Strategy and the Business Landscape: International Edition - Softcover

Ghemawat, Pankaj E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132457202 ISBN 13: 9780132457200

Publisher: Pearson, 2008

Synopsis

For MBA level strategy courses.

Strategy and the Business Landscape is based on contemporary research in the field of strategy and adopts a value-focused, firm-centered perspective that promotes an analytical approach to strategy.

About this title

About the Author

PANKAJ GHEMAWAT is the Jaime and Josefina Chu Tiampo Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration. After receiving 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, Professor Ghemawat was appointed the youngest full professor in the Business School's history. Between 1995 and 1998, he headed its required first-year course on Competition and Strategy.

Professor Ghemawat's other publications include Cmmitment (Free Press, 1991) and Games Businesses Play (MIT Press, 1997) as well as several dozen articles and case studies. He currently serves as the Chair of Harvard University's Ph.D. program in Business Economics and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of Management and Governance.

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0132457202
• ISBN 13: 9780132457200
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 192