MGT 607 – Strategies for High Performing Orgs – Week 2

Week 2 – Business Level Strategy

We continued reading influential classic business papers this week, with Porter’s famous “Generic Competitive Strategies.” We talked about differentiation, overall cost leadership, and focus in one of those categories. We then read “Blue Ocean Strategy” by Kim, which I’ve actually read before ever starting my MBA program because I heard about how influential it was with leaders. Next week talked about strategic shifts towards platforms by Van Alystyne, Two-sided markets by Eisenmann, and then wrote a paper about Allegiant Airlines.

I am starting to like Edge’s PDF viewer more and more, although there is a bug where if you use a highlighter that is not text an odd up and down mark gets created if you go to far into a whitespace. It’s kind of a pain in the butt, and avoidable on some of these old documents that are photocopies rather than PDF native.