Strategy is defined by the question of "Why are some companies successful while others fail?"
The field builds on and integrates other functional areas to further our understanding of how firms gain and sustain competitive advantage. The concepts of competitive advantage, value creation and appropriation, industry profitability, and innovation are intimately linked and reflects the focus of our faculty research and course instruction.
MGT 6518 - Strategy Fundamentals (1.5 credit hours) This course covers concepts and frameworks for strategy analysis and formulation. Strategic management integrates perspectives to understand how firms gain and sustain competitive advantage.
Electives
MGT 6164 - Corporate Strategy (3 credit hours) This course examines topics concerned with the creation and maintenance of value by multi-business enterprises. Corporate strategy is concerned in part with issues such as the appropriate mix of business units, make-or-buy decisions, the acquisition or development of new business units, and the disposal of existing business units; these questions are often not relevant to strategy studied at the level of the individual business unit.
MGT 6165 - Venture Creation (3 credit hours) Learn how to create, design, find, assess, and shape opportunities. Understand and apply the strategic process of venture creation. Develop and present a venture creation plan. Covers ventures starting from scratch or within an organization. Develop a sense of how to make decisions and execute strategies.
MGT 6185 - International Business Strategy and Environments (3 credit hours) This course focuses on the multiple dimensions (macro-economic, ecological, political, socio-cultural, technology, ethical systems, in selective ways) of the fast-changing overall global business environment and resulting impacts on the strategic, managerial, and organizational choices made by corporate actors. While the emphasis rests on multinational enterprises, attention will be paid to the range of global firms’ strategic choices that could be adopted and implemented in addressing the various crises faced by the world and identified in the UN Sustainable Development Goals and industry-specific ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) metrics that increasingly track firms’ progress.
MGT 6190 - Current Thinking in Strategy (3 credit hours) This course builds on the core strategic management course and strives to provide an in-depth and reflective coverage of current and emerging topics in strategic management.
MGT 6197 - Global Strategic Management (3 credit hours) Acquire knowledge, skills, and sensitivities to help in developing and executing global strategy. Understand global context, international competition, and cultural challenges. Learn strategic concepts, analytical frameworks, and heuristics for making decisions. Develop models for analyzing where to compete, where to locate, and what products to make.
MGT 6663 - Technology Strategy (3 credit hours) Develop a capacity to think strategically about a company's technology decisions related to how much to invest in R&D, how to protect and commercialize innovations, how to improve and sustain a firm's performance through the generation and adoption of technological innovations. Conduct strategic analyses about technology commercialization in a variety of industries and competitive situations, with particular focus on high-tech industries.
MGT 6664 - Managing Innovation (3 credit hours) Conceptualize and identify opportunities for creating value through innovation. Develop an understanding of how to capture the value of innovation through a variety of techniques. Coherently integrate these principles with competitive and corporate strategies.
MGT 6665 - Strategy Execution (3 credit hours) This course offers an overview of strategy and a focus on executing strategy. After performing strategy analysis and formulation, how do leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs succeed in achieving strategic results? Objectives of the course are to help students (1) understand and apply processes of strategy analysis, formulation, and implementation, (2) significantly increase their knowledge of strategy execution, (3) appreciate how theory informs practice, and (4) improve their skills in executing strategy and achieving objectives.
MGT 6667 - Strategic Entrepreneurship (3 credit hours) This course's objective is to hone your skills in using tools and frameworks of strategic analysis to formulate recommendations for entrepreneurial firms. Today's entrepreneurs and managers need to be able to recognize opportunities and cope with challenges created by technological developments, and entrepreneurial activity is particularly important in technology-intensive industries.
MGT 6668 - Behavioral Economics (3 credit hours) Behavioral economics enriches traditional economics by providing it with more realistic psychological foundations. In the course, we study some of the most robust and important findings of the field, and examine their implications for individual decision-making, marketing, finance, organizational theory, and management.
MGT 6789 - Technology Ventures (3 credit hours) Improve your ability to assess the attractiveness of a new venture, anticipate the problems likely to be encountered as the business evolves, and predict its success or failure.
Core Courses
MGT 6506 - Managerial Economics (1.5 credit hours) This course provides students with an understanding of basic economic concepts (such as scarcity, costs, markets, and prices) and an ability to apply these concepts to business decision-making and public policy analysis.
MGT 6508 - Strategic Management (3 credit hours) This course enables students to view the organization from a strategic perspective as a general manager/executive. The material builds on and integrates other functional core courses to understand how firms gain and sustain a competitive advantage.
Electives
MGT 6164 - Corporate Strategy (3 credit hours) This course examines topics concerned with the creation and maintenance of value by multi-business enterprises. Corporate strategy is concerned in part with issues such as the appropriate mix of business units, make-or-buy decisions, the acquisition or development of new business units, and the disposal of existing business units; these questions are often not relevant to strategy studied at the level of the individual business unit.
