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Many of the most famous strategy academics have their own websites. Although these are promotional sites for their own management consultancies, they also have discussion forums, access to publications, and some of their recent thinking.
Henry Mintzberg’s is: http://www.henrymintzberg.com/index.html
Tom Peters’ is: http://www.tompeters.com/
Gary Hamel’s is: http://www.strategos.com/
Michael Porter’s is: http://www.isc.hbs.edu/ (which also contains some of Professor Porter’ s students’ projects).
Visit: www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/news/coladvice/book/bk991001.htm for some excerpts from Micklethwaite and Wooldridge. The Witchdoctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus, and http://derekstockley.com.au/guru.html for listings on the top 50 Management gurus.
Charles Handy also provides a potted history of the thoughts of the most influential management theorists or ‘gurus’ (of which he is, of course, one) at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/work/handy/. This also includes an interview with Semco’s Chief Executives, Richard Semler.
An extract from Semler (2004) is available online at: http://www.inc.com/articles/2004/03/7dayweekend.html
Listings of the top 50 Management gurus can be found at: http://derekstockley.com.au/guru.html
The originator and publisher of data on the outcome of various strategies (market share for example) is the Strategic Planning Institute: http://www.pimsonline.com/
Many of the major strategy consultancies also have good websites - two of the best are McKinsey’s: http://www.mckinsey.com/
And the Boston Consulting Group (BCG): http://www.bcg.com/
Company websites are good sources of examples of mission statements and strategic information on the company:
H&M’s mission and CSR statements can be found at: http://www.hm.com/gb/corporateresponsibility__responsability.nhtml
Sony’s founding prospectus can be found at:
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/prospectus.html
McDonald’s mission and vision statements are at: http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/values/people/diversity/mission_vision.html
For some information on BA’s and EasyJet’s carbon offsetting policies see:
http://www.britishairways.com/travel/csr-corporate-responsibility/public/en_gb
http://www.easyjet.com/EN/About/index.html
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