Strategy and the Business Landscape
Author: Pankaj Ghemawat
KEY BENEFIT: 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.
KEY TOPICS: Origins of strategy, mapping the business landscape, creating competitive advantage, anticipating competitive dynamics, sustaining superior performance, and choosing a corporate scope.
MARKET: This text is designed to help managers and business professionals master a body of analytical tools and develop an integrative point of view when making strategic choices.
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Presents a historical perspective on business-level (versus corporate- level) strategy, while addressing contemporary debates in the field. Based on several Harvard Business School professors' experience teaching the school's first-year course on competition and strategy, the text presents important concepts succinctly and offers suggestions for further reading. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Table of Contents:
| Ch. 1 | The Origins of Strategy | |
| Ch. 2 | Mapping the Business Landscape | |
| Ch. 3 | Creating Competitive Advantage | |
| Ch. 4 | Anticipating Competitive and Cooperative Dynamics | |
| Ch. 5 | Building and Sustaining Success | |
| Case 1 | Intel Corporation: 1968-1997 | |
| Case 2 | Adolph Coors in the Brewing Industry | |
| Case 3 | Cola Wars Continued: Coke versus Pepsi in the 1990s | |
| Case 4 | Crown Cork & Seal in 1989 | |
| Case 5 | Wal*Mart Stores, Inc. | |
| Case 6 | De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. (A) | |
| Case 7 | Microsoft, 1995 | |
| Case 8 | British Satellite Broadcasting versus Sky Television | |
| Case 9 | Leadership Online: Barnes & Noble versus Amazon.com (A) | |
| Case 10 | Nucor at a Crossroads |
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Managing the Aftermath of Radical Corporate Change: Reengineering, Restructuring, and Reinvention
Author: Eliezer Geisler
The radical restructuring of organizations can have momentous effects and not all of them are good. In fact, many are actually bad and may cause serious harm. How management can remedy these ill effects systematically and restore stability to their traumatized organizations is the theme of Dr. Geisler's compelling new book. How do we clean up the mess from poorly conceived, badly implemented, and ultimately unsuccessful restructurings? How can managers, who have been caught up in these changes and who are as disrupted by them as anyone, regain their own equilibrium and help the healing and reconstruction process take hold? Geisler's answers to these questions are essential reading for corporate executives in all types of organizations (public or private), and for academics and students.
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Looks at how management can remedy the ill effects of radical restructuring in organizations, for corporate executives in public and private organizations, and for academics and students. Lists problems associated with radical change, describes the futility of total corporate transformations in general, and develops a staged process by which managers can counteract the effects of radical change programs. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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