Profit Impact of Market Strategy

The Profit Impact of Market Strategy (PIMS) program is an empirical research initiative that analyzes the relationship between business strategy and performance outcomes. Launched at General Electric in the 1960s, the program maintains a database of 4,300 Strategic Business Units ("SBU") across multiple industries and geographies, yielding 12,600 observations (3-year snapshots) and over 25,000 business-years of longitudinal data.

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