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PG MBA and Executive Education Reading Lists  BUS7014

Competitive Strategy

All the reading and resources from your modules, all in one place

Reading List Category
Resource Type
Lesson

Lesson 1

Key Text eBook

Contemporary Strategy Analysis

by Grant, R. M.
Key Text eBook

Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining…

by Gupta, S.
Essential Resource Article

What is strategy?

by Porter, M. E.
Essential Resource Article

DotCom mania: The rise and fall of Internet stock…

by Ofek, E. and Richardson, M.
Essential Resource Article

Can you say what your strategy is?

by Collis, D. and Rukstad, M.

Lesson 2

Key Text eBook

Contemporary Strategy Analysis

by Grant, R. M.
Key Text eBook

Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining…

by Gupta, S.
Essential Resource Article

Towards a theory of stakeholder salience

by Wood, D. et al.
Essential Resource Website

10 key principles of stakeholder engagement

by Assocation of Project Management
Essential Resource Website

More than a mission statement: How the 5Ps embed…

by McKinsey
Essential Resource Website

Sell your home for free

by Purplebricks
Essential Resource Article

Stakeholder identification and salience after 20…

by Wood, D. et al.
Essential Resource Article

Mission statements and vision statements:…

by Allison, J.

Lesson 3

Key Text eBook

Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining…

by Gupta, S.
Key Text eBook

Contemporary Strategy Analysis

by Grant, R. M.
Essential Resource Article

What is strategy?

by Porter, M. E.
Essential Resource Other

Amazon Goes Global 2020

by Li, J. and Li, Y
Essential Resource Article

Digital Business Capability: Impact on Firm and…

by Wielgos, D., Homburg, C. and Kuehnl, C
Essential Resource Article

The Core Competence of the Corporation

by Prahalad, G. and Hamel, G.

Lesson 4

Key Text eBook

Contemporary Strategy Analysis

by Grant, R. M.
Key Text eBook

Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining…

by Gupta, S.
Essential Resource Case Study

Note on the Global Airline Industry in 2020

by Gomes-Casseres, B. and Judd, J.
Essential Resource Article

Not all prisoner’s dilemma games are equal:…

by Moisan, F. et al.
Essential Resource Article

The five competitive forces that shape strategy

by Porter, M. E.

Lesson 5

Key Text eBook

Contemporary Strategy Analysis

by Grant, R. M.
Essential Resource Website

LVMH, world leader in high-quality products

by LVMH
Essential Resource Article

Blue Ocean Strategy

by Kim, W. and Mauborgne, R.
Essential Resource Website

Lessons from Tesla’s Approach to Innovation

by Furr, N. and Dyer, J
Essential Resource eBook

Contemporary Strategy Analysis

by Grant, R, M.
Essential Resource Website

Why quality assurance is the Cinderella of the…

by Counsell, L.
Essential Resource Article

Blue Ocean v Five Forces

by Burke, A., Van Stel, A. and Thurik, R.
Essential Resource Website

Blue Ocean Strategy Examples

by Blue Ocean

Lesson 6

Key Text eBook

Contemporary Strategy Analysis

by Grant, R. M.
Key Text eBook

Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide To Reimagining…

by Gupta, S.
Essential Resource Article

The core competence of the corporation

by Prahalad, G. and Hamel, G.
Essential Resource Article

Real options theory in strategic management

by Trigeorgis, L. and Reuer, J. J.
Essential Resource Website

Alphabet Investor Relations

by Alphabet
Essential Resource Article

The corporate parenting advantage, revisited

by Feldman, E. R.

Lesson 7

Key Text eBook

Contemporary Strategy Analysis

by Grant, R. M.
Key Text eBook

Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining…

by Gupta, S.
Essential Resource eBook

Advances in Management Research: Innovation and…

by A. Shrivastava et al., (eds.)
Essential Resource Case Study

LinkedIn Learning: Strategy Tradeoffs at a Multi-…

by Wang, D. J.
Essential Resource Website

Building a digital New York Times

by Thompson, M
Essential Resource Website

Unlocking success in digital transformations

by de la Boutetière, H., Montagner, A. and Angelika Reich, A.
Essential Resource Article

The rules of coopetition

by Brandenburger, A. and Nalebuff, B.
Essential Resource Article

Digital transformation is not about technology

by Trabizi, B., Lam, E. and Girard, K.

Lesson 8

Key Text eBook

Contemporary Strategy Analysis

by Grant, R. M.
Essential Resource Website

The journey to an agile organization

by Brosseau, D. et al.
Essential Resource Article

Popularizing a management accounting idea: The…

by Cooper, D. J, Ezzamel, M. and Qu, S. Q.
Essential Resource Video

Why the Secret to Success is Setting the Right…

by TED
Essential Resource eBook

Exploring Strategy

by Whittington, R. et al.
Essential Resource Article

Digital transformation and organisational design

by Kretschmer, T. and Khashbi, P.
Essential Resource Article

Linking the balanced scorecard to strategy

by Kaplan, R. and Norton, D.

Lesson 9

Key Text eBook

Contemporary Strategy Analysis

by Grant, R. M.
Essential Resource Article

State of globalisation in 2019, and what it means…

by Ghemawhat, P. and Altman, S.

Lesson 10

Key Text eBook

Contemporary Strategy Analysis

by Grant, R. M.
Essential Resource Video

Blockchain: Massively Simplified | Richie Etwaru…

by TEDx Talks
Essential Resource Video

A history of microfinance | Muhammad Yunus |…

by TEDx Talks
Essential Resource eBook

Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining…

by Gupta, S.
Essential Resource Other

Muhammad Yunus

by Grameen Foundation
Essential Resource Website

Home

by LEGO Ideas
Essential Resource Website

Between Chaos and Order: What Complexity Theory…

by Berreby, D.
Essential Resource Article

Trends in strategic management

by Schonberger, J., Keller, P. and Maffei, C.

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