Research Guides: MAN 5721 Strategy and Business Policy: Module 1: What is Strategy?

What is strategy?

Readings for the Week

Build a Strategy that Addresses Your Gnarliest Challenges by Richard P. Rumelt

Harvard Business Review is available via EBSCO’s Business Source Complete. HBR Publishing has a strict license agreement which prohibits downloading and direct linking.

Collis, D. J. (2021). Why do so many Strategies Fail? Harvard Business Review, 99(4), 82-93.
Porter, Michael E. "What is strategy?" Harvard Business Review 74, no. 6 (November–December 1996): 61–78.
Watkins, M. D. (2012). How managers become leaders. The seven seismic shifts of perspective and responsibility. Harvard Business Review, 90(6), 64-144.

Harvard Business Review Caution

Harvard Business Review (HBR) is a great business journal that is heavily used in this class. There are certain copyright restrictions Harvard Business Publishing has placed on the only online provider of HBR, EBSCO's Business Source Compete. FSU cannot link directly to the HBR articles, so below you will learn strategies for finding articles in HBR using Business Source Complete. You can also visit Strozier Library and read the print copies of HBR in the Basement - Periodicals 650.5 H339

How to Search for a Particular Article Using Business Source Complete

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- Search for articles by searching "Harvard Business Review" and "SO Publication Name" in the "Select a Field" option.
- Enter the title of the article in the next search box and set the option to "TI Title"
- Business Source Complete will bring back all titles that match. If you don't get the article, try selecting keywords and adding the last name of the author in the next search box.
Abbreviation: bscomp
Vendor: EBSCO
Coverage: 1886–Current
Subjects: Business, Business Legal Studies, Communication, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Hospitality, Insurance, Management & Strategy, Marketing, Real Estate, Retail Entrepreneurship, Sport Management, Urban and Regional Planning
Type: Datasets / Statistics, E-Book Collections, E-Journal Collections, Encyclopedias & Dictionaries, Proceedings, Reports

Company Library Research Overview

A complete overview of how to search for company data. This guide will have a "Best Bets" for suggestions on finding basic company information. Under "Public Companies" you will find a specific direction for researching public companies. Under "Private Companies" you will find the same for private companies.

Additional Readings

Fundamental Issues in Strategy by Richard P. Rumelt; Dan E. Schendel (Editor); David J. Teece (Editor)
ISBN: 0875843433
Publication Date: 1994-06-01
Fundamental Issues in Strategy is the product of a conference jointly sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Strategic Management Society in November 1990. This conference brought together important and influential thinkers in the field of strategy, as well as scholars from the fields of economics, organizational sociology, and political science, to address the following fundamental questions: How do firms behave? Why do firms differ? What are the functions of the headquarters unit in a multibusiness firm? What determines the international success or failure of firms? The book includes contributions from Alfred Chandler, Michael Porter, Oliver Williamson, and C.K. Prahalad. It represents a coherent statement of the status and future of the field of strategic management, re-examining the theoretical roots of strategic issues in order to set a new research agenda and advance the state of the field. Also available in paperback; ISBN 0875846459, $27.50.
Harvard Business Review on Advances in Strategy
ISBN: 0585440697
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series is designed to bring managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. This collection features breakthroughs in strategy from some of the pre-eminent names in this field.