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5.8 STRATEGY

Strategy features in most courses at business school, but is also a specialisation in its own right. The writings of Michael Porter have helped to keep Harvard at the fore-front of business thinking in the field of strategy. Porter is the Bishop William
Laurence University Professor at the Harvard Business School. With 18 books and a wealth of highly influential articles to his name, he has an almost legendary status in the world of strategic thinking. In addition to his teaching and writing, he consults with the Monitor Group, the consulting firm he helped to establish.

Business gurus have a big influence on the perceived excellence of any business school in this field. C. K. Prahalad’s seminal work, 'The Fortune Under the Pyramid', has helped raise the profile of Michigan Business School in this field as well as in the field of development economics. INSEAD-based Korean, W. Chan Kim, and American Renée Mauborgne, have written the best-selling 'Blue Ocean Strategy', and Mauborgne is among the most highly-rated female professors in the field today. Gary Hamel, who wrote the best-selling 'Competing for the Future', which introduced the idea of core competencies, continues to contribute to the reputation of London Business School, where he is a senior faculty member.

China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) received recognition in the field of strategy in 2007. This is the first time an Asian school has entered the top 20 in any specialist field within our Global Recruiter Research, since inception in 1990.

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