy when Competence Matters
15	Case: Good to Great
16	Case: Lilly (A)
17	Case: Lilly (B)
18	Case: Corning
19	Case: Paul Levy
20	Case: Paul Levy (B)
21	Case: Simmons
22	Case: Simmons (B)
VI. Wrap Up
23	Student presentations of highlights from term projects
24	Conclusions