Competitive advantages could certainly shift in a new, short-ball era.

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The world is in the midst of creating a new development model that, at the corporate level, could bestow competitive advantages and create sustainable corporate futures, while fostering more equitable global economic growth and also tackling climate change.

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This could provide further competitive advantages for Toshiba, particularly for products that might combine HDDs and flash memory to achieve better consumer experiences at lower prices than with flash memory alone.

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In 2001, the great complaint from US banks was that the European and Asia banks had competitive advantages over US banks in that they could engage in retail banking, commercial banking, investment banking, brokerage, insurance, hedge funds, private equity, and the like.

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