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Strategy Electives

Strategy Electives. STR 815 Corporate Strategy and Post-Merger Integration (2 sections) STR 887 Strategy Seminar (3) STR 897 Investigations into the Nature of Strategy (2) STR 8044 The Consulting Process (one week) STR 8305 Strategic Thinking: Integrating East and West

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Strategy Electives

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  1. Strategy Electives STR 815 Corporate Strategy and Post-Merger Integration (2 sections) STR 887 Strategy Seminar (3) STR 897 Investigations into the Nature of Strategy (2) STR 8044 The Consulting Process (one week) STR 8305 Strategic Thinking: Integrating East and West STR 8310 Competitive Dynamics STR 8435 Emerging Medical Technologies STR 8459 Corporate Innovation and Design Experience (semester long) STR 8468 Organic Growth: A Challenge for Public Companies GBUS 8510G Strategy as Design (GBE) CBP 895A DBP: Consulting New course Creativity and Design Thinking

  2. GBUS 815: Post-Merger Integration(2 sections) • Role of acquisitions in corporate strategy • Achievement of merger objectives after the “deal is done” • Integrating different types of mergers: • In-market (industry consolidation) • Product/market extensions • Diversification Jay Bourgeois

  3. GBUS 887: Strategy Seminar The economics of strategy Competing on capabilities Competition, competitive advantage, and rivalry Strategy as a process Jay Bourgeois Q2 – 2 Sections Jared Harris Q3 – 1 Section

  4. GBUS 897: Investigations into the Nature of StrategyQ2 and Q4 • Purpose is to give students confidence in creating novel strategies • Exploration of wide variety of metaphors for strategy from non-business disciplines: • Biology • Anthropology • Military history • Experimental game theory • Neuroscience • Others Tiha von Ghyczy

  5. GBUS 8310: Competitive Dynamics Seminar Overview: This advanced strategy seminar provides class participants with an integrative framework and specific analytical tools for understanding how firms interact in the marketplace—within an industry, across industries, and beyond national borders. The seminar intends to engage participants on two fronts: bridging application and scholarship, and maximizing the student-centered learning experience. Topics: Analysis of a competitive attack, Prediction of competitive reactions, Dynamic global competition, Competitor analysis, Competition-cooperation Audience: especially useful to those interested in high-level business-strategy consulting, advanced strategic planning and marketing, and industry security analysis, as well as anyone seeking to develop sophisticated competitive thinking Ming-Jer Chen

  6. GBUS 8305: Strategic Thinking: Integrating East and West • Overview: This seminar intends to help participants 1) develop a deep understanding of the strategic concepts and business models underlying foreign (in this case, Chinese) business, based on a thorough knowledge of cultural and institutional differences; 2) use this understanding to think broadly about global enterprise; 3) develop a globally integrative perspective that enables them to conduct business in any part of the world. • Topics: China’s re-emergence and its global implications, competition-cooperation, a globally integrative business perspective, a new enterprise framework. • Audience: especially useful to those interested in pursuing managerial careers with responsibilities involving international operations or high-level strategic components, and to those interested in strategyconsulting, international business, or business opportunities in Asia. Ming-Jer Chen

  7. GBUS 8468: Organic Growth: A Challenge of Public Companies • Overview: examines the challenges of creating consistent organic growth in public companies. Students will use their knowledge of strategy, operations, finance, marketing, and human resources to focus on growth from a growth manager, an organizational design, and strategy and execution perspectives. • Topics: Building A Growth System; Who Are Growth Leaders?; A Growth Experimental Pipeline; Growth Resiliency; Managing The Risks of Growth • Audience: designed for those who will • either manage, lead, or execute growth inside public companies • be consultants creating growth strategies • be involved in finding and investing in growth companies • be involved as investment bankers in financing growth Ed Hess

  8. GBUS 8459: Corporate Innovation and Design ExperienceQ2 & Q3 Overview: semester long course meeting Tuesday afternoon in Quarters 3 & 4, focused on exploring and using design thinking and innovation principles and tools to accelerate business model innovation. Students will form teams to do a hands-on innovation project aimed at providing user insights, deep concept thinking, and prototypes for specific innovation opportunities to client organizations Topics: Design thinking; business model innovation; user-driven design; visualization techniques; hypothesis generating and testing; prototyping; storytelling Audience: any student interested in developing his or her capacity for innovative thinking in any field or career: especially of interest to those interested in strategy consulting, product management, business development Jeanne Liedtka

  9. GBUS 8000G: Strategy as Design in Barcelona, SpainMarch – 1 Week Overview: one week GBE in March in Barcelona, Spain that focuses on the concept of design and its link to strategic thinking. Students will explore the process of creative thinking using the art, architecture, and urban planning of Barcelona as their case study Topics: the qualities of elegant design, the process of breakthrough thinking, developing powers of observation, visualization, and reflection Audience: students interested in pushing the boundaries of how they think about strategy and business, willing to step outside our usual discussions and explore what business can learn from artists like Picasso, Dali, and Gaudi. Jeanne Liedtka

  10. New course: Creativity and Design ThinkingQ3 Overview: This new course covers much of the same material as 8459, with a greater emphasis on the topic of creativity and without the field project. It is focused on exploring and using design thinking and innovation principles and tools to identify and accelerate innovation opportunities Topics: Design thinking; business model innovation; user-driven design; visualization techniques; hypothesis generating and testing; prototyping; storytelling Audience: any student interested in developing his or her capacity for innovative thinking in any field or career: especially of interest to those interested in strategy consulting, product management, business development Jeanne Liedtka

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