About the author

Ma Hao is a Chinese author of management books, though public information about him is limited, with no clear record of his nationality, dates of birth and death, or educational background. Eleven of his works are held in the collection, centered on strategic management and also touching on managerial decision-making and business model innovation, alongside essays and classical poetry. Representative works include A History of Strategic Management Theory: Heroes and Milestones, Essentials of Strategic Management, Competitive Advantage: Anatomy and Collection (Revised Edition), The Paradox of Strategy: Disassembly and Integration, and From Competitive Advantage to Superior Value. His writing combines a survey of the theoretical development of strategic management with discussion of competition, decision-making, and value creation in the real business world; other works, such as the essay collection Managing with a Silk Bag, show a more relaxed style. Overall, his books combine the systematic quality of textbooks with the perspective of intellectual history, suiting management students and practitioners alike.

Written (11)

A History of Strategic Management Thought: Hall of Fame and Milestones cover
Rating 4.4
A History of Strategic Management Thought: Hall of Fame and Milestones 马浩 Peking University Press · 2025 This is the first systematic, original research reader in strategic management studies in China. It distills a century of research in the field, selec…
Competitive Advantage: Anatomy and Aggregation (Revised Edition) cover
Rating 3.9
Competitive Advantage: Anatomy and Aggregation (Revised Edition) 马浩 Peking University Press · 2025 In a fiercely competitive modern society, a firm that wishes to achieve sustained superior performance must continually win, strengthen, and renew its…
Essentials of Strategic Management (21st-Century MBA Planning Textbook Series) cover
Rating 3.9
Essentials of Strategic Management (21st-Century MBA Planning Textbook Series) 马浩 Peking University Press · 2025 This book is a concise and incisive course in strategic management. It can serve as a textbook for EMBA students and can also be used in undergraduate…
Management Decisions: Facing the Real World cover
Rating 3.9
Management Decisions: Facing the Real World 马浩 Peking University Press · 2025 Management is, at its core, decision-making. And bounded rationality is the decision-maker's normal state. Constrained by cognitive biases, time press…
From Competitive Advantage to Outstanding Value: Achieving Sustained Extraordinary Business Performance cover
Rating 3.8
From Competitive Advantage to Outstanding Value: Achieving Sustained Extraordinary Business Performance 马浩 · 2025 In today's fiercely competitive world, companies must continually win, strengthen, and renew their competitive advantage in order to achieve sustained…
Strategic Management: Business Model Innovation cover
Rating 3.8
Strategic Management: Business Model Innovation 马浩 Peking University Press · 2025 This book aims to provide managers and other interested readers with a concise reader on classic strategic management theory and business model innova…
The Paradox of Strategy: Disassembly and Integration cover
Rating 3.8
The Paradox of Strategy: Disassembly and Integration 马浩 Peking University Press · 2025 What exactly is a paradox? What is paradoxical thinking and what is the paradoxical perspective? How does it help us understand and respond to the con…
The Illusion of Management: Indulging in Imagined Reality cover
Rating 3.7
The Illusion of Management: Indulging in Imagined Reality 马浩 Peking University Press · 2025 This book is a collection of essays on management by Professor Ma Hao. Through small real-life cases, the author presents and rebuts numerous biases a…
Managing in a Satin Sack cover
Rating 3.7
Managing in a Satin Sack 马浩 Peking University Press · 2025 This book is Professor Ma Hao's second collection of popular management essays, following Decision Making Is Just Slapping Your Head. It is divided in…
Understanding Su Dongpo cover
Rating 3.7
Understanding Su Dongpo 马浩 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2023 Su Dongpo is a figure of broad influence in China and the world. His life rose and fell with political change, wandering in all directions like a flyi…
All Things Have Spirits cover
Rating 3.6
All Things Have Spirits 马浩 Beiyue Literature & Art Publishing House Co., Ltd. · 2019 Spirit, in a sense, is a kind of vital essence—one not unique to humans. Everything in nature has its own way of living and its own soul. To my mind, …

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Peking University PressBeiyue Literature & Art Publishing House Co., Ltd.Guangxi Normal University Press