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Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage

By: Eric Van den Steen
  • Format:Print
  • | Language:English
  • | Pages:28
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Abstract

This note gives students a systematic and comprehensive framework for analyzing and managing competitive advantage. It pays explicit attention to both creating and sustaining advantage and considers both alignment and assets (or resources) as sources of advantage.

Keywords

Scope; Scale; Competitive Advantage; Assets; Alignment; Business Strategy; Design

Citation

Van den Steen, Eric. "Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage." Harvard Business School Background Note 717-479, February 2017. (Revised September 2020.)

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Eric J. Van den Steen

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