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Business Strategy

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🎓Courses(3)

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Business Strategy

In this course you will learn how organizations create, capture, and maintain value. In doing so, you’ll develop an understanding of how and why this process is fundamental for sustainable competitive advantage. You will be able to better understand value creation, and capture and learn the tools to analyze both competition and cooperation from a variety of perspectives, including the industry-level (e.g., five forces analysis) and the firm-level (e.g., business models and strategic positioning). You will be able to: - Understand how managers coordinate different functional areas, resources, and systems inside a company and align them with the external environment to enhance overall performance - Recognize strategic management tools and frameworks and apply them to real business contexts - Process diverse business and industry information to diagnose strategic issues, evaluate strategic alternatives, and formulate a coherent and actionable strategic plan This course is part of Gies College of Business’ suite of online programs, including the iMBA and iMSM. Learn more about admission into these programs and explore how your Coursera work can be leveraged if accepted into a degree program at https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/.

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Strategic Management

Learn how a manager or CEO develops a business strategy, including analyzing the market and creating competitive advantage.

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Advanced Business Strategy

Advance your strategic analysis skills in this follow-up to Foundations of Business Strategy. In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, you'll learn the tools to analyze strategy across time (competitive dynamics), industries (corporate strategy), geographies (international strategy), and institutions (non-market strategy). Top-ranked faculty will introduce the tools you need to complete a comprehensive evaluation and understand the strategy dynamics of an industry: Competitive Lifecycle, Internationalization and Stakeholder Analyses, and Diversification Matrices.

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📚Books(10)

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High Output Management

Intel CEO Andy Grove's essential management text on leverage, meetings, performance reviews, and systematic approach to maximizing managerial productivity.

intermediate🇬🇧
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Principles: Life and Work

Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio's systematic approach to decision-making through radical transparency, idea meritocracy, and algorithmic principles.

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The Innovator's Dilemma

Seminal work on disruptive innovation explaining why successful companies fail when facing technological disruption despite good management practices.

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Brutally honest Silicon Valley veteran's guide to navigating startup challenges including layoffs, demotions, firing friends, and managing crises.

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The Lean Startup

Revolutionary approach to building startups using validated learning, rapid experimentation, and build-measure-learn feedback loops.

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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

PayPal co-founder's contrarian thinking on building monopolies, creating new markets, and avoiding competition through technological innovation.

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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't

Data-driven study identifying principles distinguishing great companies from merely good ones, introducing Level 5 leadership and flywheel concepts.

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Competitive Strategy

Competitive Strategy - A book resource

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Good Strategy Bad Strategy

Good Strategy Bad Strategy - A book resource

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Blue Ocean Strategy

Blue Ocean Strategy - A book resource

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🌐Websites(5)

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Strategyzer

Free tools and templates for strategy

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Harvard Business Review - Strategy

Articles and resources on business strategy

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hbr.org

Harvard Business Review (hbr.org) is a leading source of in-depth articles, case studies, and research on business strategy, leadership, and management. It offers practical frameworks, data-driven insights, and expert perspectives to help professionals make strategic decisions.

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strategy-business.com

Strategy+Business is a PwC Strategy& publication offering in-depth articles, case studies, and research on business strategy, leadership, and organizational performance, with practical guidance for strategy practitioners.

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mckinsey.com

McKinsey & Company’s website offers strategy-focused thought leadership and research from a leading management consulting firm. It features articles, reports, and interactive resources on business strategy, leadership, and organizational topics across industries.

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Business Strategy is approachable at the beginner level — there are resources here specifically for those starting from scratch. As you progress, intermediate and advanced material is also available to take your skills further.

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For Business Strategy, Dantes has curated 9 videos, 7 books, 4 websites, 3 podcasts. Each resource type serves a different learning style: videos and YouTube for visual learners, books for depth, courses for structured progression, and websites for quick reference.

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