Strategic management: an integrated approach

This leading strategy text presents the complexities of strategic management through up-to-date scholarship and hands-on applications. Highly respected authors Charles Hill and Gareth Jones integrate cutting-edge research on topics including corporate performance, governance, strategic leadership, technology, and business ethics through both theory and case studies. Based on real-world practices and current thinking in the field, the tenth edition of STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT features an increased emphasis on the changing global economy and its role in strategic management. The high-quality case study program contains 31 cases covering small, medium, and large companies of varying backgrounds. All cases are available in the main student text or the core case text.

Case 26 Cemex's Acquisition Strategy -- Contents: Contents note continued: Case 27 3M: The Second Century -- Case 28 The Rise and Fall of Eastman Kodak: Will It Survive Beyond 2012? -- Case 29 Boeing Commercial Aircraft in 2011 -- Section C Strategy and Ethics -- Case 30 Merck, the FDA, and the Vioxx Recall.

What Is Case Study Analysis? -- Analyzing a Case Study -- Writing a Case Study Analysis -- The Role of Financial Analysis in Case Study Analysis -- Profit Ratios -- Liquidity Ratios -- Activity Ratios -- Leverage Ratios -- Shareholder-Return Ratios -- Cash Flow -- Conclusion -- Cases -- Section A Business-Level Strategy -- Case 1 Best Buy: Sustainable Customer Centricity Model -- Case 2 Whole Foods Market in 2010: How to Grow in an Increasingly Competitive Market -- Case 3 Herman Miller: A Case of Reinvention and Renewal -- Case 4 Wells Fargo: The Future of a Community Bank -- Case 5 Staples in 2011 -- Case 6 The Apollo Group in 2011 -- Case 7 The Evolution of the Small Package Express Delivery Industry 1973-2010 -- Case 8 Airborne Express: The Underdog -- Case 9 Google in 2011 -- Case 10 HCSS: Employee Ownership and the Entrepreneurial Spirit -- Case 11 KCI Technologies: Eng…