Strategy Electives

STR 815 Corporate Strategy and Post-Merger Integration (2 sections)

STR 887 Strategy Seminar (2 sections) STR 897 Investigations into the Nature of Strategy (2 sections) STR 8044 The Consulting Process 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 CBP 895A DBP: Consulting STR 8484 Creativity and Design Thinking

GBUS 815: Post-Merger Integration

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

Jay Bourgeois

GBUS 887: Strategy Seminar

The economics of strategyCompeting on capabilitiesCompetition, competitive

advantage, and rivalryStrategy as a process

GBUS 897: Investigations into the Nature of Strategy

Q2 and Q4Purpose 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

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

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 strategy consulting, international business, or business opportunities in Asia.

Ming-Jer Chen

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 1) either manage, lead, or execute growth inside public

companies2) be consultants creating growth strategies3) be involved in finding and investing in growth

companies4) be involved as investment bankers in financing

growth

Ed Hess

GBUS 8459: Corporate Innovation and Design

ExperienceQ3 & Q4

Overview: semester long course meeting Tuesday af 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

GBUS 8484: Creativity and Design Thinking

Q3 Overview: This 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

Rachel Brozenske