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Table of Contents: Chess and the Science (Art?) of Research into Corporate Strategy p. 4 - Strategy is a topic that most managers, consultants, and academics have exuberantly embraced while simultaneously accepting that the topic is unresearchable. As in a chess game, every move can change the entire "gestalt" and there seems to be almost an infinite variety of possible moves. How does one get a handle on such multi-dimensional questions? ; Managing Tensions in the Multinational. Corporation p. 7 - To make explicit the nuances of the work of top management in large, complex, multi-business, multinational corporations is the locus of this research being done by C. K. Prahalad, associate professor of policy and control, in collaboration with Yves Doz of INSEAD. Strategy and the Creation of Shareholder Wealth p. 10 - Research being conducted by business policy faculty members Aneel Karnam, Cynthia Montgomery, and Birger Werner felt, seeks to bring together the substantive insights from business policy and the research methodology from finance to understand the effect of strategy on shareholder value. ; The Management of Innovation: New Ventures and Diversification p. 12 - Rob Kazanjian, assistant professor of policy and control, is looking at new technology based ventures and their stages of growth, as well as investigating the organizing for internal diversification by large companies ; We're Almost There! - As the School's Capital Campaign edges closer to the $15 million goal, two buildings funded by the Campaign are taking final shape. Far away in the hamburger place . . . by Linda Benson p. 16 - John Finerty, BBA '64, MBA '85, owns Foster's Hollywood Cafe in Madrid, Spain, Here he tells about the joys and uncertainties of managing the only restaurants in Spain that serve Reuben sandwiches. ; How Others See Us p. 19 - Alumni can be highly effective public relations ambassadors for the Business School. Here are some suggestions on ways alumni can help. ; Among Ourselves ; Class Notes p. 25. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/50736>
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Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Michigan
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Electronic reproduction; Ann Arbor Michigan; Michigan Copy Center; 2004
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