MGT 6165 - Venture Creation (3 credit hours) Learn how to create, design, find, assess, and shape opportunities. Understand and apply the strategic process of venture creation. Develop and present a venture creation plan. Covers ventures starting from scratch or within an organization. Develop a sense of how to make decisions and execute strategies.
MGT 6185 - International Business Strategy and Environments (3 credit hours) This course focuses on the multiple dimensions (macro-economic, ecological, political, socio-cultural, technology, ethical systems, in selective ways) of the fast-changing overall global business environment and resulting impacts on the strategic, managerial, and organizational choices made by corporate actors. While the emphasis rests on multinational enterprises, attention will be paid to the range of global firms’ strategic choices that could be adopted and implemented in addressing the various crises faced by the world and identified in the UN Sustainable Development Goals and industry-specific ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) metrics that increasingly track firms’ progress.
MGT 6190 - Current Thinking in Strategy (3 credit hours) This course builds on the core strategic management course and strives to provide an in-depth and reflective coverage of current and emerging topics in strategic management.
MGT 6197 - Global Strategic Management (3 credit hours) Acquire knowledge, skills, and sensitivities to help in developing and executing global strategy. Understand global context, international competition, and cultural challenges. Learn strategic concepts, analytical frameworks, and heuristics for making decisions. Develop models for analyzing where to compete, where to locate, and what products to make.
MGT 6352 - International Practicum (3 credit hours) Sharpen your managerial skills in addressing a practical international and operational business problem. Work on a real-world problem with a cross-border dimension. Select a client-sponsored project, define the problem, work with the client, and present findings. Expand your knowledge of a specific regional economy and business culture.
MGT 6369 - Sustainable Business Consulting Practicum (3 credit hours) Students gain knowledge in three important areas: management consulting, topical sustainability issues, and project management. This course takes students through a crash course in management consulting skills while teams are formed and assigned to sustainability-relevant, business-focused projects for participating companies. Teams scope, plan, execute, and deliver a 12-week consulting project by actively managing the engagement via ongoing interactions with their client liaison.
MGT 6663 - Technology Strategy (3 credit hours) Develop a capacity to think strategically about a company's technology decisions related to how much to invest in R&D, how to protect and commercialize innovations, how to improve and sustain a firm's performance through the generation and adoption of technological innovations. Conduct strategic analyses about technology commercialization in a variety of industries and competitive situations, with particular focus on high-tech industries.
MGT 6664 - Managing Innovation (3 credit hours) Conceptualize and identify opportunities for creating value through innovation. Develop an understanding of how to capture the value of innovation through a variety of techniques. Coherently integrate these principles with competitive and corporate strategies.
MGT 6665 - Strategy Execution (3 credit hours) This course offers an overview of strategy and a focus on executing strategy. After performing strategy analysis and formulation, how do leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs succeed in achieving strategic results? Objectives of the course are to help students (1) understand and apply processes of strategy analysis, formulation, and implementation, (2) significantly increase their knowledge of strategy execution, (3) appreciate how theory informs practice, and (4) improve their skills in executing strategy and achieving objectives.
MGT 6667 - Strategic Entrepreneurship (3 credit hours) This course's objective is to hone your skills in using tools and frameworks of strategic analysis to formulate recommendations for entrepreneurial firms. Today's entrepreneurs and managers need to be able to recognize opportunities and cope with challenges created by technological developments, and entrepreneurial activity is particularly important in technology-intensive industries.
MGT 6668 - Behavioral Economics (3 credit hours) Behavioral economics enriches traditional economics by providing it with more realistic psychological foundations. In the course, we study some of the most robust and important findings of the field, and examine their implications for individual decision-making, marketing, finance, organizational theory, and management.
MGT 6789 - Technology Ventures (3 credit hours) Improve your ability to assess the attractiveness of a new venture, anticipate the problems likely to be encountered as the business evolves, and predict its success or failure.
Global Economics (Core Course) Basic economic concepts and the ability to apply these concepts to business decision-making and public policy analysis.
Strategic Management (Core Course) Integrating knowledge of the functional areas of a business to understand how firms gain and sustain a competitive advantage in a globally competitive environment.
Processes of Technological Innovation (MoT) Addresses the processes involved in technological innovation, focusing on models, sources, flows, and the protection of innovation and intellectual property.
MOT Project I (MoT) Participants develop and present a proposal for a new technology-based product or service.
MOT Project II (MoT) Participants execute the concept developed in MoT Project I, including marketing and financial analysis.
MOT Project III (MoT) Participants complete their MoT project, submit a written report, and present their results to a panel of thought leaders and business experts.
Comparative Systems (GB) Examines the position of the U.S. in world markets, various types of international business transactions, and the impact of global economic, political, legal, and cultural forces.
Product Strategies for Global Markets (GB) Covers a systematic overview of the management issues that arise during the process of new product development for global markets.
