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The Center for Strategy, Execution, and Valuation
The Center that launched a new MBA concentration built on the Return Driven Strategy framework. Regularly holds seminars and workshops on business strategy, execution, and valuation topics.



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Beasley, Mark S. and Mark L. Frigo, “Strategic Risk Management: Creating and Protecting Value” Strategic Finance, 2007

Bell, C. Gordon and John E. McNamara. High-Tech Ventures: The Guide for Entrepreneurial Success. Reading: Perseus Books, 1991

Bossidy, Larry and Ram Charan, Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done. New York: Crown Business, 2002

Bruce, Brian R. and Mark T. Bradshaw Analysts, Lies and Statistics. New York: Institutional Investor Books, 2004

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Christensen, Clayton M. and Michael E. Raynor. The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2003

Davenport, Thomas H. and Jeanne G. Harris, Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007

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Drucker, Peter F. Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles. London: William Heinemann, 1985

Epstein, Barry J., Ralph Nach and Steven M. Bragg. Wiley GAAP 2006.Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2005

Epstein, Marc J. Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate, Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2008

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Friedman, Milton and Rose Friedman Free To Choose. New York: Harvest, Harcourt Inc., 1990

Frigo, Mark L and Joel Litman “Give My Regrets to Wall Street” Harvard Business Review, 2004

Frigo, Mark L. “What is Mission Driven Strategy?” Strategic Finance, 2003

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Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. “The Balanced Scorecard – Measures that Drive Performance.” Harvard Business Review, 1992

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Kotter, John P. and James L. Heskett. Corporate Culture and Performance. New York: Free Press, 1992

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Litman, Joel and Mark L. Frigo “When Strategy and Valuation Meet: Five Lessons from Return Driven Strategy” Strategic Finance, 2004

Lowe, Janet. Warren Buffet Speaks – Wit and Wisdom from the World’s Greatest Investor. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997

Madden, Bartley J. CFROI Valuation A Total System Approach to Valuing the Firm. Woburn: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999

Madden, Bartley J. Maximizing Shareholder Value And The Greater Good. Naperville: LearningWhatWorks, 2005

Mitchell, Jack, Hug Your Customers: The Proven Way to Personalize Sales and Achieve Astounding Results, New York: Hyperion, 2003

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Porter, Michael E. "The Importance of Being Strategic" Balanced Scorecard Report, Harvard Business School Press, 2002

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Ries, Al and Laura Ries. The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1998

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Welch, Jack. Jack: Straight from the Gut. New York: Warner 2001

Zook, Chris and James Allen, Profit from the Core: Growth Strategies in an Era of Turbulence. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2001

Zyman, Sergio. The End of Advertising As We Know It. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2002

 

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