Strategy And The Business Landscape: Core Concepts - Softcover

Ghemawat, Pankaj; Cassiman, Bruno; Collis, David J.; Rivkin, Jan W.

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9780131430358: Strategy And The Business Landscape: Core Concepts

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ISBN 10: 0131430351 ISBN 13: 9780131430358

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2006

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Audience: MBA and Executive MBA strategy courses

Approach: Pankaj Ghemawat, in collaboration with Bruno Cassiman, David Collis and Jan Rivkin, has prepared the second edition of an introductory strategy textbook that adopts a value-focused, firm-centered perspective on strategy. The book is meant to be rigorous in its research base, pragmatic in its focus, and concise. The second edition includes new, full-length chapters on competitive dynamics (with Bruno Cassiman) and on corporate strategy (with Jan Rivkin).

Competitors: de Kluyver (PH)

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Strategy and the Business Landscape: Core Concepts offers a contemporary yet historically grounded perspective on the field of strategy. Pankaj Ghemawat in association with David. J. Collins, Jan W. Rivkin, and Gary P. Pisano, provides firm-centered and value-based logic to bridge some of the great debates about strategy today. Always practical, while still rigorous, key concepts are laid out succinctly and illustrated with rich examples, often drawn from the author team's rich professional experience.

This text represents the core concepts of Harvard's required Competition and Strategy course offered at the Harvard Business School.

About the Author:

Pankaj Ghemawat is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration and Head of the Strategy Unit. He received his Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University, he worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company in London during 1982 and 1983, and has taught at the Harvard Business School since then. In 1991, he was appointed the youngest full professor in the Business School's history. One strand of his research and teaching focuses on the dynamics of globalization and generic strategies for international firms. Another strand of his work is concerned with foundational issues in business strategy, particularly work on the topics of competitive dynamics, business scope, and complexity.

Professor Ghemawat's publications include Commitment (Free Press, 1991), Games Businesses Play (MIT Press, 1997), and Strategy and the Business Landscape (Addison Wesley Longman, 1999), as well as several dozen articles and case studies. He serves on the editorial boards of Management Science, Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, LongRange Planning, the Strategic Management Journal, and Strategic Organization.

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