An Interview with Michael E. Porter. Porter’s five competitive forces is the basis for much of modern business strategy. Understand the framework and how to put it it into practice.
Contributed by Mason Carpenter
Crisis of Credit, Parts I and II, can be used to illustrate how short term decisions have long term consequences and to capture how large scale environmental shifts impact business strategy.
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The BBC nature show Planet Earth contains a battle between a polar bear and a herd of walruses which can be used to tease out a discussion about competition.
Contributed by Mason Carpenter
Flat world publishing offers a disruptive business model in academic and textbook publishing. The Ketchen and Short Strategy text is an example of how this is being executed in the strategy field. It is offered for free in the online version.
Flat World Knowledge is a great example of a blossoming Blue Ocean Strategy. The Atlas Black excerpt is based on one of their new graphic novels.
Contributed by Mason Carpenter
This is part of a case study of Flat World publishing which offers a “novel” business model to disrupt academic publishing.
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