Strategic Management Capstone

Catalog description

MGMT 599 ?integrates themes from business strategy, technology and innovation management, and entrepreneurship to help students acquire knowledge and skills needed to formulate and implement strategic actions. The course exposes students to how strategy is formulated including corporate-level strategy (i.e., in which markets to operate), and business-level strategy (i.e., how to ?win? in those markets). Students also learn the corporate venturing/entrepreneurial process ? from opportunity recognition and evaluation to business planning and implementation. This course is structured to improve a student?s strategic and entrepreneurial mindset with emphasis on developing and leveraging capabilities.? Students apply course content to an interdisciplinary and integrative client consulting project in which teams of students conduct an in-depth analysis of the client?s strategy (through direct contact and publicly available information) and deliver a comprehensive presentation of their findings and recommendations that address the strategic challenge.