Strategy and the Business Landscape - Hardcover

Ghemawat, Pankaj E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0201357291 ISBN 13: 9780201357295

Publisher: Pearson, 1999

Synopsis

For a first-year MBA strategy course grounded in business strategy.

Pankaj Ghemawat, respected and renowned Harvard Business School professor, has designed and written a business strategy text designed to help students master a body of analytical tools and develop an integrative point of view when making strategic choices.

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.

Synopsis:

Pankaj Ghemawat, respected and renowned Harvard University professor, has designed and written a business strategy text to help students master a body of analytical tools and develop an integrative point of view when making strategic choices.*Contemporary strategic issues are grounded within an historical perspective.*A focus on business-level strategy allows MBA students to focus on strategies that have the greatest potential of improving business performance.*An integrated, core set of Harvard Business School cases deepens and extends the concepts developed in the chapters.*These extensively class-tested cases explore a range of strategy concepts in a variety of industries.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0201357291
• ISBN 13: 9780201357295
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464