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How can young people learn to be great strategists?

David Yoffie (Author & Professor, Harvard Business School)


Yoffie talks about what the next generation can learn from great strategists like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Andy Grove. He discusses how becoming a great strategist is a learned skill and young people have the opportunity to understand how to be successful from those who have gone before.

David Yoffie

Author & Professor, Harvard Professor David B. Yoffie is the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the last two decades, Professor Yoffie has chaired the HBS Strategy department, the Advanced Management Program, Harvard’s Young Presidents’ Organization program, and now chairs Harvard’s World Presidents’ Organization program. He currently teaches competitive and corporate strategy in the Owner/President Management Program. Professor Yoffie has published more than 100 case studies on business strategy and international management issues, which have sold more than 3,000,000 copies and is also the author of nine books.

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David Yoffie

Author & Professor, Harvard

Professor David B. Yoffie is the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the last two decades, Professor Yoffie has chaired the HBS Strategy department, the Advanced Management Program, Harvard’s Young Presidents’ Organization program, and now chairs Harvard’s World Presidents’ Organization program. He currently teaches competitive and corporate strategy in the Owner/President Management Program. Professor Yoffie has published more than 100 case studies on business strategy and international management issues, which have sold more than 3,000,000 copies and is also the author of nine books.

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