BUS 59000 - Strategic Leadership & Management in Organizations

This capstone course introduces a variety of contemporary strategy theories, frameworks, and methodologies to help students develop the conceptual understandings and practical skills for formulating, implementing, and evaluating strategies that enable organizations to achieve their goals and fulfill their purpose, values, vision, and mission. Students will learn about setting an organization’s strategic direction, aligning structure to implement strategy, and leading individuals and groups within the firm. The course will use tools of industrial organization economics, microeconomics, and game theory to examine the strategic decisions that leaders and managers make, focusing particularly on the sources of competitive advantage and the interaction between industry structure and organizational capabilities. Students will be introduced to systems thinking a) as a tool for understanding the interactions between individuals, organizations, markets, and systems beyond markets and b) as a tool for promoting individual and organizational learning as a means of developing internal strengths, resources, and dynamic capabilities for strategically leading and managing organizations in a global environment of rapid change. The focus of the course will be upon helping students apply course content to strategically lead and manage their own journey and to make valuable and ethical contributions to any organization at any level. In addition to a variety of readings and assignments, all students will engage in a course-long strategy case study.

Preparation for Course
C: or P: BUS 60101, BUS 60001, BUS 57000, BUS 56000, BUS 55200, BUS 54202, BUS 54201, BUS 54200, and BUS 54001.

Cr. 3.
Notes
You must be admitted to the MBA program or secure approval from the department before enrolling in any graduate-level business or economics course.