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Books on Strategy

Scenario Planning by Woody Wade
ISBN: 1118226925
Publication Date: 2012-03-07
Scenario Planning serves as a guide to taking a long-term look at your business, your industry, and the world, posing thoughtful questions about the possible consequences of some current (and possible future) trends.
Strategic Economic Decision-Making by Jeff Grover
ISBN: 9781461460398
Publication Date: 2012-12-05
This book is a quick primer on the topic that introduces readers to the basic complexities and nuances associated with learning Bayes' theory and inverse probability for the first time.
Strategic IQ by John Wells
ISBN: 9780470978283
Publication Date: 2012-06-05
This book identifies the key sources of inertia - strategic, structural and huma - and provides practical advice on how they can be overcome to create smarter corporations.
Big Data, Big Analytics by Michael Minelli; Michele Chambers; Ambiga Dhiraj
ISBN: 9781118147603
Publication Date: 2013-01-22
Unique prospective on the big data analytics phenomenon for both business and IT professionals.
Corporate Social Strategy by Bryan W. Husted; David Bruce Allen
ISBN: 9780521197649
Publication Date: 2010-11-11
This book shows how and when firms can develop successful corporate social strategies that establish strong commitments to shareholders, employees and other stakeholders.
The Essential Advantage by Cesare Minardi; Paul Leinwand
ISBN: 9781422136515
Publication Date: 2010-12-09
This book maintains that success in any market accrues to firms with coherence: a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique.
The Focused Organization by Antonio Nieto-Rodriquez
ISBN: 9781409425670
Publication Date: 2012-04-28
This book shows you how more effectively elected and managed projects are the key to strategic and long-term success.
Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
ISBN: 9780307886231
Publication Date: 2011-07-19
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world.
Merchants of Virtue by Bill Birchard
ISBN: 9780230106604
Publication Date: 2011-08-15
Here author Bill Birchard goes deep inside the organization to find out how Herman Miller has been accomplishing their sustainability goal.

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Databases for Strategy Articles / Reports

ABI/INFORM Global (see ProQuest One Business)
This database has been merged into ProQuest One Business.
Business Source Complete
Full text database of business information including scholarly journals, books, author profiles, and company information.
Includes sources published from 1886 to present
Conference Board/Research Online Collection
Full text database focused on corporate leadership, human capital, high-performing organizations, corporate governance, the economy, markets, and value creation. Sources include reports, presentations, and videos.
IBISWorld
Comprehensive full text industry research reports providing analysis and data on key statistics like supply/demand chain, market characteristics, product and customer segments, cost structure, industry conditions, key drivers, major players and market share, recent performance, and 5-year revenue forecasts.

Key Strategy Periodicals

Harvard Business Review
McKinsey Quarterly (current)
McKinsey Quarterly (archive)
HTML full-text for content going from 1965 to current.
MIT Sloan Management Review

Top Management / Strategy Journals

These highly ranked journals publish articles on strategy-related topics.

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Reference

21st Century Management: a Reference Handbook by Charles B. Wankel (Editor)
ISBN: 9781412949729
Publication Date: 2007-12-17
This book provides an authoritative insight into the key issues for students in college or on corporate courses with a particular emphasis on the current structure of the topic in the literature, key threads of discussion and research on the topic as well as emerging trends.
A Dictionary of Business and Management by Jonathan Law
ISBN: 9780199234899
Publication Date: 2009-04-25
This A-Z reference work is essential for business students, teachers and professionals, and useful for anyone needinga guide to business terminology.

MGT 385 - Organizational Strategy