Loose-Leaf Essentials of Strategic Management

by Margaret Peteraf, John E. Gamble

Overview

Essentials of Strategic Management, 8th Edition by Gamble, Peteraf, and Thompson presents concise, straight-to-the-point discussions, and timely examples, with a writing style that captures student interest. It features 10 chapters with 12 diverse and tightly linked cases. The content is solidly mainstream and balanced, mirroring both insights of academic thought and real-world strategic management. For years, strategy instructors have been shifting from purely text and cases to a text-cases-simulation course structure. Two widely used online competitive strategy simulations, The Business Strategy Game (BSG) and GLO-BUS, are optional companions. Both simulations are closely linked to the content.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781266496028
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	01/19/2023
Edition description:	8th ed.
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Margaret A. Peteraf is the Leon E. Williams Professor of Management Emerita at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. She is an internationally recognized scholar with a long list of publications in top management journals. She has earned myriad honors and prizes for her contributions, including the 2020 Strategic Management Distinguished Scholarship Award—a newly created award that has been dubbed “the Nobel Prize of Strategic Management.” She was also given the 1999 Strategic Management Best Paper Award in recognition of the deep influence of her work on the strategy field.

Professor Peteraf has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Management as well as a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society. She has served as a member of the Academy of Management’s Board of Governors, as Chair of the Strategic Management Division of the Academy, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Strategic Management Society. She has taught in Executive Education programs around the world and has won teaching awards at the MBA and Executive Education level.

Dr. Peteraf earned her PhD, MA, and MPhil at Yale University and held previous appointments at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.

John E. Gamble is the Mary & Jeff Bell Endowed Distinguished Professor of Business and former Dean of the College of Business at Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi. His teaching and research have focused on strategic management and entrepreneurship at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has conducted courses in strategic management in Germany since 2001, which have been sponsored by the University of Applied Sciences in Worms.

Dr. Gamble’s research has been published in various scholarly journals, and he is the author or coauthor of more than 100 case studies published in an assortment of strategic management and strategic marketing texts. He has done consulting on industry and market analysis for clients in a diverse mix of industries.

Professor Gamble received his PhD, Master of Arts, and Bachelor of Science degrees from the University of Alabama and was a faculty member in the Mitchell College of Business at the University of South Alabama before his appointment to the faculty at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES FOR CRAFTING AND EXECUTING STRATEGY

Section A: Introduction and Overview
Chapter 1: Strategy, Business Models, and Competitive Advantage
Chapter 2: Strategy Formulation, Execution, and Governance

Section B: Core Concepts and Analytical Tools
Chapter 3: Evaluating a Company’s External Environment
Chapter 4: Evaluating a Company’s Resources, Capabilities, and Competitiveness

Section C: Crafting a Strategy
Chapter 5: The Five Generic Competitive Strategies
Chapter 6: Strengthening a Company’s Competitive Position: Strategic Moves, Timing, and Scope of Operations
Chapter 7: Strategies for Competing in International Markets
Chapter 8: Corporate Strategy: Diversification and the Multi-business Company
Chapter 9: Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Sustainability, and Strategy

Section D: Executing the Strategy
Chapter 10: Superior Strategy Execution—Another Path to Competitive Advantage
Appendix: Key Financial Ratios: How to Calculate Them and What They Mean

PART TWO: CASES IN CRAFTING AND EXECUTING STRATEGY

Case 1: AirBnB 2022
Case 2: Costco Wholesale in 2022: Mission, Business Model, and Strategy
Case 3: Lululemon Atheletica's Strategy in 2022: Can the Retailer Continue to Deliver Growth Despite the Headwinds?
Case 4: Yeti in 2022: Will Its Strategy Lead to Sustainable Advantage and Growth?
Case 5: Beyond Meat in 2022: Wat Can it Do to Rejuvenate Revenue Growth and Stem Mounting Losses?
Case 6: Spotify Technology in 2022: Will Its Strategy Lead to Profitability with Growth?
Case 7: Tesla's Strategy in 2022: Can it Deliver Sustained Revenue Growth and Profitability?
Case 8: Ulta Beauty's Race to Win in An Omnichannel World
Case 9: PepsiCo's Diversification Strategy in 2022
Case 10: Robin Hood
Case 11: Macy's, Inc. in 2022: Has the Implementation of its Polaris Strategy Produced a Successful Turnaround?
Case 12: Meta Platforms, Inc: Will the company's Name Change Resolve Ethical Issues at Facebook and Instagram?