Publications

April 2005
Article

How Strategists Really Think: Tapping the Power of Analogy

By: G. Gavetti and Jan W. Rivkin

Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Power and Influence

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15 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Be Unapologetically Yourself: Interview with Singer-Songwriter and Banking Strategist Andrea Mendoza

In March 2020, Andrea Mendoza (MBA 2016) hopped on a plane to Peru to visit family. Days later, the world collectively hit pause to grapple with the impacts of COVID-19 turning that short trip into an eight month stay. While in Peru, Mendoza seized the opportunity to... View Details

13 Feb 2015
News

Business Strategist As Coach: Michael Porter on Building Health Care Champions

December 2005 (Revised February 2006)
Background Note

How can a strategist analyze the parts of a firm's strategy?: Advanced Competitive Strategy, Module note for students

By: Jan W. Rivkin

The first of four module notes for students who are taking an advanced course on competitive strategy. Presents concepts and techniques to help students analyze the parts of a firm's strategy and understand how the parts fit together to form a coherent whole. View Details

Keywords: Competitive Strategy

09 Oct 2013
News

President could easily gather a super committee: Pro

15 Nov 2018
News

Learn business strategy from Bill Gates, Steve Jobs & Andy Grove

08 Oct 2012
News

Get employees behind your unified strategy

April 2003 (Revised June 2003)
Case

Abby Joseph Cohen: A Career Retrospective

By: Ashish Nanda

This case provides a career retrospective as of 2003 on Goldman Sachs strategist Abby Joseph Cohen. It reviews Cohen's career path and progress through key decision points. View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Personal Development and Career

20 Oct 2014
News

How millennials fit into today's workplace

27 Feb 2014
News

Resolving the Armed Standoff in Ukraine's Crimea

July – August 2011
Article

The New Psychology of Strategic Leadership

In this article, it is argued that today's dominant ideas about the practice of business strategy-defined by Porter three decades ago-hinge on a specific and therefore partial interpretation of competition. The result is an equally partial picture of the strategist's... View Details

Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Leadership; Business Strategy; Training; Experience and Expertise; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Practices and Processes; Competition; Markets

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July 2000
Background Note

Industry Transformation

By: Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin

One of the steepest challenges a strategist faces is to navigate his or her company through a period of industry transformation--an era of rapid and wholesale changes in industry structure. This note considers how periods of transformation typically unfold. It then... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Management; Management Practices and Processes; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Consulting Industry; Service Industry

November 2006 (Revised December 2012)
Background Note

Strategies Beyond the Market

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Dennis Yao

Strategists are not alone in finding failing markets irresistible. Governments and social groups ranging from unions to the World Wildlife Fund also respond to market failures. Governments typically seek to fix failing markets, often with prescriptions of what... View Details

Keywords: Markets; Failure; Strategy; Situation or Environment; Social Issues; Government and Politics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

15 Mar 2022
News

Digital Transformers Don’t Neglect The In-Person Experience, They Reimagine It

March 2011
Module Note

Quantitative Analysis of Competitive Position: Customer Demand and Willingness to Pay

By: David J. Collis

This note is designed to provide strategists with tools to perform two critical customer-related analyses: determining willingness to pay — the estimation of how much a given customer would be willing to pay for a particular product or service; and demand estimation —... View Details

Keywords: Price; Demand and Consumers; Competitive Advantage; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Market Participation; Segmentation