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  • January 2008
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  • Harvard Business Review

Seek Strategy the Right Way at the Right Time

By: G. Gavetti and Jan W. Rivkin
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Abstract

Deliberate, emergent, and analogical approaches to finding the best strategy all have their advan-tages, depending on where an industry is in its life cycle. Be open to the best option at each juncture and wise enough to make the right call.

Keywords

Strategy; Decision Choices And Conditions; Supply And Industry

Citation

Gavetti, G., and Jan W. Rivkin. "Seek Strategy the Right Way at the Right Time." Special Issue on HBS Centennial. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008).
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