Wise Moves in Hard Times or Modern Competitive Analysis

Wise Moves in Hard Times: Creating & Managing Resilient Colleges & Universities

Author: David W Lesli

Leslie and Fretwell have produced as good a book as I have seen in the timely field of higher education's response to it pervasive long-range financial dilemmas.
--D. Bruce Johnstone, university professor and former chancellor, State University of New York

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Leslie (professor and coordinator, Higher Education Program, Florida State U.) and Fretwell (chancellor emeritus, U. of North Carolina- Charlotte) explore the causes and implications of reduced resources, increased accountability, and assaults from the media on universities, and report on the ways institutions adapt to stress through changes in mission, organization, teaching, and learning. They detail practices to help educational institutions become more resilient, and analyze markets, competition, and management and financial patterns. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Part One: Hard Times
1. Common Lessons from Hard Times
2. Sources of Stress
3. Impact of Stress
Part Two: Searching for Solutions
4. Mission and Organization
5. Decisions and Conflict
6. Teaching and Learning in a New Era
Part Three: Wise Moves
7. Analyzing the Institution's Condition
8. Triage
9. Strategy and Realism: Promoting Enlightened Change
10. Resilience in Times of Fiscal Stress
11. Unfinished Business

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Modern Competitive Analysis

Author: Sharon M Oster

Why do some companies thrive while others in the same industry languish? How can a struggling firm achieve higher annual earnings? What allows new corporations to become successful in highly competitive industries? In this book, now updated and expanded, Sharon Oster shows that combining a sound understanding of economic and managerial principles can make a striking difference in the quality of the strategic planning of an organization and provide guidelines for effective corporate strategies.
The third edition of Modern Competitive Analysis includes new material on game theory, added value analysis, and strategic intent. Examples are drawn from modern network industries and more attention is paid to newly deregulated markets. Unusually broad in scope, with many examples from large and small companies, service firms, manufacturers, foreign and American organizations, as well as non-profit corporations, the book emphasizes an economic approach to strategic planning, using the most recent theories to illuminate situations faced by businesses today. Covering new and important areas in economics not treated in other management and strategic planning books, and couched in clear terms that make these concepts especially accessible, Modern Competitive Analysis is a fundamental resource to the managers of today and tomorrow.