Thinking Strategically : The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics and Everyday Life

Dixit, Avinash K. and Barry J. Nalebuff

ISBN 10: 813091543X / ISBN 13: 9788130915432

Published by Viva Books, India, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thinking Strategically : The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics and Everyday Life
• Publisher: Viva Books, India
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 813091543X
• ISBN 13: 9788130915432
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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 the Author AVINASH K. DIXIT is John J.F. Sherrerd University Professor of Economics at Princeton University. He has taught courses on games of strategy and has done research into strategic behavior in international trade policy. He earned his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has taught previously at Warwick University (U.K.), Berkeley, and Oxford. BARRY J. NALEBUFF is Professor of Economics and Management at the Yale School of Organization and Management. He teaches courses on strategy, politics, and decision-making. A frequent contributor on questions of strategy, his work has appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post, among other widely read publications. He has also applied the tools of thinking strategically for Chemical Bank, McKinsey & Co., and the Sawyer-Miller Group. A Rhodes Scholar, he earned his doctorate at Oxford University. Table of Contents Preface Introduction : What is Strategic Behavior ? Part I: Ten tales of strategy Anticipating your rival's response Seeing through your rival's strategy Part II: Resolving the prisoner's dilemma Strategic moves Credible commitments Unpredictability Part III: Brinkmanship Cooperation and coordination The strategy of voting Bargaining Incentives Case studies Notes Index