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Corporate strategy during economic recession using Porter's Five Forces

Over the last several years, the current recession and global financial crisis has caused a number of firms to fail. As names such as Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns would become cautionary tales of the excesses that occurred in the run up to these events.

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