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The design school: strategy formation as a process of conception

"Gentlemen, let us pool our expertise."

©The New Yorker Collection 1975 Stan Hunt from cartoonbank.com. All Rights Reserved.

"The damn guy just sits there waiting for a case study."

-Manager, about a Harvard MBA

The design school represents, without question, the most influential view of the strategy-formation process. Its key concepts continue to form the base of undergraduate and MBA strategy courses as well as a great deal of the practice of strategic management. Professors, consultants, and planners worldwide have filled untold numbers of blackboards and PowerPoints ...

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