| I. Introduction | 
| 1 | Does sustained performance exist? | 
| II. What drives sustained performance? | 
| 2 | Reviewing 15.900: Strategy fundamentals: position vs. competencies | 
| 3 | Case: Wal-Mart | 
| 4 | Case: Southwest | 
| 5 | Pause for reflection | 
| III. Organizational Competence and Relational Contracts | 
| 6 | Revisiting 15.311: Lincoln Electric in China | 
| 7 | Case: The HP-Cisco Alliance | 
| 8 | Case: Toyota | 
| 9 | Case: BP | 
| 10 | Case: BP and the Baker report | 
| 11 | Pause for reflection | 
| IV. Changing Relational Contracts | 
| 12 | Case: Best Buy and Circuit City | 
| 13 | Case: Delta and Song | 
| 14 | Pause for reflection: Toyota's expansion | 
| V. Doing Strategy when Competence Matters | 
| 15 | Case: Good to Great | 
| 16 | Case: Lilly (A) | 
| 17 | Case: Lilly (B) | 
| 18 | Case: Corning | 
| 19 | Case: Paul Levy | 
| 20 | Case: Paul Levy (B) | 
| 21 | Case: Simmons | 
| 22 | Case: Simmons (B) | 
| VI. Wrap Up | 
| 23 | Student presentations of highlights from term projects | 
| 24 | Conclusions |