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7 Powers: Durable Advantage
Hamilton Helmer's framework for why some companies keep high returns for decades: each 'Power' needs a benefit and a barrier. Scale economies, network economies, counter-positioning, switching costs, branding, cornered resource and process power, with examples.
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Key idea
Prereqs: Porter's five forces; Moats & capital allocation. Next: Disruption & the innovator's dilemma. Book: Hamilton Helmer, *7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy* (2016).Next: 1. The core idea