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Reference no. 9-794-024
Subject category: Strategy and General Management
Authors: Stephen P Bradley (Harvard Business School); Pankaj Ghemawat (Harvard Business School); Sharon Foley (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 1994
Version: 6 November 2002
Length: 22 pages
Data source: Published sources
Topics: Competition; Strategy formulation; Industry structure; Implementing strategy; Stocks; Prices; Marketing channels; Competitive strategy; Diversification; Information technology
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Abstract

Focuses on the evolution of Wal-Mart's remarkably successful discount operations and describes the company's more recent attempts to diversify into other businesses. The company has entered the warehouse club industry with its Sam's Clubs and the grocery business with its Supercenters, a combination supermarket and discount store. Wal-Mart experienced a drop in the value of its stock price in early 1993, which it still has not made up. Wal-Mart has advantages over its competitors in areas such as distribution, information technology, and merchandising, to name a few.
Location:
United States
Industries:
Retail trade; Discount department stores
Size:
USD68 billion revenues, 440,000 employees
Other setting(s):
1994
Teaching note
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Reference no. 5-395-225
Subject category: Strategy and General Management
Authors: Stephen P Bradley (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 1995
Version: 12 June 1995
Length: 7 pages
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Case
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Reference no. 9-706-S15
Spanish language
Subject category: Strategy and General Management
Authors: Stephen P Bradley (Harvard Business School); Pankaj Ghemawat (Harvard Business School); Sharon Foley (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 1994
Version: 6 November 2002
Revision date: 3-May-2019
Length: 24 pages
Data source: Published sources
Topics: Business expansion; Competitive advantage
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Case
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Reference no. 9-714-P04
Portuguese language
Subject category: Strategy and General Management
Authors: Stephen P Bradley (Harvard Business School); Pankaj Ghemawat (IESE Business School); Sharon Foley (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 2013
Version: 6 November 2002
Revision date: 8-May-2019
Length: 23 pages
Data source: Published sources
Topics: Competition; Strategy formulation; Industry structure; Implementing strategy; Stocks; Prices; Marketing channels; Competitive strategy; Diversification; Information technology
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Reference no. IMD-3-0969
Subject category: Strategy and General Management
Authors: Nirmalya Kumar (International Institute for Management Development (IMD)); Brian Rogers (International Institute for Management Development (IMD))
Published by: International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
Originally published in: 2000
Version: 13.03.2003
Length: 8 pages
Data source: Published sources
Topics: Discount stores; Retailing; International expansion
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Supplement
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Reference no. 9-797-099
Subject category: Strategy and General Management
Authors: David B Yoffie (Harvard Business School); Anthony St George (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 1998
Version: 13 November 1998
Length: 5 pages
Data source: Published sources
Topics: Competition; Discount department stores; Industry structure; Retailing; Strategy formulation; Strategy implementation
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Supplement
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Reference no. 9-799-118
Subject category: Strategy and General Management
Authors: Gregg Friedman (Harvard Business School); Pankaj Ghemawat (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 1999
Version: 30 August 1999
Length: 5 pages
Data source: Published sources
Topics: Competition; Industry structure; Retailing; Strategy formulation; Strategy implementation
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Abstract

Focuses on the evolution of Wal-Mart's remarkably successful discount operations and describes the company's more recent attempts to diversify into other businesses. The company has entered the warehouse club industry with its Sam's Clubs and the grocery business with its Supercenters, a combination supermarket and discount store. Wal-Mart experienced a drop in the value of its stock price in early 1993, which it still has not made up. Wal-Mart has advantages over its competitors in areas such as distribution, information technology, and merchandising, to name a few.

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Location:
United States
Industries:
Retail trade; Discount department stores
Size:
USD68 billion revenues, 440,000 employees
Other setting(s):
1994

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Teaching note
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Reference no. 5-395-225
Subject category: Strategy and General Management
Authors: Stephen P Bradley (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 1995
Version: 12 June 1995
Length: 7 pages
View full details
Case
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Reference no. 9-706-S15
Spanish language
Subject category: Strategy and General Management
Authors: Stephen P Bradley (Harvard Business School); Pankaj Ghemawat (Harvard Business School); Sharon Foley (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 1994
Version: 6 November 2002
Revision date: 3-May-2019
Length: 24 pages
Data source: Published sources
Topics: Business expansion; Competitive advantage
View full details
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Reference no. 9-714-P04
Portuguese language
Subject category: Strategy and General Management
Authors: Stephen P Bradley (Harvard Business School); Pankaj Ghemawat (IESE Business School); Sharon Foley (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 2013
Version: 6 November 2002
Revision date: 8-May-2019
Length: 23 pages
Data source: Published sources
Topics: Competition; Strategy formulation; Industry structure; Implementing strategy; Stocks; Prices; Marketing channels; Competitive strategy; Diversification; Information technology
View full details
Case
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Reference no. IMD-3-0969
Subject category: Strategy and General Management
Authors: Nirmalya Kumar (International Institute for Management Development (IMD)); Brian Rogers (International Institute for Management Development (IMD))
Published by: International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
Originally published in: 2000
Version: 13.03.2003
Length: 8 pages
Data source: Published sources
Topics: Discount stores; Retailing; International expansion
View full details
Compact case
Supplement
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Reference no. 9-797-099
Subject category: Strategy and General Management
Authors: David B Yoffie (Harvard Business School); Anthony St George (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 1998
Version: 13 November 1998
Length: 5 pages
Data source: Published sources
Topics: Competition; Discount department stores; Industry structure; Retailing; Strategy formulation; Strategy implementation
View full details
Compact case
Supplement
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Reference no. 9-799-118
Subject category: Strategy and General Management
Authors: Gregg Friedman (Harvard Business School); Pankaj Ghemawat (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 1999
Version: 30 August 1999
Length: 5 pages
Data source: Published sources
Topics: Competition; Industry structure; Retailing; Strategy formulation; Strategy implementation
View full details
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