Managing in the New Economy

by Magretta, Joan

• ISBN13: 9781578511860
• ISBN10: 1578511860
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Harvard Business School Pr

Summary

Designed to help sort out what is truly new about the new economy and what endures from the old. Presents a collection of articles organized around important managerial issues, revealing how the dynamics shaping the new economy are changing both managers' priorities and the tools they use to make decisions. DLC: Knowledge management.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Joan Magretta
Part I Competition and Strategy
Strategy and the New Economics of Information	3	(22)
Philip B. Evans
Thomas S. Wurster
Clusters and the New Economics of Competition	25	(24)
Michael E. Porter
The End of Corporate Imperialism	49	(18)
C.K. Prahalad
Kenneth Lieberthal
Strategy under Uncertainty	67	(24)
Hugh Courtney
Jane Kirkland
Patrick Viguerie
Strategy as a Portfolio of Real Options	91	(24)
Timothy A. Luehrman
Part II Leadership and Organization
Fair Process: Managing in the Knowledge Economy	115	(18)
W. Chan Kim
Renee Mauborgne
Covert Leadership: Notes on Managing Professionals	133	(12)
Henry Mintzberg
The Dawn of the E-Lance Economy	145	(14)
Thomas W. Malone
Robert J. Laubacher
The Post-Capitalist Executive An Interview with Peter F. Drucker	159	(14)
T George Harris
Values in Tension: Ethics Away from Home	173	(20)
Thomas Donaldson
Part III Ideas at Work
The Power of Virtual Integration An Interview with Dell Computer's Michael Dell	193	(20)
Joan Magretta
Fast, Global, and Entrepreneurial: Supply Chain Management, Hong Kong Style An Interview with Victor Fung	213	(22)
Joan Magretta
Growth through Global Sustainability An Interview with Monsanto's CEO, Robert B. Shapiro	235	(18)
Joan Magretta
Executive Summaries	253	(10)
About the Contributors	263	(6)
Index	269