Spring 2022
MGT401 Business Strategy
Why do some firms perform better than others? What factors affect the profitability, growth, and survival of firms? Strategy is about ‘where to go’ and ‘how to get there’.
The primary objective of the course is to enable you to understand and analyze the factors that affect firms’ long-run economic performance and to provide you with the tools to make recommendations to firms on how they can improve their long-term performance. Building on the knowledge about functional business areas such as production, marketing, accounting, finance, and information systems, this course introduces core concepts of strategic management. These concepts will equip you with the tools necessary to analyze a firm’s competitive environment and resources. The emphasis is on the formulation and successful implementation of strategy in different types of firms across industries.
Fall 2020 – Spring 2022
MGMT402 & MGMT541 Entrepreneurship
You may want to start a new venture. You may find yourself starting a new venture in the future. You may find yourself working for an entrepreneur, funding entrepreneurs, or having to work with them. Or you may simply want to be more entrepreneurial in your own career. The purpose of Management 402 is to be helpful to you under any of these circumstances with a whirlwind tour of the many dimensions of new venture creation and growth. We will be concerned with issues that relate to conceptualizing, developing, and managing successful new ventures.
The course addresses the management challenges associated with starting and successfully running a new venture. The main bulk of the course examines the phenomenon of entrepreneurship. Theoretical models and actual examples emphasize how technological and organizational systems are critical components of an “entrepreneurial mindset”. We will also discuss innovative thinking and entrepreneurial behavior in organizations and the phenomenon of “intrapreneurship,” in other words entrepreneurship within established firms. The focus will be on techniques and strategies that encourage innovation and entrepreneurship and the critical success factors for entrepreneurs including knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Spring 2021 – Fall 2021
MGMT413 Strategic Innovation
This course aims to help students develop an understanding of the dynamics of innovation and focus on successful strategies to manage the challenges posed by these dynamics. We will review the unique characteristics of industries characterized by frequent innovation and explore how these industries’ strategies are (or are not) different from other contexts. We will also focus on the process of managing innovation, both internally and externally. This course is suited for students aspiring to become entrepreneurs, general managers or consultants to general managers who are faced with situations in which innovation in new products, services and technologies is important.