Contemporary Strategy Analysis, 7th Edition, Robert M. Grant

The publisher merely released a lazy ecopy for the Kindle edition without thinking of how we would read it or interact with the content. You can't read any of the graphics on the Kindle for Mac edition (don't even think about it for my Kindle touch). This is where the 'experience' of reading needs to evolve from a publishers perspective and they need to think about it not as a book but the ability to consume everything from a users' experience perspective. I would get more out of an actual .pdf exact copy file than this kindle copy. The kindle version is worthless... I had to revert to the actual book to read and follow along. I uploaded pictures comparing the two... Quite frustrating.

For this to to be a book on strategy, they failed to understand the contemporary strategy surrounding consuming the content.

If you like to read books with coherent sentences, pick a different book. "Grammatically incorrect" is the best description I can give. The editor needs to be replaced considering this was the seventh attempt. Better luck on the eighth version.

Grant discusses industry evolution and strategic choices faced by several businesses including Madonna, Laura Ashley Holdings Plc, US airline industry, Ford and world automobile industry, Wal-mart, Manchester United, Eastman Kodak, Royal Dutch Shell, Harley Davidson, Raisio Group, Video game industry, Eni SpA, Birds Eye and US frozen food industry, Outback Steakhouse, Euro Disney, Virgin Group, GE (under both Jack Welch and Jeff Immelt), and AES Corporation. It was fun finding the rich details of each case in one place rather than hunt for them amongst multiple sources.

I liked Mr. Grant's readable style and enjoyed the reading of the text from cover to cover. Just waiting for the time when hard copies will be available for Kindle. Many times I'm off on travel and would like to take some references with me, but weight restrictions prohibit it from traveling with me.

I picked this up for a course on business strategy and enjoyed reading it. there some good information and the book is easy to read. amazon's buy back program is awesome and i sold the textbook back when the class was over since the book wasn't worth holding on to.

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• Publisher: Wiley; 7th edition (February 9, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470747102
• ISBN-13: 978-0470747100
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Strategy and the Business Landscape, 3rd Edition, Pankaj E. Ghemawat

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Strategy and the Business Landscape: Core Concepts offers a contemporary yet historically grounded perspective on the field of strategy. Pankaj Ghemawat in association with David. J. Collins, Jan W. Rivkin, and Gary P. Pisano, provides firm-centered and value-based logic to bridge some of the great debates about strategy today. Always practical, while still rigorous, key concepts are laid out succinctly and illustrated with rich examples, often drawn from the author team's rich professional experience.

This text represents the core concepts of Harvard's required Competition and Strategy course offered at the Harvard Business School.

About the Author

Pankaj Ghemawat is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration and Head of the Strategy Unit. He received his Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University, he worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company in London during 1982 and 1983, and has taught at the Harvard Business School since then. In 1991, he was appointed the youngest full professor in the Business School's history. One strand of his research and teaching focuses on the dynamics of globalization and generic strategies for international firms. Another strand of his work is concerned with foundational issues in business strategy, particularly work on the topics of competitive dynamics, business scope, and complexity.

Professor Ghemawat's publications include Commitment (Free Press, 1991), Games Businesses Play (MIT Press, 1997), and Strategy and the Business Landscape (Addison Wesley Longman, 1999), as well as several dozen articles and case studies. He serves on the editorial boards of Management Science, Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, LongRange Planning, the Strategic Management Journal, and Strategic Organization.

Pankaj Ghemawat is the Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy at IESE Business School. Between 1983 and 2006, he served on the faculty at the Harvard Business School where, in 1991, he became the youngest person in the school's history to be appointed a full professor. And before that, he earned his A.B. degree in Applied Mathematics and his Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard.

Ghemawat was also the youngest "guru" included in the guide to the greatest management thinkers of all time published in 2008 by The Economist. His books include Commitment, Games Businesses Play, Strategy and the Business Landscape and the award-winning Redefining Global Strategy, which The New York Times called " a nicely revised picture of globalization as regionalization."

He is the author of more than 100 research articles and case studies, ranks as one of the world's best-selling authors of teaching cases, and has been elected a fellow of the Academy of International Business and of the Strategic Management Society. Other recent honors include the McKinsey Award for the best article published in the Harvard Business Review and the Irwin Award for the Educator of the Year from the Business Policy and Strategy division of the Academy of Management.

Ghemawat is active in helping companies, governments, multilateral institutions, and business schools better understand and address international opportunities and challenges. He consults on strategy and leadership development around the world and is a regular speaker on globalization-related topics. He also served on the taskforce appointed by the AACSB, the U.S.-based accreditation body for business schools, on the Globalization of Management Education, and authored the report's recommendations concerning what to teach about globalization, and how.


