Strategy: Seeking and Securing Competitive Advantage

by Cynthia A. Montgomery (introduction), Michael E. Porter (Editor)

What makes up an effective strategy? This collection of Harvard Business Review articles offers insight and practical advice from the leaders in the Michael Porter, Kenichi Ohmae, Steven Wheelwright, Gary Hamel, and C.K. Prahalad, among others. They show how advantage can and should be extracted from many sources, from marketing and joint ventures to financial analysis. Strategy provides managers with the best thinking available on how to make the critical decisions that determine business success. A Harvard Business Review Book.

Genres: Management, Nonfiction, Business

474 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1990

About the author

CYNTHIA A. MONTGOMERY is the Timken Professor of Business Administration and immediate former head of the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, where she’s taught for twenty years. For the past six years, she has led the strategy track in the school’s highly regarded executive program for owner-managers, attend by business leaders of midsized companies from around the globe. She has received the Greenhill Award for her outstanding contributions to the Harward Business School’s core MBA strategy course. Montgomery is a top-selling Harvard Business Review author, and her work has appeared in the Financial Times, American Economic Review, Rand Journal of Economics, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, and others. She has served on the boards of directors of two Fortune 500 companies and a number of mutual funds managed by BlackRock, Inc.