内容简介
Today's businesses have become more adept than ever at employing the essential strategies needed to succeed in light of intense competitive and financial pressures. The motivation for this has been straightforward: to maximize company performance. Managers and executives from all walks of life are called on to set corporate strategy, balance the needs of business units, allot resources, and evaluate all facets of the business and the organization. In Corporate Strategy, operations and strategy experts John Colley, Jacquie Doyle, and Robert Hardie, professors with the Darden Graduate School of Business MBA and executive education programs, share the fundamental information professionals need to stay competitive in today's internet-speed business world. After first laying the foundations of corporate and divisional strategy, the authors build on Darden's executive education course, "Corporate and Business Unit Strategies: Managing the Interfaces" to help managers and executives build the key skills needed to set goals and objectives and tackle strategic issues to improve the corporation and shareholder value. Recognizing the trend to divestitures and decentralized corporations, the a