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• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 3 edition (July 12, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0136015557
• ISBN-13: 978-0136015550
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Financial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses, 14 Edition

Roman L. Weil, Ph.D., CPA, is the V. Duane Rath Professor Emeritus of Accounting at the University of Chicago and has within recent years been Visiting Professor at the Haas School of the University of California, Berkeley; Carnegie Mellon University; Harvard Law School; Princeton University; and New York University. He has designed and implemented continuing education programs for partners at two of the large accounting firms and for employees at several operating corporations. Dr. Weil has co-authored dozens of books. His lay articles have appeared in Barron's and The Wall Street Journal. He has published more than 80 articles in academic and professional journals, most recently on financial literacy for corporate governance and on the exposure of wine snobbery.

Katherine Schipper is the Thomas F. Keller Professor of Accounting at the Duke University, Fuqua School of Business. She is a former Board member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), a past president of the American Accounting Association and a winner of its Outstanding Educator award, and a member of the Accounting Hall of Fame.

Jennifer Francis is the Douglas and Josie Breeden Doctoral Professor of Accounting and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty at the Duke University Fuqua School of Business. Her research and teaching expertise in financial reporting, equity valuation, and security analysts' role in the capital markets has led to over a dozen teaching awards.

While this book does cover a significant amount, I will 100% echo the other commenters on here and say that it is downright dreadful. This material is confusing to someone w/o a background in accounting and finance, and instead of taking the path of explaining the concepts in a simplified format, the authors decided to throw in needless technical explanations that distract the reader from the core concepts.

In one example, and end-of-chapter question has the elements of a balance sheet mixed up with blanks that you fill in. Great way to learn the concept, but the authors decided to randomize the items so that they don't flow logically. Ultimately filling in the blanks is just simple addition and subtraction, but they added a layer of confusion that just gets in the way and distracts you from learning the concept with frustration.

If you can't get out of purchasing this book or convince your professor to go with a different book, do yourself a favor and purchase "Accounting Made Simple" (below) too, and read it before you read chapter #1. It's only $5 and will explain in 2 pages what takes "Financial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses" 20 pages. Investopedia.com will also become your good friend.

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• Publisher: Cengage Learning; 14 edition (November 8, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1111823456
• ISBN-13: 978-1111823450
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Macroeconomics: Understanding the Global Economy, Hardcover, 3rd Edition, David Miles

Macroeconomics: Understanding the Global Economy, 3rd Edition is to help students – and indeed anyone – understand contemporary and past economic events that shape the world we live in, and at a sophisticated level. But it does so without focusing on mathematical techniques and models for their own sake.
Theory is taken seriously – so much so that the authors go to pains to understand the key aspects of theories in a way that will not put people off before they see how theories are useful to analyse issues. The authors believe that theories are essential to better understand the world, thus the book includes a wealth of historic and current episodes and data to both see how theories can help interpret the world and also to judge their validity.

Economies today are very inter-connected; what happens in China matters pretty much everywhere; and what happens in one (even small) country in the euro zone has implications for the whole euro area and beyond, consequently Macroeconomics, 3rd Edition adopts a very international focus.

I bought this book for my Macroeconomics course for my MBA. The book is really good since it covers all aspects related with GDP, business cycles, monetary and fiscal policies, inflation and unemployment, and so on. It's an easy reading, with recent information and data not only from US but also from other countries. Must read for those who are interested in business.


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• Hardcover: 622 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 3 edition (May 21, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1119995728
• ISBN-13: 978-1119995722
• Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 7.5 x 9.6 inches

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Framework for Marketing Management (5th Edition), Paperback, Philip Kotler

This book contains page after page of definitions and reads like a dictionary in paragraph form. The test bank (that my professor uses) is full of definition questions. At an MBA level, this is a mockery of the students' abilities. By graduate school it is safe to say we know how to memorize definitions. We are looking for applicable marketing skills, which are not addressed in this book. Waste of money!

As a Graduate student in an MBA program my focus has been in financial and sales. Not having any experience with marketing put me at a disadvantage.
This text managed to cover all aspects of this subject in an effective way and also provide real world examples.
A good read.

It is basically page after page of definitions and descriptions of concepts. Not many examples of good strategies. It is like reading a thesaurus. I hate this book.

