C. Roland Christensen

Thinkers1919 to 1999Business professor

Works

  • Business Policy: Text and Cases, 1965

In Thinking Tools

Known for

A Harvard Business School professor and co-author, with Edmund P. Learned, Kenneth R. Andrews, and William D. Guth, of Business Policy, whose text asks a firm to appraise its strengths and weaknesses against the opportunities and threats around it.

Caveat: Harvard's claim to have originated SWOT is contested: recent histories credit Stanford Research Institute's long-range planning group, and the 1965 book has no SWOT matrix.

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