MGMT 6031 is also offered in Spring 2025
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MGMT 6031 is also offered in Spring 2023
Spring 2023 | MGMT 6031 Section 070: Industry Analysis and Competitive Strategy (66025)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Enrollment Requirements:
- MBA or Mgmt Science MBA
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Off Campus
Virtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
Open (39 of 48 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Processes by which firms maximize long-term returns in face of competition, uncertainty, changing market/technological conditions. Resource commitments to gain sustainable advantage. Choices to leverage resources. prereq: MBA 6301 (previously MBA 6300), MBA student
- Class Description:
- This course focuses on creating and sustaining competitive advantage through the development and deployment of firm resources, and through the optimal choice of firm boundary.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- This course is reserved for MBA students. If you are a non-MBA student seeking to take this course, fill out the petition form found at goo.gl/9Y9PR5. Additional information, including petition deadlines, can be found at http://carlsonschool.umn.edu/degrees/master-business-administration/part-time-mba/admissions/mba-course-petition-form
- Learning Objectives:
- We explore the following topics:
The notion of added value
How firms add value through their resources and the incentives to develop resources
Why companies exist
Why a company would participate in more than one line of business
How to evaluate and manage ‘hybrid' business forms such as franchises
- Class Format:
- This class is designed so as to spend the first month introducing different tools and ideas. The remainder of the class then integrates these ideas to provide students with a systematic and comprehensive way to look at companies. This final stage is augmented by a term project, which culminates with a presentation and report.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66025/1233
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 16 February 2017
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