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Niccolo Machiavelli (16th century)
Peter Drucker (1909-2005)
Alfred Chandler (1918-2007)
Henry Mintzberg (1939-)
Michael Porter (1943-)
What is Strategy?
Figure 1.3
VLH
See the question on the discussion board, do your
research and make at least one contribution to the
discussion
Seminar
Come along prepared to discuss the lecture material
and in particular the review questions and the
discussion question at the end of Henry chapter 1
Review and discussion questions
Review Questions
1. What is strategy?
2. Explain the difference between the learning and
design schools in strategy formulation.
Discussion Question
“To understand which companies will survive and
which will fail, one has only to look at the
management in each company and evaluate their
theory of business” Discuss.