This review is only for this book, not for any other books by the same authors. Yes, there is great information in this book about marketing, but I must say the greatest talent is wasted in poor writing (if they call this a book). The information is told in a very dry manner and rarely there are examples provided for ideas. It assumes you already know the author's other work. The authors' other books are much thicker, which makes me believe that this is just a "book of outlines" of all the great details in the other books. What I don't get the most is the cost, $113 at Amazon!!! Wow, I start to question the messages the authors are teaching on marketing! Who would buy this book?!! If I am not forced, I would never. There are many good marketing books out there that are fitting to modern day markets. Shame on the professors who only provide this book for the MBA classes and not providing the real marketing books!

"As a college professor I assign this book for several reasons; (1) it is concise and gives a summary overview of major topics in marketing; (2) this means that I as the teacher add in REAL TIME examples to supplement the book so the student aren't reading out-dated material; (3) it is MUCH cheaper than 'other' marketing textbooks since it is concise. I believe it is up to your teacher to add in any material that will make the content come alive for the class. This book clearly does what it intends to do - provides a concise summary of major topics so the creative teacher can add in his/her own examples, cases, simulations etc to enrich the content."



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• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 5 edition (March 3, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0132539306
• ISBN-13: 978-0132539302
• Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 7.3 x 8.9 inches

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Bundle: Financial Management: Theory & Practice (with Thomson ONE - Business School Edition 1-Year Printed Access Card), 13th + CengageNOW Printed Access Card [CD-ROM], 13th Edition, Eugene F. Brigham

Dr. Eugene F. Brigham is Graduate Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida, where he has taught since 1971. Dr. Brigham received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley and his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina. Prior to joining the University of Florida, Dr. Brigham held teaching positions at the University of Connecticut, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of California-Los Angeles. Dr. Brigham has served as president of the Financial Management Association and has written many journal articles on the cost of capital, capital structure, and other aspects of financial management. He has authored or co-authored ten textbooks on managerial finance and managerial economics that are used at more than 1,000 universities in the United States and have been translated into 11 languages worldwide. He has testified as an expert witness in numerous electric, gas, and telephone rate cases at both federal and state levels. He has served as a consultant to many corporations and government agencies, including the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the U.S. Office of Telecommunications Policy, and the RAND Corporation. Dr. Brigham continues to teach, consult, and complete research in addition to his academic writing. He spends his spare time on the golf course, enjoying time with his family and dogs, and tackling outdoor adventure activities, such as biking through Alaska.

Dr. Michael C. Ehrhardt is a Professor in the Finance Department and is the Paul and Beverly Castagna Professor of Investments. He completed his undergraduate work in Civil Engineering at Swarthmore College. After working several years as an engineer, he earned his M.S. in Operations Research and Ph.D. in Finance from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Ehrhardt has taught extensively at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels in the areas of investments, corporate finance, and capital markets. He has directed and served on numerous dissertation committees and is a member of the team that developed and delivered the integrative first year of the MBA program. Dr. Ehrhardt teaches in Executive Education Programs and consults in the areas of corporate valuation, value-based compensation plans, financial aspects of supply-chain management, and the cost of capital. He has been awarded the Allen G. Keally Outstanding Teacher Award, the Tennessee Organization of MBA Students Outstanding Faculty member, the College of Business Administration Research & Teaching Award, and the John B. Ross Outstanding Teaching Award in the College of Business. Much of his research focuses on corporate valuation and asset pricing models, including pricing models for interest-rate sensitive instruments. His work has been published in numerous journals, including The Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Financial Management, The Financial Review, The Journal of Financial Research, and The Journal of Banking and Finance. He has also authored or co-authored several books addressing various areas of finance.




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• Publisher: Cengage Learning; 13 edition (July 13, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 111122756X
• ISBN-13: 978-1111227562
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Financial Management: Theory & Practice, with Thomson ONE - Business School Edition 1-Year Printed Access Card, 14th edition, Eugene F. Brigham

Dr. Eugene F. Brigham is Graduate Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida, where he has taught since 1971. Dr. Brigham received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley and his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina. Prior to joining the University of Florida, Dr. Brigham held teaching positions at the University of Connecticut, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of California-Los Angeles. Dr. Brigham has served as president of the Financial Management Association and has written many journal articles on the cost of capital, capital structure, and other aspects of financial management. He has authored or co-authored ten textbooks on managerial finance and managerial economics that are used at more than 1,000 universities in the United States and have been translated into 11 languages worldwide. He has testified as an expert witness in numerous electric, gas, and telephone rate cases at both federal and state levels. He has served as a consultant to many corporations and government agencies, including the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the U.S. Office of Telecommunications Policy, and the RAND Corporation. Dr. Brigham continues to teach, consult, and complete research in addition to his academic writing. He spends his spare time on the golf course, enjoying time with his family and dogs, and tackling outdoor adventure activities, such as biking through Alaska.


