The Strategy Pathfinder: Core Concepts and Live Cases

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This new edition of the popular The Strategy Pathfinder updates the micro-cases of real-life problems faced by companies and executives. These micro-cases help readers to engage with the kinds of situations they will encounter in their working lives while provoking discussions about key theoretical themes. Original presentation and design makes this an essential companion for both the business-school classroom and the executive briefcase. The Strategy Pathfinder brings experienced and potential executives alike an instant guide to the concepts and techniques they need to know.

• An innovative introduction to strategy.
• Makes readers active “producers” of strategy, rather than passive recipients of received wisdom.
• Presents essential pathways through the strategy jungle.
• Each case provokes discussion about a key theoretical theme.
• Encourages readers to form a view themselves, and then test it against the views of others, before offering recommendations about how best to proceed.
• Cases are drawn from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.
• Supported by online lecturer supplements.

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Analyzing Public Policy: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques Second Edition

Analyzing Public Policy: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques Second Edition Review

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Analyzing Public Policy: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques Second Edition Feature

Solving complex policy issues requires an analyst to balance constituents needs with the political and economic realities of governance. In Guptas foundational text, each conceptwhether its research design, forecasting, or cost-benefit analysisis illustrated with recent cases such as the 2008 banking crisis and a GAO report on poverty, allowing students to master a skill and understand its real world application. Expanded coverage of the issues of measurement that arise in economic analyses helps to emphasize the subjective considerations within the decision-making process. New chapters include coverage of the social goals of public policy and how to reconcile divergent views of analysts and policymakers. Students benefit from tables, figures, key terms, and exercises, and instructors resources include these graphics in electronic format and a solutions manual.

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