Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life (Norton Paperback) - Softcover

Dixit, Avinash K.; Nalebuff, Barry J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393310353 ISBN 13: 9780393310351

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993

Synopsis

The international bestseller―don't compete without it!

A major bestseller in Japan, Financial Times Top Ten book of the year, Book-of-the-Month Club bestseller, and required reading at the best business schools, Thinking Strategically is a crash course in outmaneuvering any rival. This entertaining guide builds on scores of case studies taken from business, sports, the movies, politics, and gambling. It outlines the basics of good strategy making and then shows how you can apply them in any area of your life.

About this title

About the Authors

Avinash K. Dixit is Emeritus John J.F. Sherrerd University Professor of Economics at Princeton University, where he offered his popular freshman course in game theory. He is among the world’s leading economists, having made fundamental contributions in several major fields as well as in game theory. He is the author of many books, including Dixit/Nalebuff: Thinking Strategically (Norton, 1991), Dixit/Pindyck: Investment Under Uncertainty (Princeton University Press, 1994), and Dixit/Nalebuff: The Art of Strategy (Norton, 2009).

Barry J. Nalebuff is the Milton Steinbach Professor at the Yale School of Management. Nalebuff applies game theory to business strategy and is the co-founder of one of America's fastest-growing companies, Honest Tea.

Reviews

A fascinating new book that can be read with real pleasure....The problem is, of course, that if Dixit and Nalebuff can improve your strategic IQ, they can improve your competitor's as well.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393310353
• ISBN 13: 9780393310351
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 393