5 Posts found for Author: Joan Magretta

A business model is a description of how your business runs, but a competitive strategy explains how you will do better than your rivals. That could be by offering a better business model — but it can also be by offering the same business model to a different market.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Andrea Ovans, Joan Magretta | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Strategy

In a new book, Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy, Joan Magretta distills Porter’s core concepts and frameworks into a concise guide for business practitioners. In this excerpt, Porter discusses common strategy mistakes.

Content: Article | Authors: Joan Magretta, Michael E. Porter | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Strategy

What is the current state of business thinking? Have we generally benefited from the flood of ideas developed over the past dozen or so years, or is contemporary management theory simply so much hype and hot air? That’s the question Outlook’s editors asked us to address. It’s a provocative question, especially for people like us who’ve made their living in the idea business during that … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Joan Magretta, Nan Stone | Source: Outlook Journal (Accenture) | Subjects: Management, Miscellaneous

What Management Is, by former Harvard Business Review editors Joan Magretta and Nan Stone, identifies management as the driving force behind key innovations of the past century and presents a jargon-free look at the way its core principles work. Designed to promote “managerial literacy” up and down the business food chain, as well as among those who simply “want better communities and a better world … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Joan Magretta | Subjects: General, Management

Content: Book | Author: Joan Magretta | Subject: Management