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Updated Strategy Teaching Tools Website

Some of you may be familiar with Mason Carpenter's old strategy teaching toolkit. I have initiated a new site that includes everything from that site plus quite a few additional exercises and videos. Please check it out at:

www.CarpenterStrategyToolbox.com.

You can filter by type of tool (exercise, video, etc.) using the tabs at the top or you can filter by topic in a strategy course (5 forces, RBV, global, etc.) using the categories on the right side. There is also a search function. You should find something useful in no time at all.

Please help make the site more useful:

·       Comment on tools you have used in class (adding tips, etc.)

·       Submit new tools so the resource is always growing

·       Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions

Here are links to a few recently added exercises and resources that you might find especially useful (to give you a feel):

·       Innovation as luck is Jay Barney's classic coin flip exercise. This helps to initiate a discussion of how to manage strategic investments under great uncertainty.

·       Steve Jobs V2 is a funny ONN (Onion) clip illustrating Apple's attempts to keep Jobs alive. Raises a question of the source and nature of Apple's capabilities (individual vs. organizational routines and culture).

·       Winners' Curse at Gourmet Adventures highlights that strategic elements of investments increase the risk of being cursed in M&A (diversification, resources, human capital, etc.).

-Russ

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Russell Coff, Wisconsin Naming Partners Professor of Strategic Management

bus.wisc.edu/faculty/Russ-Coff | Phone: 608-263-6437 | fax: 608-265-5031

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Updated Strategy Teaching Tools Website

Please check out the new tools, experiential exercises and videos at:

www.CarpenterStrategyToolbox.com.

You can filter by type of tool (exercise, video, etc.) using the tabs at the top or you can filter by topic in a strategy course (5 forces, RBV, global, etc.) using the categories on the right side. There is also a search function. You should find something useful in no time at all.

Please help make the site more useful:

·       Comment on tools you have used in class (adding tips, etc.)

·       Submit new tools so the resource is always growing

·       Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions

Here are links to a few recently added exercises and resources that you might find especially useful (to give you a feel):

·       Does Samsung Own the Android Ecosystem? This is an update on the Google/Motorola "Ripped from the Headlines" case of Google's $12.5B acquisition of Motorola. The new Moto X highlights the vertical integration elements of value creation. You can find more materials on M&A by filtering on that topic.

·       An Agency problem at the club. This classic (and hilarious) vid shows what happens when decisions are made by people with different objectives. You can find more videos by filtering on videos.

·       Org Change in the classroom: A ruse. You can help students experience how hard strategic change is first hand – try announcing that you are changing the assignments and grading system (really – they'll never forget the lesson)! Other experiential exercises can be found by filtering on exercises.

The FAQ shows you how to download and convert videos so they can be inserted into PowerPoint presentations.

-Russ

__________________________________________________________

Russell Coff, Wisconsin Naming Partners Professor of Strategic Management

bus.wisc.edu/faculty/Russ-Coff | Phone: 608-263-6437 | fax: 608-265-5031