How can companies build and sustain competitive advantage? Professor and author Todd Zenger analyzes several companies that have done it well.

Todd Zenger is the author of Beyond Competitive Advantage: How to Solve the Puzzle of Sustaining Growth While Creating Value, published by Harvard Business Review Press. He is a global expert and has lectured widely on topics of corporate strategy, strategic leadership, and organization design. Zenger is the newly appointed N. Eldon Tanner Chair in strategy and strategic Leadership at the David Eccles school of Business at the University of Utah. He also holds the designation of Presidential Professor at the University of Utah and is chair of the entrepreneurship and strategy department. He previously served on the faculty of Washington University’s Olin Business School, where he was the long-standing chair of the strategy group and academic director of the executive MBA program. Zenger is active in consulting and executive teaching in the areas of strategy and strategic leadership. He writes for the Harvard Business Review on topics of strategy.