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Required Textbook


Amazon logo Hax, Arnoldo C., and Dean L. Wilde. The Delta Project: Discovering New Sources of Profitability. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2001. ISBN: 0312240465.



Recommended Textbook


Amazon logo Hax, Arnoldo C., and Nicolas S. Majluf. The Strategy Concept and Process: A Pragmatic Approach. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996. ISBN: 0134588940.



Other Readings


Each day's reading is listed below.


SES #TOPICSReadings
I. Introduction and Overview of Strategic Management
1The Delta ModelHax and Wilde. Chapters 1 and 2.
2Porter's Frameworks and the Resource-Based View of the Firm

Porter, Michael E. "Towards a Dynamic Theory of Strategy." Strategic Management Journal 12 (1991): 95-117.

Grant, Robert H. "The Resource-Based Theory of Competitive Advantage: Implications for Strategy Formulation." California Management Review 33, no. 3 (1991).

Hax and Wilde. Chapter 12.

II. Business Strategy
3Customer Segmentation and Customer Value PropositionHax, Arnoldo C. "Achieving the Potentials of Your Organization - How to Overcome the Dangers of Commoditization." MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4260-02. (September 2002).
4The Firm as a Bundle of Competencies and Putting it All TogetherHax and Wilde. Chapters 3-5.
5Industry Structure and Competitive Interaction
6The Decommoditization of a Business
7Competitive Positioning
III. Technology and Industry Transformation
8Sustaining Competitive Advantage
9Competitive Dynamics
10Putting it All Together: Integrating The Critical Tasks of StrategyHax and Wilde. Chapter 6.
IV. Corporate Strategy
11Corporate Strategy - The Core ConceptsHax, Arnoldo, and Nicolas Majluf. "Corporate Strategic Tasks." European Management Journal12, no. 4 (1994): 366-381.
12Corporate Philosophy and Culture
13General Principles of Organization DesignAmazon logo Galbraith, Jay R. "Linking Customers and Products - Organizing for Product and Customer Focus," and "Structuring Global Organizations." Chapters 2 and 4 in Tomorrow's Organization. Edited by Susan A. Mohrman, Jay R. Galbraith, and Edward E. Lawler III. Jossey-Bass, 1998. ISBN: 0787940046.
14Human Resources Management and Knowledge Management
15Business Processes: The Core Concepts and Managing the Global Supply ChainHax and Wilde. Chapter 7.
V. Aggregate and Granular Metrics
16Metrics of Value Creation

Hax and Majluf. Chapter 17.

"America's Best and Worst Wealth Creators." Fortune, December 18, 2000.

"America's Best and Worst Wealth Creators." Fortune, December 10, 2001.

Slywotzky, Adrian J., and Richard Wise. "The Growth Crisis and How to Escape It." Harvard Business Review (July 2002): 72-83.

17The Balanced Scorecard and Granular Metrics

Hax and Wilde. Chapters 9 and 10.

Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. "Having Trouble with Your Strategy? Then Map It." Harvard Business Review (September-October 2000): 167-176.

VI. Integration
18Organizational Leadership



General References


Bartlett, C., and S. Ghoshal. Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2002.

Brandenburger, A. M., and B. J. Nalebuff. Co-opetition. New York, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1996.

Kim, W. Chan, and R. Mauborgne. Blue Ocean Strategy. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2005.

Christensen, C. The Innovator's Dilemma: When Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1997.

———. The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2003.

Collis, D., and C. Montgomery. Corporate Strategy: Resources and the Scope of the Firm. Westport, CT: Irwin Press, 1997.

Cusumano, M. A., and C. C. Mardikes, eds. Strategic Thinking for the New Economy. Hoboken, NJ: Jossey-Bass, 2001.

Foster, R., and S. Kaplan. Creative Destruction. New York, NY: Doubleday & Company, 2000.

Galbraith, J. Designing the Global Corporation. Hoboken, NJ: Jossey-Bass, 2000.

Ghemawat, P., D. Collis, G. Pisano, and J. Rivkin. Strategy and the Business Landscape. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001.

Hamel, G., and C. K. Prahalad. Competing for the Future. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1996.

Hayes, R., G. Pisano, and D. Upton. Strategic Operations: Competing Through Capabilities. New York, NY: Free Press, 1996.

Kaplan, R. S., and D. P. Norton. Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets Into Tangible Outcomes. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2004.

Pfeffer, J. The Human Equation. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1998.

Porter, M. Competitive Advantage. New York, NY: Free Press, 1985.

———. The Competitive Advantage of Nations. New York, NY: Free Press, 1990.

Prahalad, C. K., and V. Ramaswamy. The Future of Competition. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2004.

Reichheld, F. Loyalty Rules. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2001.

Saloner, G., A. Shepard, and J. Podolny. Strategic Management. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2001.

Shapiro, C., and H. Varian. Information Rules. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1999.

Stern, J. M., and J. S. Shiely. The Eva Challenge: Implementing Value-Added Change in an Organization. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2001.

Thompke, S. Experimentation Matters: Unlocking the Potential of New Technologies for Innovation. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2003.

Ulrich, D. Human Resource Champions. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1997.

Amazon logo von Hippel, E. Democratizing Innovation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, April 2006. ISBN: 0262720477.


 








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