Dr. Michael C. Ehrhardt is a Professor in the Finance Department and is the Paul and Beverly Castagna Professor of Investments. He completed his undergraduate work in Civil Engineering at Swarthmore College. After working several years as an engineer, he earned his M.S. in Operations Research and Ph.D. in Finance from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Ehrhardt has taught extensively at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels in the areas of investments, corporate finance, and capital markets. He has directed and served on numerous dissertation committees and is a member of the team that developed and delivered the integrative first year of the MBA program. Dr. Ehrhardt teaches in Executive Education Programs and consults in the areas of corporate valuation, value-based compensation plans, financial aspects of supply-chain management, and the cost of capital. He has been awarded the Allen G. Keally Outstanding Teacher Award, the Tennessee Organization of MBA Students Outstanding Faculty member, the College of Business Administration Research & Teaching Award, and the John B. Ross Outstanding Teaching Award in the College of Business. Much of his research focuses on corporate valuation and asset pricing models, including pricing models for interest-rate sensitive instruments. His work has been published in numerous journals, including The Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Financial Management, The Financial Review, The Journal of Financial Research, and The Journal of Banking and Finance. He has also authored or co-authored several books addressing various areas of finance.

Dr. Eugene F. Brigham is Graduate Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida, where he has taught since 1971. Dr. Brigham received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley and his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina. Prior to coming to the University of Florida, Dr. Brigham held teaching positions at the University of Connecticut, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of California-Los Angeles. Dr. Brigham served as president of the Financial Management Association and wrote more than the 40 journal articles on the cost of capital, capital structure, and other aspects of financial management. The ten textbooks on managerial finance and managerial economics that he authored or co-authored are used at more than 1,000 universities in the United States, and have been translated into 11 languages worldwide. He has testified as an expert witness in numerous electric, gas, and telephone rate cases at both federal and state levels. He has served as a consultant to many corporations and government agencies, including the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the U.S. Office of Telecommunications Policy, and the RAND Corporation. Dr. Brigham continues to teach, consult, and do research, as well as work on textbooks. He spends his spare time on the golf course, enjoying time with his family and dogs, and tackling outdoor adventure activities, such as biking through Alaska.

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• Publisher: Cengage Learning; 14 edition (January 28, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1111972206
• ISBN-13: 978-1111972202
• Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 8.3 x 10.2 inches

 

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Fundamentals of Corporate Finance Standard Edition, 10th Editinon, Stephen Ross

Stephen Ross is presently the Franco Modigliani Professor of Finance and Economics at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of the most widely published authors in finance and economics, Professor Ross is recognized for his work in developing the Arbitrage Pricing Theory and his substantial contributions to the discipline through his research in signaling, agency theory, option pricing, and the theory of the term structure of interest rates, among other topics. A past president of the American Finance Association, he currently serves as an associate editor of several academic and practitioner journals. He is a trustee of CalTech, a director of the College Retirement Equity Fund (CREF), and Freddie Mac. He is also the co-chairman of Roll and Ross Asset Management Corporation.

Randoloph W. Westerfield is Dean of the Marshall School of Business at University of Southern California and holder of the Robert R. Dockson Dean’s Chair of Business Administration. From 1988 to 1993, Professor Westerfield served as the chairman of the School’s finance and business economics department and the Charles B. Thornton Professor of Finance. He came to USC from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he was the chairman of the finance department and member of the finance faculty for 20 years. His areas of expertise include corporate financial policy, investment management and analysis, mergers and acquisitions, and stock market price behavior. Professor Westerfield has served as a member of the Continental Bank trust committee, supervising all activities of the trust department. He has been consultant to a number of corporations, including AT&T, Mobil Oil and Pacific Enterprises, as well as to the United Nations, the U.S. Department of Justice and Labor, and the State of California.

Bradford D. Jordan is Professor of Finance and Gatton Research Fellow in the Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky. He has a long-standing interest in both applied and theoretical issues in corporate finance, and has extensive experience teaching all levels of corporate finance and financial management policy. Professor Jordan has published numerous articles on issues such as cost of capital, capital structure, and the behavior of security prices.

This is a really great textbook! The book goes into detailed explanations about different parts of Corporate and Managerial Finance. The book covers important topics such as present and future values, Stocks & Bonds, how to deal with income statements and balance sheets and much more! A great book for someone beginning their education in economics or finance.

This is a great book for Managerial Finance. It's easy to understand and easy to follow. The only thing I don't like is that the Learning Objectives do not match up with the questions at the end of the chapter so it's hard to go back and review how to solve the problems. You have to hunt around for the right equation.

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• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 10 edition (January 18, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0078034639
• ISBN-13: 978-0078034633
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