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READING LIST

Required Reading:  

Textbook:  
Simplified Strategic Planning: A No-Nonsense Guide for Busy People Who Want Results Fast. By Robert Bradford and J. Peter Duncan.  Chandler House Press, 1999 ISBN 1886284466.
Available for around $18.50
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Major book:
Competing for the Future.  Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad, Harvard Business School Press, 1994
Available in paper back for around $12-13.
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Articles: These articles will be sent to you in a packet. The cost will be $20 and it will be billed to your bursar's account.

1. What is Strategy? By Michael Porter. HBR November/December 96

2. Strategy as Revolution. By Gary Hamel. HBR July/August 96

3. Why Business Models Matter.  By Joan Margetta. HBR May 2002

4. Competing on Capabilities: The new rules of corporate strategy.  By George Stalk.  HBR March/April 92

5. Breaking Compromises, Breakaway Growth. By George Stalk.  HBR September/October 96

6. Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave.  By Joseph Bower.  HBR January/February 95

7. Disruptive Change: When Trying Harder is Part of the Problem. By Clark Gilbert and Joseph Bower. HBR May 2002

8. Strategic Renewal for Business Units.   By John O. Whitney.  HBR July/August 96

9. Strategy and the Internet.  By Michael E. Porter.  HBR March 2001.

10. Building your Company's Vision.  By James Collins.  HBR September/October 96

11. Profit Pools: A Fresh Look at Strategy. By Orit Gadiesh. HBR May/June 1998

12. How to Map Your Industry's Profit Pool. By Orit Gadiesh. HBR May/June 1998

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