Strategy and the Business Landscape - Softcover

Ghemawat, Pankaj

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1542852927 ISBN 13: 9781542852920

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

An introductory strategy textbook that adopts a value-focused, firm-centered perspective on strategy. The book is rigorous in its research base, pragmatic in its focus, and concise. This fourth edition includes chapters on competitive dynamics (with Bruno Cassiman), corporate strategy (with Jan Rivkin), and more. It combines academic thinking with examples and insights drawn from consulting.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1542852927
• ISBN 13: 9781542852920
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 192