Make the Rules or Your Rivals Will

Richard Shell

ISBN 10: 0615456537 / ISBN 13: 9780615456539

Published by G RICHARD SHELL CONSULTING Feb 2011, 2011

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Neuware - This book introduces a dynamic, new framework for using law, litigation, regulation and lobbying as part of competitive business strategy. Every business strategist, entrepreneur, and corporate lawyer needs to understand a basic truth of the modern market -- you must make the legal rules that govern your products and services or one of your competitors will. And it is much easier to stay in business if you are the one writing the rules. Written in a lively style with a host of stories and examples drawn from business history as well as contemporary events, professor G. Richard Shell of the world-famous Wharton School of Business shows how business leaders from Henry Ford and Bill Gates and corporate rivals from Coke to Pepsi have fought and won the battle for legal supremacy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Make the Rules or Your Rivals Will
• Publisher: G RICHARD SHELL CONSULTING Feb 2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0615456537
• ISBN 13: 9780615456539
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 228W x 151H x 27D millimeters 228 millimeters width by 151 millimeters height by 27 millimeters depth
• Weight: 512 grams

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Synopsis

This book introduces a dynamic, new framework for using law, litigation, regulation and lobbying as part of competitive business strategy. Every business strategist, entrepreneur, and corporate lawyer needs to understand a basic truth of the modern market -- you must make the legal rules that govern your products and services or one of your competitors will. And it is much easier to stay in business if you are the one writing the rules. Written in a lively style with a host of stories and examples drawn from business history as well as contemporary events, professor G. Richard Shell of the world-famous Wharton School of Business shows how business leaders from Henry Ford and Bill Gates and corporate rivals from Coke to Pepsi have fought and won the battle for legal supremacy.

About the Author

G. RICHARD SHELL is an internationally recognized expert in law, dispute resolution, and negotiations who consults with such Fortune 100 companies as General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, and Citigroup. He is the Thomas Gerrity Professor of Legal Studies and Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People (Penguin 2006) and The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas (Penguin 2008).