This blog follows JPMorgan Chase as a real-time case study in strategic management. It’s part of my MBA capstone in Global Strategic Management, where the goal is to move past simply reading the headlines and instead use the news to understand why a major institution makes the moves it does.
Each week, I track JPMorgan Chase’s latest developments and analyze them through a specific concept from the course — competitive advantage, the resource-based view, industry and competitive analysis, corporate diversification, global strategy, governance, and more. The aim is to show how the frameworks we study actually explain the decisions of one of the world’s largest financial institutions.
JPMorgan Chase is an ideal company for this: it’s constantly in the business press, and it spans nearly every strategic theme — from how it competes across consumer banking, investment banking, and asset management, to how it navigates regulation, technology disruption, and global markets.
If you’re a fellow student, a curious reader, or just someone interested in how strategy theory meets the real world, I hope these weekly posts make the connection clear.
Chasing the Advantage 