The 2005 MIT Sloan Management Review/PricewaterhouseCoopers Awards.

Publication: MIT Sloan Management Review

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COPYRIGHT 2005 Sloan Management Review

MIT Sloan Management Review and PricewaterhouseCoopers are once again pleased to honor those articles that have contributed most significantly to the enhancement of management practice. Choosing from among the articles published in SMR in 2004, an independent panel of judges concluded that the following three most completely met the standard for the award by illuminating the interplay between best theory and best practice in useful, applicable and insightful ways. In particular, the judges felt that each of the winning articles addressed the most crucial challenges for today's managers in their quest for competitive advantage--collaboration, alignment, adaptability and innovation--and offered pragmatic solutions supported by high-quality research, helpful frameworks and illustrative examples.

FIRST PLACE

"How to Build Collaborative Advantage"

Morten Hansen and Nitin Nohria

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For years, multinational corporations could compete successfully by exploiting scale-and-scope economies or by...

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