Planning Review: Volume 18 Issue 3

New global strategies for competitive advantage

Michael E. Porter

Why do some nations win or lose a share of world trade? Michael Porter, author of the two most widely quoted books on strategic management, has just published a masterful new…

How to value a multinational business

Tom Copeland, Tim Roller, Jack Murrin

When the time comes to make a European acquisition or divestiture, you will be relieved to have this step‐by‐step guide to valuing a multinational business on hand. This article…

Issues and alternatives: Key to FMC's strategic planning system

Stewart Early

FMC Corporation was one of first conglomerates and an early adopter of shareholder value theory. This chronicle of the evolution of its planning system as a decision‐making…

Redefining the concept of strategy and the strategy formation process

Arnoldo C. Hax

We asked MIT professor Arnoldo Hax to go back to the fundamentals and offer us some basic definitions of strategic management. To find out how your organization measures up as a…