Table of Contents

PART ONE: ANALYSIS
CHAPTER 1: What Is Strategy?
CHAPTER 2: Strategic Leadership: Managing the Strategy Process
CHAPTER 3: External Analysis: Industry Structure, Competitive Forces, and Strategic Groups
CHAPTER 4: Internal Analysis: Resources, Capabilities, and Core Competencies
CHAPTER 5: Competitive Advantage, Firm Performance, and Business Models
PART TWO: FORMULATION
CHAPTER 6: Business Strategy: Differentiation, Cost Leadership, and Blue Oceans
CHAPTER 7: Business Strategy: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Platforms
CHAPTER 8: Corporate Strategy: Vertical Integration and Diversification
CHAPTER 9: Corporate Strategy: Strategic Alliances, Mergers and Acquisitions
CHAPTER 10: Global Strategy: Competing Around the World
PART THREE: IMPLEMENTATION
CHAPTER 11: Organizational Design: Structure, Culture, and Control
CHAPTER 12: Corporate Governance and Business Ethics
PART FOUR: MINICASES
PART FIVE: FULL-LENGTH CASES

About the Author

Frank T. Rothaermel (Ph.D., University of Washington) is a professor of Strategic Management and in the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology. BusinessWeek names Frank one of Georgia Tech's Prominent Faculty in their national survey of business schools. The Kauffman Foundation Views Frank as one of the world's 75 thought leaders in entrepreneurship and innovation. Frank is an Alfred P. Sloan Industry Studies Fellow, and also holds a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, which "is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of...those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education...(NSF CAREER Award description). Frank has a wide range of teaching experience, including at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgetown University, Politenico di Milano, St. Gallen University (Switzerland), and the University of Washington. He received numerous teaching awards for excellence in the classroom. Frank's research interests lie in the areas of strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship. To inform his research he has conducted extensive field work and executive training with leader corporations like Amgen, Daimler, Eli Lilly, GE Energy, GE Healthcare, Hyundai Heavy Industries (South Korea), Kimberly-Clark, Microsoft, McKesson, NCR, amount others. Frank regularly translates his research findings for wider audiences in articles in Forbes, MIT Sloan Management Review, Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.