BOOKS, CASES, JOURNALS AND DATABASES

Required Textbook:

• Hunger and Wheelen, STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, Second Edition 2001 (soft cover)
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Required Cases and Articles:

• The Competitive Advantage of Nations # 90211

• The European Car Industry (handout)

• Skil Corporation, #9-389-005

• McDonald’s (handout)

• The Body Shop International, #392-032

• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. #9-794-024

• Nissan Motor Co. 2002, #9-303-042

• Mercedes-Benz in Alabama: Lessons from the Field #9-199-02

• Shanghai Volkswagen: Facing a New Era #9-700-001

• The Haier Group (A), #9-398-101

• GE's Two-Decade Transformation: Jack Welch's Leadership, #9-399-150

• Microsoft in 2002, #9-702-411

Recommend Books:

• Drucker, MANAGEMENT. 

• Drucker, Managing for the Future. 

• Hamel and Prahalad, COMPETING FOR THE FUTURE, Harvard Business School. Paperback edition. ISBN 0-87584-716-1

• Mintzberg, Quinn, Voyer, THE STRATEGY PROCESS, latest edition. 

• Pearce and Robinson, COMPETITIVE STRATEGY, latest edition.

• Porter, COMPETITIVE STRATEGY.

• Porter, COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE.

• Porter, COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF NATIONS.

• Steiner, Miner, Gray, MANAGEMENT POLICY AND STRATEGY, latest edition. 

• Thompson, Strickland, Kramer, READINGS IN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, latest edition. 

• Thompson, Strickland, STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, latest edition. 

• Weihrich & Koontz, MANAGEMENT: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE, especially Chapters 4 & 7.

Recommended Journals:

• Business Week 

• Columbia Journal of Business 

• The Economist 

• Fortune

• Forbes Magazine 

• Harvard Business Review 

• Journal of Business Strategy 

• Long Range Planning (Europe) 

• Managerial Planning 

• Nations Business

• Sloan Management Review