Finally, an answer to the ultimate business question: How do some companies achieve exceptional performance over the long term? In every sector, there’s an outlier. In the pharmaceutical industry, it’s Merck. In discount retail, it’s Family Dollar. It used to be Wrigley in candy and Maytag in appliances. Other superstars have been hidden in plain sight, like Heartland Express…
Hax and Mailuf offer a pragmatic approach to strategic management, offering practicing managers and business readers a disciplined process that facilitates the formulation and implementation of strategy. Most comprehensive, integrated, explicit approach to strategy formulation; Proctor & Gamble used as a running case throughout the text. Other real world examples include NKK and Merck; global p…
Exploring Strategy has sold a staggering 900,000 copies worldwide, thanks to its outstanding and engaging view of strategy in the world we live in. It equips readers with a detailed understanding of the issues and techniques of strategy, using illustration from real companies to make sense of the subject. With unique and powerful learning tools such as inspiring case studies, a new strategy sim…
TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Mystery at the Heart of It All: An Overview of Corning Technology 3. From Lore to Learning: Corning Finds Its "Formula" for Scientific Glassmaking 4. Craft and Science: Partners in Process Invention 5. Leveraging Technology: Corning and the Lessons of Strategic Partnerships 6. Corning and the Military: Innovation in an Era of…
This collection of essays covers the progress made by women in the workplace. It addresses such issues as mentoring, networking, dealing with sexual attraction in the office, the dilemmas faced by working mothers concerning work and family, competition between men and women, developing negotiating skills, and managing conflict. Some of the contributors are well-known authors; all have extensive…
Management Development Series No. 17 "The ILO has ... produced a manual on the case method with a view to helping managements schools, teachers and trainers, as well as participants in management programmes, to use the method more effectively. The ILO believes that management education and training ... will use a mix of methods and techniques .... The case method will have an important role to …
It reveals the business games experts play in order to succeed - and the successful ways to play them. As you read this book you will learn to play games that work for you, and you will understand that successful game-playing involves changing your frame - because it is only when you change your own frame, and replicate the frame of mind of a business expert, that you too will become a consiste…