Essentials of Strategic Management 7th Ed.

Brief Contents

PART ONE: CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES FOR CRAFTING AND EXECUTING STRATEGY

Section A: Introduction and Overview

  • Strategy, Business Models, and Competitive Advantage
  • Strategy Formulation, Execution, and Governance

Section B: Core Concepts and Analytical Tools

  • Evaluating a Company’s External Environment
  • Evaluating a Company’s Resources, Capabilities, and Competitiveness

Section C: Crafting and Strategy

  • The Five Generic Competitive Strategies
  • Strengthening a Company’s Competitive Possition: Strategic Moves, Timing, and Scope of Operations
  • Strategies for Competing in International Markets
  • Corporate Strategy: Diversification and the Multibusiness Company
  • Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Sustainability, and Strategy

Section D: Executing the Strategy

  • Superior Strategy Execution — Another Path to Competitive Advantage

PART TWO: CASE IN  CRAFTING AND EXECUTING STRATEGY

Case 1, Fixer Upper: Expanding the Magnolia Brand
Case 2, Lola’s Market: Capturing a New Generation
Case 3, Under Armour’s Strategy in 2019: Its Struggle to Revive   North American Sales and Profitability
Case 4, iRobot in 2019: Can the Company Keep the Magic?
Case 5, Twitter, Inc. in 2019: Are the Growth and Profit Sustainable
Case 6, Netflix in 2019: Striving to Solidify its Position as the Global Leader
Case 7, Mattel Incorporated in 2019: Hard Time in the Toy Industry
Case 8, Tesla’s Strategy in 2019: Is Sustained Profitability a Realistic Prospect?
Case 9, The Walt Disney Company: Its Diversification Strategy in 2018
Case 10, Robin Hood
Case 11, Starbucks in 2019: Is the Company on Track to Achieve Operational Excellence and Attractive Growth?
Case 12, Profiting from Pain: Business and the U.S. Opioid Epidemic