Advanced Strategy Analysis

Catalog description

Advanced Strategy is an elective course on strategy that is designed to serve as a capstone course across the entire MBA program using strategy to help pull together learning from marketing finance management accounting operations and elsewhere in the curriculum. View this class as a lab in which to explore and understand how the different functional classes that you have been taking during your MBA fit together. We do this by exploring big strategic decisions that organizations encounter and shape organizational performance specifically those that fall into three broad categories decisions on dealing with other firms partners competitors etc. decisions on significant resource allocations and decisions on dealing with success and failure of prior actions. Our discussions will use a variety of approaches to in-class interaction including case discussions small group work simulations experiential exercises and more traditional readings and minimal lectures. In addition the underlying backbone of the class is a semester-long project on one or more specific decisions taken in an organization.