Essentials of Strategic Management: The Quest Competitive Advantage: 2026 Release ISE

<p>PART ONE: CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES FOR CRAFTING AND EXECUTING STRATEGY</p><p>Section A: Introduction and Overview</p><p>1. Strategy, Business Models, and Competitive Advantage</p><p>2. The Strategy Formulation, Strategy Execution Process</p><p></p><p>Section B: Core Concepts and Analytical Tools</p><p>3. Evaluating a Company’s External Environment</p><p>4. Evaluating a Company’s Resources, Capabilities, and Competitiveness</p><p></p><p>Section C: Crafting a Strategy</p><p>5. The Five Generic Competitive Strategies</p><p>6. Strengthening a Company’s Competitive Position: Strategic Innovations, Competitive Moves, and Scope of Operations</p><p>7. Strategies for Competing in International Markets</p><p>8. Corporate Strategy: Diversification and the Multi-business Company</p><p>9. Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Sustainability, and Strategy</p><p></p><p>Section D: Executing the Strategy</p><p>10. Superior Strategy Execution—Another Path to Competitive Advantage</p><p></p><p>Appendix: Key Financial Ratios: How to Calculate Them and</p><p>What They Mean</p><p></p><p></p><p>PART TWO: CASES IN CRAFTING AND EXECUTING STRATEGY</p><p>1. SpaceX in 2025: Its Vision, Business Model and Achievements in Space Exploration</p><p>2. AirBnB 2025</p><p>3. Competition in the Energy Drink Industry in 2025</p><p>4. Academy Sports &#43; Outdoors in 2025</p><p>5. Electronic Arts: It's Strategy in the Video Game Industry</p><p>6. Netflix's Strategy in 2025</p><p>7. Tesla's Strategy in 2025</p><p>8. Under Armour in 2025</p><p>9. LVMH in 2025: Its Diversification into Luxury Goods</p><p>10. Vail Resorts in 2025</p><p>11. Starbucks in 2025</p><p>12. Nestle in 2025: Reducing Plastic Waste?</p>