Analytical Methods for Strategy Research

Harvard HBSD

The purpose of this course is to help PhD students in the field of strategy (or closely related fields) become better consumers and producers of theory – both from a conceptual and from a methodological perspective. The course will look both at the nature of good theory – what makes something a theory and what makes it a good theory – and the methods used to derive theory – from modeling and formal analysis over simulations to inductive and qualitative approaches. (It will not focus on field…