Tuesday's class analyzed the case study of Harley-Davidson. This is a company with over 100 years of history, but the case concerned itself more with Harley's past three decade. In 1981, 13 executives in the Harley-Davidson division of AMF bought out the failing division with $1 million of their own money and $80 million of high-interest leverage from Citigroup Bank.
Thursday's class was a lecture on the four key aspects of functional-level strategies: efficiency, quality, innovation and customer responsiveness. It's important to point out that even though these are the "four key aspects", a company should not spread itself too thin and try to perfect itself in each aspect... one or two of these aspects, inline with a firms core competencies, will yield the best results for a company.
* I will try to post my notes on the Harley-Davidson case study.
Again, a report and not an interpretation...
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