TY - JOUR AB - BHP, an Australian mining company, threatens to enter the potash mining industry through a hostile takeover of the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan. Complicating matters is the fact that the Canadian potash industry has operated as a legal cartel in which the provincial government has a stake. This case enables students to assess BHP's strategy in terms of value creation and value capture, how it relates to its existing investments in the industry, and the risks and rewards of alternatives to BHP's strategy-How cartels help firms capture value in an industry and how the threat of entry can limit the cartel members' ability to do so -How firms outside a cartel can capture value though a competitive threat -The range of strategies available to incumbents and VL - IS - SN - 2474-6568 DO - 10.1108/case.kellogg.2016.000041 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/case.kellogg.2016.000041 AU - Hubbard Thomas N. AU - Moore Michael J. PY - 2017 Y1 - 2017/01/01 TI - BHP Billiton: Mining Potash T2 - Kellogg School of Management Cases PB - Kellogg School of Management SP - 1 EP - 13 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -