Kathryn Harrigan
- Henry R. Kravis Professor of Business Leadership
- Management Division
- Areas of Expertise
- Strategy
- Contact
- Office: 1192 Kravis
- Phone: (212) 8543494
- E-mail: [email protected]
- Links
- Curriculum Vitae
Professor Harrigan, who teaches strategic management courses about corporate growth (as well as turnaround management), is a specialist in corporate strategy, strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, diversification strategy, in turnarounds, industry restructurings and the competitive problems of mature- and declining-demand businesses, and in industry and competitor analysis. Most recently, Professor Harrigan has researched the role of technological synergies in corporate strategy. She has served on the board of three publicly-traded firms and is the author of several prize-winning books on strategy.
Featured Research in Brief
- Education
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BA, Macalester, 1972; MBA, University of Texas, Austin, 1976; DBA, Harvard, 1979
- Joined CBS
- 1981
All Activities
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Journal Article
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“Rise of the New Conglomerates.”
Strategic Management Review
(Forthcoming).
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Journal Article
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“Endgame in the Internet Era.”
Strategic Management Review
vol.
4
,
no.
2
(June 11, 2023):
231
-260
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doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/111.00000058
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Journal Article
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“Geographic Fragmentation and Declining Dominance: Yet Another Story of AT&T’s Decline in the Post-divestiture Era.”
Journal of Evolutionary Economics
vol.
33
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(January 11, 2023):
605
-6044
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-022-00807-1
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Journal Article
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“Issues Revisited from Rumelt’s (1974) “Diversification, Strategy & Performance”.”
Strategic Management Review
vol.
3
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no.
2
(July 21, 2022):
209
-234
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doi: 10.1561/111.00000043
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Journal Article
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“Principles of Strategy: A Practice-Based View.”
Strategic Management Review
vol.
3
,
no.
1
(February 07, 2022):
145
-156
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doi: 10.1561/111.00000023
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Journal Article
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“Retrospective on Corporate Renewal.”
Strategic Management Review
vol.
2
,
no.
2
(July 14, 2021):
179
-191
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Journal Article
Harrigan, Kathryn and Brian M. Wing
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“Corporate Renewal and Turnaround of Troubled Businesses: The Private Equity Advantage.”
Strategic Management Review
vol.
2
,
no.
2
(July 14, 2021):
363
-390
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doi: 10.1561/111.00000032
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Journal Article
Harrigan, Kathryn and Y. Fang
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“The Financial Benefits of Persistently High Forward Citations.”
The Journal of Technology Transfer
vol.
45
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no.
2
(January 01, 2020):
619
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Journal Article
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“The Impact of Imitation Strategy and R&D Resources on Incremental and Radical Innovation: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms.”
Journal of Technology Transfer
vol.
44
,
no.
1
(February 01, 2019):
210
-230
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Journal Article
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“Changing Tires on a Moving Car: The Role of Timing in Hospitality and Service Turnaround Processes.”
International Journal of Hospitality Management
vol.
77
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(January 01, 2019):
549
-561
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Journal Article
Harrigan, Kathryn and Y. Fang
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“Financial Implications of Technology-Class Code Popularity and Usage among Industry Competitors.”
Scientometrics
vol.
121
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no.
1
(January 01, 2019):
25
-51
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Journal Article
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“M&A and Diversification Strategies: What Effect on Quality of Inventive Activity?”
Journal of Management & Governance
vol.
23
,
no.
3
(January 01, 2019):
669
-692
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Journal Article
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“Process Quality Management and Technological Innovation Revisited: A Contingency Perspective from an Emerging Market.”
Journal of Technology Transfer
vol.
44
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no.
6
(November 16, 2018):
1871
-1890
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Journal Article
Harrigan, Kathryn and L. Manral
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“The Logic of Demand-Side Diversification: Evidence from the US Telecommunications Sector, 1990–1996.”
Journal of Business Research
vol.
85
,
(April 01, 2018):
127
-141
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Journal Article
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“Patent Value and the Tobin's q Ratio in Media-Services.”
The Journal of Technology Transfer
vol.
43
,
no.
1
(January 01, 2018):
1
-19
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Journal Article
Harrigan, Kathryn and Lalit Manral
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“Corporate Advantage in Customer-Centric Diversification.”
Journal of Strategic Marketing
vol.
26
,
no.
6
(January 01, 2018):
498
-519
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Journal Article
Harrigan, Kathryn and Maria DiGuardo
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“Multiplicative-Innovation Synergies: Tests in Technological Acquisitions.”
Journal of Technology Transfer
vol.
42
,
no.
5
(January 01, 2017):
1212
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Journal Article
Harrigan, Kathryn and Maria Chiara DiGuardo
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“Sustainability of Patent-based Competitive Advantage in the Communications Services Industry.”
Journal of Technology Transfer
vol.
42
,
no.
6
(January 01, 2017):
1334
-1361
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doi: 10.1007/s10961-016-9515-2
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Journal Article
Chiara DiGuardo, Maria and Kathryn Harrigan
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“Shaping the Path to Inventive Activity: The Role of Past Experience in R & D Alliances.”
Journal of Technology Transfer
vol.
41
,
(April 01, 2016):
250
-269
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Journal Article
Harrigan, Kathryn and Yang Wei
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“Operating Autonomy in Chinese-Foreign Joint Ventures.”
Asia Pacific Management Review
vol.
20
,
(January 01, 2015):
241
-251
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Journal Article
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“Comparing Corporate Governance Practices and Exit Decisions between US and Japanese Firms.”
Journal of Management & Governance
vol.
18
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(November 14, 2014):
975
-988
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Journal Article
DiGuardo, Maria and Kathryn Harrigan
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“Mapping Research on Strategic Alliances and Innovation: A Co-citation Analysis.”
The Journal of Technology Transfer
vol.
37
,
(December 01, 2012):
789
-811
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Journal Article
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“Using Hybrid Research Methodologies for Testing Contingency Theories of Strategy.”
Research Methodology in Strategy and Management
vol.
5
,
(January 01, 2009):
121
-136
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Journal Article
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“The Changing Face of Private Equity: How Modern Private Equity Firms Manage Investment Portfolios.”
The Journal of Private Equity
vol.
12
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(January 01, 2009):
7
-13
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Journal Article
Harrigan, Kathryn and Robert Shaughnessy
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“A Guide to Choosing Genuine Opportunities for Turnarounds.”
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10878570911001480">Strategy & Leadership</a>
vol.
37
,
(January 01, 2009):
39
-43
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Journal Article
Harrigan, Kathryn and Gaurav Dalmia
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“Knowledge Workers The Last Bastion of Competitive Advantage.”
Planning Review
vol.
19
,
(November 01, 1991):
4-9, 48
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Journal Article
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“Joint Ventures and Competitive Strategy.”
Strategic Management Journal
vol.
9
,
(March 01, 1988):
141
-58
.
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Journal Article
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“Strategic Alliances and Partner Asymmetries.”
Management International Review
vol.
28
,
(January 01, 1988):
53
-73
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Journal Article
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“Matching Vertical Integration Strategies to Competitive Conditions.”
Strategic Management Journal
vol.
7
,
(November 01, 1986):
535
-55
.
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Journal Article
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“Strategies for intrafirm transfers and outside sourcing.”
Academy of Management Journal
vol.
28
,
(December 01, 1985):
914
-25
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Journal Article
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“Exit Barriers and Vertical Integration.”
Academy of Management Journal
vol.
28
,
(September 01, 1985):
686
-97
.
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Journal Article
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“Vertical Integration and Corporate Strategy.”
Academy of Management Journal
vol.
28
,
(June 01, 1985):
397
-425
.
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Journal Article
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“An Application of Clustering for Strategic Group Analysis.”
Strategic Management Journal
vol.
6
,
(January 01, 1985):
55
-73
.
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Journal Article
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“Formulating Vertical Integration Strategies.”
Academy of Management Review
vol.
9
,
(October 01, 1984):
638
-52
.
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Journal Article
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“Innovation Within Overseas Subsidiaries.”
Journal of Business Strategy
vol.
4
,
(January 01, 1984):
47
-55
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Journal Article
Harrigan, Kathryn and Michael Porter
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“End-Game Strategies for Declining Industries.”
Harvard Business Review
vol.
64
,
(July 01, 1983):
111
-20
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Journal Article
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“Research Methodologies for Contingency Approaches to Business Strategy.”
Academy of Management Review
vol.
8
,
(July 01, 1983):
398
-404
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Journal Article
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“Exit Decisions in Mature Industries.”
Academy of Management Journal
vol.
25
,
(December 01, 1982):
707
-32
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Journal Article
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“Barriers to Entry and Competitive Strategies.”
Strategic Management Journal
vol.
2
,
(October 01, 1981):
395
-412
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Journal Article
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“Numbers and Positions of Women Elected to Corporate Boards.”
Academy of Management Journal
vol.
24
,
(September 01, 1981):
619
-25
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Journal Article
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“Deterrents to Divestiture.”
Academy of Management Journal
vol.
24
,
(June 01, 1981):
306
-323
.
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Journal Article
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“Strategy Formulation in Declining Industries.”
Academy of Management Review
vol.
5
,
(October 01, 1980):
509
-604
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Journal Article
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“The Effect of Exit Barriers Upon Strategic Flexibility.”
Strategic Management Journal
vol.
1
,
(April 01, 1980):
165
-176
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Working Paper
Harrigan, Kathryn and Maria DiGuardo
.
Patent Value and the Tobin's q Ratio in Media Services. January 01, 2016.
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Working Paper
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Using Distance Measures to Operationalize Patent Originality. January 01, 2016.
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Working Paper
Harrigan, Kathryn and Maria DiGuardo
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The Complementarity Effects of M&A Diversification and Knowledge Recombination on Innovation Performance: Evidence from the U.S. Electronics Industry. January 01, 2016.
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Working Paper
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Backward Dispersion Measures and Out-of-the-Box Inventions. July 01, 2014.
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Working Paper
Harrigan, Kathryn and Wei Yang
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Influence of Boards of Directors on Chinese Joint Venture Performance. December 27, 2010.
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Working Paper
Harrigan, Kathryn and Lalit Manral
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Geographic Fragmentation, Entry and the Decline of Dominant Incumbent. December 18, 2010.
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Working Paper
Harrigan, Kathryn and Lalit Manral
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Variety bundling as demand-side diversification: The performance implications of the choice to diversify in the U.S. Telecommunications Services Industry, 1990–1996. November 19, 2010.
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Working Paper
Harrigan, Kathryn and Tim Kessler
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Ambidexterity in the Transition to Greater Service Offerings: An Empirical Study. October 30, 2010.
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Working Paper
Harrigan, Kathryn and Lalit Manral
.
Demand-Side Competences as Sources of Intra-industry Heterogeneity. August 20, 2010.
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Working Paper
Harrigan, Kathryn and Wei Yang
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Autonomy in Chinese Joint Ventures. March 18, 2010.
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Working Paper
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Diversify with Care — Even in Private Equity. March 11, 2010.
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Working Paper
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Acid Tests of Competitive Advantage. January 01, 2010.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
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““’Commentary’ by Kathryn Rudie Harrigan [to remarks by James Gorman at 2019 Conference on Corporate Re-newal.”
Strategic Management Review
.
Forthcoming.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
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“Endgame in the Internet Era.”
Strategic Management Review
.
Forthcoming.
- Type
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
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“Retrospective on Rumelt’s contributions in ‘Diversification Strategy & Performance.”
Strategic Management Re-view
.
Forthcoming.
- Type
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
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“Retrospective on Rumelt’s Contributions in "Diversification Strategy & Performance".”
Strategic Management Review
.
Forthcoming.
- Type
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
.
“Retrospective on Corporate Renewal.”
Strategic Management Review
.
Forthcoming.
- Type
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Harrigan, Kathryn and B. Wing
.
“Corporate Renewal and Turnaround of Troubled Businesses: The Private Equity Advantage.”
Strategic Management Review
.
Forthcoming.
- Type
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Manrala, Lalit and Kathryn Harrigan
.
“The Performance Implications of Demand-Side Diversification: Evidence from the US Telecommunications Sector, 1990–1996.”
Journal of Strategic Marketing
.
August 01, 2015.
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Book
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Declining Demand, Divestiture, and Corporate Strategy.
Washington, D.C.
:
Beard Books
,
2003.
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Book
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Vertical Integration, Outsourcing, and Corporate Strategy.
Washington, D.C.
:
Beard Books
,
2003.
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Book
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Joint Ventures, Allliances, and Corporate Strategy.
Washington, D.C.
:
Beard Books
,
2003.
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Book
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Managing Maturing Businesses: Restructuring Declining Industries and Revitalizing Troubled Operations.
Lexington, Mass.
:
Lexington Press
,
1988.
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Book
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Book
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Strategic Flexibility: A Management Guide for Changing Times.
Lexington, Mass.
:
Lexington Press
,
1985.
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Book
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Book
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Book
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Chapter
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“Performance Differences of Jointly-Owned Firms in the Electronics Sector.”
In
Frontier of Alliance Research
,
Cambridge
:
Cambridge University Press
,
Forthcoming.
- Type
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Chapter
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“Strategic Flexibility and Competitive Advantage.”
In
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management
,
Oxford
:
Oxford University Press
,
Forthcoming.
- Type
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Chapter
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“Why Do Companies Need a Turnaround and Why Do They Wait So Long?”
In
Routledge Companion to Turnaround Management and Bankruptcy
,
London
:
Taylor & Francis
,
Forthcoming.
- Type
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Chapter
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“Strategic Alliances as Agents of Competitive Change.”
In
Collaborative Strategy: A Guide to Strategic Alliances
,
Northampton
:
Edward Elgar
,
Forthcoming.
- Type
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Chapter
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“Mobility Barrier Permeability.”
In
Encyclopedia of Strategic Management
,
edited by D. Teece and M. Augier
,
London
:
Palgrave Macmillan
,
2013.
- Type
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Chapter
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“Overcoming Exit Barriers.”
In
Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management
,
edited by D. Teece and M. Augier
,
London
:
Palgrave Macmillan
,
2013.
- Type
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Chapter
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“Michael Porter.”
In
Encyclopedia of Strategic Management
,
edited by D. Teece and M. Augier
,
London
:
Palgrave Macmillan
,
2013.
- Type
-
Chapter
.
“Overcoming Exit Barriers.”
In
Encyclopedia of Strategic Management
,
edited by D. Teece and M. Augier
,
London
:
Palgrave Macmillan
,
2013.
- Type
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Chapter
.
“Joint Ventures: A Mechanism for Strategic Change.”
In
The Management of Strategic Change
,
edited by Andrew M. Pettigrew
,
New York, N.Y.
:
Blackwell
,
1987.
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- Course
B7508: Corporate Growth & Development
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- Course
B7511: Turnaround Management
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Case Study
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Johns Manville's Asbestos Woes Lead to a Turnaround.
Columbia Business School
:
CaseWorks
,
2016.
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Case Study
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Why Do Companies Wait So Long to Turn Around Operations?
Columbia Business School
:
CaseWorks
,
2016.
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Case Study
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Case Study
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Motorola's Spin-Off of Its Cell Phone Business.
Columbia Business School
:
CaseWorks
,
2012.
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Case Study
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Infosys 3.0: Building Tomorrow's Enterprise?
Columbia Business School
:
CaseWorks
,
2012.
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Case Study
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Case Study
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Case Study
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Case Study
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E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company: Aftermath of Split-off.
2010.
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Research In Brief
The Rise of the New Conglomerate: How Internet-Enabled Firms Adopt Digital-First, Data-Driven Strategies to Drive Growth