Introduction / by Thomas H. Lee
What is strategy? / by Michael E. Porter
The five competitive forces that shape strategy / by Michael E. Porter
Health care needs real competition / by Leemore S. Dafny and Thomas H. Lee
Building your company's vision / by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
Reinventing your business model / by Mark W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen, and Henning Kagermann
Will disruptive innovations cure health care? / by Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Bohmer, and John Kenagy
Blue ocean strategy / by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
Rediscovering market segmentation / by Daniel Yankelovich and David Meer
The office of strategy management / by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
The strategy that will fix health care / by Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee
About the contributors
Index

Is your health care organization spending too much time on strategy with too little to show for it? If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones for health care professionals to help you catalyze your strategy development and execution. Leading experts such as Michael E. Porter, James Collins, W. Chan Kim, and Renée Mauborgne, provide the insights and advice you need to: understand how the rules of corporate competition translate to the healthcare sector; craft a vision for an uncertain future; segment your market to better serve diverse patient populations; achieve the best health health outcomes--at the lowest cost; learn what disruptive innovation means for healthcare; use the balanced scorecard to measure your progress.